Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-03-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The receipts of fish are increasing.

NC IoCeiPlS vi ISL are increasing.
At last nights meeting of Belle Ha-
ven Lodge, Knights of Honor, one
member was initiated.
Heary Slingerland has sold to w. A.
Smoot lot at the southwest corner of
Queen and Fayette streets for $3.50.
Mayor Strauss inspected the police
fore e today and directed the members
to provide themselves with new hats.
Tie public and some of the private
schools will tomorrow evening begin
their Easter holiday which lasts until
Tuesday morning next.
George Gardner and John Travers,
arrested in Washington Monday night
for dealing in policy, were yesterday
Dailed in the sum of 81 900 each.
Tomorrow the beautiful planet We
nus, serving as morning star, which
has of late been rapidly growing bright
er, will attain her greatest brilliancy.
In the Circuit Court to-day the suit
to restrain the Midland railroad from
the further use of its tracks on Wilkes
street was submitted for hearing in
vacation,
Geo. Taylor, alias Jones, colored, was
arrested yesterday morning in Tennal-
lytown while attempting to break into
the residence of Mrs. Hunt. He is be-
lieved to be the thief who recently
robbed many houses at Fort Myer.
Illfeeling exists between the two
men who are running ferries between
this city and the opposite shore, and
one has stated that the other has small
poX in his family. 1t appears that a
case of measles gave rise to the small
pox report.
Mrs. Alice E. Stewart, widow of Mr..
d. w. Stewart, died at her home in
Washington this morning Mrs. Stew
art was we'll known in this city, where
she had many friends and relatives.
She was a Miss Hill and a niece of the
late Isaac Kell
The Warrenton Mder says: "We are
glad to learn that Mr.. R. r. Campbell
has wholly withdrawn from the defence
of White, the twice righteously con-
victed rapist at Manassas, but regret to
hear that Mr.. Greene, of Alexandria, is
still monkeying with dynamite, and
will present the record in the case with
exceptions calling for change of venue
&C., TO the Circuit Court.
The weather bureau reports that great
rainStorm is coming from the southwest, and
will probably reach this section tonight. al
the area to the south and southwest has been
dcuged, and in the city of Memphis over
seven inches of rain fell in forty-cight hours,
precipitation double that which has fallen
in that section during the past two months.
Thomas T. Johnson, 3 guard at the Wash
ington jail for twenty-five years past, died
yesterday in that city, aged sxty-four years.
He was born and raised in Fairfax county
and followed farming till May 1861. when
he went to Washington.
George Taylor, colcred, who is said to be
an imhccilc, is under arrest in Washington
and is believed by the police authorities f
that city TO be the person who sashed furni-
ture carpets, &c, in number of dwellings
several months ago.
March, as far as it has gone, has been re-
markabc month. The mean temperature i'll
this section up to date has been tifty-onc de-
grces, which is nine degrees above the aver
age, making it the warmcst March on record.
At Indian Head, to-day, the big 13-inch
riicd gun, the largest rifle yet built in the
United States, will be tested.
Charles d. Shea. son of Daniel Shea, who S
well known in this city, died in Baltimore
yesterday.