Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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house last night.
There were no cases for trial in the
Police Court this morning.
Children's Day services will lie held
in many of the churches tomorrow.
The closing exercises of the Second
Presbyterian Chapel Sunday school will
be held Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
About 400 more mules will reach this
city from the West tonight via the B &
.. railroad and will be at once taken to
ST. Asaph.
A tenement house on the farm OF
MIR. Frank Martin, who lives across the
river, was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day night last.
The ordinance for imposing and COL
Letting licenses for the year commenc-
ing June 1st is published on the first
page of the Gazette.
The commissioners of election met at
the Clerks Office to-day and canvassed
and certified to the correctness Of the
vote cast at Thursdays election.
Mr.. John Truax sent to this Office to-
day box of the largest and finest
strawberries sean this season. They
were grown on his farm below this city.
About FIVE hundred dozen soft crabs
were shipped to Baltimore from Carriers
creek one day last week. On Monday
last two hundred and fifty dozen were
shipped on the steamer Lancaster.
The steamer Wakefield having been
overhauled has resumed her place on
the lower river route relieving the Ar
rowsmith, which will this evening and
tomorrow make trips to Colonial Beach.
Isaac Eichberg & Son call attention
to their special sale of msttings and
trunks. Their prices are the lowest
and their assortment is large. All de-
partments are freshly stocked with the
most desirable goods made.
Messrs. D. Payton and A. Aftoke',
m .nagers of Chas. King & Sons pack
Ing house, will make their last shipment
OF herring for this season this week,
and will greet their families in Alex
andria Sunday Newport News News.
The relief operators between Alexan.
dria and Orange have been dispensed
with for the present, and G. W. Buck
ley, of Clifton, has been sent to Mon
roe, near Lynchburg, which is the
southern end of the Washington diyis-
ion of the Southern road.
Tomorrow, Pentecost Sunday. is one
Of the most solemn feasts of the church
calendar, oommemoratng the descent
of the Holy Ghost on the heads of the
apostles in the shape Of tongues of fire.
The day will be celebrated in the Cath
Ole and Episcopal churches.
The great emergency sale at D. Bend
helm & Sons, which made their store so
intensely attractive during the entire
week, is to be continued another week.
Their prices are the lowest, and their
display Of goods large, and the oppor-
tunity presented to purchase at low
prices is seldom seen fereabouts.
At the Lutheran Church Rev. ]. w. Eber-
lein will preach tomorrow morning il Ger
man on the .heme, The threefold Peniecost
gift " and tomorrow night at s o'clock in
English on the theme Human hearts ten.
piles of the Holy Spirit" Both sermons will
be preached with reference to Pentecost
The election held in the county on Thurs
day resulted in practically unanimous vote
for the school assessment as recommended by
the County Sci DOL Board. Arlington district
voted for 40c and Washington and Jefferson
districts for Soc on the 500.
Rev J. Ernest Thacker will preach TO-
morrow at II m in the Second Presbyte-
risn Church on 1.-THE comics are but feeble
folk, yet make they their houses in the
rocks" and at p. m sermon to the uncor-
yertod
The county Supervisors met to-day and al
lowed j. E uobson, contractor for building
the new court house and Jail, $1,000 on &C.
count of his contract.
A Home telephone No 1913, has been put
in j. w. Hammond'S ice house.