Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-09
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The steamer Arrowsmith last nigh
brought from the lower shores los bar
rels of fish.
Mount Vernon Council, Daughters o
America, will hold its regular weekly
meeting tonight.
Preston Lowery, colored vagrant
who claims Alexandria as his home, has
been sent to Jail for 80 days in Rich.
mond.
The monthly meeting of the Wood.
lawn Farmers Club will be held at the
residence of Mr.. Lewis Gillingham on
the 18th.
A small boy named William Langley
fell overheard into Shoots dock this
morning, but was soon pulled on dry
land by his brother.
MIR. A. Dean has laid the keel for o
new steamer to be used by the Wash
ington harbor police in place of the Joe
Blackburn, which has been found to be
too small.
Judge d. M. Chichester and Mr.. R.
e. Thornton, of Fairfax, have formed
CO partnership for practice in the Cir
cult Court.
In the Corporation Court to-day the
wi of Mrs. Mary Geary was admitted
to probate, and her son, D. ]. Geary, to
whom she left her property, qualified
as executor.
A young colored man named Ernest
Strother, who had lived with the fami-
" of Mr.. Joseph Chauncey in West
End for number of years, died last
night.
The officers of the Alexandria Light
Infantry are trying to make arrange
ments to take that company to New
York to attend the Grant mausoleum
dedication.
The Alexandria Water Company is
laying three squares of eight-inch
mains on north Washington street, be-
tween Oronoco and Madison, and is
putting in three new fire plugs.
VIM. Coleman, colored, has filed
notice with the clerk of the court that
he will be candidate for Mayor, and
7. w. Watson, colored. that he will be
a candidate for Council in the Fourth
ward.
Osceola Tribe of Red Men held an
interesting meeting last night. Alter
business the members were entertained
by Mr. F. l.. Entwisle with a graphic
phone and later there were readings,
recitations, &c.
The Sd Virginia Regiment Drum
Corps have received q complete set of |
new fatigue uniforms, caps, legeins,
drum heads. They have accepted an
invitation from the Knights of Pythias
to attend their fair and social.
A joint meeting of the finance and |
public property committees was held |
last night, at which the subject of SELL
ing the old canal property to Mr.. F. +.
Anderson and others for sites for man.
purposes was discussed. No
definite action was taken.
The funeral of Glenn Dorsey, the sui
eide, took place this evening at four
o'clock from Messrs. Demaines estab-
lishment on King street, and the re-
mains were inferred in Bethel cemete-
ny. The condition Dorsey's wife, who
was assaulted by her husband with an
axe, continues to improve.
Mr.. G.. S. French states that he is not
a candidate for Council from the Third
ward Mr.. w. II. F. Beckham has
as a candidate from that
ward Mr.. Aleck Melchoir is candi-
date tor Alderman in the First ward,
and Mr. G. S. Finch will be candidate
for Council in the Third ward.
Lieutenant Smith last night saw a
dog with something in its mouth which
attracted his curiosity. The canine
went into lot near the intersection Of
Lee and Princess streets where the
Lieutenant followed. The dog was
found to have the skeleton of human
arm in its mouth 1t was taken from the
brute and brought to the station house.
The bones of the arm and fingers were
intact.
A dog that had acted in strange
manner for the past few days, during
which time it had taken up its abode
in the cellar of Mr.. Charles Herbert's
residence on Columbus street, near
King, was shot this morning by Officer
Sherwood. The dog had been fire.
quently driven from the cellar, but
would return. This morning it seized
a daughter of Mr.. Herbert by the foot,
and when a servant went to drive the /
animal away it chased her out of the |