Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-01
LOCAL BRETITIES.

The County Court meets on Monday
the Sd.
Many April fool jokes were played il
this city to-day.
Mr.. A. D. Wright, of Charlottesville
has rented the new Lecsburg Inn.
Holy Saturday services at St. Mary's
Church to-day were largely attended
The Maryland Annual Conference o.
the Methodist Protestant Church meets
at Laurel, Del, on Tuesday next.
Mrs. Samuel Sutton faintt suddenly
at her home on lower King street To-
day and greatly alarmed her family.
The steamer Essex, of the Weems
Line, left Norfolk on her last trip OF
the season. yesterday, for Fredericks,
burg.
A horse attached to Il dayton belong
ing to Mr.. B. B. Smith ran away yes
terday evening and badly smashed the
vehicle.
Mr.. P. C. Hungerford, of Oak Grove,
Westmoreland county, is an applicant
for an Office under the United States
Senate.
The total amount of flour inspected
by Mr.. II. H. Hancock, deputy inspect,
or,for the first quarter ending March 81
was 1884 barrels.
Miss Rosa Hope, daughter of the late
VIM. J. and Mary c. Bronaugh, died at
her home, Ravenswood, Prince William
county, Va, Oh Thursday.
During the month of March the Clerk
of the Corporation Court recorded sc
deeds and issued 6 marriage licenses
to white and to colored persons.
The steamer Mary Washington will
be launched from the ways at the ship
yard this evening and the tug Templar
will be hauled thereon for repairs,
Mr. r. H. Atkinson has just built for
Mr.. d. II. Appich very handsome de-
livery wagon-equal in make to those
manufactured by the celebrated manu-
facturers in the West.
Levi Parker, resident of West End,
Falls Church, for about fifty years, died
suddenly yesterday morning while sit
ting at the table eating his breakfast.
Mr.. Parker came from Massachusetts,
and was 7i years old,
AS an evidence of the demand for
small dwellings in this city it can be
stated that the owner Of house which
was vacated yesterday has received
fourteen applications to rent it during
the past twcnty-four hours.
The Order of the Golden Chain will
be organized tonight at Odd Fellows
Hall with a membership of thirty.
Supreme Commander O. D. Craig and
Supreme Secretary A. Stanley Wier, of
Baltimore, will be here to institute the
lodge.
A boat loaded with potatoes which
Capt. ]. d. Beach brought here yester-
day evening for Mr. Hungerford, on
the Maryland shore, to MesGrs. ". II:
May Il Son, was swamped while lying
in the dock north of King street, but
was soon raised again.
Allen Hume, the little eight-year-old
son Of Mr.. Frank Hume, fell from his
fathers barn in the county yesterday,
and sustained n severe cut on his
head. He was attended by Dr. Ashby.
Mr.. Hume is away from home, having
recently gone 10 North Carolina with
another son who is bad health.
A gentleman from Fairfax county
came here yesterday and secured an at
tachment on the chattels of a man who
owed him money and whose goods
were being hauled through the city.
After securing the attachment 10 was
unable TO get an officer to serve it and
the goods passed through this city and
en- to Washington.
A. G. Hamilton, oculist, will be at his Of
fl C, No. 72I King street, next Tuesday even
ing fiom $50 to $50.