Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The City School Board meets to-
night.
The monthly meeting of the Column
bia Fire Company will be held tonight
at 1880 o'clock.
The supply of roofing tin in this city
has been exhausted and large orders
have been sent of for more.
The telephone wires are being gotten
in working order again, and to day
most OF the phones are at work again.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Relief Hook and Ladder Company will
be held to morrow night at 7:S0 o'clock.
III the Corporation Court to-day Mr..
Neville Greenaway was appointed Gu
rator of the estate of the late Mrs. Mar
tina Boswell.
Under a new order in Washington
the papers in all divorce cases will be
public except when otherwise directed
by an order of the court.
The contractors for the King street
sewer request those persons who took
the lanterns from along the work on
Tuesday night to return them.
Another old sewer-this time
wooden one-has been unearthed in
digging the trench for the King street
sewer crossing Washington street.
Mr.. S. G. Brent to-day filed with the
clerk of the court notice that he
would be candidate for Presidential
elector on the Palmer and Buckner
ticket.
The Washington garbage contractor
has at last reached an agreement with
the Smith Crematory Company, and
the preliminares for the construction
of furnace at the foot of 23rd sire,
have been concluded.
Mr.. Growman, living on Oronoco
street, between Pitt and st. Asaph
streets, fell down his cellar steps yes
lerday afternoon and broke his leg. He
was carried to a neighbours house across
the street, where medical attention was
given him.
In consequence of the damage done
to Peabody school building by the
storm of Tuesday night, no schools will
be held there till Monday. In the
meantime the damage to the ceiling
and the inside partition will be re
paired,
The officers and teachers of the NJ. p.
Sunday school will tonight tender a
reception to the parents and guardians
of the scholars. An interesting pro-
gramme will be rendered, after which
the ladies will serve refreshments in
the lecture room.
Judge McCabe, of Loudoun county,
and Mr.. Machen, of Fairfax, made tell
ing speeches for Bryan and Sewall at
Herndon last night. A resident of That
neighborhood here to-day says many
farmers there, heretofore republicans,
will vote the free silver ticket.
A large force of workman is engaged
were damaged by the late storm, but
telegraphic communication to and from
this city is still interrupted, and will be
for several days in consequence of the
extent of the damage done.
A Washington couple came to this
city to day to get a marriage license,
but as the lady was not twenty-one
years old and had not the written con-
sent of her parents, the license could
not be granted. She promised, how
ever, to get such consent and return
for the license.
Mrs. f. Brown, of Fairfax. says the
GAzETTE's Bush Hill correspondent
was in error when he stated that her
house had been visited by tramp who
compelled her to give him food. She
also says she is never left in the house
alone, and that some one is always
there to protect her.
The damage to Mr.. Frank Hume's
house, in the county, by Tuesday nights
storm was not as great as reported, the
tin roof only having been torn off.
Some fine old trees, however, near the
house, the pride of the place, were torn
up by the roots. Mr.. Hume has bad
photographs taken of the place as it is.
After sic years OF almost continuous work,
the massive sea wall being constructed
around the reclaimed lands between Easby's
Point and Georgetown, is nearing completion
At tie beginning of September 2S, 1I2 feet of
wal had been finished. and there remained
but y 900 feet moro to be built.
Mr. Arthur c. Clcborne, craftsman in tho
Navy Department, living in Georgetown.
: died Suddenly last night while sitting i'll the
drug store of Mr.. George NJ. Sothoron, in
Georgetown.
Tomorrow is the last day on which five per
cent can be saved on gas bills.
DRowNED.-During the storm on