Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-25
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The City Council meets tO-night.

The City Council meets tonight.
The pump well on King street be-
tween Fairfax and Royal is being
filled in.
Andrew jackson Lodge of Masons
Will hold special meeting tonight to
confer the Master Mason's degree.
The schooner Geo. NJ. Adams, loaded
withire, arrived here this morning from
the Kennebec river to Messrs. +. A.
Reed & Co.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington yesterday to Eugene f.
Carter, of Washington, and Mary NJ.
Sheppard, of Warrenton.
A citizen who fell asleep on one of
the whaves of the city yesterday was
relieved of his gold watch which had
been cut from the chain.
A large excursion party from Fairfax
county arrived here this morning on q
Midland train. Some went on to
Washington and others took the cars
for Mount Vernon.
The Baltimore Ncps says the work
on the Arrow steamship Howard Cas-
sard, which has been postponed for the
past two weeks, will be resumed to-day
and pushed to completion at once.
AS yet the record in the jeff Phillips
case has not been forwarded to the
Court of Appeals. The record, how
ever, has been made up and is now in
the hands of the Clerk Of the Corpora
ton Court.
Negotiations are in progress in Wash
iugton for the consolidation into one
company of the four ice companies in
that city-the Great Falls, Independ
ent, American, and National Capital
Ice Companies.
William H. Cochran, of this city, en-
ployed on the Congressional Library, in
Washington, had his left forearm badly
mashed by falling stone yesterday.
He was removed to Emergency Hospi-
tai, where his arm was amputated.
Mr.. E. H. Reed, while at work at the
planning mill of J. Fl. Lewis, in Wash
ington. to-day had one of the knuckles
of his right hand cut entirely off by a
planning machine. He was attended by
DR.. Henning and subsequently return
ed to his home in this city.
Complaint is made of the disorderly
behavior of the crowd of boys who con-
gregate at the corner of Fairfax and
Duke streets nightly. Complaint has
been lodged at the station house that
baseball throwing is carried on at Fair
fax and Wilkes streets at night.
Bun" the dun horse belonging to
Mr.. Walter Roberts, which for many
years has been n familiar object on the
streets of this city, died yesterday even
ing, having lived life of many useful
years. Bun" was 20 years old, and
was the last of line of dun horses
which the Messrs. Roberts have been
driving since 1860.
The Alexandria Light Infantry will
not go into camp at the White Sulphur
Springs with the Fourth regiment. The
interior of the company's armory is
now being remodeled, and as all the
arms, accoutrements, &C., are packed
away, the members think they could
not get ready in time to join the Fourth
regiment.
Venus, after an absence of nearly
year, has again made her appearance
as an evening star, and may be seen
for short time in the early evening in
the West. She will continue to adorn
the western skies during the remain
der of the year, growing brighter and
brighter, and not reaching her greatest
brilliancy until the 9th of January
next.
A young man named Sylvester Dean, while
at work building a boat on .Joness Point to-
day, badly cut his leg with an axe.