Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-12
LOCAL BREVITIES.
A meeting of the Y. NJ. S. L. will be
held tonight.

A meeting of the Y. NJ. S. l.. will b
held tonight.
The monthly meeting of the Bushes
Mems League will be held to night.
Mr.. Charles II. Pickin has announced
hius.lf a candidate for the Board o
Aldermen from the Fourth ward.
Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, and hi
vaudeville company are TO give an en-
tertainment in Washington tonight
The U. S. steamer Dolphin with the
President and party on board passed W
the river about II o'clock this morning
A pet dog belonging to Mrs. Davis
who lives near the corner of Wolfe and
Pitt streets, was run over by wagon
and killed to day.
Mrs. Emma Salter Thomas, wife oil
Mr.. George A. Thomas and daughter Of
tAe late Rebecca Sebastian, died in
Washington Sunday.
Mr.. George Evans, of st. Paul's
Church choir, will sing a special solo
at the evening services al ST. Mary's
Church next Sunday.
Three colored persons were bap-
tied off Battery Rogers shortly after
o'clock yesterday evening in the
presence OF a large crowd of spectators.
The last of the Lenten ser.
nous in ST. Mary's Church will be
preached to morrow night by Rev. w.
A. McKeeiry, OF Martinsburg, w. Va.
The different church choirs of the
city will render exceptionally fine
music on next Sunday, a full pro-
gramme of which will be published in
the GAZETTE.
On Thursday night next at 7:45
O'Clock the congregations of the three
Episcopal churches of this city will
unite at joint communion service to
be held at st. Paul's Church.
"A basket of carrier pigeons was
brought to this city yesterday evening
from Washington and liberated fro m
the corner of Prince aud Royal street,.
Tae birds made straight for their home.
TIE regular weekly meeting of Belle
Haven Council, Junior Order of Ameri-
can Mechanics, will be held in their
ball on south Fairfax street tonight.
Business of importance to members OF
the order is to be transacted.
Tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in
the Second Presbyterian Church the
regular spring meeting OF the Presby-
terry of the Chesapeake will convene.
A number Of ministers from the sur
rounding country will be present.
There will be a Senior Loyal TEN
perance Legion for boys who are unable
to attend the afternoon meeting, organ
lied at Mrs. N. S. Greenaway's, 214
north Columbus street, Thursday even
ing at S p. ID. All boys and young
men are invited.
The alley in the square bounded by
Lee, Fairfax, Gibbon and Wilkes streets
is now the quletest in the city, and it
is said that not q colored person has
passed through that alley at night since
Glen Dorsey committed suicide there
last Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Elvira Hayes Arnold, of Del
Ray, died yesterday at the Iniirmary,
where she had been for several weeks.
She was Christian woman, and during
her residence in this neighborhood had
made many friends. She leaves hus-
band and two small children. The re-
mains were shipped to-day to Nomini,
in Westmoreland county.
Mr.. L. E. Uhler, chairman of the
finance committee, Mr.. ] H. Strider,
chairman of the committee on public
property, and Mr.. F. E. Anderson,
who has made an offer to the City
Council to purchase the city's property
at the canal locks, have recently in.
spected that property and report on
the matter will probably be made to
Council tomorrow night.