Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The steamer Dennis Simmons, from VIII
liamston, y. c., with lumber, has arrived.
The barge Pansy is being loade,l with llm-
Der by IT, X Field & Go. for Fort WASH
ingt0n.
The schooner Leavin Mcnamara is being
loaded with lumber by SmOOt Il 60. for Leon =
ardtOwn.
An infant son OF Mr., Thomas Nugert
died at his parents residence, ilinorth Henry
street, early this morning.
The County Court, Judge Love, adjourned
yesterday until the August term which com
mences on the 18th instant.
Mary Smallwood, colored, charged h
stealing gold and jeweled pin in the county,
was today sent % the reform school near Rich
mond.
Mr.. Robert Ford while at work on borii &
lathe at the navy yard in Washington ye'-
tcrday, had three fingers of his left hand Sc
yerely cut.
Thetug Minerva yesterday brought Il e
house barge of the Alexandria Chemical
Works from Occoquan to Alexandra, laden
with sulphur rock.
Samuel Meadows, colored, fireman on the
Southern Railway, was severely scaided at
charlottesville yesterday by the blowing out
Of the mud cock of locomotive.
Mr.. George Griffin found valuable. gold
watch AT River View last Sunday. lie learn
ed that the timep;ecc belonged TO Mr.. r. q.
Wagner, of Washington, and restored it To
him.
There was but one case before the Police
Cont this morning, that Of Joseph Jones,
who had been arrested on suspicion Of stealing
a watch from w. ;. Weaver. The case was
continued.
The Columbia Fire Company held meet
ing last night. The committee appointed to
secure rates for the trip to Portsmouth, and to
procure badges, &c, for the occasion, made
their report.
4 report which has been in circulation in
this city for the past day or two to the effect
that Captain Fountain Beattie had been shot
while making a raid on some illicit distiliers
is believed to have no foundation.
Two young men ofthis city report that at
about midnight on Tuesday night, while on
their way up the river on sand sce", anu
while off Collingwood. they saw an immense
bali of fire moving along the river shore. No
explanation is given of the phenomenon
Workmen began this morning on the de-
struction Of the old pOwer-hOuse chimney on
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. Cavities
will first be made in the masonry at the base
of the stack for the reception of dynamite.
The explosion will be fired by means OF elec'
tricty.
The steam launch Augusta, belonging 70
Capt. August Gaines, while coming up the
river Sunday night cracked the cfosshead on
her engine and is now AT MOore's marine
/ shop to have the broken part replaced. The
| launch Leila is also at Moore's shop, and will
/ be given thorough oyerhauling.
Funeral services over the remains Of the
! late John II. Kleindienst. who died in Wash
| ington Tue day night, will be held Friday
morning Interment will be at Bethel Gem
etery. in this city. The deceased is survived
bv widow and eight children, one of whom
is a member of the Washington Police Force
The name of the schooner james Boyce
IT,. has been changed to lsleboro by regues
to the commissioner Of navigation by Field
;. Pendleton, the owner. The BOyce wa
named after Baltimore coal merchant anC
was built on the ground now owned by tn
Gage Manufacturing Company at the foot
Wilkes street,
About twenty thousand watermelons reach
ed Washington yesterday. The bulk of tn
fruit is from North Carolina aud Virginia
Next week. when the season opens, grea
quantities will be TRANSPORTED from the Easter
Shore. Maryland TIE melons are selling
from 10 TO 80 cents retail, while by the end o
next week the hucksters will be glad to sci
them anywhere from cents up.