Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-14
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Mr.. Edwin Bourne continues quite
sick.
The cheap-rate tickets on the street
railway have met with rapid sale.
Miss Annie Bruce is staying at pres
ent with Mr.. Seldom Bruce, Of west
Franklin street.
Judge F. r. Farrar, OF Amelia, and
two daughters, we're on the floor Of The
Senate yesterday.
Miss Susie West, OF Louisa county,
Va, is visiting Mrs. NJ. A. Allen, No.
GOA east Main street.
The liquor-dealers are perfecting their
organization so as to be ready when the
local.option fight begins.
The Governor has approved the bill
appropriating sl35,000 for the South
western Lunatic Asylum.
Mr.. James d. Patton, who has been
in New York for several days, returned
to the city day before yesterday.
Colonel A. s. Buford entertained
some members Of the General Assem-
bly, and other friends Friday night.
Leo Cammsn, ESQ.,, who writes for
the Chicago tribune under the nom de
plume Of :. Bismarck" is at the Ex-
change.
Miss ellis. from near Prospect De-
pot. Prince Edward county, is visiting
the Misses Morris at the GressRH = 10 Il o. use,
in this city. ~
Alexander WsrKer. ESQ. and daugh-
ter, Mrs. ERgfa W. Gordon, have gone
sour 70 spend two months amid the
alligators, oranges, and mosquitoes.
No further action will be taken in
the House on the railroad commissions
ers' bill until it is ascertained that it
can probably command fifty-one votes
to pass it.
The telephones to the Governors
Mansion and Capital building provided
for under a recent resolution of the
General Assembly were put into opera
ton yesterday.
Judge W. Il. Barksdale, Of Halifax,
is in the city. He says that the pro-
posed railroads are Frightening the
faces Of his people, and South Boston
is " looking up"
Yesterday being the day that General
Hancock was buried, Governor Lee in
structed Mr.. Wingfeld, Superintendent
ofPublic Grounds and Buildings. to have
the flags over the Capitol placed at
half-mast.
The bill rearranging the judicial cir
cults passed the House just as it came
from the Senate. The Eastern-Shore
circuit is attached to the peninsula
counties. and new circuit is made in
the Southwest.
Electric lights have been put up in
the following places: vt the stores Of
Messrs. George SchWn, II. Swarzschild,
Bendheim & Brother, and John Muir
ply. Also at Ford's Hotel and the
Academy Of Music.
From the discussion in the Senate
yesterday it looks as if the bill of Gene
raj Wickham, asking an appropriation
of five thousand dollars annually for
two years to the State Agricultural So
ciety, will be defeated.
Miss Hargous, Of New York, one of
the favorites of the Hygeia last winter,
passed through the city last week on
her way to Florida. A number Of
lady and gentleman friends were at
the Byrd.Sueet depot to see her.
Professor Harper, the great Hebrew
scholar, will hold his Hebrew school
for the next sHmmer session at the
University Of Virginia, and has en-
gagged Professor Sampey, Of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, to
assist him.
The bill providing that penitentiary
convicts shall be kept at "the hardest
labor suitable to their age and fitness"
which had been introduced in the
House by Mr.. Carter, Of Richmond, was
yesterday reported by the Committee
on Asylums and Prisons.
Among the bills reported in the
House yesterday was Mr.. Buchanan'S
making it misdemeanor for members
of the General Assembly, judges, or
other State officials to receive free
passes over railroad or steamboat lines,
or for a railroad or steamboat company
to issue free passes to such persons.
The chairman Of the House Finance
Committee proposes to cut the Gov
ernor's military contingent fund down
from $4,000 to $500. AS this is the
only fund that the Governor has to en-
force a military order, where expenses
have to be paid, it will leave him prac-
tically helpless where the military is
concerned.
Dove Lodge, No. 81, A. F. and A.
NJ, one Of the most fiourishing Masonic
lodges in the State, met at St. Adams
Hall on Friday night and conferred the
E. A. degree upon three prominent
citizens. The Grand Lecturer of the
State, Right Worshipful Peyton 5.
Coles, was present, and took part in
the exercises.
A distinguished member of the Coun-
Gil, who was recently absent ION ac-
count Of indisposition - when matter
of some importance to ali the officers
and employees of the city was up, had
anxious telephone inquiries the next
day to the number Of several hundred.
They were generally, Hello : How
are you to-day"
In order to guard against delay
in the building Of the new City Hall,
the Committee on Grounds and Build
ings last week requested Colonel Cut
shaw and Major Z. I. d. Myers, two
Of the experts employed, to go to
Boston to see that the final specifca-
tons and drawings are in accordance
with the plan agreed upon. This will
save much trouble and probable delay.
During the last six or eight weeks