Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-08
LOCAL BREVITIES.

: Ihe schooner Sidonis Curley is on tn
ways at the shipyard for repairs.
her, are 81 inmates of the aims hous
and 15 prisoners in the work house.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad fer,
slip at the foot of Wilkes street is to be re
built.
Mrs. Mary Rudd has sold TO Mr.. J. T. Hsr
| Ing the ground rent at the northwest corne
oil Prince and Alfred streets.
civil service examination will be held a
the postoffice SEPTEMBER 26 for the position
OF substitute carrier and clerk
The Young Peoples Baptist Union held ,
meeting last night after months vacation
ana arranged for vigorous fail work.
The house of Mr.. II. a. Gambrill, on Brad.
dock Heights, was robbed last night aud d
suit OF clothes and a satchel containing some
money stoen.
>, special meeting of Alexsndria Post
travellers Protective Association, will be
held In the rooms of the Bu,iness Mems
League to night.
Prices in market show but slight changes,
but some Of the summer vegetables are be.
coming scarce and the early fall vegetables
are tsking their placer. The attendance at
market today was quite large.
AyouDg woodcock was caught on south St.
Assph street yesterday evening by some
boys. 1T is suggested that al! game is being
go persistently hunted in the surrounding
country that the birds have TO seek shelter in
the city.
At a meeting Of the Business Mems Asso.
clifton held in Washington on Tuesday the
meetlnglpssstd resolutions endorsing the site
donated by Mr.. Frank Hume in Alexandria
county for the proposed national military
college.
VIM. E. Royce alas Bogee, was this
morning held in 5000 bonds Tor the grand
jury by Judge Kimbal in the Washington
Police Court to answer the charge of grand
larceny, II is ALLEGED that he took jswelIy
valued at slO5 from Nellie ID. Jex
The Hydraulion Fire Company gave their
last crab feast IF the season last night to their
numerous friends, and it WAS success in
every particular. The usual joliifcstion Was
INDUCED in sad every one went rome more
then pleased with the tvtning's festivities.
Mr.. q. A. Rowland La, growing IN his
garden on south Fairfax street several cot
ION plant filed with lsrger ard finer cotton
DO is than much that is grown in the South
ern states. II is cOntended by some that
cotton can be successfully grown in this sec.
tor.
The house Of P. q HORNE, at Oxen Hill,
Prince Georges county Md, just opposite
this city, WAS ransscked Thursday and
number OF articles stolen, including a wa cb,
to which was attached double span chain.
When the loss WAS discovered man who bad
been recently employed by Horne Was found
20 be- missing.
Charley Baltimore alias Henderson, four.
teen years OF age, colored was vest rdsy In
turned over to the Alex ndria
authorities as q fugitive from justice. He +,
Was arrested early yesterday. Some week
ago Baltimore escaped from the alexandria
ail. He VAS serving sentence for q minor
1ffence in WASHINGTON. ,
Miss Jesnnie PendletOn Ewing. o. this city,
Iss story in the Sept mbcr number OF Fonr
o'clock, a Chicago magazine, and Il sketch OF
| sfayette's visit 10 .Iexandria in 1924, in j
he current number o, Little Folss Some |
inc verses from her pen. EMIT ed In The
Library Of ConsrcE'," appeared In r cent |
ssue OF the Youths Companion.
The deposits OF sand and mud, caused by |
he ebb and flow OF the river tides, is eradu- |
lily filing in al the coves lust below the |
ong csuseway at Shepherds Landing Of the |
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, opposite this |
.ity. "A few years sgo this cove was covered |
t low water to depth OF three or four feet. |
md now it is ent rely bare except at unusu.
lly high tides. Tho zane fiiog-in process
5 going on along the upper side OF the cause
way, but not so rapidly.