The times., 1898-03-05
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA
Election for Colonel of the Third
Virginia Volunteers.
Meeting of the Board of Fire Ward
crs Judge Hughes Retires
From the Bench.

Alexandria. March 4.--CoL William Nallc. hay
ing been appointed adiutant general by Gov.
Tyler an election has been ordered for colonel OF
the Third Regiment Virginia Volunteers. to be
held at Woodstock. ON March l2 The Alexandria
Light Infantry is Company in the regiment. and
the officers of the command will take part in cleo
ting colonel.
The monthly meeting of the board of fire
wardcns was held last night. The matter of
purchasing fire alarm system was informally
discussed but no action taken, as the reso-
luton adopted at the last meeting OF the city
council had not been received by the board
The different companies OF the department have
reconme nded the adoption OF the telegraph alarm
! BERTHE Gibbons and Maud Tippett, charged with
being disorderly and fighting, we've fined - each
in the Police Court today. William jones' color
cd charged with assault on Caroline Murray,
also coIored, was dismissed.
! Col Arthur Herbert has written a history Of the
Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, which he will read
before Lee Camp Confederate Veterans. The
| first reading win take place Wednesday night
next, at which time the members OF the iamlhes
of the veterans have been invited to be present.
The funeral OF the late Addison W. Deahl will
take place from Grace Episcopal Church on Mon
day next at II a. IN.
The till to incorporate the Lee Fire Insurance
Company OF this city has been signed by Gov.
| TYLER
meeting of the stockholders of the Cross
| Manufacturing Company held in this city
last night, at which the following directors were
elected: Messrs. Geiz. Schladt. AcKer. Reiter.
! Rupert, Coup and Forker.
John \ Seaton former well-known colored
citizen OF Alexandria, is i'll at his farm near
| WarTantpn.
Hon Robert W Hughes, Judge of the United
States court of the district of Virginia, re-
tired from the bench today, his resignation tax
ing effect at noon. At his request there was no
demonstration the occasion.
The usual service of the stations OF the cross
was observed in st. Marys Church tonight, after
which the devotion in honor of the sacred heart
was held
The following resolution, introduced by Mr..
Carnc, member OF the city school board, has been
referred to the committee on studies and disci-
pline and will be reported at the next meeting OF
the board: Resolved, That the superintendent
OF schools be requested to direct the teachers OF
the public schools OF Alexandria using 4 new
history Of the nited States, by George f. Holmes,
| LII. D. not 10 use in teaching the following
paragraph in said history: Jefferson affected
extreme Republican simplicity, in dress and man
ners' page III. The temper, manners and morals
of Jackson himself exercised peIniciOus in
luencc. He first employed the public officers
distinctly as reward for party services, ana ne
acted the maxim since accepted in place oi
political principle, ITO the victor belong the
spoils' growing deprivation of political sentiment
has been the result page 2G2.'
at a meeting OF Potomac Lodge, No. IS, |. o. o.
F., tonight Il. d. Stansbury. p. G. NJ. was elected
delegate. and J. E. Swain elected alternate
to the Grand Lodge OF Virginia, which meets il
Petersburg in May next. The lodge accepted al
invitation to pay a fratcrna visit to Federal City
Lodge OF Washington, Wednesday evening
next, the occasion being the grand visitation o
the grand officers OF the District of Columbia.
Special services held tonight in the Pres
byterian Chapel. South Lee street. Rev. J
Z. Thacker, OF the Second Presbyterian Church
delivered the sermon.
State Senator Mushbach and Delegate Bar
ley have returned from Richmond the legislator,
having adjourned.
Miss Annie Quinn, who has been the guest o
Miss Rosie Brill for two weeks, has returned t
her home in Washington.
Mrs Harriet A. Fugit is seriously i'll at he
! home, on North Washington street.
! Mrs George Uher held reception tonight il
, honor OF her guest, Miss Louise Dabney, OF Chat
y ham,