Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-29
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Service will be held at the M. E
Church South Friday, the 3Oth, at II
q. m. All are cordially invited.
The q. S. gunboat Helena, which ha!
been at Washington for the past week
passed down the river to-day.
A shower of rain fell at 2:45 o'clocb
this evening, but the skies soon cleared
again.
The Baptist Young Peoples Unior
will give q social tomorrow FRIDAY,
evening at o'clock, to which cordial
invitation is extended to their friends.
While the street gang were cleaning
on upper Duke street, near the Stone
bridge yesterday, two-foot water moe.
i casin snake was found in the gutter
j and killed.
City Engineer Dunn has notified the
officers of the Hydraulion Fire Gonna
ny that the new engine house on Pat
rick street, recently built by the city,
will be ready for occupancy next week.
The Morton Cadets of Washington.
who recently took second prize at the
drills at San Antonio, Texas, reached
home last night and were given warm
reception.
County Superintendent OF Schools
Clements will hold the examination for
teachers at Ballston on August 3rd and
4th for white teachers and on the 9th
and 9Th for colored teachers.
Miss Eva Darley. of this CITY, and
Mr.. Ray Hoffman, of Sudbury, Pa,
were married in Washington yesterday
afternoon. The bride and groom re-
turned to this city and received the
congratulations of their friends.
Those showers" continue to fall in
the market alley, even when the skies
are clear and water falls nowhere else.
Yesterday evening resident of the
Second ward in passing through that
alley was deuged, but has not yet az.
certained whence the water fall came.
The authorities here are determined
that if the District health Office allows
the garbage of Washington to be brought
down the river in scows to take the
most decided measures to prevent the
people of Alexandria and Its harbor
from being incommoded by this manner
of transmission.
The timely arrival of the schooner
Yale with cargo of ice consigned to
the Great Falls Company and of the
Lewis H. Howard with cargo for the
Independent Company yesterday morn
ing helped to avert the ice famine
which has been imminent in Washing
ton during the past week.
Capt. VIM. King, of the Southern
Railway, who was quite sick for a day
or two at his residence in this town, is
much improved and expects to be able
to resume his duties to-day. Mrs.
G. V. Peyton and Miss Louise Windsor
House, of Alexandria, who have been
visiting Capt. King in this town, return.
ed home to-day. Rev. DR.. Ball, of
Grace Episcopal church, Alexandria,
spent couple of days last week with
Capt. VIM. King, in Leesburg. Capt.
NJ. B. Corse and wife, of Lexington, Va,
are visiting the family of Capt. A. NJ.
Chichester, at 'Ivon." near this town.
II Leesburg Mirror
Hon Holmes Conrad, of Washington, for.
mer solicitor. general, has been appointed to
conduct in the Supreme Court of the United
States what are known as tho Potomac flats
cases. They involve the question of govern
ment or private owership of practically the
entire liver front adjacent to Washington,
the property being valued at several millions
of dollars The cases will be tried next Jam
uary.
Marriage licenses were Issued in Washing.
ton yesterday to William B. Hoffman, of Sun
bury, Pa, and Genevleve barley, of this city,
sud 10 Ebert N Via, of Craigsville, and Ncya
&. Via, of Lindsay.
Rev. Evard Mesde will preach at Pohick
Church on Sunday.