Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-06
LOCAL BREVITiES.
Oh, Christmas time is coming fast,
So cheer up, girls, be pleasant,
And shake the fellow with the past
For th t one with the present.


For th 1t one with the present.
Mrs. Margaret Allison, widow of
John Allison, died at her home, on
south Henry street, yesterday.
A letter from King George says Mr..
Thomas B. Garnett, of that county,
and for years the popular purser on the
steamer Wakefield, has recovered from
q severe attack of sickness and return
ed to his post of duty on the steamer.
4 letter from King George says
cartridges are more ABUNDANT there than
they have been at any time in many
wears. 1t is said that there is not q
fox, or any evidences of one, in that
part of King George from the Potomac
to the Rappahannock, north and south,
and in a distance of eight miles, east
and west. The remarkable thing
about it is that up to two or three
wears ago this same scope of country
abounded in foxes, they being so abun-
dapt then that it was not uncommon
for them to commit depredations in the
daytime.
While cunning IN the woods near Falls
Church Yesterday afternoon, Samuel Scott,
coored, farm hand, seventy'hve years OLD,
sustained severe gunshot wound in the
chest. Scott stated that he had been hunting
rabbits, in company with two soDs, and had
rested his gun against a log to supply one OF
the boys with powder, when the weapon &C.
cidentally fell, striking on the ground and
tjscbarging. He received the full charge OF
bird shot in the chest. He was taken to the
Emergency Hospital, Washington His In
furious are not serious.
Among the estimates Of appropriations for
river and harbor Improvements for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1900 made by the
chief engineer of the army, are the following;
Cons: ructing light and fog signal station
near Ragged Point, Potomac river, plIgInla'
$4,000; Lower Machodcc creek, @o,oCUi
Nomini creek, $4,000; Occoquan creek
81, 900; Pamunkey river, S3,UOO; Rappahan'
mock river, $4,000.
The Board of Stewards of the N. P. Church
met last night and examined and audited the
a rcc for tho past month. The fnan 'es
were found to be in good condition. Inc
salary of the ianitor of the church was in
creased
The firm of ]. 81. D Smoot has been award
Cd the contract for furnishing the lumber for
tho packing and cold storage house to be
erected by Armour & Co. on the railroad line
near West End,
Capt, Elias n. Parsons, assistant quarter
master, U. S. V, has been ordered to take
charge of the quartermaster's subdepot, ST.
Asaph.
A cat belonging to Mr.. B. B. Smith yester-
day gave birth to five kittens, one Of which
had but one eye, no mouth or nose, and three
legs.
Mr.. N. D. Rittenour sent to this office to-
day species of second growth of apples tax
| en- from tree in his garden on King street.
The first train over the Chesapeake Beach
road from fayetteville to Marlboro, Mo-,
was run yesterday.
IT was William Bsggett, and not Wilbert q.
Bqegett who saw Officer John Proctor LII Au-
gusls, Ga.
Mr., Joseph F. Rodgers, of this city, has Sc
oured the contract for building $4,000 pa
wilton, &c, at Chesapeake City, Md.
The little child of Charles Bowles, colored'
which was badly burned few weeks since,
died yesterday.
Can't. Atkinson expects to send several re-
cruits from this city to join the Fourth regl'
ment
Rslle Haven Lodge K, of Il. will meet to.
night 10 elect officers.