Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-22
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The City Council meets tonight.

The City Council meets tonight.
MIR. ]. Schneider is quite sick at his
home on Washington street.
The sparring matches at Henry
Theatre will come off tonight.
Mr.. Edgar Warfeld has resigned as
commissioner Of elections for the First
ward.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
McLachlen & Batchelder Company was
held in this city to-day.
Mrs. Catharine V. Smith, wife of Mr..
w. G. Smith, formerly of this city, died
in Washington on Sunday.
Complaint is made of the disorderly
conduct of certain boys on upper Prince
street, and the attention of the police
has been called to the matter.
The committee on streets of the City
Council met last night and decided to
report in favor of allowing the electric
railway to lay its tracks down Royal
street from King.
Persons living along the river front
are catching quantities of drift wood,
&C., which is being carried down the
stream by the strong current and high
water from above.
1t is understood that a competitive
drill between the st. Johns Cadets, of
this city, and Gonzaga College Cadets,
of Washington, will take place at River
side Park shortly.
In the Corporation Court to-day Mr..
M. B. Harlow qualified as administrator
of the estate of Mrs. Mary A. Grant
and also as guardian of the decedent's
two children.
The tides in the river continue to
make quite high, and this morning the
water came up King street half way
between the Strand and Union street,
No damage was done.
The curtains in the window of Mrs
Bradley's millinery store, on King
street, caught fire last night, but the
flames were extinguished before much
damage had been done.
Representative Meredith introduced
bill in the House yesterday to pay
James Robinson, of Stafford county,
81 ,S0950 for supplies taken from him
during the war by Union troops.
Mr.. Joseph Specht, of Fairfax coun
ty, was in the city this morning and
called at the station house in reference
to the letter received there stating that
DR.. Howard (who had secured con-
siderable sum of money from his wife)
was in Sunbury, Pa. Mr.. Specht will
Ho,ro ri if ba ia found
The election to be held on Thursday
to elect State officers for this city and u
member of the Board Of Aldermen in
the Third ward is exciting but little in
terest. 1t is generally believed that
there will be no opposition to the DEM
ocratic nominees, but all democrats are
expected to turn out and vote on that
day.
The great honey locust tree at the
Episcopal High School reported as up
rooted by the storm Friday evenir g
was not near Liggett Hall (though one
was destroyed there but close to the
Principals dwelling. 1t fell over the
corridor and north wing of the building
crushing in large part of the former
and doing other damage.
Messrs. William Young and Thomas
Rowe, of Alexandria county, while
crossing Cameron run on Sunday night
in buggy had narrow escape from
being drowned. The buggy was swept
from under them by the current and
they were thrown into the water. The
two meE managed to cling to trees and
finally reached laid. The horse was
rescued later, but the buggy was not
recovered until yesterday.