Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The Exchange dining rooms have
been reopened.
Sunday hours will be observed at the
postoffice tomorrow.
Jackson Council, Jr. 0. U. A. NJ,
will hold its regular weekly meeting to-
night.
The weather to-day has been warm
but rainy. This evening the skies
italy cleared.
The republican club of this city at
their meeting last night transacted only
routine business.
Two flocks of wild geese were seen
flying over the city in northerly di-
rection yesterday.
The electric railway is now carrying
crowds of passengers from Washington
to Mount Vernon.
The Home Telephone Company is
averaging 500 calls per month on its
line to Fairfax, Centreville and Ma
nassas.
The Episcopal Theological Seminary
and the High School will give holiday
to morrow, as will also the schools of
this city.
Mr.. VIM. II. Devaughn, of this city,
was struck by street car while in
Washington yesterday, and was quite
badly hurt.
The Office of the Clerk of the Corpo-
ration Court will be open tomorrow
only from s to 10 o'clock in the morn
ing for the convenience of pensioners.
The German Building Association
No. 5, second series, have loaned IS, 500
at par. This money is to be used to
pay of old mortgages and not to build
houses.
A young colored man named Charles
Parker was put of Southern train
near the depot this morning, and in
revenge he threw stones at the train.
He was arrested.
The Hydraulion Fire Company at
their meeting last night transacted rou-
tine business and requested the Fire
Wardens to have both a Bell and
Home telephone put into their new en-
CINE house.
The annual business meeting of the
members of the Methodist Protestant
Church will be held tonight. The
election OF delegate to the annual con-
ference and stewards for the ensuing
year will take place.
The trial of J. w. Popham, of Gull
pepper. charged with violating the in
ternal revel he laws, was begun yester-
day before U. S. Commissioner Fowler
and continued till Friday. Collector
w. II. Fowle, Agent c. B. Clarke and
other revenue officers were in the city
to-day as witnesses in the case.
Judge Norton has granted charter
to the Tiger Cycle Company, the object
OF which is to buy, sell and repair BIZ
cycles. The capital stock is from
so, 900 to $4,000. A. w. Fitzer, OF
Washington. is president, and John S.
Beach agent fer this city.
James Henry Watson and Louis
Blakey, both colored, were convicted
in Manassas to-day for stealing goods
from the Southern and G. & o. railroad
cars and sentenced to 10 and 2years re-
spectively in the penitentiary. Part OF
the stolen goods were recovered in this
city.
Mrs. Rosina Dufey, the aged mother
of the late Major George Dufiey, met
with painful accident yesterday even
ing in the yard at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Frank Swaine, on south
Royal street. AS she was walking
about the yard she slipped and fell on
her arm, breaking it near the wrist.
Mrs. Dufley is 9S years old.
The Washington, Alexandria and Mount
Vernon Bailrood will, on March 4th, run
trains Of three cars each from Alexandria
from $50 a. III. to 11:30 p. N. at Is minutes
interval. In the afternoon after the excr
cises trains will be run from Washington as
rapidly as same are filled. Schedule trains
will stop at the way stations.
This is Ash Wednesday and services were
held to dag il the Episcopal and Catholic
Churches, according to the announcement of
yesterday.
All the trains arriving in this city are now
crowded with passengers on their way to
Washington to attend tho Inauguration.
marriage license was issued in Washing
ton yesterday to James Williams and Mary
Chinn, both of this city.
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