Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

1t is understood that an effort is bein.
made to revive the Medical Society O
this city.
The schooner Lily, loaded with lum
Der by ]. II. d. Smoot & Co., sailed to
day for Mattawoman.
In the Corporation Court to-day W
ID. Smith qualified as administrator O
the estate of Mrs. Louisa Herbner.
Three tramps who were going about
the city acting in a suspicious manner
were arrested to-day and locked up.
A strawberry festival will be given at
Odd Fellows Hall tomorrow night by
Mount Vernon Council, Daughters Of
America.
The first carload of melons from
Yulee, Fla for New York, passed
through this city via the Southern
Railway on Sunday.
A "Silver Tea" will be given at Grace
Church rectory tonight. A musical
and literary entertainment will be rem
dered during the evening.
1t is reported that liquor is being
sold at a number Of plafc s in this city
without license, aud that at other places
the proper licenses have not been taken
out.
MIR. Andrew J. Green fell from his
bicycle yesterday on his way from
Washinkton and badly cut his face.
He was attended by Drs. Brown and
Mcclure.
The West property in West End,
offered for sale to-day by Messrs.
O'Neal & Lunt, au%ctioneers, for the
trustees of the Mechanics Building
Association No. 4, was bought in by
the association for $4,000.
The Seventeenth Virginia Regiment
Chapter, U. d. G., will give a s;rawter.
~ festival at Odd Fellows Hall to.
night. There will also be humorous
r~ecitals, music, &C., and all who attend
are promised a pleasant evening.
MIR. Wallace Fawcett, son of DR.. +.
S. Fawcett, while at work in the ma
chine shop of the Southern Railway on
Monday, was struck in the eye by Il
piece of steel and painfully injured.
1t is feared his sight may be impaired.
The owners of the steam yacht Amer
icus, which on the occasion of the pri
mary election was taken down the
river by an unlicensed engineer, have
paid the fine imposed by the govern
ment officers for violating the naviga-
ton laws.
The work of constructing the new
sewer on Patrick street, to ccnnect
with the Henry street sewer by an al
leyway 4 short distance north of King
street, will be at once begun, the own
ers of real estate on the alley having
made q deed of right of way to the city.
The new Union Station in George
town for the accommodation of the ca
BILE and electric lines connecting at or
near the Aqueduct bridge was opened
this morning. The building represents
IN expenditure of nearly 100000 by
the Capital Traction Company. 1t is a
handsome structure.
The Kendall Greens, oil Washing.
ton, were defeated in a game
of baseball by the Episcopal High
School team yesterday evening, by n
score of 4 to 3. The game was played
on the High School ground, near this
city, and was witnessed by a large
crowd.
A wa'ch lost by a lady of this city
while visiting Mt. Vernon about q
month ago has been returned to her
through an advertisement. The watch
was found by Mr.. G. H. Waterman, of
Brockton, Mass, who had also adver-
tised it, and who returned it upon as
certaing the name and address of the
owner.
From the early days of Alex.
andria it has until recently been
forbidden to land oysters here
during May, June, July aud August,
but as Washington takes oysters every
month in the year the old law has been
repealed, and oysters are now as law
full food here in summer as AZ any other
season of the year.
Marriage licenses were issued in Washing
ton yesterday to James B. Staples and Pri1-
ella Staples. of Amherst county, aud to FL.
hanon Row Meade. of Orange county, and
katc Gretchen Schelhorn, Of Louisa county.
Thirteen members of the Christian En-
deavor Society, of this city, will leave here on
Saturday for Falls Church, whore the Christ
ian Endeavor convention of Northern Vii.
ginia will meet,
At 4 o'clock this evening the general i'm
preston was that Mr.. Gilbert Simpson was
leading Coleman, coloIed. for Mayor.