Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-05
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Tho ides Of March are on US,
Four months have come and gone,
And that return of confidence

| Tho ides Of March are on US
! Four months have come and gone,
And that return Of confidence
Is billed for later on.
| The City School Board meets tonight.
/ To-day has been raw, chilly and rainy.
The new badges for the police force
we're received to-day.
A load of fine fish from the Gums
shore arrived here to-day.
The fish wharf, and the fish benches
in the market will be rented at auction
I, tomorrow.
No meeting of the Columbia Fire
Company WIS held last night for want
of quorum.
Albert L. Morgan, we'll known citi-
zen OF Washington, died yesterday,
aged A years.
Mount Vernon Council, Daughters of
America, will hold regular weekly
meeting tonight.
The Alexandria Light Infantry will
attend the fair of the Third Regiment
Drum Corps tonight.
r. B. Thompson has sold to w. Bi
Dulany his interest in lot on the south
side of Wythe street, between Henry
and Patrick.
The pool room at the st. Asaph race
track, which was closed yesterday, was
reopened to day, but the attendance
was not large.
The trial of ]. W. Popham, of Gull
pepper, charged with violating the inter-
nal revenue laws, was resumed this
evening before U. S. Commissioner
Fowler.
Many strangers were in the city to-
day and visited the various places o.
interest Large numbers also went 10
Mount Vernon and the electric railway
did big business.
Rathbone Company, U r. K. Of p,
will hold Especial meeting tonight 10
perfect arrangements for the installa-
ton of officers and inspection of the
company on Tuesday next.
Mr.. L. F. Sherwood, a we'll known
farmer of Fairfax county, died at his
home near the Court House last night
after long illness. He was brother
o. Policeman Sherwood of this city.
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
here is attached to the Virginia Annual
Conference, which will meet at Roam
oke on the 18th instant. Rev. l.. |.
McDougle, the pastor, will leave for
the conference next week.
Mrs. w. H. Smith while walking
with her sister, Mrs. L. NJ. Davis. on
upper King street yesterday evening,
fell to the pavement, but was not much
hurt. She was assisted to her feet by
a police officer who was near at hand.
Attention is directed to Messrs. F.
Pail & Sons new advertisement. This
old and reliable firm is Offering extra
ordinary inducements in the boot and
shoe line, and those who patronage
them will be sure to be pleased with
their purchases.
The Young Mems Hebrew Society
will to night tender q banquet at the
Hotel Fleischmann to Mr.. Aleck Kauf-
mann, who will leave here next Wed
nesday for California, where he will go
into business with his brother, Mr..
Maurice Kaufman.
The firm of ]. II. D. Smoot has Sc
cured the contract for furnishing the
lumber to Wilson Chapel, 8 church
with seating capacity of 1000, to be
built near the navy yard in Washing
ton. This firm is also furnishing g
large quantity of lumber for the Fort
Myer improvements.
The locomotive which ran off the
track of the electric railway near the
Dyke or wednesday hes not been
placed on the track yet, but will re
main where it is until Sunday when it
will be taken to New Alexandria. Il
will be returned to Washington after l
o'clock one night next week.
In the Corporation Court to-day the
will OF the late Rev. Fields Cook, col
ored, was admitted to probate, and his
widow, Mary Cook, qualified as execu
tri1. His estate, consisting of house
on Prince street, near Fairfax, and It's
contents, valued at about $1,000, was
left to his widow during her life and at
her death to his adOpted daughter.