Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-22
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Columbia Fire Company will
hold special meeting tomorrow night.
Golden Light Lodge of Good Temp
lars held their weekly meeting last
night.
Sarepta Lodge of Odd Fellows last
night conferred degrees upon several
candidates.
Ascension Day services will be held
tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the
German Lutheran Church.
The Georgetown Athletics and the
Episcopal High School pines played
game of ball this evening.
A young man named John B. Faux
ner has run away from his home in this
city, it is said, to join the navy.
Rev. Mr.. Ball will deliver memorial
address to Davis Post, G. A. R., at Grace
Church on Sunday evening next.
Mr.. R. E. Knight has opened news
stand at No. GIG King street, where
the GAZETTE and other papers are on
sale.
Belle Haven Council, Knights Of
Honor, held regular meeting last
night, but transacted only routine bust
ness.
To morrow being election day, all
bar rooms in this city will be closed
from sunset this evening until sunrise
on Friday.
Mr.. E. E. Downham has sold to Mr..
Worth Hulfsh a lot on the west side OF
Alfred street, between Cameron and
Queen, for $1,000.
It's said that the work oferecting the
B. & o. depot in this city will be COM
menced in a short time. Three car
| loads of lumber for the sheds have ar
rived and been unloaded.
A concert will be given at the Opera
House tonight for the benefit of Del
Ray Chapel, and all who attend will be
treated to some fine music. Then, too,
the object is worthy one.
A well-known colored man of this
city said to-day if an attempt was made
to enforce the Edmunds act in Alexan-
dria the clerk of the court would be
kept busy for some time issuing mar
riage licenses to colored people.
Isaac Carroll, resident of Alexan-
dria county, had his lower jaw broken
by a stone yesterday evening about
dark, while passing through Jackson
City. He was treated at the Emerg-
ency Hospital, in Washington. His
assailant fled after throwing the missile.
Mr.. G. F. Thomas, master machinist
at the Midland depot, has consented to
allow all the men who are employed
in the shops and road and want to take
part in the Memorial Day exercises on
Friday to stop work that evening in
time for the parade.
| A lightning rod has been placed on
the steeple of st. Mary's Church, and
the scaffolding around the steeple will
at once be removed. a brass railing is
being erected around the altar of the
church. The steeple being complete d
to-day flags were flying therefrom.
The Occoquan-W Woodbridge Telephone
Company held q meeting at Occoquan
Yesterday evening and discussed mat.
tiers relating to the line in this city,
Mr.. F. F. Marbury, representative OF
the company in this city, to-day re-
ceiyed letter from the president stat
ing that the directors would be here in
q few days to make arrangements iol
constructing the line in this city.
Major Timothy Quinn, si1ty-two
years OF age, clerk in the War De-
partment in Washington and an ex-
Union soldier, who was discharged in
the Washington police court the other
day on charge of threatening the life
of his lsndlady, Mrs. Brandenburg,
came very near ending his life last night
about nine o'clock by asphyxiation,
and is now locked up on charges Of
threatening Mrs. Nellie 2. Sweet, his
landlady.
The meeting to have been held yes.
terday evening at the residence of Miss
Kate Stuart to form an organization
with the object of erecting a monument