Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-04
D. BendhpiiDn & Sons.
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Tho usual services at the NJ. P. Church will
be continued tomorrow night.
The new hall of the Hydraulion engil Q
house has been handsomely carpeted.
The sale of property advertised to take
place to-day was postponed for two weeks,
The Children of the Confederacy will hol /
a meeting nn Monday evening at 4 o'clock at
Lea Camp Eall.
A regular meeting Of tie Father Math w
Abstinence Society viii be held at St. Ma Us
Hall TO- morrow at 4 p Ii.
Mr.. Paul Popp, of West End, who recently
fell from roof ard was injured and who is
now at the Inflmary, is improving.
The annual election of officers for O'Kane
Council, No. 434, C. B L, will take place
tomorrow evening in St. Mary's Hall
At the monthly meeting of the Relief Hook
and Ladder Company led last night one ap-
pl:Catiou for membership was received.
The ladies' of West End will give an o ester
supper next ~uesd y and Wednesday nights
for the benefit of st. Johns Chapel in that
village.
A young white man was cut during an Of.
fray with some negroes near the cor; or OF
Patrick snd Princess streets about 7 o'clock
las. night.
Az the oyster roast and rsflle at the Opera
House restaurant last night horse was
won for Mr.. Robert Deevcrs for whom q
friend throw Al.
The Catholic Benevolent Legion will hold
regular meeting at st. Mary's Hall to mo row
at 2:3O p. m. for the purpose of elccting Of.
fccrs for the ensuing year.
A musical and magic lan'orn ente tain-
ment will be held at 1913 King street on
Thursday night next for the benefit of the
buys infant class OF the Sunday school of The
Baptist Church
at tie socond Presbyterian Church 10.
morrow Bev. Mir Thacker wIlpreach at II
o'clock on "The Love That Passeth. Kpowl
e1ec," and at 1870 H. on Behold, Have
Played the Fool"
Superintendent ]. S. B. Thomp:on, of the
Southern Railway, with headquarters at At
lsnta, Ga, paid his father, Captain G. e.
Thompson, visit of several days this week
-[Cupepcr Exponent.
At Rosslyn, in the county. on Thursday, r
E. Cunningham charged with selling liquor
on Sunday, was discharged by Justices Sci.
lcrs, Birch and Stephenson. The accused was
represented by Mr.. ]. Il. Greene, of this city.
The market to-day was not so largely at
tended by country people as usual, the in
clement weather keeping many away. The
supply of country produce YVES therefore re.
stricted Prices remained about unch ,nged
A slight fire occurred at the residence OF
Mr. f. 81. Hammond, in Klipstein's terrace
on south Patrick street, this afternoon, caused
by an accident TO q gasoline stove. The flames
were extinguished without turning in an
alarm
George Stcarns, asrrcsted Yesterday fo1
stealing paint, was to-day fined $50, and i'll
de ault of payment was sent to Jail. At tho
trial the merchant from whom he got the
paint stated that he gave stearns the paint on
an order signed by a man whom he did not
know.
Another teacher has been appointed in the
John Hay Coored Industrial School of this
city in the person of Lillian Sayles. She is
the granddaughter of the well known ice-
man, John Credit, and is we'll qualified for
her duties. She will have charge of the
sewing department and assist in primary
classes The school needs supplies and acoi-
tional rooms, and fair will be opened in the
building commencing December 27 and con.
time thr,ugl to the holidays The managers
solicit contributions from merchants and
other.