Evening star., 1896-10-07
AL EXANDRIA AF AIR S
Political Meetings Arranged for the Near
Future.
Cases Sent to the Grand Jury-Gen-
era1 and Personal Notes From
Down the River.

The Bryan, Sewall and Rixey Club are
arranging for another big mass meeting to
be held in the opera house Thursday night
of this week. Senator William Stewart
will be one of the speakers, ard Senator
Butler. the populist Senator from North
Carolina. will probably be present and
make a speech. MIR. A. A. Lipscomb of
Alexandria county has been asked to speak
also.
Mr.. VIM F. Carna will address the club In
their rooms next Monday night. Messrs.
Gardner L. Boothe, C. C. Carlin and Charles
Bendheim have arranged to ADDRESS the
club at a later date.
The canvass is waxing warm and great
effort is being made by he Bryanites to
carry the city by large majority.
Sent to the Grand Jury.
Buck Auffort. weil-known character,
was sent on to the grand jury yesterday by
Justices Pelham and Lane of Alexandria
county, charged with stealing horse. He
was bailed in the sum of $500. The fact
that Auffort was one of the witnesses
against the alleged gamblers seems to have
hastened his being brought to trial
Charter Granted.
Judge Norton yesterday granted a char
ter to the Lewisette Canning and Trans
pCrtatiCn Company. The object of the COM
pany is to do general transportation and
shipping business and to deal in general
merchandise The capital stock IS to be
SIOo,'D0, and Mr.. John S. Beach is named
as the agent here. The officers are: Pres-
dent, c. w. Ridley; secretary, H. F. Wood
ward ahd treasurer, e. r. Lewis.
suIe EnJoined.
The sale Of the Godfrey laundry plant.
which was advertised 10 take place yes.er-
day, failed to take place, owing to an IN
junction having been issued to stop it, The
injunction was granted to w. NJ Davis, rep
resenting the employees, who claim ST 800
back pay. and said they had no show for
their money If the plant was sold.
Sam Ling in Trouble
Sam Ling, the Chinese laundryman. was
up before Justice Sinclair in the police
court yesterday afternoon. charged with
beating his wife. Justice Sinclair, being Tn
able to try cases in Chinese, could get no
information on the subject from the Chinese
witnesses present. Ling was, however,
made to pay 81. the cost of the warrant, 1t
Is said that he does correct" his weaker
half occasionally.
General and Personal Notes.
Miss Sue Edwards of Baltimore is visiting
Mr.. Henry Wildt has returned from Ger
many. where he spent the past several
months with his parents.
'Rev. l.. ]. McDougle entertained a number
of his friends at the Trinity NJ. E. parson-
age last night.
In the corporation court yesterday natu-
raliZation papers We're granted to an Eng
lishman named James Houlson
VIII Madella. a notorious negro com.
mitted suicide yesterday by taking an over
dose of laudanum.
The Old Dominion Mill property was
bought by Mr.. F. NJ. Hill for $3.50. He
held second mortgage on it,
Mr.. Frank Marbury remains quite sick
at his home on Prince street.
There was a large republican mass meet.
ing at Woodlawn, Fairfax county, nea,
this city. last night.
The city council will resume the regu.
lar semi-monthly meetings Tuesday night
Sarepta Lodge. l. Q. o. F., he'd a reeu.
lar meeting in their rooms Sarepta Hall
last night.
The Alexandria Typographical Unior
held its first regular meeting al the Watch.
man office last night. large number OF
typos were present
Messrs. Ashley Miller and J. Laurenc,
Perry are in New York on a pleasure trip
There IS a rumor afloat that the water
and gas mains on King street are to b.
renewed shortly. This means that tina
street will have to be torn up again.
Mayor Thompson is taking a short leav.
Of absence