Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-24
LOCAL BRETITIES.

several small col0feo boys were ar
rested to-day for playing crap and were
locked up at the station house.
Mr.. Armistead Christian, of New
York, is quiet sick at the residence Of
his sister, Mrs. P. ]. Dempsey, on Fair
fax street.
The docks and coves at this city con.
tain many dead fish which have been
thrown overheard because they could
not be sold.
The Old Dominion Baseball Club will
play their first game of the season with
the first nine of the High School on the
lstter's grounds May 5.
Margaret F. Hardcastle has sold to
Aitcheson & Bro. small lot on the
south side of Prince street, between
Lee and Union, for $3.50.
1t is generally believed that Capt. G.
A. Mushbach will comply with the re.
quest of a number of his friends and
enter the race for Congress.
Those who have tapped the city
sewers will meet at the Council cham
Der tonight to endeavor to secure q
lower sewer tax assessment.
There will be called meeting of the
Columbia Fire Company tonight. A
full attendance is requested, as business
of importance is to be transacted.
At the birthday party for the benefit
of the building fund of st. Pau's
Church held last week at the residence
of Mrs. l.. w. Reed, nearly $50 was
realized.
The bill of exceptions in the Poss and
Henry case will be finished to-day and
Mr.. J. II. Greene expects to present
the bill to Judge Nicol at Manassas to-
morrow.
The Current Event Club held very
interesting meeting at the residence TO
Miss Dora CHM, on Prince street, last
night. An interesting paper on Folk
lore was read.
The tug ]. B. Alexander and the
handsome yacht Guivota, belonging to
Mr.. Dos Passes, of New York, have
been hauled out on the ways at the
shipyard for repairs.
Col. Withers Waller beat the record
on Thursday by catching $4,000 her
rings and rock and shad in abundance.
One of the rock weighed rs pounds. the
largest ever seen here.-Fredericksbnrg
Star.
Marriage licenses were ISSUED in
Washington yesterday to Albert Gaz-
zaway and Lizzie Corts, both of this
city. and to Marshall NJ. Wheeler, Of
Greenwood, and Ada Humphrey, OF
Central Plain.
By reason of the absence from the
city of Mr.. ]. II. Greene, his attorney,
the case of John Nelson, indicted for
abstracting confscated gambling para
phernalia from the old court house
building, was postponed today.
George Lively, the father OF the two
girls who we're enticed away from their
home iu this city on Monday afternoon.
is still looking for his daughter Lilly,
who is still missing. At last accounts
she and Tippet were said to be on their
way to Aide.
Freight trains from the South on the
Washington-Southern Railway are be-
ing run IN SeCtlouSi loatou WIN ooS
ern vegetables. An enormous crop is
reported as coming from Georgia and
the Carolinas. Berries by express I'LL
several cars every day on the passen
ger trains. ,,,
MIR. M. Schiller will have at his stall
in market tomorrow some very fine
spring lamb, beef, mutton and veal, all
home slaughtered, and at his store on
upper King street early vegetables, IN
Guiding asparagus and cauiltioWer,
together with strawberries and other
deIicacies of the season.
at the residence of Mr.. G. y. fui,
man, at the corner of Duke and Alfred
streets, last night little child lighted
match to look under a. sofa for some
thing which had been lost. The sofa
was set on fire and burned and but Tor
fire extinguisher in the house consi9
cradle damage might have been done
The dredge burned yesterday near
the Long Bridge belonged to the estate
of the late Major T. L. Morgan, OF
Washington. The dredge was in tow
of the tug Dubois LeuoX, and bad just
passed the Long Bridge, en- route for
Georgetown. The flames threatened
the tug, which cut the dredge loose and
left it ashore near the Long Bridge,
where it was wrecked by the flames.
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