Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-21
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The shortest doy of the gear.

The shortest doy of the gear.
All tbs churches were fairly we'll at
tended yesterday.
Some of the churches are being deco.
rated for the Christmas celebration.
Belle Haven Council, Jr. o. U. A..
NJ, meets tonight. Business ofimpor.
lance is to he transacted.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the NJ. P. Church will hold their
monthly conservation meeting tonight.
The weekly drill and meeting of the
Alexandria Light Infantry will be held
to night when Capt. Mushbach and the
non-commissioned officers will confer
on matters concerning the company.
Messrs. W. P. Woolls & Son are
offering large stock of groceries and
holiday supplies at most reduced rates.
His advertisement yill be seen else
where, and every thing he offers he
sells at advertised prices.
The tug Eva Belle Cain having been
repaired has been launched from the
ways at the shipyard and the tug G..
W. Pride has been hauled out there
and will be rebuilt. The yacht Rex
will be repaired and housed for the
winter.
Mr.. Robert Harper, of Leesburg, tele
grsphed here to-day for the police to
look out for his horse and buggy which
was stolen yesterday. The thief is be-
lieved to have come this way. The
thief was caught with the horse and
buggy in Georgetown this afternoon.
President Cleveland returned to
Washington early yesterday morning
from his ducking excursion near
Georgetown, s. G. He brought with
hin PSI ducks, the greater number of
which he is said to have shot. The
President passed through this city about
7:30 o'clock, but few people knew he
was on the train.
Late Saturday evening James Jack
SOD, a colored man, who is employed as
a driver for DR.. Slaughter, was driving
team near Hooff's Run when the
horses became frightened and ran away.
Jackson was seated on load OF hay
and as the wagon reached the bridge
that spans Hoott's Run it upset and
Jackson fell of, his head coming in
contact with post. He lay as if dead i.
ard it was some time before he regain.
ed consciousness. He was taken to hi
home on Seminary Hill.
John Randolph Niernsee, who committed
suicide in Baltimore Thursday last by shoot
ing himself, was formerly employed IS mo.
torman On the Washington, Alexandria and
Mount Vernon Electric Railroad About a
month ago Niernsees car struck n tramp
named Clark near the Long bridge and the
msu died from his injuries at the infirmary
in this city. The death of the man preyed
unon Niernsees mind and, it is beloved
caused him to take his own life. A number
of the railroad mon left for Baltimore this
morning to at end the funersl Of the young
man.
Mr.. George w. Massamore, secretary and
treasurer of the Maryland Game and Fish
Protective Association, will start tomorrow
| for Harper's Ferry, from which point he will
| superjptend the transfer of bass from the
Chesapeake G. Ohio Canal into the Potomac
river. The water will begin to be drawn
from ths canal to day by slow process, so as
to leave the fish in the pools
Mr.. William Watson, of Oil Wolfe street,
has snnk an artcsian well on his premises,
from which there is bountiful flow of sui
phur and iron water. He will submit a
proposition to the City Council to- night offer.
| Jag the free use of the water providing the
city will make the necessary connections, and
establish public hydrant in the neighbor-
| hood.
A fire of evidently incendiary origin early
Yesterday morning destroyed the residence
and entire household effects of g. p. Brown,
at Langley, Fairfax county. The members
of the family were all in bed when the flames
broke out and it is little short of miraculous
that one or more lives were not lost. The
building belonged to Mrs Alice Hutton.
A marriage license was issued in Washing
ton on Saturday to II. G. Taiiafero, of West
moreland county, and Annie T Delfeld, OF
Richmond.
The Christmas shoppers are now busy and
appreciate the trouble and expense that the
| Alexandria merchants have gone to to supply
their wants.
Mr.. Samuel Pullman is seriously i'll at his
homo on upper Prince street.