Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-13
LOCAL BREVLTIES.

Mr.. jim. Hill has presented hand
some flag to the democrats of the First
ward which will be raised on the pole
on Windmill Hill this evening. Mr..
Frank E. Anderson will speak on the
occasion.
The Y. MIS-. L. will meet tonight.
Two colored women escaped from
the work house yesterday evening.
A black bass was caught in the river
from Reeds wharf on Saturday.
The monthly meeting of the Business
Mems League will be held tonight.
Joseph Tolls, colored, was drowned
about noon yesterday in the Potomac
river near Alexander Island.
The advance guard who will estab-
lish the Alexandria police camp at CO.
lonial Beach have left for that resort.
Mr.. Nicholas Lawler yesterday raised
handsome Bryan and Sewall flag from
q pole in his yard on south Pitt street.
A fight occurred last night among
several Alexandrians on the steamer
It. V. Arrowslnith on her way from
Colonial Beach.
A valuable horse belonging to Mr..
Richard Grover walked overheard from
the Pioneer Mills wharf on Saturday
and was drowned.
The Children of the Confederacy will
meet tomorrow evening at the resi-
dence of Mrs. D. II. Appich for the
election of officers.
Workmen were engaged yesterday
on the Pitt street sewer finishing some
work which would have been damaged
should rain have fallen.
A horse belonging to Messrs. Weadon
& Bro. which was attached to wagon
fell at the corner of King and Royal
streets this morning, but sustained no
injury.
Officers Belts and Knight will ap-
pear before the Mayor this evening at 6
O'Clock to answer certain charges which
have been brought against them for
violating police rules.
The underground wires of the electric
railway in Washington got out of order
last night and the running of trains was
stopped for several hours, much to the
inconvenience of many persons.
A handsome night blooming cereus
which bloomed last night at the resi-
dence of Mrs. James Steiner, on Duke
street, was greatly admired by the
number of persons who saw it.
The horses attached to one of Reeds
ice wagons ran away Saturday and
threw Isaac Hockey, the driver, under
the vehicle. The wagon passed over
and badly injured the mans legs.
Charles Brent and Garfield Tate, both
colored, were arrested to-day and lock-
ed up for fighting in the southwestern
part of the city. During the fight Tate
was struck in the mouth and one of his
teeth knocked out.
Six large new locomotives have been
received here by the Southern Railway
Company. They are of the Brook type,
and were built in Dunkirk, N. Y. 1t
is expected to get the new locomotives
in service this week.
Eliza Penn, who all her life had
lived in the Fishtown neighborhood,
and who had been i'll for some time,
was taken to the Infrmary on Satur-
day evening and died few hours after
wards. She was buried yesterday.
The rear door of Mr.. R. E. Knights
store on King street was found open
last night, but SO far as known nothing
had been stolen, though man who it
is thought had broken open the door
was seen running away when discov-
cred.
The statement published in a Wash
ington paper that the Washington,
Alexandria and Mount Vernon Rail.
way Company are contemplating pur.
chasing the building occupied by
Creighton g. Warfeld is news to those
gentlemen.
James Cliff, George Brown and Re.
mus Beach, the men under arrest on
the charge of being implicated in the
murder of Richard Bayliss, whose body
was found in the river June %, will be
given another hearing in the Police
Court tonight.
Mr.. John Leatherland will have
eleven blooms on q night blooming
cereus at his residence on Henry street
tonight. MIR. VIM. 81. May will have
twenty-three blooms. Mr.. Geo. I'M 1o;er
had six blooms last n;, gnt and will have
more in bloom tonight.
! The examination of teachers for the