Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Ex.Congressman s. s. Turner is extremely
ill at Front Royal.
The Mems Sodality Of B. V. NJ. will meet
to- morrow at 1870 o'clock.
Mrs. Emily Miller, widow of Colonel T. q
Miller died on Saturday at her home at Riv.
erside, Md.
Mrs. Varney, who lived near the county or.
phan asylum, died on Saturday, aged nine.
teen years.
The fine weather of yesterday brought
many people out of doors and ell the churches
were well attended.
The telephone poles for the Western Union
Telegraph Company's new Office OIL King
street are being erected.
The steiner Belle Haven wss inspected to.
day aud she will probably resume her trips On
the ferry line to morrow.
A fight between two half-grown colole ed
boys at the corner of Duke snd Fairfax streets
To-day caused some excitement.
!; An oyster supper will be held near Mount
Vernon tomorrow night to assist in raising
funds to erect pubic hall in the neighbor-
hood.
Mr.. Willis Hall, nephew Of the late DR..
Bedford BrowD, of this city, snd who at one
time lived in this city, died last week in Bal
timore.
The Alexandria Insurance Company met
to-day, but without trsnsacting any business
adjourned till Wednesday evening, the 10th
instant.
Mr.. VIM. B. Todd has been decided on by
President Mckinley TO succeed Mr. Dorsey
Clsgett as Collector of Customs for the port CT
Georgetown.
A delegation from this city will go to Rich
moni next Monday to protest against the
passage of some anti. building association laws
now before tho legislature.
The act of incorporation of the John hay
Normal and Industrial School authorizes the
trustees to own fifty acres of land and own
real estate to the value of $25, GOO.
In the Corporation Court to-day in the case
of Peyton, guardian, vs.. Peyton ct al decree
was entered conf ming the report of Commits
sioner Callahan and for sale Of property.
The reading room which had been conduct.
cd under the auspices of st. Andrews Broth
erhood on King street. near Royal, for nearly
two years, has been closed and the effects sold.
Mr.. Samuel Jefferson, who was hurt in
Washington last week by being struck by an
electric car, and who is now at Provider CO
Hospital, is rapidly recovering from his inju-
res
John A. Seaton, a we'll known colored citi.
zen of this city, has just undergone success
full surgical operation at his home in Fauquicr
county. he has been in poor health for some
time.
Mrs Laura Macneal Bonney, formerly of
Baltimore, wife of Mr. Carlton II. Bonney,
died on Friday at Ludlow. VT, aged 81 years.
She had number OF relatives and friends in
this city,
Tho body of the late Mrs. Alonzo Mills,
who died in Falls Church Oh Friday, wero
brought to this city this evening and buried
in the Presbyterian cemetery by tho side of
her late husband.
Tomorrow evening at the literary exer.
cses of the Y. III. S. L., tho President, Mr..
w. II. Sweeney, will read paper and Rev.
Fl. J. Cutler will deliver lecture on "Sound,"
with illustrations by the graphophone
Lieut.. Col. B. G. Baughman, of Richmond
inspector of this Uniform Rank knights of
Pythias, will pay visit to this city to.mor-
row and inspect Rathbone Company. The
officers recently elected will be installed at
that time.
The claim of Mrs. Winfield Scott Pierce
boat Company has been compromised. Mrs
Pierce was Injured while walking on tie
wharf of the steamboat company in this city
several months ago.
Mr. B. 7. Kuhn, of this city. has patented
'formaldehyde generator" which is guar
anteed disinfectant. Mr.. ]. 81. Trmyer of
patent, and the firm of Kuhn & Trimyer are
n fo mn rip fna
DR.. c. @. Stewart will begin his weekly
lectures on hygiene and dietcs next Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock, before the pupils of
the John Hay Industrial School. The Ice.
tunes are free and they will be given il tho
chapel of the ichool. The public is invited.
Miss Annie Virginia Culberson will give a
dialect reading at the Opera House on Tues
day night, the 18th, for the benefit Of the
church furnishing society of the NJ. E Church
South. Miss Culberson recently gave an en-
tertainment in this city and delighted her
audience.
Preparations for tho Washing on Horse
Show have progressed to such point that tho
exhibit is now practically certain to tar
place. The date is not yet absolutely deter
mined, but the show will probably be held
either in the last week of April or the first
week in May. 1t will continue through four
days.
The funeral of Sodonia Curley, the young
daughter of Capt. Charles Curey. took place
Yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Christ
Episcopal Church. The services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Bergman Green. The floral
offerings were beautiful and the funeral was
attended by large number of the young
friends of the deceased.
A considerable crowd of Washington sport
ing men iourneyed out to suburban road
house Yesterday afternoon TO witness the
msetipg between Jack Farrell and Joe Mack.
The bout was fast and hard punching was
the oder while it lasted. Mack was forced
to Quit in the second round after receiving
considerable punishment
An old mare twsnty-six years old belong.