Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.


day registered nearly go.
A meeting of the Y. NJ. S. i. will be
held tomorrow at 1890 o'clock.
The steamer Howard Cassard is ad
vcrtised to be sold at auction in Baltl
more on Tuesday.
During his visit to Mt. Vernon yes
terday Lord Russell planted tree nea
Washington's tomb.
The schooner A. A. Mccullough ar
rived to-day from the James river will
lumber to Smoot & Co.
Palmer and Buckner headquarters
will be opened on Monday at the read
ing rooms on King street, just west O
Royal.
The market to-day was fairly vel
supplied and prices remain about un
changed. Some of the summer vegeta:
bles are becoming scarce.
The Bell Telephone Company after
the first of October will not make any
charge against the city for the fire
alarm service now rendered.
Complaint is made of the cutting Of
the electric light ropes at the corner Of
King and Pitt streets. The police are
endeasoriDg to discover the guilty par
ties.
The record in the case of Taylor
Bros. vs.. the dredge Morgan is being
prepared and an appeal to the y. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals will be taken
from Judge Hughes's decision.
A severe storm prevailed last night
along the Midland Railway from Rapi-
dan to Brandy. At Mitchell's house
vas struck by lightning and burned
and the telegraph oflice was also struck.
DIR. ]. NJ. Rixey, of the u. S. navy,
whose residence in the county was
burned on Wednesday night, is broth.
er of MIR. ]. F. Rixey, the democratic
candidate for Congress from this dis
trict.
Judge Norton on Monday morning
next will hear the application for dis
missal of the injunction granted on
Thursday restraining the city from put.
ting an open trap in the Fairfax stree I
sewer.
The annual anniversary sermon to
Alexandria Council, Junior Order of
American Mechanics, will be preached
by Rev. D. II. Kern at the Southern
Methodist Church tomorrow evening
at 4 o'clock.
Deputy U. s. Collector Monroe has
taken the testimony of Special Officer
Webster in the case of Richard Burnett,
charged with selling liquor in Fairfax
county few Sundays ago without a
license, and will submit it to the next
y. S. grand jury.
A. meeting of the W. c. T. U. will be
held in the NJ. z. Church South on
Monday at p. m. The young ladies
have prepared programme for this
meeting, All ladies, whether members
of the union or not, are cordially in
vited to be present.
During the firing of the cannon as
the train bearing Mr. Bryan was leav-
ing the city this evening colored WON:
an was knocked down by the concus-
sion and numbers of panes of glass
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Fayette streets were broken.
An examination will be held by the
civil service commission in Washington
on October IA, Is, 16 and II for the po-
sitions of junior architectural drafts
man, architectural craftsman, and Sc
Nor architectural craftsman in the
office f the supervising architect of the
Treasury.
Applications for membership to the
Railroad Sound Money Club are being
circulated in the railroad shops here,
and the men urged to sign them. One
of these applications which was secured
by democrat was handed to Mr.. Bry-
an when he passed through this city
this evening.
Mrs. Floretta W. Walker daughter of Gen.
H. H. Wells, who was military governor of
Virginia at the close of the war, and provost
marshal of this city during the war, has be-.
gun divorce proceedings in Palmyra, n. T.,
against Jas. T. Walker, alleging cruel and in
human treatment Tney were married in
Washington in 1878 and have nine children.
A youth is wanted at this Office to learn the
art of printing Ono who has some knowledge
of typesetting preferred.