Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-18
IL; AL BREFITIES.

Much of the ice in the river has dis
sp Jeared.
The tug Templar is at the shipyart
for repairs to her wheel.
The Junior German Club will give
hop at Odd Fellows' Hall tonight.
The next play to be given by the Y
act drama entitled by "By Force of I'm
pulse"
A marriage license was issued il
Washington yesterday to Charles Il
Howell and Eva Leith, of Loudour
clunty.
T installation of officers of O'Kant
Cornell, No. 434, Catholic Beneyolen
Legion, will take place tomorrow at
lernoon at st. Mary's Hall.
Mr.. James Wade while at work il
the Southern Railway shops this morn
ing was struck on the face by piece
of flying steel which badly cut his nose
The market to-day was fairly wei
supplied, but the attendance of country
people was rather limited. Prices o.
country produce and poultry were 6
shade lower.
A number of young people of this city
are getting up a Mother Goose enter.
tainment which will be held at Sarepta
Hall next Thursday night for the ben
eft of the Industrial Guild.
While Capt. F. Beattie was driving
down the street this morning his horse
slipped on the ice on Prince street.
between Pitt and Royal, and falling
broke both shafts of his buggy.
The Confederate Veterans Associa.
tion of Washington will celebrate Gen.
Lees birthday tonight by an address
by Col. Charles Marshall, chief of Lees
staff and his confidential secretary.
Samuel F. Mills, brakeman in the
yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road, in Washington, was killed and
his body horribly mangled by switch
engine, near the D street crossing at
1915 o'clock this morning.
The report in circulation that scarlet
fever originated in Odd Fellows Hall
is denied by Mr.. George Hinken, chair
man of the trustees of the hall. 1t has
been proven that the fever was not
brought to the hall in costumes worn
by the children.
A large excursion party, among
whom was the superintendent and
other officials of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, went on an excursion over the
ELECTRIC railway to Mount Vernon to-
day. Another excursion party went
over the road yesterday.
Mr.. A. E. Smoot last night enter
tanned a number of his friends at an
oyster roast at the Exchange Hotel.
Among those present were Judge Nor
ton, Capt George Young, and Messrs.
J. S. Beach, John Donnelly, Charles
Moore, Charles Bell, E. Lycett, Edward
Brockett, William Crump, Robert
Grimes, Albert Aitcheson, Sydney
Douglass, George W. Lackey and Chas.
Semmes,
The District of Columbia Commissioners
to-day or Monday will file their answers to
the bills Of complaint entered by the Baiti
more ard Ohio and the Baltimore and Po-
tomac railroad companies against the police
regulation requiring all steam 1allroau VI
gines, with or without cars attached, to stop
before crossing rect railway tracks. Gates
and watchmen having proved Ineffective to
protect life and property at street and steam
railway crossings the Commissioners claim
the right to regua ate tho matter by making
all engines, with or without trains, stop.
Rev, ]. T. Williams of Alexandria. wss in
the city Tuesday and Wednesday attending
called meeting of the Board of Trustees Of
the Wesleyan Female Institute. Mr.. Will
liams was warmly welcomed by the members
OF his old charge here. He says his congre-
cation in Alexandria will begin the building
of a new church about April 1st.-!Stannton
Findicator.
In the Maryland House yesterday mes
sage was received from the Senate proposing
joint committee to correspond or confer
with tho General Assembly of Virginia in be-
hslf of concurrent legislation by the two
States for the protection and increase of tho
food fishes of the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries.
A number of United States soldiers were in
the city to-day.