Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Police Commissioners wil}be
held to night.
A halfgrown partridge was caught
on Royal street, near Cameron, late
yesterday evening.
A the m Getting last night of Jackson
Council, Jr. o. u. A. NJ, one applica-
lion for membership was received.
A called meeting of the Woman's
Auxiliary to Lee Camp will be held at
Lee Camp Hall tomorrow evening at
s O'clock.
A delegation from Mount Vernon
Council, Daughters Of America, paid O
visit to Liberty Council, of that order,
in Washington last night.
Rev. Sam w. Small delivered an il
teresting lecture at Trinity M. E.
Church last night, his subject being
From bar room to pulpit"
Anumber of Al%exandrians are expect
ed to attend the concert at the Theo-
logical Seminary tomorrow night for
the benefit of the Brazilian mission.
The Alexandria Water Company has
ordered $50 tons of new y and 16 inch
water mains from L%ynchburg. This
pipe will be used in renewing the mains
i'll this city.
The funeral of the late T. B. Shreve,
an old and esteemed citizen of Prince
Georges county, Nd. took place yes
terday evening from st. Barnabas
Nh,,rch in fhot oO,1pfv
Rev. J. Ernest Thacker will address
the Loyal Temperance Legion at the
Second Presbyterian Church tomorrow
at 4 p. M. Parents are requested to see
that their children are promptly Oh
hand.
A regular meeting of Alexandria
Council, Junior Order of Mechanics,
will be held tonight. 1t is expected
that arrangements will be completed
for their excursion to River View on
June f..
1t mas been ascertained that Earl Van
Auken, who was arrested in New York
on Tuesday, had an Alexandria youth
as a companion. The latter joined Van
Auken in New York, and, it is under
stood, participated in some of his esca
pades. After Van Auken came to grief
his companion returned home.
The work of recovering the cars
which ran into the river at the transfer
slip last week is still proceeding. All
the trucks and the body of one car
have been hauled ashore. The Car
loaded with pyrites seem to defy al
attempts to move it. The tug Brewer
ton attempted to overturn it toward
the channel of the river, but without
success, and yesterday afternoon the
locomotive was used in an endeavor to
overturn it toward the shore. The car
has been pretty well wrecked.
1t is announced that Mossrs. s. W. Wood.
ward and Z. Southland Parker have secured a
majority of tho stock of the National NJ tIo
p~olitan Bank, of Washington, and that they
will assume control June l.. These gentl' :
men recently secured the controlling %interes.
in the National Bank of tho Republic. 1t is
understood that Messrs. Woodward and Eark-
or, in occurring control of these two banks,
have behind them a combination of leading
banks of tho city. There arc now four or
Ii &c banks whose interests are practically con-
solidatod.
Marriage licenses were issued in Washing.
ton yesterday to William Dixon and Mamie
Wilkerson, both of Fairfax c unity John
Roszel Jacobs. of Fairfax county, and Edith
Hunter Stricken, Of Fauquier county Henry
f. Burke, of Alexandria, and Della NJ. Hanell,
of Prince Georges county, Md. Benjamin +.
lowell and Nancy A Loveless. both of Prince
William county, and to Stsmpor D. BloxtOn.
of Stanton, and Amanda F. Miller, Of Augusta
county.
Charles Edward. tho little son of Liout p.
II. Atkinson, fell down q flight of stairs yes.
tcrday evening and was painfully hurt.