Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-13
LOCAL BREYITIES.

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A bad place in the road just north of
the canal basin needs repairs.
The weekly meeting of the Business
Mems League will be held tonight.
Thieves entered the carpenter shop of
Mr.. Samuel Devaughn Saturday night
| and stole number of tools.
Robert Day, infant son of DR.. ]. o.
| Hodgkin. died recently in Warrenton
from pneumonia, aged eight months.
The House OF Representatives to-day
passed the bill to allow the Falls Church
| and Potomac Railway to extend lis
tracks into Washington.
Mr.. r. H. Atkinson has been award
ed the contract by the Fire Wardens
for furnishing the Relief Hook and
Ladder truck with new wheels.
Six colored persons from the Third
Baptist Church were baptized yester-
day evening in the cove, of Battery
Rodgers, in the presence Of large as
semblage.
A large party of young people from
this city will tonight attend the min
strel entertainment to be given at the
Episcopal High School by the students
of that school.
Several of the family of Mrs. A. G.
Minor in Fairfax county are i'll with
measles and typhoid pneumonia. They
are being attended by DR.. Quirk, Of
Falls Church.
Grand Chief Templar Hout of the
Virginia Good Templars, aud Grand
Secretary Hawxhurst will pay an OIL
cial visit to Golden Light Lodge of this
city tomorrow night.
The bodies of Percy Faunce, Nose
Whitehurs', colored, and Lewis James,
co]ored, three of the victims of Friday
drowning accident at Virginia Beach.
were recovered Saturday.
Mr.. VIM. Burroughs, an apprentice
in the shops of the Southern Railway
Company in this city, had one of h s
fingers badly mashed there this morn
ing. He was attended by Dr. O'Brien.
Mrs. Sarah Petit. the venerable
mother of Mr.. George Petit, while
coming out OF the Baptist Church yes
terday morning fell and was quite bad
ly hurt. She was taken to her home in
a carriage.
ST. Hilda Chapter, Daughters of the
King, of Grace Church, will give o
birthday party at Odd Fellows Hall
tomorrow night. Music will be rem
dered by the Alexandria Mandolin
Club and Leonada Quartette.
Miss Frances E. Willard, President
of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, delivered an ad-
dress On temperance in the M. r.
Church South this evening at 4 o'clock
before an interested audience.
A small tenement house on the plice
of Mr.. r. W. Ballenger, in Fairfax
county, jus southwest of this city, was
burned on Saturday night. The loss,
which was small, was covered by in
surance. The origin of the fire is net
known.
The game of baseball at the Episco-
pal High School on Saturday, between
a nine of that school and the McCabe
nine OF Richmond, resulted 10 favor of
the latter by score of 4 to 8. The
game was lost to the High School nine
by wild throw.
The Grand Council, Royal Arcanum,
| will meet in Richmond on Tuesday of
next week. Mr.. J. j. Jameson, of this
city, is Grand Regent. The Richmond
papers yesterday printed what purpor-
ted to be pictures of MIR. Jameson, but
his best friends could not see the like
ness.
The Thirteen Club yesterday gave
the first planked shad dinner OF the
season, and quite number enjoyed the
trip down the river yesterday. The
Americas, Admiral Gaines in COM
mand, carried the party. The objective
point was Bryant's, on the other side OF
Piscataway creek.
The excavation for the big Portner
flats, at the corner of Fifteenth and 0.
streets, Washington. will begin the last
of this week. These flats will be seven
stories high, and the most modern of
any in the city. The cost will be $780,
600, and the plans are so made that adj
ditions can be made at any time.
Three soldiers from the Washington
arsenal came near being thrown from a
small boat at the King street wharf
yesterday evening by getting in the
way of the steamer Belle Haven which
was backing out of the dock. The rud-
der of their boat was struck and broken,
but the occupants escaped by jumping
on the wharf.
The Irene Taylor Dramatic Company
will open weeks engagement at the
Opera House, commencing tonight,