The morning times., 1896-06-24
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA
Glymont Fight May Clear Up an
Old Murder Mystery.
Closing Exercises Held in Several
Corpora tionsG ranted
Cha arters-N Otes and Personals.

1t is stated that the difficulty at Glymont
| between colOred excursiunists, as rel orted
in yesterdays Times, in which several
OF the participants were badly injured,
resulted III one OF the parties accusing an
| other of having been a party to the muir
| der of u colored man named Gambrick,
! whose body was found floating in the
| river more than year ago.
The man who made the assertion claims
| TO have been told by another colored man,
who is now in the pen.tentiary, that he
and the man accused on the excursion
threw Gambrlcs overheard, after JaviDg
robbed him or So. GamDrick was sup
posed to have been accidentally drowned.
The police u re making an investigation. .
The closing exercises OF ST. Mary's Acad--
| erDy took place ut Lyceum Hail yesterday.
The gold medal, junior branch. for at
| tendance. department and general studies,
dra wn for by Misses NJ. Baker and Alice
jenkins. was won by the latter. Gold
! medal, senior branch. for correct de-
pertinent and general studies. drawn for
Dy Misses L. johnson. X. Nugent, X. Ryan.
NJ. lSO, X. jenkins and NJ. Fisher, was
dra WI by Miss Cora johnson.
Tine closing exercises OF Lee School took
place yesteruay morning, in Peabody Hall.
The supcrintendent's medal was awarded
to Miss Mamie Young, the Carlin medal.
FOR mathematics, to Miss Pearl Moore. and
| the CarDe duty medal to Miss Pearl Moore.
The superDtendents medal for last year.
which was not presented ut the time was
| awarded to Miss Pearl Moore.
The members of the Junior Order of
American Mechanics in this city Will at
tend Ieunicl and picnic of the order, a
Vienna, on July 4.
charter was yesterday granted by
Judge Norton, of the corporation court TO
the Flint Hill Mining Company. The OBJ
Iect OF the company is 10 do Il general
mining business in the state OF South
CaroliDa.
Judge Norton also granted n charter to
the Norton Manufac curing Company the
general object Of which will be to do a
general business in the manufacture and
sale OF soap, tallow, and fertilizers.
A committee of Washington High School
Cadets have visited Alexandria in efforts
to secure arms. So as 10 enable them to
attend the Confederate reunion, at Rich
moDd. Though tie Alexandria Light In
faDtry could take no definite action on
Monday night on the application OF the
Cadets. there is no doubt that the Light
of the arms that are not needed for the
members OF the company
In the corporation court yesterday Judge
Norton reversed the decision OF Mayor
Thompson, of the police court who i'm
! posed fine of 500 on Abraham Bers-
wanger, who was arrested on the charge
of selling liquor by sample without hav-
ing obtained license.
Yesterday was observed as Royal Ar
E.s.t a
andria Council visited the cemeteries near
this city and placed an evergreen &C. on
the graves OF the departed members of the
order
Inc Young Peoples Union of the Pres
hyt"rian Church went on an excursion to
the beautiful home OF Mrs. Kate w Snow
den. Colin wood. last evening
The interest at the regular semi mi-monthly
meeting OF the city council held last
night. centered In the report OF the com
mit,ee on general laws of the resoluti,.
regulating the fees of the Ireasurer and
inspector or lumber
The purpose of the resolution was to
complete n law governing the office,
passed some months ago. in which the
enoiulnents Were left unprovideh for II
seems that n firm of lumber dealers in
this city object to pa wing for having their
lumber Inspected by the city inspector.
claiming that it should not he eompuls ,ry
ana that no State law would uphold the
city ordnance. while they agreed to pay
for the services of the official when called
upon.
A motion was made to allow the IN
spector and those opposing him in his
official capacity fifteen minutes each in
which to explain the working of the law
20 the council. The motion was carried,
ana aiter much debate between the Op-
posing parties, and no more light having
been thrown upon the subject, il was
decided to refer the matter to the cor
poration attorney for his views
The committee un streets recommended
the paving and cleaning or certain ale rs
in the citys limits at the expense of the
property owners This action was taken
looking to an improvement of the sani-
tary condition OF the city
Mr.. Chler, chairman OF the financial
committee. made the annual report Of
that committee, and showed that the fl
nances of the city were fairly good and
promised that. notwithsta nding the present
good showing, next year would show a
stiil better condition Of the city's affairs.
The resignation Of Capt. George o. Mush-
bach. as Il member fron the Third ward.
was accepted.
Ex- Mayor Henry Strauss having re
moved into ibe First ward from the Second.
resolution referring the matter to the
corporation attorney regarding Mr.. Strauss
eligibility to remain a member of the
police beard was adopted
A hill looking to the city's interest in
the matter of the public property in the
market bNildng and to arrive at some
understanding between the city and the
occupants Of stalls in the building, was
passed, making Mayor Thompson a special
agent for the city.
1t was decided enat the adjournment be
TO the second Tuesday in October. il being
the custom to adjourn over during the sum-
mer months.
CLARA BARTON WELL PLEASED