Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The new Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia will organize Mon
day next.
Cynthia E. Donaldson, widow of the
late John +. Donaldson, died in Wash
ington yesterday.
Rev. DR.. VIM. S. Langford will de-
liver an address in Christ Church to-
morrow at 4:30 p. m.
The commissioners intend having the
speed of Washington street railway
cars reduced to nine miles an hour.
Leigh w. Reid has sold to G. H.
Robinson lot at the northwest corner
of Oronoco and Patrick streets, for
$3.50.
Miss Maggie Smith, daughter of Mr..
VIM. A. Smith, of south Washington
street, died on Wednesday aged Is
years.
The board of excise commissioners
have approved the applications for
liquor licenses of j. t. Downey and I.
d. Downey.
The many friends of Mrs. r. B. Dear
will regret to hear Of the extreme ILL
ness of her little son, Douglas, with tu-
bercular meningitis.
The remains of Mr.. Robert Cranson,
formerly of this city, who died in Wash
ington on Wednesday, were brought
here to-day for interment.
When the railroad company finishes
paving Henry street to Princess work
will be stopped till the grading north
of that street is done by the city.
Gen. John NJ. Corse died at his home
in Winchester, Mass, yesterday, after
an illness of only twelve hours. Apo
plexy was the cause. He was cousin
ofGen. NJ. d. Corse, of this city.
No jury has been yet obtained in
Washington in the case of Claiborne
Howard, charged with the murder of
Edward c. Atwell, Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad brakeman, near Ivy
City.
Mr.. B. F. Skinner, well-known cit
izen Of Fauquier, died at his home in
the upper part of that county recently,
and on Wednesday the baby of Mrs. A.
w. Strother, who died last week, also
died.
Mr.. Warwick c. White, special agent
for the Newport News Building and
Loan Company, has formed a local
board in this city, and has placed
among some of its best citizens and bus
mess men sixty-fve thousand dollars of
its capital stock.
Mr.. #. D. Edwards, of Canal Dover,
Ohio, the upholsterer of the Deis furni-
ture factory, at New Alexandria, has,
with his family of five, moved into one
of the dwellings recently erected there.
Mrs. Edwards will soon open store at
New Alexandria.
Marriage licenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Charles T.
Jones, of Culpeper, and Emma Dulin,
of Spottsylvania county; Frank F.
Glenn and Nora II. Bader, both of Cliff
ton Forge; John f. Bland, of St.
Georges Island, Md, and Missouri L.
Harrow, of Middlesex county; Henry
NJ. Taylor, of Fauquier county, and
Georgianna Thomas, of Montgomery
county, Md; James E. A. Gibbs, of
Raphine, and Margaret S. Craig, of
Craigsville.
Mr.. o. F. Baggett will have for sale
at his stall in the market tomorrow a
bountiful supply of beef, veal, mutton
and spring lamb.
Rev. VIM. S. Langford D. D., of New York,
secretary OF the domestic and foreign mission
airy society of the Episcopal Church OF the
United States, will address the Brotherhood
of ST. Andrew, in Christ Church, Sunday
evening next at 7:45 o'clock. All are cordi-
ally invited to attend.
The funeral Of Mr.. Aubrey A. Callahan
took place from his late home on south Fair
fax street this evening and was largely at
tended. The remains were inferred with
Masonic honors.
The Piedmont Convocation closed at Hern-
don yesterday. Wednesday was devoted to
services in memory of the late DR.. R. T. Da-
Wis, of Lecsburs.
4 special anniversary service of the /. O. 0.
f. will be held at Pohick Church on Sunday
night for Crescent Lodge Of Lorton Valley.