Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-14
LOCAL BREEITIES.


The employees of the r. & D. R. R.
Co., in this city are again working on
full time.
A large number of colored excursion
lists arrived here this morning from
Charlottesville.
The damage recently done to Ian
mons wharf by the steamer Arrow
smith is being repaired.
A called meeting of the Relief Hook
and Ladder Company will be held to-
night. Business Of Importance will be
transacted.
The colored camp meeting at Gum
Spring, below this city, was largely at
tended yesterday, many white people
being present.
1t is believed that there is strong
foundation for the report that the r. &
D. r. R. Offices in this city are to be
moved to Charlottesville.
RThe work of constructing the culvert
to carry the water of Taylor's run un-
der the water company's race near this
city, is rapidly approaching completion.
Rev. John Martin, one of the oldest
Episcopal clergymen in Maryland, died
yesterday, aged 81 years. He was a
relative Of Mr.. Wallace HooT, Of this
city.
Superintendent of Schools Kemper
will tomorrow begin the examination
of public school teachers. The eXami-
nations will be held at Washington
building.
The first rehearsal of the Alexandria
chorus which is to take part in the CEN
tennial celebration in Washington next
month of the laying of the Capitol cor
ner stone, will be held at Peabody Hall
tonight.
Two white men with two colored
women came here yesterday from
Washington and went down on the
electric road. On their return they
were justly ''guyed" by number of
young men who saw them.
A number of the members of the
Bachelors Club spent pleasant day at
and near Occoquan yesterday, having
gone there on the steam launch Ameri-
Gus. One of the members became so
excited while fishing that he jumped
OVERHEARD.
The store of Landon Cater, of East
Falls Church, was broken open by a
thief last night and robbed of jar of
candy. The thief left his shoes and
hat in the store, and it is said that
Sheriff Veitch knows the owner of
those articles.
A meeting will be held at the Board
of Trade rooms tomorrow night to de-
eide what action will be taken by the
citizens in reference to the celebration
to be held in Washington next month
OH the occasion of the centennial of the
laying ofthe corner stone of the Capitol.
A meeting of the Alexandria dele
gates to the Richmond convention has
been called for tonight at 7:30 o'clock
at the Market Building to chose chair
man and secretary, and also to decide
upon the action of the delegates when
they reach to Richmond.
John Murnaney, aged thirty years, q
brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, was found dead beside the
tracks at the foot of Randall street,
Baltimore, early yesterday morning. 1t
is supposed he had been run over by
locomotive 1908. His body was sent to
the morgue. Murnaney was unmar-
ried and was from Vienna, Fairfax
county. He boarded in Baltimore.
Collector McCaull of this internal revenue
district, has given notification that no checks,
whether certified or uncertifcd, will be re-
ceived in payment for stamps, and has written
all his deputies in the district to receive only
currency.
Mrs. j. T. Palmer, daughter of the late John
Vented of this city, died in LoudOun on Sat
urday