Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-09
SUBURBAN NEWS.
ALEXANDRIA.

Within a month a new street will be
opened from the west edge of the town
to the Potomac river. The new street,
named long ago after Chancellor George
Wythe of Virginia. has been until now a
mere geographical expression, but it will
now enter into the life of the town. The
new street begins in the fields, which are
still in grass, and it has no house upon 1t,
except some cabins, until 1t passes Fayette
street and crosses the base ball grounds, on
the north, where there is handsome mod
ern dwelling, on the corner of Wythe and
Henry streets. There are no other dwell
ings of importance until 1t reaches Column
bus street, and then there are fine houses
on each side from Columbus to Washing
ton street. From Washington to ST. Asaph
street it passes Portners brewery. and it
then makes the deep cut made through
the hill to Royal street and crosses Yeaton's
marsh on an elevation of the earth taken
out from the cut in the hill and placed in
the marsh, the old canal brook being led
under it through a temporary culvert. At
Fairfax street it makes another cut through
the hills which overlook the Potomac, and
it comes out to the river shore alongside
the track Of the Washington and Ohio
railroad. In some portions of the street
the cut Is twenty feet, and has reached
the potters' clay or fuller's earth which
underlies much of Alexandria. This
street is now very much In the condition
of Fairfax street from Princess to Came
ron hundred years ago.
The Grand Lodge, /. o. Q. F.. of Virginia,
which is now opening its annual session
here, will have reception at Lannon's
Opera House tonight.
The funeral of Mrs. Virginia Baggott,
the teacher of the Lee public school, No.
5, took place this morning, and was at
tended by the children Of her school, many
of the teachers and other friends, includ-
ing the Ladies' Sodality of St. Marys
Church. A mass of requiem was solemniz-
ed by Rev. Father Cutler. pastor of st.
Mary's Church, and the funeral procession
then moved to the Catholic cemetery, where
the venerable teacher was laid at rest
beside her father mother brothers and sis
tiers, all of whom have preceded her in
the great hereafter.
Mayor Strauss is engaged in forwarding
this morning a marriage between Arthur
Parker and Bette Jackson, both colored.
There are conditions under the law of
Virginia, like the law of Moses, requiring
that atonement for wrong doing which
Miss Pollard has sought from Col. Brock
inridge. The question was before the may
or this morning and is not finally disposed
Of
Rev. Dr. MOZART of Washington preached
yesterday at the German Lutheran Church,
Rev. DR.. Treadway Of Maryland at the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, Rev.
r. c. Gilmore at the Second Presbyterian
Church and Rev. Drs. Poisal and Murray
at the Methodist Protestant Church.
The corporation court began its April
term this morning, with grand and petty
jurors. A number of applications for
liquor licenses were filed.
Mr.. James Peverill has purchased for
s1,ol5 the Hart-Burley property. OF. the
Washington turnpike, a short distance
south of ST. Asaph junction.
The schooner Ellen Tobin is new under
repair at the shipyard here.
- Mr. R. r. Campbell, the attorney who de-
Tended the negro ravisher White at Manas-
sas is in the city on visit to his father
in-law, Col. John S. Mosby
Mr.. Cooke, the populist candidate for Pres