Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-17
LOCAL BHETITIE>

The Second Presbyterian Chanel Sunday
school on Lee street was reopened yesterday
evening.
s. NJ. Johnson has sold to Piper Ashton a
house and lot on Lee street, south OF Frank
lin. for $50.
1t is again reported that the old steamer
Mary Washington is being fitted cut for gam
bling purposes near -Four Mile run.
marriage license was issued in Washing
Ton on Saturday to John w. Hancock and
Levia Williams, both of Leesburg.
Thomas Somervile the well-known bust
ness man and prominent Mason oil Washing
ton, died last night after short illness.
The partridge season opened yeste day in
majority of the counties of the State, and,
as result, many sportsmen were hunting to-
day.
Miss Rebecca Pollard will sing solo al the
Village Cha 'el meeting tonight. There will
be Others who viii sing solos and duets the
rest o. the week.
The m m1ers of the Methodist Protestant
Church here held "a reunion of considerable
il terest yesterday, at which several members
were added to the church
The Southern Railway Company have pIac-
| cd y 3 coo candle power electric light on one
of their cngincs should the light give salts
| cti II all the locomotives will be equipped
with them.
Jerem an J. Walsh, telegraph lineman,
was run over by a Baltimore ana Ohio tram
near First and r streets northeast Washing
ton yesterday afternoon and his left leg was
| crushed at the ankle.
Mrs. Sallie Y Mcdaniel, principal of Lee
school, after making IN accurate exsmlnstlon
of the matter. finds that but six pupils OF the
school OF over 800 girls are kept at home by
scarlet fever and diphtheria.
A freight car of the Washington Southern
Railway jumped the rails while passing on
Fayette street between Prince aud Duke,
thi, morning, and delayed travel for sho
time. The damage was slight.
The members of Old Dominion Command
| erv. X T., who attended the triennia con-
! cave in Pittsbuig, Pa. and the ladies who
nc, onpanied them hsve returned and give
the most glowing accounts of the trip
4 collision occurred Saturday night be
tween Buggy aud a wagon on Columbus
street, between OIoaoco ana Pcndleton. The
buggy was smashed aud the sbaits OF the
wagon broken. None of the occupants was
seriously injured.
The remains of young Martin Nolan, who
was Killed by an engine in Washington on
Friday. were inferred in St. Mary's cemetery
Yesterday sterAOon. The funeral services
! were held in ST. Mary's Church, Rev. Father
| Payne officiating
Three members of tho Third regiment re-
turned from Richmond to-day. They report
that the work OF mastering out Is proceeding
very slowly, and say the fare being furnished
the men in Richmond is very poor, and IN
some instances unfit to eat.
While the Alexandria Knights Temp al
were returning from Pittsburg the pocket
book of Miss Ruth Henderson, of this city
who was passenger on the train, wa
stolen from her on a car at Marunsburg
An arrest was made and the pocketbook re-
covered minus its contents. Miss Henderson
will 90 to Martinsburg and sppear against the
thief when he shall be arraigned for trial.
Sergeant John Solomon. colored, of the
Tenth q. : Infantry immunes. now station
ed at Lexington, Ky, has returned TO HI;
home in this city on short lesve OF absence
he says his company. composed OF AleXan
6risns is the best ii the regiment, and tnst
Dan Csrbiu is The best soldier IL the company
He GAYS thsl Dan almost mighty passes undei
a tree in which a large umber OF chickens
roost. but that he never touches CHICKEN
The police yesterday were Ieques,ec u
look out for n Mclean. of Del Bay. who h'f
been missing from his home since saturday
McLesn drove wagon for Washingt 1
hakerv. He was seen in this city Saturday
afternoon. and at ~ carly h. yesterday the
horse which lad been Et;schsd to his wager
retnrned to Del Ray, end later the Tehice
Somewhat damaged. was found near the c
nal basin. in the rosthern part OF the city
The missing man yesterday evening return
70 home but little the Worse for his shori 40
gence.
n ]. wedch, a fsIm-r living at Kensimg
ton, Md. reported to the Washington p9'lc
o T' saturday that horse and buggy, whicl
bc bsd lett at the hay market had been stcI
en- en- Yesterday morning Constable Bates o
Alcyandris county, found the team In th'
nossession of two small colored boys lsas
Williams, twelve years old. and ReplamL'
Vepi. eleven years old. He notified IN u,
Washington police and p detective TOOK u
stolen property and the two boys oaGS 1
Washington. The boys had stolen a lot 0
, nroduce from erocer's wagon, and they IN
tended going to the Sunny South t'spend IN
winter
NO CURE--No PAY.
That is the way all druggists sell GRoF .
Nc f,IITi rTNNTH for Chi 5 SDt