Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-16
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The public schools of the county will
be closed this year on the 9th of June.
Sheriff George w. Tansill, of Prince
William county, has announced him
self candidate for the Legislature.
The remains of Miss Ann Washing
ton, who died recently in North Caro-
lima, will be brought here tonight for
interment tomorrow.
The stockholders of the American
Electric and Manufacturing Company,
of Washington, met in this city to-day
and elected directors.
From the first of July the mail SER
vice between Fairfax station and Fair
fax Courthouse will be increased to
fourteen times week.
1t was Mr.. Edward Mayberry of the
University of Virginia, not of the Semi
nary, who recently conducted the uni
versity local examinations in this city.
A balky horse this morning backed q
milk wagon against the window Of
Capt. George Young's cigar store, on
King street, but fortunately did but
little damage.
Among the attractions at the Alex
andria Light Infantry Auditorium this
evening will be Mr., Comfy, of Washing
ton, in his dialect recitations and songs,
and the Mandolin Club.
A called meeting of the Relief Hook
and Ladder Company will be held to-
night for the transaction of special bus
mess. There will also be called meet
ing of the Columbia company tonight.
The alarm of fire about seven o'clock
yesterday evening was caused by the
burning of some bedding in the house
occupied by colored man named Geo.
Washington, on Fairfax street, near the
w. 4 @. depot:
At the meeting last night Of Mount
Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons,
three candidates were initiated, after
which all present partook of very
nice little banquet which had been pre-
pared in the banquetipg hhll;
a special meeting of the City Council
WAS 10 have been held to-nlpht. :. % con-
slider the enginse... . 1.,i, but it is under
! Stood that the meeting will not be held,
as the members who have the bill in
charge will not be able to attend.
The power house being constructed
at Rosslyn by the United States Gov
eminent to force the water up to Fort
Myer is nearly completed, and the
troops stationed there will be supplied
this summer with Potomac water.
The Washington and Arlington Elec-
trio Railroad from the Aqueduct bridge
to Arlington is now doing a good busi-
ness, hundreds of people on week days
aud thousands on Sundays visiting the
great national cemetery by way of this
route.
Marriage lipenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Chas. Cole, OF
Westmoreland county, and Alice Will
liams; to John Pearson and Emma V.
Dore, both of this city, and to Joseph
Norman and Sallie Marshall, of Maple
Grove.
We again call attention to the novel
evolutionary entertainment to be given
by Miss Westcott on the evening of the
18th. Miss Westcott reoited in Staun-
ton for the benefit of the Kings Daugh-
ters' Hospital enterprise and charmed
every one.
At a meeting last night of the Friend
ship Fire Company invitations were ac-
cepted to take part with Lee Camp in
the celebration on the Oath of Confed-
crate Memorial Day and also to attend
the Alexandria Light Infantry fisir on
the night of that day.
The suit of Mrs. Fannie Raglaad
against Woodward & Lothrop, of Wash
ington, for $4,000 for having her
searched in their establishment. where
she was arrested by private detective
on the charge of stealing diamond
ring, which was not found on her, was
begun in that city yesterday.
Mr.. R. L. Harden (whose stand is on
St. Asaph street, between Prince and
King who has more of them, sent o
nice mess of soft crabs, alive and kick:
ing, the first of the season from Black
stones Island, to this office to-day.
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TOUND-On Saturday. the 18th instant, al