Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREVITIES.
See the notice of the clerk of the gas
works.
Six dodgers were at the station house
last night.
A female umbrella member was seen
on the streets to-day.
There were no cases for trial at the
Mayors Office this morning.
The Star Social Club last night gave
a dance at the Braddock House.
Mrs. Mary Wood6eld is very sick at
her home on north st. Asaph street.
Several new cases of scarlet fever are
reported in different parts of the city.
Lenten services will be held tonight
at 7:30 o'clock in English in the Ger.
man Lutheran Church.
Douglass Stuart has sold to G. H.
Butler house and lot on the south
side of Franklin street between Wash
ington and Columbus for $500.
The joint committee on streets and
general laws met last night and COM
pleted the building inspection law which
will be presented to Council at its next
meeting.
A row occurred yesterday at Plum
Tree fishing shore, caused by the be-
havior of some drunken men. The
women on the shore to prevent serious
trouble prevailed on the sober men to
leave the place.
Fitzsimmons and mis- party, iuclud-
ing his pet lion, passed through this
city early this morning on Southern
train. The pet lion owned by Fitz-
simmons got loose on the cars and
caused some excitement.
A colored laborer named Henry
Smith was struck by Baltimore
aud Ohio train at North Capitol street,
Washington, yesterday evening, and
his left leg was badly mangled. He
was cared for at the Emergency Hos
pital.
at Indian Head on Tuesday cast
steel shell ofsix.inch calibre was fired
through seven-inch Harveyized nick
ell steel plate, through the heavy oak
backing and twelve feet into the bank
of clay behind. 1t is believed to be the
best kind of shell in existence.
A meeting was held yesterday even
ing at the residence of Miss Rebecca
Powell, of the Mount Vernon Branch
of the Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities. Mrs. Eleanor
| w. Howard was elected vice director,
and some routine business was trans
acted.
Stewart Frazier, a fve-yesr-old boy,
who lived on Nicholas avenue, Cor
gress Heights, Washington, was play
ing near his home yesterday when he
fell into a post hole filed with water
and was drowned. He was the son of
Charles Frazier, of the Washington city
postofice.
Marriage licenses have been issued in
Washington to Louis W. Spies, of
Roanoke and Ann Elizabeth Bowers of
Woodstock, Va; James Posey and
Della Beavers, both of Prince William
county, and to Thomas McClanahan of
FauQuier county, and Lizzie Holmes OF
Culpeper county.
Mr.. Ferdinand Knight, jr., came near
losing an eye yesterday afternoon while
at work in the shops of the Southern
Railroad. He and shopmate were
engaged in riveting boiler when
rod of iron struck him near the eye.
He fell to the ground stunned by the
blow. He was carried TO the Office Of
DR.. O'Brien, the surgeon of the road,
where he received medical attention.
An old man, giving his name as John
Langford and bis home in Wisconsin,
was in the city last night in search of u
sister whom he had not seen for forty
FIVE years, but from whom be had re-
ceived letter seven years ago saying
she was living in Alexandria. The sis
ter's name is Mrs. Sarah ]. Brown, and
he understood that small sum of
money had been left him, which she
had for him.
Rev. Andrew D. Graham. rector Of
St. Marks Episcopal Church, WASH
ington, preached an eloquent sermon
to very large congregation last night
in Grace Episcopal Church. where Len
ten services were held under the aus
pices of the Brotherhood of st. An
drew. Tonight Rev. DR.. Mackay-
Smith, of St. Johns Church. Washing
ton, will preach in Christ Church un-
der the auspices of the Brotherhood.
Annie Lewis, Lawrence Lewis, and
Sadie Lewis, inmates of the Industrial
Home for Girls, in Washington, were
seriously poisoned yesterday after
noon at that institution. Annie will
probably die, the other two being re-
ported from the home last night as be-
ing in very critical condition. The
poisoning was the effect of the children
chewing chips from locust tree which
had been cut down on the grounds OF
the home.
John Bright, white boy, was arrested bv
! Officer Davis this evening for an assault on
VIM. Buckner, a coored boy. in the western
part of the city. Bright was locked up.
LEGS MAsHED.-While at work at
the power house of the electric road at
New Alexandria this morning Elisha
Payne, % years old, of this city, was
hotraap tho h,D f,f fnn