Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-23
LOCAL BREYITIEs.

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Six dodgers were at the station house
last night.
Rain has fallen almost continuously
since lasl night.
O'Kane Council, G. B. L., will give q
banquet on the 28th.
The entertainment for the benefit OF
the Industrial League will be held at
Slrepta Hall tonight.
At the meeting of the Y. NJ. s. l. on
Tuesday night last two members were
elected ana the regular committees
were appointed.
1t is reported that several boys whose
ages range from II to Is years have left
this city to seek their fortune in the
)uth-where the oranges grow.
Jackson Council. Jr. o. o. A. NJ, last
night elected one member and received
two applications for membership. The
council is busy making preparations
for the 22d of February parade.
Mr.. John ]. Knoxville, who was Sc
verely hurt by being knocked from a
train on Monday and who was sent to
the Infrmary, is, through the careful
attention he is receiving there, rapidly
improving.
Mr.. Samuel Devaughn, the contract
or, has just finished neat row OF frame
dwellings for DR.. Klipstein on Com
merce street. DR.. Klipstein will sooD
commence the construction of four
more houses Oh Wilkes street.
The committee of the Catholic Be-
nevolent Legion appointed to arrange
for a banquet on Tuesday, January rs,
have decided to hold the same at the
Opera House restaurant. Visitors are
expected from the Washington Legion.
Marriage licenses were issued in
Washington yesterday to Harry G.
Corder, of Warrenton, and Mary E.
Stahl, of Washington William R.
Omohundro and S. Dora Omohundro,
both of Legells; and Cornelius Will
liams, of Washington, and Lulu Perry,
of Alexandria.
Maud Tippett was before the Mayor
last night charged with damaging furni-
ture belonging to Hugh Strider. She
was released upon paying the cost of
the damage. Maggie Moore, colored,
was arrested this morning on the com
plant of Mary Johnson, also colored,
who charged her with stealing clothes
from line. There was no evidence to
support the charge and the accused was
dismissed.
The large number of Alexandria peo-
pie who will attend the coming grand
opera in Washington have arranged
with the Pennsylvania Railway author
tiles to have the last train from that
city on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of next week leave the Sixth street
station at 11:55 o'clock instead of 1889,
as is now the hour. This will give the
Alexandrians time to hear the end OF
the opera.
In spite Of the recent act of Congress
providing, that the bodies of certain
dead persons shall be delivered to the
hospitals of the District of Columbia for
dissection, the dissertation of graves in
the various cemeteries is still going Oh,
and might doctors" threaten to become
as common as they were few years
ago, when the whole community YVES
shocked at the boldness of the ghouls,
who could not then be reached by law.
Attorney P. B. Adams, for the Home Tele-
phone Company, seeking to have District of
Columbia Commissioners reconsider their bill
for Fl .nchise in Washington and report favor
ably upon it to Congress, had hearing be
fore the Commissioners yesterday, and set
forth some very fair arguments why the com
psny should be chartered to do a competitive
business with the Chesapeake and Potomac
Company. The Commissioners say they will
reconsider the bill, but it seems apparent that
they will not recede from their action of 8
few days ago, whom they reported unfavor.
ably to Congress upon the bill. They hope to
shut out other companies and better the situa
ton by regulating the rate Of the present com
pany by legislation.
The appeal of Patsy Harris colored, under
sentence of death for murder, was argued be-
fore the District of Columbia Supreme Court
yesterday and was taken under advisement.
Muskrats are causing many leaks in the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal.