Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-01
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The first dav of summer

Inc HisI uay OF summer.
Mrs. c. F. Hupp, a sister of Mr.
Robert Bruce, of this city, died al
Sperryville yesterday.
Tae Sunday School of the Second
Presbyterian Church held their Child.
ren's Day celebration yesterday morn
ing.
Epworth League of the M. E. Church
South will conduct the services at the
Union Mission Hall on King street to-
night.
The Woman's Auxiliary Association
OF K. E. Lee Camp, will hold a month
ly meeting at Peabody Hall tomorrow
tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
Some harness was stolen by some
boys from Mr.. Aitcheson's wood and
coal yard yesterday evening but most
of it was recovered to-day.
During the month of May the Clerk
OF the Corporation Court recorded Il
deeds and issued S marriage licenses, 5
to white and 8 to colored persons.
The Columbia engine was tested
early this morning at the foot of Prince
street, and threw water the required
distance in less than seven minutes.
Mr.. Marstella, OF the Southern Rail-
way, will conduct the prayer and praise
services at the railway reading rooms
tonight at o'clock. All are invited.
Master John Agnew, son of Mr.. Park
Agnew, fell overheard from skiff at
the ship yard on Saturday, but was res
cued from drowning by Captain Sim
mons.
Mr.. W. F. Brodnax, in charge of the
air brake instruction car on the South
ern Railway, Is in the city with his car,
instructing the men in the working of
air brakes.
The monthly meeting of the Mary
Gusts Lee Chapter, U. D. c., will be
held at 405 King street, the Young
Mems Reading Rooms, on Tuesday
morning June I'd, at 10 o'clock.
1t is reported that b. G. Hollensbeck
and family, who recently removed from
Lee district, lin Fairfax county, to the
West, were killed by the cyclone which
devastated st. Louis and other places
on Wednesday.
The steamer Wakefield having been
overhauled and reprinted, has resumed
her trips on the lower Potomac route.
The Arrowsmith, which temporarily
took the Wakefeld's place, is now be-
ing put in order.
The condition of VIM. Bright, who
was shot by Officer Hall, is said to have
improved considerably of late. He
complains, however, of pain in the
back of his neck which he claims is
caused by blow from the officers
stick which was thrown at him.
The work of diverting the water
from the Pitt street sewer was COM
menced this morning. There has been
some delay by the committee in secur-
ing vitri6ed bricks which will cause
some little delay in commencing the
work of constructing the King and Pitt
streets sewers.
At the election in Falls Church last
Thursday J. D. Payne, 81. L. Turner
and E. F. Croker we're elected coun-
cilmen. The question of bonding the
town for $4,000 for stock in the first
electric railroad constructed to and
through the town was, it is claimed,
defeated for lack of the necessary two.
thirds vote of the resident freeholders.
The funeral OF Mrs. Annie Herbert
took place yesterday evening from the
Methodist Protestant Church. The
services were conducted by Revs. G. /.
Racchus and F. T. Benson. The pail
bearers were Messrs. John W. Summers,
Edgar Lyles, J. w. Hammond, William
T. Emerson, J. T. Trimyer and Ewell
Atwell, The interment was in the
Methodist Protestant Cemetery.