Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-10
ALEXANDRIA.
Reported for THE EVENING STAR.

reported Tor lHE EVENING STAR
CORPORATION CoURT.-The corporation court,
Judge Norton, is in session today engaged in
verifying tax coupons under the state law. In
Thornton agt. Cole an order has been made for
the settlement OF accounts of Lucas, receiver.
On the probate side of the court Leonard Mar
bury qualified as executor of Fannie Wilson,
and Mrs. VI. A. Harrison administrator of
her husbands estate, and Charles ii. Bender
has been appointed guardian of Sarah Bender;
George II. Shinn took the oath of office of
notary public.
DEATH HoNoRs TO JEFFERSON DAvIs.-The
tribute OF respect to the memory of jefferson
Davis Will take place here next Friday at q
meeting of the citizens to be convened at the
opera house. Lee camp last night adopted
appropriate resolutions. The flags of the town
are at half-mast.
PLAYING CRAP ON SUNDAY-The police in
their search for Sunday gamblers Sunday
afternoon made raid upon a suspected house
kept by colored man named Calvin They
had expected to find a considerable crowd and
had made preparations accordingly, but found
only three colored men playing crap" These
were disposed OF by the mayor yesterday, the
parties being fined under the gambling law.
OLD AND NEW PUEPs.-The old bridge pump
at the intersection of Gibbon and Pitt streets
which furnished drinking water to many resi-
dents OF the third and fourth ward for two gen.
erations has been superseded by new pump
just put up 100 yards south, at the intersection
of Pitt and Franklin streets. The old pump
whose water was fresh and pure while 1t was
an outskirt pump has become tainted from the
same cause which long before Cameron water
was introduced had polluted all the pumps in
the center of the town, but the new pump
affords potable water.
NoTEs.-Lee camp of confederate vete-
rams have draped their meeting place in
black, placed their flag at half mast and sur
rounded the confederate soldiers monument
on Washington street with signs of mourning
George T.. Howard. b. c. Pole, G. j. WASH
ington and Others have obtained a charter
here for an electric motor company to
run cars under the Pols patent
Thomas E. Beach has bought of J. A.
Stoutenburg for S210 building lot in
the rear Of the court house yard
The water company has appealed from the
decision OF the mayor declaring the company
subject to all the street laws of the corporation
Messrs. Harry Smoot and Julian Potion
of this city have left for Lynn, Mass, to try
and induce the removal Of shoe factories to this
city.--Jas W. Fone, a workman at Shoots
planning mill, had one of his hands badly
mashed there last Saturday evening. -Messrs
Breen and Feeley have purchased, for 1915, a
two-third interest in four lots and three DWELL
ings on Gibbon between Pitt and ST. Asaph
streets.-The state grange Of northern Vir-
ginia opens its annual meeting at the Brad
dock house hero tonight.-Commonwea
Attorney Holt lies still i'll with typhoid fever at
his home.--Miss Burnett Brockett has re-
signed as teacher of Lee public school, No. 2,
and accepted situation in Washington. An
election to fill the vacancy will be held at the
January meeting OF the board. Meanwhile
Miss Lizzie Butler is the teacher pro tenn
Coroner Powell is now very ill.-John Stein
OF Washington has been fined So by the mayor
for drunkenness last Sunday.