Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-29

PERSONAL.-Mr. ana MIS-. w. d.
Davis and daughter and Miss Lula
Whiting have gone to Fairfax to spend
the month of August.
Mr.. w. w. Sherwood is visiting at
Haymarket, where his little son is
quite sick.
Miss Kate Hume. the accomplished
daughter of Judge F. Charles Hume, OF
Galveston, Texas, is spending the sum-
mer with her cousins, the Misses
Hume, of Warwick, in Alexandria
county.
Miss Mildred Lee and her brother,
Gen. G. w. Custis Lee, president OF
Washington and Lee University, are
among the late arrivals at the White
Sulphur.
Miss Erna Davis and Miss Nellie
Pettitt are visiting Miss Ruth Thomp-
son, at Herndon.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Coakley are Wis
ting in Stafford.
Misses Lille and Katie McCracken
are visiting friends at Brandy station
and Godfrey.
Mrs. R. F. LAWYER and children, of
Norfolk, who have been visiting rela-
tives in this city, have returned to their
home in that city much to the regret of
their many friends.
Mr.. William Evans, of Camden, Md,
is here on g visit to Mr. Emanuel
Francis. Mr.. Evans is son of VIM.
Evans, who was killed by the falling
of wall during fire which occurred
on lower King street on Saturday,
November II, 1856. Yesterday he pre-
seuted to Mr.. William Wood, the en-
gineer of the Columbia Fire Company,
q preamble and set of resolutions
which was passed at a meeting of the
old Star Fire Company about two
weeks after the fire. The paper is
signed by E. S. Leadbeater as secretary.
The Columbia company now have in
their possession the pipe which
some of the men were holding
at the time of their death.
The resolutions will be hung in
the meeting room of the company, at
their next meeting. Mr.. Evans wears
che watch that was worn by his father
on the night of the accident. Mr..
Evans at the time he was killed was
conducting the plumbing business on
the east side of Pitt street, near King.
Mr.. Isaac Schwarz and daughter left
for Atlantic City this morning.
Rev. II. Suter, who has been quite
sick for the past week, is better and
expects to leave during the week for
his summer vacation. During the
month of August services will be con-
Quoted at Christ Church by Rev. S. A.
Wallis, of the Theological Seminary.
Mrs. r. w. Falls, sister of MIR. A. W.
Armstrong, of this city, is seriously i'll
at her home in Washington.
Mr.. S. n. Lunt and Miss Mary Lunt,
of this city, and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lunt, of st. Paul, Mimi, have gone to
Norfolk aud Old Point for a few days.
Col. and Mrs. Arthur Herbert and
Capt. Herbert Bryant and Miss Mary
Bryant have gone to the White Sui
phur Springs.
Captain Fountain Beattie, who has
been seriously i'll at his home in Fair
fax county, was able to be about his
room to-day. His sons recovery is
slow.
Messrs. Albert and Charles A. Stuart
have returned from visit to West
noreland county.
Mr.. Charles A. Stuart has accepted
position in the treasurer's Office of the
Southern Railway Company in Wash
ington.
Rev. Father Kenefck spent to-day
in this city and returned this evening
TO Providence Hospital, Washington,
where he will remain week longer.
His health has greatly improved.
Mr.. R. Mayer Green, of this city, re-
Gently bookkeeper in the house of ].
l.. Barbour, in Washington. has &C.
copied position in one of the Wash
iugton banks.