Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Tomorrow will be registration day.

LOCAL BREFITIES.
Tomorrow will be registration day.
The Great Council of Red Men of
Virginia will meet in Norfolk on We'd
nesday.
An old colored woman has going
about the city to-day preaching at the
street corners,
The bridge at the foot of Spring Bank
hill, in Fairfax county, below this city,
has been repaired.
The Alexandria Perpetual Building
Fund Association, I'd series, have made
81 loans, S., 400, at a premium of 25.
An additional Sunday train has been
put on the Leesburg road, which leaves
here at $50 p. m, for Herndon.
1t is said that the prospects of resum-
ing operations at the basket factory at
New Alexandria are very encouraging.
At the meeting on Saturday of the
directors of the Fairfax Mutual Insur-
ance Company forty new members were
admitted.
The lady managers Of the A. L. /.
fair will tonight commence putting the
armory in order for the fair which will
open next Monday.
Mrs. Grover, who lives on Oronoco
street, fell this morning and broke her
arm. She was attended by Drs. Quack-
enbush and Ashby.
We have received an invitation to at
tend the seventh annual meeting of the
Virginia State Flremens' Association
which will meet in Staunton, on June
9TH.
DR.. Clement C. Barbour died yes
terday at the residence of his sister,
Mrs. Lombard, in Newport, Ky. The
interment will take place at Brents-
vile tomorrow.
Messrs. L. w. Spear and H. W. New
by to-day rode over the line of the pro-
posed electric road between this city and
Arlington, and tomorrow the survey of
three lines between the points named
will be commenced.
In game of ball played on Saturday
evening on the grounds of the Episcopal
High School between the nine of the
school and that of the Kendall Green
College in Washington, the former won
by score Of t to S.
Willie, the -year-old son of Mat
thew McCuen, living in Mount Vernon
district, Fairfax county, complained of
a headache on Wednesday evening and
was put to bed. He died next morning
from an unknown cause.
The revival services at the Baptist
Church closed last night when four
persons were haptised. During the ses-
sion, which lasted three weeks, so per-
sons were baptised and six more were
admitted to membership by letter.
a COW belonging to Sally Keith, col
ored, was struck by an incoming
freight train near Colross this morning
and killed. The jar knocked the trucks
from under one of the cars. The own
er of the COW undertook to bury it on
the line of the street, but the police
stopped such proceedings.
A serious break in the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal was reported near Han
cock, Md, on Saturday. About omar.
ter OF mile of the capal'a banks were
swept away BY the high water, and the
Potomac FLYER and the canal were
merged into one stream, Considera-
bic damage was inflicted to the canal
from WilliamspoEt to Hancock, as can
now be asaertained by the subsistence
of the high water.
Mr.. W. E. Nails was hurt at the Midland
shops yesterday by q piece of heavy timber
falling on and mashing his foot. He was at
tended hJ Dr. OsBrien, the compsny's sur
| gcan.
The steamer Arrowsmith In making her
landing at the ferry wharf yesterday was
carried by the current against Lannon'S wharf
and demolished about 20 feet Of that struc-
| ture.
Mr.. A. L. While, of the Deis Manufacturing
| Company, has returned from successful bust
ness trip, having made good sales of furniture.
Mr.. ]. T. Stone now receives daily from Nor
folk find supply of hard and soft crabs and
clans.
The members of the Thirteen Cluh yesteF-
day enjoyed planked chad ieast at Bryant's
Point.