Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The monthly meeting of the City
School Board will be held tonight.
1t is said that the City School Board
will be asked to establish another school
for colored girls.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Relief Hook and Ladder Company will
be held tomorrow night.
The report that a resident of the
| Third ward while drunk last night had
attacked and cut his wife is denied.
A number of Alexandrians went to
Baltimore to-day to see the game OF
ball to be played between the Balti-
more and New York clubs.
Some excitement was caused on low
er Prince street at late nour last night
by a man while drunk chasing his wife
out of the house. The woman took
refuge in the house of a neighbor.
Marriage licenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Thos. Harris,
of Alexandria county, and Emma An
derson, and to William G.. Morris, of
Orange, and Morrie Gaines, Of Gull
pepper.
The first turkeys of the season were
offered for sale in the market to-day.
They were a lot which had been struck
by a train in lower Fairfax county and
their owner thought it best to kill and
sell them.
A man, his wife and three children
were accommodated with lodging at
the station house Tuesday night. They
were from Richmond and were or
their way to Fauquier county, where
the husband was to find employment.
In the inquest in Washington yester-
day over the body of VIM. Cassidy, who
was killed by a locomotive on the
Southern Railway on Tuesday night,
the jury was unable to agree or the
question of locating the responsibility
for his death.
Rev. Alfred Young, pastor OF Roberts
Chapel, delivered an interesting and
somewhat humorous sermon entitled
"Courtship and Marriage" at the tent
on south Washington street last night.
A large audience was present and the
sermon was much enjoyed.
Frederick Butler, a colored laborer,
Sc years old, was struck by a local train
at the north end of the Long Bridge
yesterday morning. Butler was going
to work at the time of the accident and
was walking on the track. He was
not badly hurt, and was sent to the
Emergency Hospital in Washington,
where his wounds were dressed.
A mar who had been picked up in
the street drunk on Tuesday night was
brought into the Police Court yester.
day morning and given until II o'clock
to raise a fine of $3.50. He started out
to procure the money, got drunk again
and about dark put in his appearance
at the station house and was again
locked up. This morning he was SEM
to Jail.
The planking placed at the fish
wharf last spring has been washed
away by the recent high tides, and i
the city intends renting that property
next year considerable repairs will
have to be made. 1t has been suggest
ed that some of the stone in the ole
canal be used in the repair of thi:
wharf, as should that be done there
would be no necessity of repeating the
work every year.
Some excitement was occasioned al
the upper end of King street about ter
o'clock last night by a difficulty be
tween a saloonkeeper and one of hi:
customers. The former had asserted
that the latter had neglected to pay fol
a "call" he had made, which was dis
puted, and the customer threw a bottl,
7 of beer at the boniface, remarking a
the time, "Take your beer" The bot
tie struck the host on the shoulder
, The latter subsequently went out OF
the pavement where the difficulty wa
renewed. This morning the assailan
was fined IS.