Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-15
LOCAL BREYITIES.


Saturday next will be st. Patrick S
Day.
There now forty prisoners confined
in the jail.
Alexandria Council, National Union,
meets tonight.
An increase Of pension has been
granted to Jacob Cottle, of this city
Mr.. Edgar Brockett fell at the Alex
andria bakery this evening and broke
his arm.
Work of constructing the new iron
bridge over Hunting creek will be COM
menced in Il few days.
Brush fires in Fairfax county have,
it is said, done some damage to fencing
and woods in that county.
Capt Page McCarty contemplates at
an early date the publication in this
city of a weekly illustrated paper
The lumber merchants report an ac-
tive business and say the prospects f r
building this season are very flattering.
Mr.. Aleck Brown, Assistant Market
Master, stumbled over 4 pile of sand
in crossing Fairfax street this morning
and broke a small bone of his leg.
The degree Team" of Potomac
Lodge, No. 3S, |. 0. 0. f., will, to-mor-
row night, confer the first degree and
give full rehearsal of their new work
The steamer Belle Haven took her
place on The Washington ferry line to-
day, relieving the Arrowsmith, which
will tomorrow go to Baltimore for an
overhauling.
Capt. Geoghegan, who recently re-
signed as captain of the Norfolk steam
er Washington, has gone to Baltimore
TO take command of one Of the Chesa-
peake bay steamers.
At an extra meeting OF Potomac Tent
No. 50. Independent Order of Recha-
bites, the first and second degrees Were
conferred upon two candidates and the
third degree upon five.
Last night was the coolest for the
past two weeks and ice formed in ex-
posed places. This morning there was
quite heavy frost and it is feared that
the trult mas been injured.
Marriage Licenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Emmitt AL
len, of Culpeper county, and Annie
Page, and TO Jas. w. McConchie, of
Lignum, and Katie y. Lewis.
In Washington yesterday John T..
Shoemaker was sentenced by Judge
Cole to ten years Imprisonment in the
Albany penitentirry for shooting and
killing Thomas Matthews, colored.
The three white men and seven
ncgros who robbed car on the Wash
ington Southern Railway on Tuesday
between Quantico and Woodbridge have
been turned over to the Prince William
authorities.
Two boys named Brown and Form
shill became engaged in difficulty at
the Columbia engine house this evening
during which Brown cut Fornshill with
q razor, across his chin.
The steamer Belle Haven, which to-
day was put on the ferry line, while on
her $50 trip from Washington this
evening broke her crank pin and had to
be towed to this city where the DANA
ges were soon repaired.
a favorable report was made to the
House yesterday on the bill introduced
by Mr.. Meredith to pay Mrs. Julia A.
HUMPHREYS $4,000 for property Of hers
used as hospital at Fredericksburg,
during the war by the Union army.
The pickle factory opened here some
time since by Mr.. Murtaugh, of Fred
ericksburg, has been closed and the
stock and fixtures are TO be disposed OF
at a constable's sale as will be seen by
an advertisement elsewhere in the
GAZETTE.
Mr.. Hughes, The contractor for the
street work in the northern part of the
city, says that the statement made in
Council on Tuesday night to the effect
that he is paying 81 cents day for la
Dor is incorrect He says he is paying
from $l.00 to $l.25 per day.
The record in the case of Elizabeth
Hicks, admx., VS.. the r. & D. R. r. is
being made up and will be taken to the
Court of Appeals by the plaintiff. 1t
will be remembered that Judge Keith
recently decided this case, one for dam
ages, in favor of the defendant COM
rany.
The Warrenton Tirginidn says lady
from short distance from Remington.
entered a store the other day and ask
ed the clerl, if he had any ladies' shoes.
On asking the size she wore she said 10.
The clerk informed her the last pair OF
ladies tens they had went down the
Rappahannock river in the freshet OF
1889, but they would have pair built
for her in Alexandria. We have not
heard if this enterprising firm obtained
the contract or not.
Formerly physicians confounded
rheumatism with govt but they are