Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-03-23
oUGAL BREyITIES.

Twenty-,hlco dodgers were at the station
house last night
Attention is called to the advertisement of
Robert T. Crimes.
Two moro deaths from corebro-spinal men.
! nights were reported i'll ashington yester-
dsy.
The bad weather of the past few days has
caused falling oil in the catch and receipt
of fish.
Rev. Dr. VIM. NJ. Dane, of Baltimore, will
preach in Christ Church tonight. Brother.
hood men will fnd seats foE all who wish to
attend.
The regular monthly meeting of the direc-
tors OF the Alexandria kindergarten Associa-
ton was hold in March The work is going
on satisfactorily.
Dennis DAILY. who had escaped from the
chain gang and been recsptured by Officers
Wilkinson and knight, had nine days added
to his sentence by the Mayor this morning.
During the blizzard last month the fencing
at tho east end of the Wilkes street tunnel
disappeared. Now nothing bur the posts re-
main, aud there Is d niger of wagons tumbling
down the steep bank.
The two big tanks recently taken out of
the old wood vulcaniziDg works and which
were sttacned by MI J. Dreifus for debt
have been released by the City Sergeant, Mr..
Dfeifus's claim having been settled.
The Alexandria Insurance Company, of
which MIR. Laurence Stablcr has Just been
appointed secretary, will on April LIST remove
lis office TO No 1O3 south Fairfax street, adj
joining the banking house of Burke s. Her
bert.
Most of the quarantined houses have been
released, and smallpox" has ceased to be
topic of conversation. This morning one Of
the patients requested the guard to get him
Il horse ana buggy, saying he would like TO
take his wife out driving
Mrs. Ada Much, widow of Geo W. Much
living in Washington, was hold for the grand
jury yesterday on the charge of obtaining
money under false pretenscs. 1t is alleged
thst she solicited Contributions to bury man
IN this city. The namo OF tho deceased is
said TO have been myth.
Judge Charles E Nicol of the Circuit Court
has granted an injunction restraining the
Continental Savings and Loan Company from
doing business Mr. L. c. Barley of this city,
was appointed receiver. This company was
chartered by the Corporation Court of this
city Its main office was i'll Washington.
An extraordinarily large crowd WIS present
at the Opera House last night 20 witness the
production of Joshua Simpkins." Long be-
fore the opening the house was packed TO the
walls and large number who were anxious
to witness the performance were unable to
gain admission. The play was we'll rendered
aud WAS greatly enjoyed.
1t was currently reported in Baltimore yes.
terday that the Baltimore and Ohio Railrosd
had msde an offer to the Maryland Board of
Public Works for the purchase of the States
interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
With the canal in It's possession the Balti-
moro and Ohio could virtually control the
output from the Maryland coal mines.
at Fairfax Courthouse yesterday Randolph
Porter was convicted of horse stealing and
sentenced to thirteen years in tho peniten.
tiary, five of which was for having been con.
victed of felony before. The horse was
stolen at Merrifeld, in that county, and taken
to Wsrrenton. where it was traded off for an
other, which was aftcrward found running at
large in Maryland. Clarence Wrenn, eighteen
years of age, is also charged with being par
ty to the crime His trial will take place at
the next court