Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-05
LOCAL BREYITIES.

This has been another hot oppressive
day, the mercury registering 95o in the
shade.
We have received an invitation from
the manager Of Mount Vernon Park to
attend crab-picking there tonight.
The congregation of the NJ. f. Church
South will meet tonight to consider
the question of rebuilding that church.
In the Corporation Court to-day
Rev. ]. M. Ebelen was granted permits
sion to perform the rites of matrimony.
Ruth Carroll, the young colored
woman who is confined in Jail awaiting
trial for the murder of her infant child,
is critically i'll.
We have received invitations to at
tend the complimentary excursion to
be given by the Young Mems Sodality
Lyceum to River View on the 18th in
staIt.
William Breen, the sewer contractor,
struck one of the laborers employed on
the King street sewer yesterday and
the foreman of the work had to inter-
fere to bring hostilities to q close.
Mr.HenryDavies, while at work yes
terday evening on the platform at the
w. & o. r. +. depot, had one of his
feet badly hurt by being run over by
truck. He was taken to his home in
West End.
The police report that Albert Chan
ney mot Janney) who escaped from St.
Elizabeth's Asylum on Sunday has
been recaptured, but that Caleb Kid
we'll, who escaped with Channey, is
still at large.
At the meeting last night of the Y.
NJ. S. L. six members were elected and
one application was received. Final
arrangements were made for the COM
plimentary excursion to River View on
Tuesday next.
A special meeting will be held in the
Free Methodist Church at o'clock to-
night. Rev. A. G. Miller, District Ed
er, and Rev. W. r. Tamblyn, of Allen
town, Pa, will be present. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
A man named Austin Nader report.
ed to Lieutenant Smith this morning
that last night he slept on the road be-
tween this city and Washington. When
he awoke he found his satchel contain.
ing set of jewelers. tools had been
stolen.
The postal authorities having re-
| ceived notice that the lamp post at the
corner of Duke and Royal streets was
to be removed, placed the letter box on
the nearest lamp post, in front of the
Lyceum. This proving inconvenient it
has been placed on the iron fence at
the same corner as before.
Prof. George NJ. Abbott, who gave
such satisfaction at Christ Church last
summer, has returned from New York
and is now organist at the First Presby-
terrain Church, Washington, Drs. Tai
mage and Sunderland rectors, DR.. Ga
briel Johnston director.
A horse belonging to Mr.. Troth, of Fairfax
county, fell at the corner of Warrington and
Wolfe streets yesterday evening and broke
one of its legs. The animal was Immediately
abandoned by the boy who had been driving
it, and was taken in charge BY the police.
The horse was shot to-day.
game of baseball was played on the old
fair grounds yesterday evening, when the
Junior Bnlltowns defeated the Seniors by .
score of S to a. The battery for the Juniors
was McClaren, Mcintosh and Poss. and Mar
tin. Bright and O'Brien held the same posi-
ton for the Seniors.
Deputy Sheriff Emb7y, OF Montgomery
county, hid, has located Edward Thompson,
the colored man who attempted an assault
upon Mrs. John Simpson. The man formerly
lived at Herndon, and he is now in hiding in
that place.
Marriage licenses were Issued in Washing
ton yesterday to George W. Blundell. of Ster-
ling and Emma Mitchell, of Gordonsville,
and W. W. Thompson and Mamie McGowan.