Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Literary Glass meets tonight at
7:30 o'clock at Peabody Building.
Joseph L. Beetley, who was we'll
known in this city, died in Baltimore
yesterday.
A little child of Mr.. F. G. Foley died
in Washington yesterday and was
brought to this city for interment.
"True Irish Hearts" will not be pro-
duced at the Opera House tonight be-
cause of the illness of two of the mem
bers of the company.
Rev. Arthur Brookes will deliver the
last of this sessions series of Reinecker
lectures at the Theological Seminary,
near this city, at noon tomorrow.
In Washington on Saturday in the
Circuit Court Judge Bradley issued in
terlocutory orders in judgments on
New Alexandria Company vs.. Conn.
The old hook and ladder truck which
was borrowed from Washington while
the Relief truck was being repaired
was to-day sent back to Washington.
The Washington Times, which re-
Gently published an attack on the pro
iectors of New Alexandria, this morn
ing contains another trade on the new
town.
A new lodge of the Junior Order tf
United American Mechanics is to be
organized in this city at an early day.
Potomac Tent of Rechabites have dis
banded.
Mr.. Frank Taylor is having
the old frame dwelling on Prince
street, lust west of Pitt, torn down and
will erect pressed brick front building
on the site.
Messrs. NJ. B. Harlow & Co. have
sold for Mr.. James Neil, of Denver,
Col, to Mr.. B. E. L. Tremaine lot on
the west side of Washington street,
between Pendleton and Wythe.
1t was purposed to-day to inter the
body of man who had died in Fairfax
county in this city at the expense o:
the corporation, but the authorities
quickly put quietus on the procedure.
There have been fewer mayfiies this
year than for long time past. The
nights they appeared there came also a
hard rain which with the cool weather
that followed soon caused them to dis
appear.
The Confederate monument and the
Confederate mound in Christ Church
yard looked very beautiful yesterday,
the rains having kept fresh the flowers
with which they were so deliberately
decorated on Friday.
A colored boy named John Butler,
who lives near the Seminary, was this
morning detected in breaking into the
money drawer in the store of Mr.. F. j.
Pollard, on upper King street. He
was arrested and locked up.
Meny petty thefts have recently been
committed at Messrs. G. r. Hill &
Co.'s establishment by persons who
break windows and steal any arti-
Giles they can carry Off The police are
on the lookout for the thieves.
The Alexandria police have been re-
quested to look out for man named
Mitchell, who on Monday last hired a
black side bar buggy and set of har-
ness from a Washington livery stable
keeper and failed to return them.
The body of the man who committed
suicide at the American House, in
Washington, Tuesday night, by taking
poison and turning on the gas in his
room, was identified yesterday as that
of Daniel Shirley, of New Market, We.
A belated Individual who had been
locked out scaled shed Saturday night
and entered his home through Win
dow. Officers Sherwood and Beach
witnessed the act and were about to
take him in charge when they discover
ed their mistake.
Deputy Sheriff Brown, of Frederick
county, passed through this city to-day
on his way to Richmond, having in
charge VIM. Harris, colored, who was
recently convicted of highway robbery
and sentenced to serve two years in
the penitentiary.
Alexandria is now seen to its best
advantage from an esthetic standpoint
Its numerous handsome shade trees are
in full leaf and the many pretty gar.
dens are filled with the most beautiful
flowers which make fragrant the sur.
rounding atmosphere,
The entertainment to be given by
the members of the Young Mems So
dality Lyceum tomorrow night prom
ISIS to be success in every particular,