Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| A meeting OF the Y NJ. s. L. will be held
tonight
| Robert Luckett, colored, well-known
heck driver of this city, is critically Ill.
The committee on light will meet tonight
at S o clock ut the office of the Clerk of Gas.
The Soldiers Rest on Royal street is still a
favorIte resort for soldiers who visit the city.
The departure of General Miles, who WAS
to have sailed from Ponce for New Orleans
tonight, has been delayed.
Tho ice factory at Warrenton having been
burned last night, Il carload of ice WAS sent to
that place this evening by Mr.. VIM NJ Rear
don.
The Virginia Glass Works will start fires
again this evening The prospects for good
fall business are regarded by the proprietors
| as gooi
The weather continues uncomfortably
warm. The signal Office. which had promised
break in tho hot wave ny tomorrow has
postponed that event until Thursday.
Mr. James s. Douglas, OF this city, was
aboard one OF the trains which collidod on
the Bait more and Potomac railroad last
night he was slightly cut on the face.
long army train bearing mules, wagons,
cC, IIOW tuo SOulu ptSSeu luIOueu tH'o City
on Its way to st Asaph early this morning
Several AlexaEdrians were on the train.
Rev. John Wesley Everist, aged IS years,
and tho oldest minister of the Maryland con-
ference of the Methodist Protestant Church,
died early this morning near st. Michaels,
Md.
Cases OF scarlet fever have been reported at
the following houses: A Houck, AT south
Fairfax street VIM. Holinger 307 north st.
Asaph street, and 81 523 south Columbus
street.
Wi liam R. Tappa", son of NJ A Tappan,
the well-known Washington dealer in athletic
supplies, died at au early hour yesterday
morning. He was twenty seven years old
and enjoyed wide popularity among athletic
men in Washington
Sir Henry Greyson, discoverer of the ia
nous diamond mines in Brazil, WAS arrested
at Grafton, w. Va. yesterday charged with
not paying board bill. Greyson was very
i'll and will be removed to the hospital.
Orders have been issued by the navy do.
parimsnt which will prevent the assemblfge
of any large fleet at Hampton Roads The
large warships will be sent to New York and
Boston and the torpedo boats to Newport, B. /.
Constable Day, of Prince Georges county,
Mu., WAS III tuC City yoosCiuoJ ioOh.i5 ioi
Harry Davis, the negro who shot Henry
Stevens at Motley Hall last week, on the &C.
casion OF the excursion of the Fern Leaf Club
Davis, it is said, has gone to Pittsburg. Stew
Gus continues slowly to improve.
A tournament and picnic to be held on the
lawns of Mr. L Stoneburner, near Arlington
station, next Thursday, is attracting much at
tention from the beaux and bellies of adjoin-
ing counties. The knighthood are untirng
in their efforts 10 be skilled in taking tho
ring, each hoping to be successful on that &C.
cssion.
The Fire Wsrdens have not as yet ordered
any of tho horses of the engine companies to
be placed in pasture SO it would save time,
and perhaps labor, to lei them Craze on Cam
oron street from Pitt to Washington. There
may be other localities equally as good for
this purpose, but this one was called to re-
porter's attention to day.