Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-02-15
LOCAL. BHEVITIES

The turkey season is rapidly passing.
This was the finest day-for young duck
of the season.
Two vessels, loaded Will. oysters arrived
at the wharvcs to-day.
The employees of the Virginia Midland
Railway were paid Off to-day
The Treasury Department yestertla,
awarded contract for packing boxes Il
/ Aitcheson X Bro, Of this city.
Red. DR.. Chickcrine, Secretary of the
! Congressional Temperance Society, will
speak at the Reform Club tomorrow night
Rev. Father Murphy preached an utter.
esting sermon to large congregation at ST.
Mary's church last night.
The Grand Lodge of Virginia, Knights OF
! Pythias, will meet in annual session at
Hampton on Tuesday, February 20.
Nothing was done in the L. S. Courts
to-day but the entering Ola few unimpor-
liant orders The jury were adjourned yes
terday till May.
The lunch sent 10 this office to-day by
the lady monagers of the Odd Fellows fair
was both delicious and refreshing and was
greatly enjoyed.
Hon. q. t. Garrison was in the city yes
tcrday, and was the bondsman of Yeateman,
who is on trial before the L. S. Court for all
alleged election fraud in Westmoreland.
No newspaper or postal card will hereaf-
ter he forwarded after ii has reached its orr
sinal address. but will go directly to the
dead letter Office
marriage license was issued in Wash
ington yesterday TO William r. f. Cross
and Araminta Riley, both of Gainesville,
Virginia.
\ cheerful prospect for next summer is
found in the fact that there are 5000, 900 tons
Of ice in the houses along the Hudson River.
the largest crop ever harvested.
The railroad conductor who called on the
'squirc's daughter without the fathers con-
sent remarked that the old man furnished
terminal facilities rs we'll as free pass
through the garden gate
Mr.. Thomas Longlon Harmon. Of Po-
monkey, Charles county. Md, has been ap-
pointed Keeper of Fort Washington Light,
with Il salary Of 5000 per annum. Mr.. II.
was in the city to-day.
The Va. Midland Ry.. has delivered to
the {. x O. r. r., at Gordonsyille since the
first of the month, nineteen cars loaded with
wheat, to be forwarded to Richmond. More
than 5000 bushels. These shipments for
merly went to Baltimore.
y little boy went into the parlorwhe his
sister was being courtcd and said Brother
Tom told me to ask you what WAS The date
of your last hustle. for he can't find to.day'S
GAZETTE high or low. and he left il in YOUR
room just before supper
One ofGcneral Robert f.. Lees body SER
wants, Andrew Davis. colored. who had
reached the ripe old age of 80 years, died
i'll Washington Yesterday. He followed the
fortunes Of General Lee throughout the
entire war, and removed TO Washington at
lis close.
The police have been complained to in
regard TO the conduct of q party of colored
girls who intercept the white children nearly
every evening upon the return home of the
latter from the Peabody school. Several Of
the smaller children have been beaten and
knocked down.
4 force is engaged in re-timbering and
clearing up the canal wharf in Cumberland,
preparatory to the spring trade. which is
expected to be hevy The canal officials
there say that owing to the ice and neces-
sary repairs, the canal will not be ready for
navigation until March -.
To show how solicitous some people are
of the health and comfort of the GAzErTE's
reporter he was sent to-day from various
sources refreshments, both liquid and other
wise to brace him up in order that he might
not succumb TO the influence of the depres-
sing weather.
The house across the canal was not des-
troyea soon enough. The committee, which
was TO touch her off, in skirmishing
in the neighborhood this morning learned
that there was another case of small pox on
the premises. The patient will be remov-
ed AT once and the house "tired."
The following explains the difference be-
tween luck and chance" You take a
girl out to the odd Fellows Fair, and after
paying your admission fee, discover that
you haventa cent left in your pocket You
are, Of course, compelled to invite her to
take ice cream and cake. She refuses for
some reason; that's "luck, but the "chance"
is a million to one that she will accept.