Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-29
LOCAL BRETITIES.
No business was transacted in the
Circuit Court for the county to-day.

No business was transacted in thu
Circuit Court for the county to-day.
The police yesterday afternoon
'sstarledn' the gang of INDECENT men ant
boys who loaf around the wharves a
the foot of Prince street.
The pigeon house of Mr.. Ed. Reid
on south Alfred street, was broker
open on Monday night and doztI
fancy pigeons stolen tberefrom.
Messrs. ]. X. M. Norton and S. G
Brent have sold to Mr.. Thomas Waters
lot on the south side of Madison
street, between Columbus and Alfred
The Hebrew Feast of Weeks, or Pen
tecost, began last evening. TIE festi
val commerorates the revelation of the
Ten Commandments to Moses on Mt
Sinai.
At the meeting last night of Alexan
dris Council, Royal Arcanum, three
members were initiated and three ap
plications for membership were re
ceived.
The choir of ST. Mary's church viii
begin rehearsing in the church tonight
for the opening Sunday, June 10th
Several singers from Washington viii
assist the regular choir.
The charter of the Brott Electric Bi
cycle Railway Company has beer
a si@e2ded changing the n IsslSs to fhie
Brott Rapid Transit Company an / in
creasing the capital stock to So, 100000
The store at the corner of Columbus
and Gibbon streets, kept by Mrs. Pet
TIT, was entered by thieves last night
and robbed of gold watch, pair Of
earrings, $3.50 in money and box OF
cigarettes.
Two colored men yesterday entered
q store and offered for sale stamps
which it is now believed were stolen
from Mr.. T. F. Burroughs's store on
Sunday night. The police are on the
lookout for the men.
Bessie, the two-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. Jerome Dawson, of Cictitink, who
was operated on at the Infirmary by
Drs. Smith and Howard ten days ago,
has 80 improved that her father took
her back to her home yesterday.
Tomorrow being Memorial Day, the
postoffice will be closed during the day
from 10 a. m. to p. m. Collections
will be made from boxes on the street
at $50 q. m. and p. m. One delivery
will be made by carriers at s N. m.
A man and woman from Washing
ton, both under the infu ence of liquor,
attracted some attention on the streets
to-day. The woman was handsome
and we'll dressed, and the man was not
deferred by witnesses from taking q
sly kiss now and then.
Two young gentlemen from this city
who left here yesterday in buggy
drawn by mule to go to Washington
and see the ball game only got as far as
Arlington, where their buggy broke
down. A wagon was sent from this
city to bring them home.
Mr.. Stilson Hutchins, president of
the Washington and Great Falls Elec-
trio Railroad Company, has filed Pc
tition before the Supreme Court of the
District Of Columbia asking that the
capital stock of the company be in
creased and that the issue of $500, 900 of
bonds be authorized.
Cordelia Cook, wife of Thomas Cook
and Frank Mackall, both colored, were
convicted of adultery, and held for sen
tence in Washington yesterday. This
is the first conviction there under the
Edmunds law, passed to suppress polyg-
amy in Utah, but which the courts
hold applies to the District of Columbia
also.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Massey has written to Superintendent
of Public Schools Kemper, of this city,
stating that on account of the recent
smallpox scare in Staunton he may
change the place of holding the colored
normal school from that city to this.
provided 500 is raised to defray the
expenses. The matter has not been
settled, however.
DR.. Benz. Blackf ford, of the Western
State Asylum at Staunton, has written
to MIR. j. T. Beckham, of this city, that
there has not been q new case of small
pox developed there for the past four
days, and that there has not been a
single case in the city that is not traced
to exposure before quarantining the
infected district. The doctor says there
has been an unnecessary panic in the
neighboring towns.
The York River Line steamer Danville,
which left Baltimore at o'clock yesterday
afternoon for Vest Point, lost her wheel and
tail-end shaft opposite the Magothy River
late in the afternoon, and would probably
have drifted ashore had it not been for the
timely appearance of the tug M. B. Harlow,
OF this port which had a schooner in tow.
The tug towed the steamer back to Baltimore,
arriving about midnight. The steamer Char.
lotte will take tho place Of the Danville until
repairs are made