Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-09
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The barge Kate Lovett is on the ways
at the shpyard for repairs.
The Virginia Democratic Association
of Washington will give their excursion
TO Marshall Hall tomorrow.
Buck Taylor and Henry Cheshire say
they are to have prize fight at 'Phol SC
Arrington's tonight. Police
A number of teachers of the public
schools Of this city have gone to Cul
peper to attend the Sta Normal
School, which is in session there.
a telegram received here to-day from
Chicago says: "All the trouble in Chi.
cago is confined to the south side
There is nothing alarming and the stu
alton is improving.
Mrs. samuel Jefferson quite badly
burned her arms in attempting to eX-
tinguish the fire caused by the over
flowing of an oil stove at her home on
Wolfe street on Saturday last.
Frye's army camp at Rosslyn was
visited by numbers of persons yester-
day and some speeches were made and
collection taken up. The Coxey
Commonwealers are lessening in num-
Der at Highlands, Nd.
Deputy Sheriff Roabaugh, of Prince
William county, passed through this
city this morning having VIM. Fletcher,
colored, in charge, who was sentenced
to the pententiary for one year for cut
ting man with razor
The boa-constrictor that has been
wandering through Washington sewers
was, it is said, captured on the flats and
restored to its owner by colored labor
er, who claimed the so reward. Some
people say the snake never got into
the sewer.
The Young Mems Christian Society
viii hold an open meeting at the NJ. E.
Church South tonight at o'clock a
short and interesting programme will
be rendered by Alexandria and Wash
ington societies, and everybody is in
vited TO attend.
B. Wheatley, trustee, has sold to j
p. Force house and lot On the north
side of Wolfe street, between Pitt and
St. Asaph, for $500, and James Hu lett
has sold TO J. Ii. Watkins house and
lot on the west side of King street, be-
tween Patrick and Henry, for 81 $50.
The temperature yesterday was de-
lightful: the churches, however, We're
not largely attended. Services were
conducted according to the announce
ments made on Saturday. The excur-
sion boats carried the usual number OF
eXcursionists, as did also the electric
railway.
Il is said that the foreign book at Al
exander Island track is by far the more
profitable end of the enterprise and
there is every reason to believe that the
management is losing money on the lc-
cal racing, and that they would be only
too glad of an opportunity to discon-
tinue it and conduct books on the ou
side races exclusively.
Officer Griffin yesterday picked up
two suspicious-looking negroes who
bad caused some apprehension in the
neighborhood where they were loaling.
They were locked up as Migrants, and
this morning they stated that they were
from Georgia, and were not looking for
work. The Mayor told them he would
furnish them with employment for ff-
teen days on the chain gang.
4 well.drcssed man jumped from the
Long bridge into the Potomac river on
Saturday afternoon and was drowned.
The body was recovered short dis
lance below the bridge by the police
boat Joe Blackburn. Nothing was
found in the mans pockets by which
he could be identified Yesterday even
ing the body was identified as that OF
Henry J. Porter, brother of General
Porter, Commissioner of the United
states Census.