Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-03-26

LOCAL BREVITIFS

When your iavorite cats become too pro
life you must pool their issues"
Dir. Cornelius Phillips is quite i'll at hi
home, on south Fairfax street.
Small lots of shad are arriving from tn,
OILERS down the river, and sell at $40 an(
SIS per hundred
Mr.. John Craven, residing on the corne
OF Duke and Lee streets, was taken suddenly
i'll on Saturday.
The wife Of Councilman Joseph Beacl
died at her home, corner Pitt and Queer
streets, this morning after a long illness.
Capt. J. G. Gentry, editor of the Gordons
Vile Gazette, spent Yesterday in this cit,
with his brother, Mr.. W. T. Gentry
Capt. 9lcKerney with crew of fisher
men left here this morning for Quantico
where ne will begin operations at once
Some unknown person carried off q calf
from the farm OF the late Richmond Llovd
near this city, Friday evening.
AIr. Max Pretzielder and bride have re.
turned from their wedding tour and are
stopping at the Bradd0ck House.
Mr.. Thomas Arr old was stricken with
paralysis yesterday morning and is now ly.
th6 WI DIN az MO HOACi W ALI cu Slcct.
The body OF drowned mau was seen
floating in the river near shepherds, yes
terday afternoon, but was not recovered.
The music in the NJ. Z. Church yesterday
was exceptionally fine aud was greatly en-
joyed by the large congregation present.
The schooner Jas. Bcyce, IT,, which was
recently built in this city, was at Sage on
the l7th, bound for Delaware Breakwater.
Mr. Edward Carswell, OF Canada, an elo.
quent temperance lccturer,spok to the Sun
day school ofthe Meth Episcopal church
Yesterday afternoon.
The Richmond train due here at o'clock
last night did not arrive till about o'clock
this morning, the cause, it Is said, being a
delay Oh the r., f. s P. road
There were no cases for trial at the Mayors
office this morning. On Saturday night
three dodgers were st the station house and
last night there were five.
Hanlan, Kennedy and Plalsted, the oars.
men. are all in Washington now, the latter
having arrived yesterday, and are daily
practlcing for the coming race.
AS stated in tho GAZETTE last week, a
new float for the transfer slip at the foot of
for the timber for its construction has been
awarded TO Mr.. B. +. Bruner.
Judge J. H. Gray, collector Of customs at
this port, has returned from Michigan,
where he went TO attend the funeral of his
father, whose death was mentioned In the
GAZETTE of last week.
About this time the head Of the family
looks sadly upon the pile OF coal ashes in his
back yard and then peeps over into his
neighbours lot TO find 4 good place to depos-
it them on the first dark night.
AT q meeting Of tho School Board of Arl-
ington District, in this county, held at the
old court house this morning, 1t was decided
purchase Oh acre OF ground at Gonzales
cent Camp for the erection ola public school.
The taking Of testimony in the Massey
Wise contested election case was adjourned
on Saturday last until Wednesday next,
when 1t is expected that it will be futher
postponed till tie adjournment Of the Coun.
~ Court.
\ letter was received here on Saturday
from Mr.. Frank Moore, who was reported
last week rs dying in Richmond from the
effects of n wounded hand, stating that be
had almost entirely recovered aud would
oe OUT In Gay or TWO.
The owners Of tho Pioneer Mills, in this
city, were last week negotiating with the
V. NJ. and G. & 0. Railroads with the OBJ
.iect of turning the mill into grain ele-
vator. 1t is said that very low freight rates
on grain were offered by the companies.
The festivities of tho spring season will
begin tomorrow night, when some of the
Young gentlemen Of the city will give mop
at McBurney's Hall, and the event is look
ed forward to with pleasure by numbers Of
young people Of the city
The schooner Kitty Ann, belonging to
Captain William Laycock, of this city, which
was blown ashore ut Matthias Point on
Thursday, the fifteenth instant during a
heavy gale. is still high and dry, al efforts
10 get her of having failed.
The body Of Dennis Donavan was found
floating in the river at the foot Of Potomac
street, Georgetown. Yesterday Donavan
was Il Waterman at the Aqueduct bridge,
and at an early hour yesterday morning
either leaped or fell from tho Aqueduct
bridge into the water below.
Captain Arthur Chichester, of Loudoun.
has just returned from Il trip through Ken
lucky and says that the lands and horses Of
that state are the finest in the world-even
surprising those Of Loudoun. As such ut
terences will be considered treason in Lou
doun the Captain had better ''lay low" when
he goes home.
The fish vessels from the lower Potomac
still refuse to land the specified fish wharf
in Washington The captains seem deter.
mined to test the legality Of the provision
compelling them TO land at any particular
wharf. Judge Smell has deferred Judgment
in the matter and it will probably be some
time before the question is finally settled.
Mr. Richard Javins, a we'll known brick lsye,
of this city, died last night ut his residence on
Patrick street after long illness, the ultimate re
suit OF an injury no received somo time ago BY
falling from q building on which he was working
The indurated basins made by tho Fibre Ware
company of Maine and advertised By Mossrs Me
Lean * Uhler are highly spoken Of by all wht
have used them.
The alarm Of Gre sounded this evening about
o'clock was caused by the burning of chimney II
the 4th ward.
The laying Of the keel OF the three mastet
schooner TO be built at Messrs. Agncw s Co.'S shil
yard, was finished on Saturday.
The ting. Gedney and Hartley and tho steame