Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-23
stanly, of Washington, presiding at the
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The City Council will meet to.nig

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Fire escapes Ordinary iron ladders,
{ being placed on the Braddock
House in compliance with law.
A marriage license was, issued in
Washington yesterday to VIM. Thomp,
son and Nettie Kits, both of this city.
Mr.. Jos. Colvin, of Boston, has been
appointed electrician for the Mount
Vernon Electric Railway in place Of
Mr.. l.. w. Kerby.
The ladies and gentlemen who re-
Gently rendered "The Mikado" in this
city will produce the same little opera
at Falls Church on the 29th.
All those who wish to donate flowers
for the confederate memorial service
are requested to send them tomorrow
morning to No. 405 King street.
A sacred concert will take place to-
morrow evening at eight o'clock in
Trinity NJ. E. Church. Mr.. S. P.
c easinger, of Ca ifornia, will sing.
Messrs. N. Lindsey & Co. and J.
Broders & Co. are having their extern
sive grocery establishments on lower
King street remodeled and improved.
The Y. NJ. c. A. baseball club of
Washington will this evening play a
game with the Episcopal High School
nine on the latter's grounds near this
city.
The Fire Wardens have purchased
for the Hydraulion hose wagon the
horse recently sent here from Wash
ineton for trial. The price paid was
$40.
The Washington Mandolin, Banjo
and Guitar Club gave an enjoyable
entertainment at the Opera House last
night before a small but appreciative
audience.
The hose wagons recently built in
New York for. the Hydraulion and
Columbia fire companies were shipped
yesterday and are expected to arrive
here tomorrow.
The members Of the different choirs
invited to make up the choir in the
confederate memorial service will meet
on Captain Hooe's portico at half-past
five o'clock tomorrow evening.
Applications of Jas. Nash, for a posi-
ton in the Census Bureau, and w. H.
Thaler, for a laborer's place in the
Treasury Department., have been en-
dorsed by the city democratic commit
tee.
The work of stringing the trolley
wire for the turnout recently laid at
the corner of King and Washington
streets has been commenced, and soon
two cars will be running on the King
street line.
Claiborne Howard, colored, is on
trial in Washington for the second time
on a charge of shooting and killing Ed
ward c. Atwell, a brakeman in the en-
ploy of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company.
Tucker Javins, the little son of Mr..
J. R. Javins, was badly bitten by q
mare he was turning out to pasture on
his fathers place near Franconia yesa
ter lay. The little fellow was bitten on
both shoulders, piece of flesh being
torn from one.
In the Corporation Court to-day the
will of the late Col. Basil Brawner was
admitted to probate, and Miss ]. F,
Brawner qualified as administrators
with the will annexed. The estate,
which is valued at about 5000, is left
to the daughters of the deceased.
The dead body of a colored man
about twenty-eight years of age, was
found floating in the river yesterday
morning at nine o'clock under the fer
ry wharf in Washington. No marks of
violence were found on the body, and
it is believed that death resulted from
accidental drowning. The condition of
the body indicated that it had been in
the water several weeks.