Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-15
LOCAL MATTERS.

| The Feast of the Assumption of the Blesse d
V rgin was celebrated at st. Mary's Church
this morning.
The Fern Leaf Club, tolored organizes.
ton, gave largely attended excursion 10
Motley Hall to day.
A marriage license WAS issued in Washing
ton on Saturday to John S. Ashmorc, of Point
Sheridan and Emma Woolfrey.
Mary E Rogers has sold 10 z. w. Chambers
| lot on the west side of Peyton street, be-
tween King ana Prince, for 5000.
We have received al Invitation to attend
the Prince william horse show, to be held al
Manassas on the 30,h aud 31st instant.
An old man, who said he served with Stone.
wall Jackson and gave his name as John
Quincy Adams. was arrested today for abus-
ing people OIL the streets
Numbers OF oars Loaded with solicitors from
the South passed through this city yesterday
and Henry street was thlonged with persons
10 see the returning troops.
VIM. Hullett, son of Mr.. Joseph Hullctt,
while at the Dyke yesterday evening fell
of fence snd fractured his arm. He WAS
attended by DR.. T. NJ Jones.
The CHI, rche3 yesterday We're only fairly
well attended, many Aiexandrians still beng
absent from their homes The services We're
conducted according to Saturdays announce
| mcnts.
Mrs. p. D. Brawner, an esteemed resident
Of Broad Run. died on saturday, and MIS-.
Robinson, o! The Plains who had q wide cir
Gle of friends and relatives in that vicinity
died yesterday.
The troops of the Third and Fourth U. S.
Cavalry, which arrived at St. Asaph on FIJI
4 ,it,bt nd i,nr m, So ~ la
lett that psce on Saturday night for camp at
Montauk, ~ y.
Mamie Honesty, colored living at Little
Falls was run over by = train OF the Wash.
ington amt Great Falls road last night. and
had both legs o badly crushed that it was
necessary to amputato them
Eight hundred mules are expected to az
rive at the st Asaph corral to-day CT tom
row. On their arrival they will be shod and
prepared for the camps now beng established
on Long Island and elsewhere.
The police were notified 10 day that sets of
liza ness were stolen on Saturday night from
| Mr. g. H. Robinson S coal yard, in the north
ern part OF tho city, snd from Colonel l.. w.
! Reid's summer home in the county.
H.rry Webster and Michael Devanoc the
two soldiers who wero arrested or Saturday
| udN SNcEluk CUdl ScA WIN lusulllbS iauf vi
the str, ct, were allowed 10 depart, the charge
hayi1g been withdrawn by the father OF the
young lady.
The body OF James Hoffman, who commit
ted suicide on Monday night last in Fairfax
county below this city, was buried to-day
from the undertak crs establishment of Mr.
| B Wheatley The ;aterment was in Pcrny
Hill and the services were conducted b. Rev.
J. II. Butler.
The centennial of St. Ignatius Church at
Chapel Pint, st. Thomas Manor in Charles
county, Md, ana of which the late Rev. Faith
er Kane, OF this city, was pastor at the lin
of his death, was celebrated yesterday with
impressive services. A lumber of Alex4n.
drians were in at enhance
Mr. Fmmons S. Smith sold his stock at the
Boston V.riety Store, Washington, to Mcs;rs
Saks & Co. on Saturday and leased to them
his new six-story building, which adjolns Mi.
Saks's store The two stores will be COM
blncd and the new store Of SKIS & Co. will ba
conducted as a department store
In Washington on Saturday evening Sc
opd Lieutenant L. c. Berkeley, of the Marine
Corps was the recipient of handsome sword,
the gift of his late fellow employees OF the
southern Railway, of which he was city pas
sengcr agent. Col. !, :. Brown, general agent
OF the passenger dcpultnehl ifuc thc plc'
sentatCn speech.
MIS-. Ida Sides. Wits of George Sides, living
at No 100 Princess street, swallowed an
overdose of lsudauum yesterday afternoon,
which came near resulting fatally. Ollie =
man Howson who YVES passing the house at
tho time learned of the affair md immediate
" summoned DR.. Purvis who administered
an autidote and soon the woman was OUT OF
danger. No cause is assigned fot the appar-
ent attempt to end her life.
On Saturday night, after the news of the
signing OF the pcsce Treaty had been received
in Camp Alger, the various bnds aud dram
corps paraded tho grounds in celebration OF
the event Later the mcmbes of the Third
Virg na Regiment Bani screnaded Colon
Male. Before the seIenadc the New Jcrs'
regiment placed cand es on the tops o. their
tents forming the words "Ha ha Virgin
in" In return the Third Virginia formed
the letters IN iva" on tho New jersey
side of the camp, and oct Va" on the Con
uecicut side The guard around the Third
Virginia camp has been decreased onc-Aalf.
MvSTppror-s D1SAp EARhNCE The peO