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

Tho buds are swelling on the trees;
The chilling blasts of March arc gone,
And April sends her fragrant breeze:
The winter ulsters are in pawn
We know that spring is here by these!
Lenten services are over.
A case of scarlet fever is reported on
south Duke street.
The Junior German Club will give a
hop on Monday night.
Another eel has been found in the
water pipe at the Hill cracker factory.
One Of the city's ash carts broke
down on upper Prince street this morn
ing.
The weekly drill of the Alexandria
Light Infantry will be dispensed with
on Monday night-Easter.
The Washington wharf owners have
been notified that they must make ne
cessary repairs to their wharves.
Mr.. W. W. Adam will leave here on
Monday for Richmond where he will
enter the Confederate Soldiers Home.
An electric light wire fell at the cor
ner of Lee and Gibbon streets last
night. 1t was soon placed in position
by the lineman.
Oaly about 1000 herring and $50
shad arrived at Fishtown to-day. Her.
ring sold at IS a thousand and shad at
S15a22 per hundred.
The ffly.ninth semi-annual meeting
of the Piedmont Convocation will be
held in Trinity Church, Manassas, COM
mencing Tuesday, April 2S.
A marriage licenses was issued in
Washington yesterday to Martin Cart
melle, of Fredericksburg, and Mrs.
Browne Gentry, of Petersburg.
Mr.. B. Wheatley has purchased
pair of handsome gray horses to take
the place of his blacks, one of which
had to be killed few days since.
The concert to be held at the Semi.
nary Cd Easter Monday night for the
benefit of the Church at West End
promises delightful evening to lovers
of good music.
The alarm of fire about 8 o'clock last
night was caused by the explosion of
lamp in the grocery store of. Mr.. ?.
Pullman, corner of Alfred and Duke
streets. The damage was slight.
While coupling cars on Fayette street
this morning brakeman of the Wash
ington Southern Railway had one of
his hands badly mashed. He left at
once for his home in Washington.
The Potomac Association, which
gives its first annual ball on Monday
evening, is having the Braddock House
hall nicely decorated for the occasion.
Numerous invitations have been sent
out and an enjoyable evening is antici.
pated.
Mr.. II. F. Robertson is the agent in
this city for the sale of Romauncoke
meal, which is made from white corn
grown on the Pamunkey river 10 King
William county and ground at the old
water mill on Capt. K. E. Lees estate.
This meal is sweet and light and makes
the best corn bread.
A horse belonging to Mr.. ]. W. Rob-
erts was stolen from Cameron Mills,
about a mile from this city, last night.
The animal was seen in possession of
tramp near the Long Bridge at an early
hour this morning. The man was sub
sequently arrested in Washington and
the horse recovered.
In Washington yesterday colored
man sold Mr.. Frank Hume a load of
hay which he was told to take to his
stable. When the hay had been unload
ed white man who had overheard the
conversation between Mr.. Hume and
the colored man told the latter to give
him the bill and he would get the mon
ey and bring it to him. The unsus-
pecting colored man did as he was told
and the white man collected the money
(S2S) and kept it.