Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.

a handsome new safe, weighing 5000
pounds, was placed in the postoffice to-
day.
Mr.. Wilmer Kemp.has been appoint
ed the collector for the Alexandria Bus
mess Mems League.
The farmers of Montgomery county,
Nd, held their Oath annual meeting at
Sandy Spring yesterday.
Alexandria Council, Royal Arcanum,
at their meeting last night received one
application for membership.
The tug Templar with FIVE oyster
boats and Washington tug with
twelve such boats in tow passed down
the river to-day.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington yesterday to Dabney Mad
dox and Mrs. Julia Powell, both of
Charlottesville.
The Southern Railway reports for
January show gross earnings of 81 $780,
$50, an increase of $12S,SS0, and for
seven months gross earnings of SILL
956, 452, increase SS13, no.
Captain George King, of the Uniform
Rank, Knights of Pythias, was the re-
cipient last night of a handsome pre-
sent from the Knights of Pythias fair
in Washington in the shape of dia
mond ring.
The funeral of Joseph Harlbower, the
young man who died suddenly in Fair
fax county on Sunday last, took place
yesterday evening. The services were
conducted by Rev. T. H. Rice and the
interment was private.
Rev. Andrew D. Graham, rector of
st. Marks Church, Washington, and
Dean elect of the Cathedral at Indi-
annapolis, will preach at Grace Church
this evening at 7:30, under the auspices
of the Brotherhood of st. Andrew.
The second of the series of Lenten
services under the auspices of the
Brotherhood of ST. Andrew will be held
in Christ Church tomorrow night at
7:30 o'clock. DR.. Alexander Mackay-
Smith, of st. Johns Church, Washing
ton, will preach The general public
is cordially invited.
Mr.. Meredith introduced in the House
yesterday bill to increase the salaries
of the police station clerks of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The bill directs that
the Commissioners of the District pay
the police station clerks at the rate Of
$50 each per month. To meet this in
crease s., 200 is appropriated in addi-
ton to the regular appropriation.
The q. S. Senate committee on COM
merce has reported favorahly the
House bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to prescribe rules for an
chorage of vessels in the st. Mary's
river, and providing carrying out such
rulesthrough the revenue cutter service.
The committee also reported favorably
the bill for gas buoys at several places
ia the st. Lawrence river.
The erection of the new car sheds of
the Mount Vernon Railway at Four
mile run will be begun in day or two.
The iron frame work of the shed has
been made and is on the ground, and
as soon as the foundation is completed
it will be put in place. All the long
fill of nearly 1000 yards across Four
mile run has been completed with the
exception of about $50 yards at the
south end, and that will be completed
within the next two weeks. The line,
it is now claimed, will easily be ready
for operation by the 1st of April.
The Douglass cemetery, the new
buryiug ground for colored people,
which has been established here recent
", was day or two ago conveyed by
the Washington owners to board of
trustees, consisting of Revs. Porter,
Waring, Fields Cook and W. B.
Dulaney and M. B. T. Murray, all
colored, who will have control of the
land in the future and who propose TO
make the cemetery very handsome
one. The trustees have organized by
electing Rev. Porter president; Rev.
Fields Cook, vice president, and M. B.
T. Murray, secretary and treasurer.
The business of freighting goods by
wagon between this city and Washing.
ton aud Vienna, which has developed
to remarkable extent during the last
few weeks, has reached such proper
tious as to attract the attention of the
Southern Railway Company, whose
trade at Vienna has been much affect
cd therahv and the manaoamant of