Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.
So far the Auditor has issued $50 dc
licenses

So far the Auditor has issued $50 dog
licenses.
No business was transacted in the
Corporation Court to-day.
The infant child OF Mr.. Chas. Jauney
died at HaYmarket on Saturday night.
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew, Of
Grace Church, will meet at that church
tonight at s o'clock.
Gunston Institute, of Washington,
MIR. Beverly Mason principal, will hold
its closing exercises on Wednesday.
A young man, who on Saturday was
fined for disorderly conduct in an up
town saloon, to-day swore out warrant
against the saloonkeeper charging him
with selling liquor to minors.
A female aeronaut in her descent
from balloon at River View yester-
day was quite painfully hurt, having
the skin scratched from her leg from
her knee to her hip by getting caught
in tree.
The examining chaplains Of the Epis-
copal diocese of Virginia met, to-day at
the Theological Seminary, near this
city, and the chaplains of the diocese OF
Southern Virginia will meet there to-
morrow.
The card of Prof. 0. II. DeLamorton's
scientific school of dress cutting will be
seen elsewhere. This is a subject in
which most of the ladies of this city are
interested and free lessons will be given
during the week.
Mr.. Henry A. Davenport, printer,
who had lived in this city for some time
past, died yesterday evening at the res
idence of his cousin, Mr.. Frank Daily,
on Duke street near Columbus. His
remains were sent to his former home in
Orange c. II. to-day.
The friends ofJeff. Phillips, whois now
III Jail, having been sentenced to eight
years in the penitentiary for killing
George S. Smith, are endeavoring to
get up picnic to secure money to de-
fray the expense of taking the case to
the Court Of Appeals where new trial
will be asked.
Willie Henderson, the fve-year-old
son of Mr.. John T.. Henderson, who
lives on south Alfred street, while play
ing with several little companions in
neighbours yard yesterday evening had
his leg broken by a railroad tie rolling
on him. The little fellow was attended
by DR.. Quackenbush.
The steamer Mary Washington with
Il negro excursion from Washington to
Collingwood, otherwise called Razor
Beach, was so crowded to-day that she
could not carry all the excursionists,
the overflow taking the ferryboat Pilot
Boy at Washington which brought
them rs far as this city, when they took
the Mt Vernon electric railroad, which
runs within a short distance of Colling
wood.
ST. Mary's colored school after most SUE
ccssful session will hold its closing exercises
in concert and dramatic entertainment 1t
:hc Sodality Lyceum Hall, Thursday Jun
% They will be assisted by the y. NJ. a. &
o. orchestra, and the best talent of Howard
University, University.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
cleared away all the buildings in the three
blocks in Washington, between Virginia ave
rue and E street southwest, extending from
Second street TO Four and a-half street.
Peter Hewlett, a negro living at Arlington,
became involved in a quarrel late Saturday
night with an unknown man in Arlington.
the result being that the unknown man bit OFF
a portion Of Hewlett's left ear
An cd resident of Virginia named James
McCloskcy who was taken to the Emergency
Hospital in Washington, 4 few days ago with
a pistol wound in his leg. died Saturday even
ing.
The members of the Old Dominion Boat
Club will give their first dance Of the season
at the boat house Friday evening next.