Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-02
LOCAL BRETITIES.

A meeting of the Y. NJ. S. L. will DO hold
| tonight.
The Police Commissioners will meet to-
morrow night.
The German Building Associat on No.
last night made two loans of 500 at par.
| About 300 mules were to-day sent from
ST. Asaph to pasture near tho Long Bridge.
\ case Of scarlet fever is reported at No.
1909! Queen street, and one at No. sos
Duke street
Iho' Heating, of Martinshurg, has secured
position in the wrecking shops of tho
Soathorn Railway.
w. C. Johnston has sold to Maud II. Camp
two acres of land on the Arlington turnpike,
in Arlington district in The county, for
$4,000
A fine horse belonging to Mr. G H Rob
inson died yesterday evening from inflamma-
| tioa Of the bowels, disea'e which has killed
number of horses in this city recently.
The temperature at o'clock this morning
WAS cooler than it has been for some time,
but by noon the mercury hal risen to 800
| again. aud the suns rays were very oppross-
| i've.
Mike and Dennis Daily, two boys who
were committed 10 Jail on Saturday 10y Mayor
Simpson for being drunk aud disorlery,
IN ,de their escape from the chain gang ye:-
terday.
Messrs. Horace Swain, Charles Swain and
Louis Murdoch. of this city, now employed at
! st Asaph expect TO leave here in Il day or
| two for New York snd thence for Porto Rico
in charge of mule teams.
Martha johnson, the small colorod girl who
was yeste' day sent to the work house for
robb ng the residence of Mr.. A. W. Arm
strong, made her escape soon after reaching
| that institution but was recaptur. d and sent
back
meeting of the committee on streets wss
called for last night but as a quorum did not
appear, no business could be transacted Su-
| perintendent GOWN, of the electric railway,
WAS present and agreed TO lay on Kirg street
any kind of rail the committee selected.
William Coleman, colored who left here
some week since for The south with the CO.
ored volunteer company organized in this
city. has returned, and says his duties with
the company have ceased. he says, no %ever
that he wants to seed al the colored men
in Alexandria out OF the city, AND Into the
| " +
President sn Mrs Mckinley took a trip
down the Poomac ye,terdsy evening on the
|
at o'clock and going as far as Foit Wash
in zton. They were accompanied by all the
members Of the Cabinet except Judge Day
The psr.y returned to Washington at 10
o'clock
Marriage licenses were granted in Wash
ington yesterday 10 D. W. BrAnner. of For
restvlle, Shenandoah county. aud Vcrtle F:
Baker, of Quicksburg; Richard 6. Clark, of
Prince William county and Mabel L. lien,
of Culpoper county, AID to Jesse Lewis, OF
High View PARK, Fairfax county, and Mary
Williams
An effort is being made TO secure on the
Loudoun Branch of the Southern Railway
regular trains from Dunn Loring Station to
Alexandria similar to those which now con-
Net Dunn Loring with Washington. Since the
removal of Camp Alger to that neighborhood
the interest of alexandria in the subject has
become very grest, and IFS large AMI iacreas-
ing trade with the camp is row vjry much
iucommodeu. The present working of the
road is said by busis ess men to be disad vanta'
geous TO Alexandria.