Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-27
ALEXANDRIA.

Reported for THE EVENING STAR.
CITY CoUNCIL.-The city council held an adj
journed meeting last night. President Mar
bury and Aldermen Mckenzie. Leadbeater.
Bryant and Burke made a quorum of the upper
board, and II. Snowden president pro tenn
and Messrs. W. s. Moore, C. A. Moore, Aitche-
son. Fisher. Corbett, Hinken. Waddy, Strider
Bayne and Kelly were present in the lower board
Manager MCGOWAN, of the Postal telegraph
cable, made statement relative to that COM
panys designs and prospects in reference to
Alexandria and both boards concurred in re-
committing to the street committee the appli-
cation to put up new line of poles on the
streets. The street committee was authorized
to present at the next meeting an ordinance
covering the matter. Mr.. A. J. Wedderburn,
publisher of Progress" made application for
an order directing the publication of the city
ordinance, council proceedings, advertise
ments, &c., In his paper, and the subject was
referred to the finance committee. An appli-
cation of Superintendent Thompson. of the
Midland railroad, for permission to connect
across King street both of the tracks of the
Midland road on Union street was referred to
the street committee, with power to act. On
the application of s. B. Stoutenburg and
others the committee on streets was author
lied to lay pavement on the sidewalk on the
south side of the courthouse square under the
paving law. At an early hour the boards ad-
journed.
ALExANDRIANs HURr.-Mr. Lev. Finks and
Mr.. VIM. Breen, of this city, were injured on
the Midland railroad last night, but not seri-
ously. No details of the accident have reached
here.
LAND SALE.-Two large lots of lands within
city limits on the northwestern edge of the
town were sold yesterday. One, a whole square
of ground, on Madison, Henry, Fayette and
Wythe streets, 247 by 800 feet, sold at S270 SUBJ
ject to thirteen years taxes, and a half square,
247 by $50 feet on Payne, West and Wythe
streets, sold for 1906. The property was bought
by Mr. s. G. Brent. This ground Is sold in
case of Alexander vs.. Alexander, and it was
granted by the King Charles III, in 1869 to Capt.
HowsOn and the same year transferred to the
Alexander family in whose possession it has
been ever since. 1t does seem, after all, worth
while to keep square of ground for 200 years
and then sell it for $270.
NOTES The chain gang is now busy at work
upon the street.-The new Postal telegraph
is now being extended from I.arton's station
toward the city.-Mr. Myers has bought of
Prince and Payne streets.--Water is to be cut
of from all persons upon which the rates shall
not be paid by the LIST of April.-A few small
fsh boats are now arriving at the fish wharf.
MARRIAGE LIcENsEs.-Marriage licenses have
been issued by the clerk of the court to Otto
Wenzel and Magdalena Schantz; George Tomp-
kins and Martha Williams, both of Alexandria,
Va; Moses Epstein, of Frankfort Ind. and Hen.
rietta Gradwohl; James NJ. Edwards and Carrie
McMullen, of Philadelphia; George c. Wingfield
and Fannie E. Clinton; Arthur ]. Willard and
Mary A. Taft; John Brennan, Of New York, and
Mary Matthews; Harry E. Mockbee and Mollie
E. Armor; John H. Lomox and Harriet Frazir
Hon. John r. Neal, member of Congress from
the third Tennessee district in the fftieth Con-
gress, died Tuesday at Rhea Springs, Tenn,
after an illness Of two months Of consumption
of tho bovals