Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-11
were present spent a very pleasant
LOCAL BREVITlES.

The market is said to be glutted with
some varieties of vegetables.
At the meeting of the Jackson Lodge
Jr. o. u. A. NJ, last night, only routine
business was transacted.
The bookmakers at st. Asaph were
hit hard yesterday, FIVE favorites and q
strong second choice winning.
The committee on streets of the City
Council met last night. and organized
by electing Mr.. Harry R. Burke chair
man.
Osceola Tribe of Red Men will as
semble in their wigwam tonight when
the recently elected and appointed Off
GERS will be installed.
Merchants are still complaining that
much of the wheat which comes to this
market is damp, garlicky and smutty
and, consequently, hard to sell.
During the rest of the season Mr..
Chivally will have for sale at his stand
in the market fresh cucumbers grown
in Mr.. c. Ponnet's gardens near this
city.
The new pavilion at New Alexandria
will be opened tonight and an interest
ing time is anticipated. Cars will leave
this city at short intervals during the
evening.
Several members of Old Dominion
Commandery, K. T., of this city, last
night went on an excursion to Marshall
Hall with DeMolay Commandery OF
Washington.
Dispositions in the case of Herbert ct
al, VS. Delany, matter involving 5 per
cent. commissions in settling the estate
of the late II. G. Delany were taken in
this city to-day.
See the notice of Clerk of Gas Cook
elsewhere. Monday next will be the
last day on which discounts on tax
bills will be allowed for the quarter
ended June 18th.
The lecture of Rev. F. T. Benson at
the M. P. Church last night on the
Pittsburg Christian Endeavor Conven-
ton was we'll attended. 1t was very
interesting and everybody was pleased.
The yacht Rubie, of Washington,
which ran aground on the wreck of the
old steamer City of Alexandria, off this
city, about two weeks ago, has been
raised and brought into the Prince
street dock.
The Union Mission will hold an
open-air meeting on the old Windmill
Hill lot, south Lee street, this evening
at s o'clock. 1t will be conducted by
their missionary, Mr.. R. E. Redding.
All are invited.
Idle stories to the effect that the body
of woman has been found in the large
reservoir at the Water Works are still
being circulated. This morning some
credulous persons were whispering it
around that the body was that of a col
ored woman, and they went so far as
to describe how it was dressed.
A young man of this city who was
out late last night on arriving at his
hotel found the doors all closed and the
front door bell broken After vainly
endeavoring to arouse the servant the
young man proceeded to lumber yard,
procured a ladder, assembled to his
room and then drew the ladder in after
him.
W. F. Taylor, owner Of the barges
which bring garbage down the river
from Washington, was in the city to-
day. He called on Mayor Beckham
and protested against the sinking of
the scows, claiming that the garbage
was disposed of to farmers on the oppo-
ite side of the river. He made no claim
for damages.
Mr.. Andrew Scott and Miss Fowler
came to this city yesterday evening
from Charles county, Md, to be mar
ried, having eloped, the young lady
being but 16 years old. They at first
tried to secure marriage license in
Prince Georges county, but failing
there came here. AS they could not
get license here they went to Wash
ington where they were subsequently
married and this morning started on
their return home.
George 81. Cornell, formerly car
driver residing in Washington, wants a
divorce from Mary M. Cornell, whose
maiden name was Wine. They were
married in Washington October -,
1886, and went there to live from Fall
mouth, Va, in the summed of 1898. In
his petition for divorce, fled yesterday,
Mr.. Cornell says he married his wife
when he was seventeen years old and
she forty, she being the mother of five
children, the eldest of whom was two
years his senior. He claimed the mar
riage was without the consent of his
| mother.
| The Alexandria police authorities have
been requested by the Washington police to
lookout for some 800 pounds Of lead piping
which has been stolen from q party in Wash
| ington. They have also been requested to
| lookout for 8 number of wheels stolen in Bal
more.
Col. George H. Elliott, the engineer in
| charge of the Washington water supply, has
made q statement concerning the present con-
dition of the Potomac water, in which he says
| that it is not dangerous to health. He does
not think system of filtration practicable or
necessary.
A Mrs Holland, residing on the Maryland
shore of the river, near Kent's, opposite this
city, has typhoid fever, it is said, caused by
the bsrges of decaying garbage brought down
from Washington and anchored in the river
| off her home.
The Washington and Great Falls Electric
Railway Company has commenced construc-
ton of its road at Foxhall road. Langhorne
& Allan, the contractors, have a large force st
work, and the work will be prosecuted with
out delay.
While putting coal on the steamer City Of
Richmond at Washington wharf last night
James Wins. a colored man, fell in the river
and was drowned.
Complaint is made that the city ordinances
| q tainst COWS and borsas being allowed to run