Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-07
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CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS PENSIONS.
The county Of Alexandria has number Of
veterans who receive pensions for service in
the army Of the United States and disabilities
resulting therefrom. 1t has now its first case
OF pension to = confederate soldier disabled
in the service Of the confederate states. At the
recent term Of the county court certificate
was granted to Mr.. VIM. H. Yeatman, a dis
abled veteran, authorizing him to receive o
pension under the state law ON the subject.
The general assembly in 1884 passed an
act to provide for the preparation
state Of Virginia to the army Of the con-
federate states and the militia Of the state in
actual service during the war between the con-
federate states and the United States, and
afterward q law was passed to assist, by Q small
pension, such confederate veterans as had be-
come incapacitated from earning living. The
order made this week is the first application Of
the law to Alexandria county.
ALEXANDRIA GROUND RENTS.
The old ground rents which the Alexandria
heirs reserved on the building lots in those ex-
tensions Of the town which we're made after the
sale Of the original lots by the trustee board of
the town Of Alexandria are now nearly all
bought out One of the last Of them, $45 rs,
on lot on Prince street near Patrick street, was
bought out by O'Neal l. Lunt yesterday. The
city council has lately increased the tax on
profitable as formerly.
THE SOUTH SIDE SEWER.
The city street committee will, during the
next three months, follow the Washington plan
Of converting natural drains into city sewers
from Pitt street to the marsh beyond Franklin
street. They have received bids from George
Benson and W. Burson, Joseph L. Breen, Breen
& Feeley. Pullman & Baggett, Owen Patterson
and Thomas L. Rosser, jr. The offers for o
five-foot sewer range from 1886 to 1922. No
action on the offers has yet been taken.
THE ARLINGTON TERRITORY COURT
The United States court here has adjourned
after having convicted Eli Carter of mail rob-
berry and James Lipscomb of shooting and
wounding Ann Jackson in Arlington territory,
opposite Washington. Lipscomb has been
sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
CITY SCHOOL BOARD.
The city school board holds its regular meet
ing tonight. The annual meeting Of the board,
at which the work of the year will be laid be-
fore the boaad and reviewed by the trustees, will
take place on the 4th of August next.
Death ofa Well-Known Temperance Worker
Mrs. Lizzie s. Gourley, wife of John s. Gour-
ley of the government printing Office, who died,
after brief illness, on the morning Of July 4,
was well known as a temperance worker. She
became member Of the organization Of Good
Templars in 1860 in Cambridge, Mass, and in
1870, removing to Washington, she united with
the Morning Star Lodge, No. 8, in which she
held continuous membership until her death
During her connection with the Morning Star
Lodge she has filed every Office within the lodge,
was past grand vice templar Of the Grand Lodge
and was also past grand representative, repre-
senting that body at its Bloomington session.
Mrs. Gourlay was particularly fond Of the
young and was superintendent Of the first
Juvenile Temple Of Good Templars in the Dis
trict, and continued in the active work as long
as her strength would admit. All
her efforts in the cause Of tenn
perance were based upon the theory that
kind words were more effective in pointing the
way to sobriety than heated appeals from the
platform. Many man in the District Of
Columbia dates his reformation from the gentle
entreaty Of Mrs. Gourley to do better. She
was an earnest worker in the W. C. T. q. and
held active membership in several of the various
Christian and charitable organizations having
for their object the relief Of the unfortunate
Her remains have been taken to Waterbury,
Conn, her old home, for burial.