Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-22
LOCAL BREVITIES.
A heavy fog prevailed this morni

ne september lcTm VI Iuo COuuIy
County will begin on Monday.
Mr.. Lewis Young fell from q pop
wagon yesterday evening and spraiDed
one ofhis ankles.
A colored women while attending
market this morning slipped OF a ban
ana peel and falling was badly hurt.
There was but one case for trial in
the Police Court this morning-that oil
a citizen charged with assaulting a boy.
He was fined 81.
On Monday night next a fine horse
will be ratified at Henry's Theatre on
which occasion an entertainment will
be given by Mr.. Henry.
The last of the officers of the Mid.
land railroad in the Brent building, on
upper Prince street, has been moved to
the department building of that rlil-
road.
Mr.. f. Kurtz Johnson's will was filed
for probate in Washington yesterday
His widow is named as his e~xecutrix
The estate is valued at from $I,500,000
to $4,000, 900.
Numbers of children living along the
line of the electric railway engage in
the dangerous practice of experiencing
an electric shock by touching the troll
ley with sticks.
Both of the FIRE engine companies in
this city have placards on their build
ings claiming to have broken the
worlds record for fast steaming and
throwing water.
District of Columbia Commissioners
say that they have found it cheaper to
support District felons at penitentiaries
in other States than maintain q similar
ins; tuition in the District.
A colored tramp who had gone to
sleep on the track of the Washington
Southern Railway near Naglee's sta
ton on Thursday was struck by a train
and had one of his feet cut of. He was
brought to the In6rmary in this city.
A letter received in this city to-day
from Mr.. A. H. Agnew, of the new
town of Harlowe, in Marion county,
Fla, named for Mr.. NJ. B. Harlow, of
this city, states that the birth of the
first child born in that town occurred
last week.
Mrs. Joseph Specht, who has been
stopping at Fairfax Courthouse since
the divorce suit against her husband
was instituted, returned to her hus-
bands home, Gunston Hall, yesterday,
and it is believed that a reconciliation
will be effected.
The squadron of cavalry stationed at
Fort Myer gave its farewell exhibition
drill yesterday. The squadron is to be
relieved on October 2 by four troops of
the sixth cavalry, now at Chicago, and
Fort Myer will become the regimental
headquarters of the sixth.
Just at lunch time to-day Mr.. Louis
Brill sent to this office from the Opera
House restaurant a dish of fine frit d
oysters, deliciously cooked, as is every
thing served at that restaurant. The
oysters were greatly enjoyed and were
pronounced to be as fine as any re-
ceived here during the winter months.
The event of the day at the Grange
Camp fair yesterday was the prize drill.
which was open to West Virginia, Ma.
ryland, Virginia and the District of Co.
lumbia troops. Only two companies
participated. the Emmett Guards and
the Morton Cadets of Washington. and
the first named won by 81 points. The
fair closed this evening.
"Ingersoll and the in6del world are
to be put to confusion" in Sarepta Hall
tomorrow night by Mr.. w. D. Hughes
The lecturer will be remembered as the
editor of small weekly paper called
The Sun, which was at one time dis.
tributed in this city aud Washington
About ten years ago Mr.. Hughes deliv.
cred a lecture in Armory Hall entitled
~"Ipgersoll permanently silenced."
Mr.. NJ. B. Harlow, president of the
Hydraulion fire company, says that i
the fire wardens will consent he woult
like to have a contest between the Co
lumbia and Hydraulion engines for the
full amount of the prizes-Sl5O-of
fered by the Grange Camp fair. III
wants the contest to be held in this
city and the judges to be either the
wardeus or four d~isinterested citizens
Mr.. Louis Lindheimer Whose pro.
fessional name is Herr Homer Lind)
SON of Mr.. Samuel Lindheimer, former.
y of this city, will. in conjunction with
the philharmonic Quartette, give q con
cert in Washington one night next