Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-04-02
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The schooner Johu Bird, loaded will
cooperage hy Messrs Smoot & Co. and Reet
X Co., sailed from this port to-day for Sagu.
lie Grande, Cuba.
! The Alexandria Shipbuildiug comnan,
owning the lower shp-yard now leased t.
Agnew 4 Co., will meet tomorrow at III,
ship yard.
Franklin Square Baptist Church, of Bal
tlmore, has Increased the salary of its pas.
tor, Rev. DR.. c. {. Biting from So 800 to
/ $4,000.
MIR. l.. Brown, flour inspector for this CITY
reports that he has inspected G3SO barrels
OF Hour for the quarter ending March 81
| 1888.
\ large dred &c aud several scows to be
used on the Potomac flats Improvement
passed up the river this morning in tow of a
large tug.
But few fish have been caught since Fri
day last, and the only sales reported at
tlshtown, were few herring which sold at
the rate Of $25 per thousand.
A report was in circulation on the street
and on the wharf to-day that Mr.. Jack Phil
lips, of this city, was drowned last SATURDAY.
while fishing i'll Mattox creek, but it turned
out to be untrue
Rev. Mr.. Lockwood, rector Of St. Thomas
Episcopal Church at Owens Mills, Balti-
more county. Md, died there yesterday.
The deceased had many friends and acquain.
tances living in this city.
A finely executed crayon portrait of the
late eX-Aayor Latham is on exhibition in
the window Of Mr.. B. Barton's iewelrv store,
on King street The picture was executed
by l.. p. Spinner, of Washington.
Mr.. II. b. Saunders who was gallant
soldier in the Warrenton Rifles during the
war, Is lying quite sick at the residence of
Mrs. Johnson, in South Washington, from
the effects wound he received during the
late war.
MIR. }. Calvert Spiller, died Yesterday at
his residence in Baltimore, in the thirty
fourth year of his age. He graduated at the
Virginia Military Institute AT Lexington in
July, 1870, when only twenty-one years of
age, and had many friends i'm this city.
AtSt. Mary's church yesterday notice
was given of the coming religious services
in commemoralion of the 25Oth year of the
establishment Of the Society of Jesuits in
Maryland and the semi-centeunial of the es.
tahllshment Of the religious province.
will he made TO the large tannery of C. c.
Smoot x Sons, in this city, this spring. Be-
sides charging the establishment an entire
new set Of watts is TO be put in to take place
OF those now in use. \ portion of the tim
Der to he used has already arrived
Mr.. Nathaniel Calor, of kcnnebunk, Me-,
who is considered one Of the best shipsmiths
in this country and who superintendent the
iron work on the schooner Harlow which
was built in this city a last year, has re-
turned to this city and accepted a place
in the ship yard Of the Potomac Manufuctu-
ring company.
a case of old cabinet whiskey valued at
SO was to-day contributed TO the ALI.
fair by John Gihson's Son & Co., through
W. \. johnson 4 Co., and barrel of -four
by Messrs. Barbour < Hamilton, Washing
ton. through Messrs Beckham ; | case Rock
and Rye and Red Roof from 3. F. Holl &
son, Philadelphia, through Messrs. Geo.
McBurney Il Son.
Mr.. Geo. +. Price advertises his enti,e
stock of groceries, Sc, for sale at auction
on Friday next.