Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-23
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COR. KING AND ROYAL SITS.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The concert given at Liggett Hall on
Seminary Hill last night was success
in every particular and was largely at
tended.
The George r. Hill Company hes
been offered liberal terms to take their
cracker factory at Riverton, but will
decline the offer.
In the Corporation Court to-day in
the case of j. L. Adams, guardian, VS..
a. J. Carson ct al. q decree confirming
sale was entered.
Master Joseph L. Power is acting as
special delivery boy in place of Master
Charles II. Kersey who is sick at his
home on south Royal street.
The Chesapeake bay steamers Essex,
Tygart and Ida left Baltimore yester-
day under convoy of the iceboat An
napolis for various points along the bay.
The Alexandria Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals will hold
meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock in
Peabody Building. Members are re-
quested to attend.
An attempt was made during the
early part of last night to enter Mr..
Grillbortzer's store, at the corner of
King and Columbus streets, but the
thieves were frightened off.
1t is stated that further negotiations
will be conducted Monday between
representatives of the employees of the
Southern Railway Company and Vice
President Baldwin, of that company.
Capt. r. F. Knox to-day sold for the
trustee brick house on the east side
of Lee street, between Prince and
Duke, to Mr.. A. G. Uhler for 50, $50,
and to the same an improved lot on the
west side of Lee street, south of Frank
lin, for $275.
Handsome new pews, which cost
5000, have been placed in Roberts
Chapel, which has recently been re-
built, and it is now one of the hand
soonest churches in the city. Rev. Al
| fred Young will tomorrow hold spe-
cial services and in the evening the
Christian Endeavors of the Ebenezer
Church will meet there.
The annual missionary service OF
Trinity NJ. E. Sunday school will be
held tomorrow evening at 1880 o'clock.
A very pleasant programme has been
arranged for the occasion, the principal
features of which will be an address by
the pastor, Rev. W. 81. McAllister, and
the singing of familiar missionary
hymns by the school. All are invited.
The new steamer in course of con-
struction at Newport News for the Nor.
folk & Washington Steamboat Compa-
py is rapidly assuming shape. She is
now in frame and many of the plates
have been placed in position. Her
boilers will be completed in about three
weeks. The contract stipulates that
the vessel shall be ready for service by
June !.
The actions of lost dog on the ice
in the river Thursday evening were
wathed with interest by many people
in the lower end ofthe city. Tine dog
it was thought, came from the Mary,
land shore ana in some way got On the
at.JJating ice, and in jumping from,
cake to cake frequently got into the
water. The dog was still on the ice
when darkness came on.
| A company which was to appear here las
night in play called @Pro Tem." arrived
on time but finding but one tickes had beer
sold, concluded they would not perform. A
result OF modern newspaper enterprise Il
writing up things before they oecur, 1t may
be stated that Washington paper this morn.
ing states that the company appeared ant
performed according to announcement,