Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-27
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

| Next Sunday will be Palm Sunday
the Sunday before Easter.
A telephone, No. 56-A, has been put
in the Hotel Fleischmann.
The Jewish Feast of the Passover be-
gins tomorrow evening at sunset.
The Independent Pleasure Club will,
this evening, give masquerade ball at
the Braddock House.
James Martin has sold to G.. T. Kip
stein the lot at tie northwest corner of
Henry and Wythe streets.
The clerk OF gas gives notice that
Wedr esday next, the LIST proximo, will
be t! last day for discount on gas bills
from December Is TO March l.
The republican mass convention will
be held at Fairfax Courthouse Monday
next to appoint delegates to the district
and State conventions Of the party.
The steamer Wakefield was several
hours la!e in Der arrival here this
morning. She brought up from the
river landings large freight, including
quantities of fish.
Tie meeting of the Woodlawn Farm
ers' Club to have been held tomorrow
at the home of Mr.. ]. Ballinger in Fair
fax, has been postponed, owing to sick.
ness in Mr.. Bailinger's family.
Miss Lizzie Roach. daughter of the
late James Roach and niece of Miss
Alberta Sissou, died yesterday at Miss
Sisson's home on Wolfe street, near
Washington, of consumption, aged 20
years.
The Raedy. Peckham glove contest
for twenty rounds or more, scheduled
for next Tuesday night, before the
Young Mems Athletic Club, in this
county, was declared off yesterday.
Raedy's injury would not allow him to
enter the ring and then recent law
against prize fights stood in the way.
Richard L. Elliott, formerly a brake
man on the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad, secured verdict for damages
in the sum of s., coo against the compa-
ny yesterday in Judge McComas's court
in Washington. Elliott had his right
hand and foot crushed while coupling
cars, January D, loSU.
Col. VIM. A. Smoot, Commander Of
the Confederate Veterans of the State.
was present at Culpeper Courthouse on
Monday to organize a camp at that
place for the county. a meeting was
held in the Office of capt. James Beck
ham. The attendance being limited,
it was thought best 10 postpone organi-
zation until the April court, when the
meeting will be held in Rixey's Opera
House.
The District of Columbia Commits
sioners have made their second report
on the Home Telephone bill, and this
time they say that the modified bill
presented by the Home company is
taken from their bill recommending
municipal ownership of a general con-
duit for the use of ell the telephone
companies. The commissioners do net
report favorably or adversely upon the
modified bill.
The NJ. Schiller Beef Company will
have for sale at their upper King street
market tomorrow full supply of early
spring vegetables and also large sup
ply of fine poultry from the Valley OF
Virginia.
A letter in favor of the Gilbert bill to pre-.
vent the notification of State anti-gambling
laws through interstate gambling by telegraph,
was yesterday received by w. F. Crafts. OF
tho Reform Bureau in Washington, from Gov
O'Ferrall The House District Committee has
withdrawn its favorable report on the racing
commission bill on account of information
from the same bureau that the bill would pro.
mote gambling.
Interesting services were held by Mr.. ]. NJ.
Little, of Washington, at the Union Mission
last night