Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Jackson Council, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, will
hold its regular weekly meeting to.
night.
Only routine business was transacted
at the meeting of the Y. M. s. l.. last
night.
Numbers of fish are being caught in
Hunting creek by men who cut holes
through the ice.
Miss Mary A. Cox, former resident
for many years of this. city, died in
Washington yesterday.
Contrary to the expectations of
many rivermen the Potomac did not
rise to an appreciable extent last night.
A new attachment has been placed
on the Home phones in this city by
which the necessity of pressing up the
button is obviated.
Sallie Billips, for the past quarter Of
century well-known resident Of the
northeastern portion of the city, died
on Monday night.
The large crowd Of idle men who
daily attend the Corporation Court is
an evidence of the lack of employment
for the working men.
An unfounded rumor was IN circula
ton this morning to the effect that
quantity of liquor had been stolen from
an establishment near this city.
During the month of January the
Clerk of the Corporation Court recorded
% deeds and issued 10 marriage IL
censes, II to white and 2 to colored
persons.
Mr.. James e. Clements has sold fer
Mr.. A. B. Hines handsome house ard
five acres of land at Ballston, in t! 9
county, to Mr.. Charles S. Barnett, f
Washington, d. c., for $3.50.
The stormy weather of Yesterday
and last night was followed by clear
sky and northwest wind this morn
ing. The ground was covered with
snow at daybreak, but the sun melted
most of it before noon.
Messrs. M. B. Harlow & Co. have
sold for w. B. Corse lot on Columbus
street, between Princess and Oronoco,
to Justus Schneider. Mr.. Schneider
will in the spring erect three handsou
brick houses on this lot.
The funeral of Henry Gray took
place yesterday evening from his late
residence, on north Pitt street. Revs.
J. T. Williams and D. II. Kern conduct
ed the services which were ATTENDED
by Lafayette Lodge, No. IL, l. o. NJ.
The Occoquan- w oodbridge Tele-
phone Company, which operates an ex.
change in Fredericksburg, has sold ell
of its property rights and franchises to
syndicate, composed of Messrs. y: u.
Cole, II. F. Crismond, M. G. Willis,
and w. S. White.
The will of the late Mary A. Cox,
was filed yesterday in Washington. 1t
bequeaths $500 to Mrs. Jane G. Hun
ton, of Aldie; 5000 each to Miss Laura
Hunton, Marshall; Mrs. Maggie c.
Badger, of Aide; and 800 to Miss Lille
Boswell, of Broad Run, Va.
A building and loan association has
been established at Ballston with the
following officers Richard Goodheart,
president; James E. Clements, first vice
president; Robert Walker, second vice
president, SnaTleS l.. hcuEy seCielai J >
and John W. Sutton, treasurer.
Some trouble occurred in Union
street saloon about II o'clock last night
between three young men. 1t seems
that there had been a previous difficult
ty between the parties and when they
met last night two OF them confederat-
ed themselves against the third. The
evidence this morning showed that the
latter merely acted on the defensive,
and he was discharged, but the assail-
ants were fined So each.
The quarterly meeting services at the Free
Methodist Church, on south Lee street, will
bo held on Friday and Saturday nights and
over Sunday. Rev. A. G. Miller, District
Elder, is expected TO have charge Of the
meeting
Mrs. Virginia N. Lount called at police
headquarters in Washington yesterday aid
announced hist on Friday she and her agent,
dressed as Uncle Sam snd Liberty, would IN.
wade the Capitol Is Coxey.
VIM. o. Norris, son Of J. L. and Mary F.
Norris. diei in Baltimore Monday, aged 81
years. ~
The prospects this morning at the
burning shaft of the Tamarack mine,
near Houehton, Mich, are that the