Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The baby found in sewer this moraing
was doll baby.
A large number of excursionists fiom he
North were in the city to-day.
The County Supervisors will meet next
Thursday to open bids for county bonds.
The steamer Eaglet sailed to- lay with
cargo Of pig iron for Philadelphia to DO ship
ped to China.
Mr. w. II. Lyles suffered an attack Of ytrt
go in the market this evening, aud had to he
sent u his home on Commerce street.
Hereafter the first boat to leave this city in
the morning will be at 6 o'clock, and the first
to leave Washington will be at 6:l0.
There will be a meeting Of A'cxandria
Council National Union, at Pythian Hall,
north Pitt street, tonight.
R,y. Father Coigan, pro lessor of rht toric o;
Gonziga College, will preach st S.. Mary's
Church tomorrow night His subject will be
The Crown of Thorps."
The funeral Of Mrs Ellen Jacobs, woll
Known resident Of Fairfax county, who died
at her home at Hayield on Friday evening,
took place yesterday evening
a handsome punch bowl, 10 lie voted for at
st. Mary's Church fair TO be held at the Ly
ceum commencing 90 Easter Monday, is on
exhibition at Me3srs. Acton's store.
Solemn requiem mass for the repose of the
souls of the crew who lost their liv.s Oh the
battleship Maine wi | be celebrated in st
Mary's Church on Wedn osday morning at s
o'clock.
The National Chemical University baseball
team of Washington was defeated by the first
nine of the Episcopal High School team on
the grounds of the latter, near this city, on
Thursday afternoon by score of 42 10 ..
Members of the Womin's Christian Tom
perau,e Union are cord ally invited TO Miss
Pollard's residence 922 Cameron street, on
Tuesday evening next, from S to 10 p M, to
meet Miss Lee Cook, of Norfolk, one Of the
unions lecturers
The u 8. revenue cutter Windom Captain
Maguire, arrived at Palti roro Saturday from
cruise. On Tues lay last the schooner Sam
uel D Landlord was found ashore in the Po
tomac below this city and was fioa;ed by the
Window She was loaded with wood from
St Mary's river for Washington.
A telegram was received here on Saturday
from Mr.. James Plaskett, who recently LETT
with party for the X ondike, which stated
that they had arrived at Ashcroft, British
Columbia. After purchasing food and cloth
ing the party will proceed AGO miles farther
north by means of PACK horses and mules.
That the Potomac fisheries have been Sc
F.ously injured by trapntti is evidenced by
the falling eff during the past few years in
the receipts at this market But few fish arc
bsiug caught at any of the shores on the river
which is claimed by fishermen to DO the { suit
Of the numerous ,rapnets in the lower liver,
which prevent the fish from reaching the
shores
Intelligence has been received in this city
of the death in Rio de Jsneiro, Brazil, on
Fcbrusry 18th last OF DR.. E Cleary, formerly
of Washington, in the 63d year of his age.
DR.. Cleary was first cousin of Mr.. Donald
Mclean. Of this city. de served during the
war in the Confederate army, and at the close
o: hostllities went to Brazil, where he lived
up to the time OF his death.
An immense gun weighing s. 900 pounds,
% feet long and 13.inch bore, the des:ina.
ton being Galveston, Tex, passed over the
Southern road yesterday morning on a Il II
car so f, ct long, built Of iron for heavy haul
ing. This is the largest gun ever sent South,
and moro will follow. On one side of the
gun some one written in chalk, GIVE the
Spanish h Ii, snd, if necessary, we will fol'
low"
Enach Grayson, co'ored, is wanted by the
police on the charge OF having attempted to
kill Henry Stephenson also. colored. Gray.
son and Stephenson engaged in fight nesr
Fayette and Cameron S reetc Saturday night,
when GraySou drew pistol and fired at his
antagonist. The police ware attracted by the
slot, but oy the time they reached the scene
OF the trouble the would.be murderer had
made his escape.