Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-22
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Potomac Lodge OF Odd Fellows last
night conferred degrees upon one can
didate.
Messrs. J. A. w. w. Cogan have re-
ceived the contract for the sanitary
plumbing for the officers quarters at
Fort Foote, Md.
The card of Capt. Mushbach concern
ing his connection with the Mushbach
bill is printed on the first page of to-
days GAZETTE.
Yesterday was the last day of the
District of Columbia militia in camp at
Fort Washington. The soldiers return
ed to Washington this morning.
Efforts are being made to get the
President to commute the sentence OF
Thos. J. Taylor, who is sentenced to be
hanged in Washington next month for
wife murder.
The rain spoiled last night at the
Washington baseball park what prom
ised to be the most interesting exhibit
ton of genuine Chinese fireworks ever
seen in that city.
A country wagon to-day knocked
down and ran over little child at the
corner of Washington and Queen
streets. The little one was not seri-
ously hurt, however.
The tug James B. Anderson. which
was furnished with q new boiler and
| had her engines repaired at the James
Clark Company's shops, Baltimore, left
yesterday for this port.
The residents of the Armory neigh
borhood having protested against the
holding of cake walks there, the nexl
one to be held will come off at the col
ored Odd Fellows Hall.
The Southern Railway has made a
contract with the Egypt Coal Mining
Company, whose mines are located in
Chatham county, N. c., to furnish it
with 100 tons of coal per day.
The longest stop, six minutes, on the
| railroad between Round Hill and this
city, is made at Purcellville, owing to
the large shipments of produce. Be.
tween $50 and 500 gallons of milk and
cream are shipped daily.
At St. Mary's Church tomorrow the
choir will sing Peters mass in d. The
choir will be assisted by several ladies
and gentlemen from Washington who
participated OF the reopening services
of the church last Sunday.
Several Alexandria Shriners went to
Richmond yesterday to attend the ninth
annual celebration of the Acca Temple.
There was a big parade after which
seventeen candidates were taken across
the burning sands of the desert.
The closing exercises of the public
schools will commence on Monday,
when Washington school will be closed
for the session, to be followed on Tues
day by Lee school, on Wednesday by
Snowden and on Thursday by Halo
we'll.
Emma Jones, colored, of Washing
ton, was drowned at the wharf at City,
mont, Md, last night, about 9 o'clock.
She was one of tbs colored excursion.
lists, and was standing on the wharf
talking when she fell into the river and
was drowned.
A representative of a Washington
paper was in the city to-day to secure
information concerning the garbage
scows which from time to time are an
chored in the river near this city. He
was informed that hereafter such scows
would be burned if caught within smell
ing distance of this city.
Mr.. Richard Lee, gatekeeper at the
Old Dominion race track, came to this
city to-day in buggy with his wife.
On their return the horse took fright
and ran away, throwing Mrs. Lee out,
wheel of the buggy passing over one
her legs. Mr.. Lee secured another
buggy and with his wife proceeded to
their destination.
1t was said at the electric railroad
Office in this city this morning that the
contract for laying double track
through the Arlington reservation
would be let at the Washington office
of the company this evening. The
time given by the government to the
company in which to lay the track will
expire in two months.
A strange white woman from the
country, about fifty years of age. was
found drunk and asleep last night by
Officer Jones on Prince street, between
ROYAL and Fairfax. She was taken to
the station and locked in an upper
room. This morning she appeared
much mortified and asked imploringly
that her ofense be overlooked. She
was told to 90 home and let liquor
alone in the future.
Don't fail to look for and read Kauf-
mann's advertisement on Monday.
A horse attached to buggy ran away on
south Patrick streot early this morning and
created some excitement in that neighb0rhood.