Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-03
LOCAL BREYITIES.

LUUdI DIE flllEO.
A large number of gypsies are en-,
camped near Cameron run.
The receipts of fish are increasing
and prices have somewhat declined.
The Columbia Fire Company's bail
will be given at McBurney's Hall t.
night.
Hereafter early mass at st. Mary's
Church will be sung at O'Clock instead
of 1880.
A large area of combustible growth
on land near Annandale, Fairfax coun-
ty, is on fire.
In Grace Church yesterday morning
the collection for the Brazilian mission
amounted to S5005.
The Easter services at the Lutheran
Church yesterday were very interesting
and were largely attended.
A more powerful engine is to replace
the one now used in the Deis furniture
factory at New Alexandria.
In the Corporation Court to-day adj
ministration upon the estate of VIM.
Fletcher was granted to Peter Mozart
ney.
Mr.. George Brown says he didn't
buy from VIM. Geary hooking bird
which was recently lost by Mrs. Herb
ner.
Mrs. Entwisle, wife of Mr.. NJ. En-
twisle, formerly of Marshall, is very i'll
at the residence of her mother, in Eau
quier county.
Mr.. Jno. w. Middleton, living near
The Plains, and Mr.. G.. w. Rivercomb,
near Rectortown, in Fauquier county,
died on Thursday.
The committee on light of the City
Council will take steps to have the UNI
authorized lighting of the old street gas
lamps discontinued.
Mr.. Anthony Dibbrell, cashier of the
Loudoun National Bank at Leesburg,
is extremely i'll and his life is almost
dispaired of by his friends.
Celia Chapman, a well-known color
ed woman, and who was a steady pa
troness of the police court, died in "Pe-
tersburg" yesterday morning.
The horses attached to lumber
wagon belonging to Messrs. J. D. H;
Smoot Il Co. ran away near the local
depot to-day and damaged the vehicle.
The altar at ST. Mary's church yester-
day was beautifully decorated with
flowers, ferns, &C., and the Easter SER
vices, which were very impressive, were
largely attended.
Mr.. Thomas McDermont has been
appointed acting foreman Of the black
smith shop at the Midland Railroad
shops in this city in place of the late
Mr.. Thomas II. Selectman.
A puncy boat from st. Georges Isl
and loaded with oysters and lying in
the dock between King and Prince
streets was robbed Saturday night Of
So in money and some clothing.
City Engineer Graves has informed
Captain Bryant, chairman of the street
committee of the City Council, that the
grade of the paving being done by the
railroad company on Henry street is
above the legal grade. 1t will be low
cred.
The GAINESVILLE, Ca, papers state
that the firm of Summers Il Murphy
has been succeeded by the Summers
Buggy Co. The head of the firm is Mr..
G. L. Summers, formerly of this city,
who has made q reputation through
the South as carriage builder.
Friends in Atlanta Of the late Rev.
G.. NJ. Funston sent to this city on Sat
urday beautiful wreath of flowers
with the request flat they be placed
on his grave in Ivy Hill cemetery East
er morning. The flowers came to the
care of DR.. Ashhy who complied in Per
son with the request.
Twenty-four colored persons, Is from
the congregation of Zion, and from
that of Shiloh church, were baptized "
the Potomac yesterday NOR 80
Battery Rodgers. Thi" tho , en- bo vi
. .ol & .! 'n' season and as the day
Me' ,.lght the emersions were witness
ed by great crowd of people, both
Wnlte ana colored.
The stockholders meeting of the
Rosslyn, Arlington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon Railway Company, to
have been held to-day, was adjourned
till Wednesday, the 18th inst, and the
stockholders meeting of the New AL
exandria Wooden Ware Company adj
journed till the 10th without transact
ing any business.
The North West Alexandria I'M
proyement Company have sold to J. Gin
ION Smoot the cottage and ground
known as Glendale" with about
three-quarters of square of ground "a
part of their property for price equiv
alent to about $4,000. Mr.. Smoot will
at once improve and beauty this prop
erty and make it his summer residence.
The tug Hercules was libelled at
Norfolk on Saturday and attached to
satisfy an amount of $4,000 involved
in suit growing out of the sinking OF
the schooner Robert Morgan, which
the Hercules ran into and sunk in a
fog near the Winter Quarter shoal.
The tug has been keeping out Of the
way of the officers for some time.
A. G. Hamilton, oculist, will be at his Of
flee. No. ia King street, next Tuesday ever
ing from GAO tn $40