Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-30
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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Opera House.
At the meeting of Osceola Tribe Of
Red Men last night report was made
that the sick list is decreasing.
Mr. George Bcntz ran nail into one
of his hands while at work in the
Southern Railway shops yesterday.
No business was transacted in the
County Court to day, Judge Chichester
being too indisposed to come here from
his home in Fairfax.
DR.. w. S. Hammond last night de-
livered an interesting lecture on My
self or Somebody Else" in the Metho-
dist Protestant Church.
Judge Norton and the Electoral
Board have finished counting and
stamping the ballots which are to be
voted at next Tuesdays election.
The remains of Mr.. Thos. A. Keith,
who died in Washington on Wednes-
day, were brought to this city this
evening and inferred in Christ Church
cemetery.
A meeting will be held at Fairfax on
Saturday night under the auspices Of
the Bryan, Sewall and Rixey Club.
1t will be addressed by Messrs. r. E
Lee, jr., Jas. r. Cation and G. Vernon
Ford.
The County Supervisors held spe-
cial meeting to-day and awarded the
contract to Mr.. Robert Gordon for
moving / 200 cubic yards OF earth from
Clark's Hill, in Arlington district, at 10
cents per cubic yard.
Marriage licenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Burrell w.
Luttrell, of Culpeper co.nly, aud Mary
o. Corbin, of Rappahannock, and to
Robert H. Scroggins, of Warrenton,
and Annie NJ. Melton, of Orlean.
aMr. ]. NJ. Johnson, of this city, and
Mr.. Moran, of Washington, made stir
ring addresses to large crowd of dem
ocrats at Ballston, in the county, last
night. A band music was in attend
ancs and great enthusiasm prevailed.
The sewers have been finished and
City Engineer Dunn. who yesterday
made an inspection of them, will report
to the committee on streets at their
meeting next week. No report was
made last night, as a quorum was not
present.
The oyster supper given by the St.
Joseph Aid Society of St. Mary's Church
at the Lyceum last night was well pat
ronized. Supper was delightfully."- served
and all present enjoyed pleasant
evening. The supper will be continued
tonight and to morrow night.
George Collins, colored. of Fairfax
county, was held for the grand jury in
Washington yesterday for stealing
horse from Alonzo Havenner, Offender,
Fairfax county. Havenner was selling
produce in Washington when Collins
stole his horse, which was recovered.
The first OF series of polo games be-
tween the team composed of officers
stationed at Fort Myer and the War
renton team will be played on the
plains at Fort Myer tomorrow after
noon, beginning at o'clock. The
public is cordially invited to attend the
game.
Maguus l.. Robinson, who has just
returned from Fauquier, having been
through the Sth district twice in the
interest of Mckinley and McCaull, is
now arranging for a union meeting to
be held next Monday night, to close
the campaign. The meeting is to be
held under the auspices of the colored
Mckinley and Hobart marching club
of which he is President.
Some excitement was caused at the
Fayette street depot Yesterday evening
about six o'clock by fight which oc-
Cured there between Richard Parker
and Henry Stephens, two colored men.
When the police arrived the belliger-
ents had vanished. The bystanders
pretended they knew nothing about
the difficulty Parker and Stephens
could not be found this morning.
A dispatch from this city to Rich.
mond paper says: "About one hundred
sound money club men will 60 to hear
Ingalls, at Charlottesville tonight. )"
They are not here to go. This evening
free excursion train on the G. X o.
road was run from this city to Char,
lottesvile and number of railroad
men, including some democrats, who
had been advised" to 60, were on
the train, but on Tuesday next many
of these men will vote the democratic
ticket.
Something TO know.