Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-05

between Royal and Pitt, to Mr.. J. M
! Hill for $500. Messrs. Harlow & Co
only last week sold the property to DR.
Bitter for So, 400.
At meeting of the Columbia fire en-
CINE company Wednesday night it wa
decided to have engine William A
Smoot thoroughly overhauled by En-
gineer Wood, and then the engine vii
be stored in the warehouse of W. A
Smoot & Co., in the northeastern par
of the city.
The recent heavy rains have so stir
red the streams tributary to the Pc
tomac, as we'll as that stream itself
that the water comes down to Grea
Falls in condition closely resembling
that of liquid mud. The muddy condi
ton of the river extends many mile;
below this city.
The members of the NJ. P. Church
Sunday school, who spent Wednesday
at Andalusia, say that more delight
full excursion was never enjoyed. They
say that Capt. w. 81. Snowden was un.
firing in his attentions to every one
and did all in his power to make all
spend an enjoyable day.
The Washington Board of Trade has
appointed an attorney to go to Rich,
mond to confer with Governor OFFER.
rail- and Attorney General Scott in re.
gard to the Jackson City matter. 1t is
learned that the attorney, who is 9
bright and well-known young Virgin.
ian residing in Washington, will start
for Richmond whenever he hears the
State officials are ready to receive him.
Some colored men became engaged
in a row in the southern part of the
city yesterday evening, during which
VIM. Parker was badly cut on the
head and face by VIM. Coleman and
Geo. Payne was also slightly cut.
These men we're arrested by Officers
Smith and Young and this morning
Coleman was fined $40 by Justice May
and in default of payment was sent to
Jail for 80 days.
The new steamer Newport News
made a trip from Washington to Nor
folk yesterday-.her first day trip. She
left the former city about 9 o'clock with
fully 200 excursionists, and on the re-
turn trip stopped at Old Point Comfort
at 8 p. m. to witness the display of fire
works there. The steamer arrived
safely this morning and shortly after
wards left on her return trip. The
trip is most delightful one.
John, alias Patsy, Harris, shot and
killed Matthew Spruell, in George
town, yesterday afternoon about 2
o'clock. The victim and the murderer
are colored, and for year they and
their families have lived in the same
house,a dilapidated structure. From
all that can be learned, little or no
provocation existed for the shooting,
although Harris claimed that Spruell
first made an assault upon him with a
razor. A woman is said to have been
at the bottom of the affair.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in
Washington by parade, in which the
Sons Of the Revolution and Sons of the
American Revolution and few mem
bers of local G. A. R. posts took part.
They were escorted by the Washington
Light Infantry and the Marine Band to
the foot of the Washington monument,
where the Declaration of independence
was read and addresses delivered by
Henry E. Davis and John Goode. Gen.
John @. Breckenridge presided over the
exercises. The Society of Oldest Inhab-
itants also appropriately observed the
day.
As Mr.. William Hammersley and Mrs.
Bowden were in a buggy on their way 10
their farm, going out Duke street, yesterday,
mischievous boy threw firecrscker under
the horse and the animal ran away. Mr.
Hammersley, who is an old man, was throw
ont and received a severe cut on the side #
his face and several painful bruises about hi
body. Mrs. Bowden was not injured.
The ferry steamer Belle Haven while on
her $50 o'clock trip from Washington this
morning broke her cross-hoad and came TO a
stop in the river. She was lowed to this city
for repairs. This evening the steamer T. V.
Arrowsmith took her place on the line. The
repairs to the Belle Haven, it is thought, W II
be completed in a day or two.
The arrangements for the Union Sunday
School Excursion to River View on Monday
next have ali been completed. Like the
union excursions give in former years this
will be an enjoyable affair. The boat leaves
Reeds wharf at $50 and 1890 q. M, and at
2 and 7:15 p. m.
Mr.. John Greene, attorney for Thomas
Bowman, the colored boy who killed Blue at
the brickyard last Saturday, will make an
application for a writ of babeas corpus.