Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-14
LOCAL BREVITlES.

Judge Love will hold MS nrsC cOur'
at Fairfax on Monday next.
The heavy rain yesterday did much
damage to the trees and sewers in
Washington.
Mount Vernon Council, Daughters o.
America, will hold its regular weekly
meeting tonight.
A game OF ball will be played to-
morrow evening at Colross between the
Mohawks and the Rosebuds.
Mr.. l.. ]. Kerby says the report
that,he told Mr.. Steers not to cross the
threshold of his door again is incorrect.
A horse attached to Mr.. NJ. Schuler's
wagon ran away to-day and was not
stopped until it had run some distance
into West End.
So far this year S11,3 1924 has been
collected on State liquor licenses in
this city, about $1,000 less than was
collected last year.
The funeral of the late Rev. Thomas
E. Locke took place this evening from
the Theological Seminary. The inter-
ment wal at Ivy Hill.
Much of the corn planted in the sur
rounding country has been washed out
of the ground by the recent rains and
will have to be replanted.
The tug Eva Belle Cain has been
launched from the ways at the ship
yard, and the schooner Kate Mullen has
been hauled out there for repairs.
The Young Peoples Union of the
Second Presbyterian Church held their
monthly meeting last night. The SER
vices were conducted by the new pas
tor, Rev. ]. E. Thacker.
Mr.. w. B. Padgett, who drives for
Mr.. J. F. Pollard, in attempting to put
a bale of hay in a loft to-day, fell from
his wagon and broke his arm. He was
attended by DR.. O'Brien.
a very small girl, the grand.daugh-
ter of one of Alexandria's staunch dem
%ocrats, when asked this morning by her
teacher to name the capital of Nebras.
ka, promptly shouted Bryan !"
Prof. J. l.. Peters will give a musical
entertainment at the Opera House on
Thursday evening, May 9th, for the
benefit of the Third Baptist Church
(colored). He will be assisted by Alex
andria talent.
a special meeting of the Hydraulion
Fire Company was held last night to
consider an invitation from r. E. Lee
Camp to participate In the memorial
exercises on May "a. The invitation
vas accepted.
A gas buoy, painted black, number.
ed 8, and showing a fixed white light,
has been substituted for the can buoy
on the edge of the shosl making out
from Ragged Point, Virginia side of the
Potomac river.
A musical and literary entertainment
will be given in the lecture roo of
Trinity NJ. E. Church tonight at eight
o'clock, the proceeds of which will be
for the benefit of that church. An in
terestiDg programme has been arranged
and u pleasant evening is promised all
who attend.
A man was arrested in Baltimore
yesterday having in his possession
Catholic Church altar cloths, &c., and
it was supposed that he might be the
man who recently stole such a cloth in
this city. Inquiry was made, but nom
of the articles in his possession CORE
sponded with that stolen in this city.
The body of Charles Johnson, the
colored %janitor of the Hoffman Build
ing, in Washington, who had been
missing from his home since last Thurs
day, was found floating in the Potomac
river a mile above the Aqueduct bridge
yesterday afternoon by Isaac Barker,
colored.
Messrs. J. A. Marshall & Bro. adver-
tise some attractive goods in the line of
boots and shoes. The prices are re-
markably low, and purchasers will con-
suit their interests by giving those
denlers a call.
The M. Schiller Beef Company will
have for sale tomorrow a full supply of
fresh rear~by country vegetables and
strawberries; also a large supply Of
spring chickens and home-killed beef,
spring lamb, veal, &c.
The old and well-known boot and
shoe house of F. Paif has some extra
ordinary bargains to offer tomorrow.
zee his new advertisement in to.day's
GaZette.