Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The City Council meets tonight.

The City Council meets to'nlght.
Two new houses are being erected at
West End just this side of Catts's tay
ern.
There were thirty-eight dodgers at
the station house last night, the largest
number on record.
In the Corporation Court to-day
final decree was entered in the case Of
Edward West vs.. the Wellington Brick
and Tile Company.
Mr.. CHM Elliott and Miss Nancy
Walker, daughter of Mr.. Robert
Walker, of the county, were married
last Thursday at Walker Chapel by
Rev. j. f. Norris.
There was but one case for trial il
the Police Court this morning that OF
man charged with assaulting a child.
The plaintiff failed to appear and the
case was dismissed.
Gold Dust, race horse from the Il
exander Island race track, was sold in
front of the county courthouse yester-
day under an attachment for debt to p.
F. Utterback, for S733.
Mr.. Augustus Deau left here last
night for Norfolk to look after the tug
Harlow which on Saturday broke her
piston rod in the bay and was towed
into Norfolk for repairs.
The crossing of the tele phone wires
caused by the wind aboutS o'clock this
morning sounded an alarm in the engine
houses, but the firemen discovered the
cause and did not go out.
Superintendent of Public Schools
Kemper yesterday allowed holiday in
the colored schools of this city that the
teachers and pupils might attend the
funeral of Fred Douglass.
A meeting of the stockholders of tn"
Columbia Loan and Investment Com
pany was held in this city to-day TO
consider proposed amendments to their
charter of incorporation.
Candidates for office are required by
the Walton law, under which the
spring elections will be held. to file a
notice of their candidacy with the clerk
of the county court twenty days before
the election.
At the meeting of the City Council
tonight Messrs. w. A. Smoot & Co.
will announce their acceptance of the
option granted them some time since
for the purchase of the old American
Coal wharf property.
John Usher, who, for over quarter
of century, was one of the famous res
taurateurs of Washington, died on Fri
day of neuralgia of the heart, at the
Piney Point Hotel, of which he had
been steward for several years past.
The annual meeting of the Potomac
Shoe Company to have been held yes.
terday was postponed on account OF
tAe absence from the city of Mr.. G. Il.
Hill, the president. 1t is said that
there is no Immediate prospect of re-
sumption of work at the factory.
There will be a reception at the
Young Mems Sodality Lyceum to.
night. The guests will be accompa
MED by their lady friends. A musical
and literary entertainment will be
given, and, like everything devised by
the Lyceum, it will be an interesting
and pleasant occasion.
The insurance agents have not yet
completed their work of adjusting the
losses sustained by the G. R. Hill Com
many by the recent loss of their factory.
Il is understood that as soon as the
losses are adjusted the contract for the
erection of new building will be given
out.
The steamer Richmond, of the
Weems line, left Baltimore Yesterday
for the Rappahannock river. Mr.. Hen
ry Williams, president Of the line' re.
ceived a telegram stating that the
steamer Essex was disabled in Carter
creek, Va, by the breaking of her fud,
der. The Tygert took the Essex IN
tow and left for Baltimore.
The Control Starting Machine Com.
pany of Philadelphia have requested
the privilege from the Virginia Jockey
Club at st. Asaph to give a trial e1hi-
bition of their patented race horse
starting machine ut their coming meet
ing in March or April. This is an
American invention, and has never
been tried on any track in this country.
Frederick Foote, much.respected colored
man of Falls Church, died on Saturday at the
advanced age Of ninety-fye years. He origi-