Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-17

mr.. james Is. Pace ana VIE are stiii
absent from the city.
Captain 0. A. Browne, Of Accomack
county, is at Ford's.
Mrs. Senator Meredith, of Prince
William, is at Ford's.
The planing-mills have done little or
no work since Christmas.
Miss Eva Baker, Of Roswell, Ga, is
at DIR. Reds, 200 east Grace street.
Miss Mamie Forbes, Of Fredericks-
burg, will DO here this week on q visit.
Clay-Street Methodist Episcopal
church is to be renovated and painted.
Mr.. Herbert Jatimer, q capitalist Of
Wilmington, N. G., is on a visit to the
city.
Miss Fitzhugh, Of fredericksburg,
has been on visit to her friend, Miss
Camp.
Colonel Llewellyn Hoxton, of the
Episcopal High School, was in the city
last week.
Miss Carrie Gamble, Of st. Louis, is
the guest Of her cousin, Mrs. Minor, on
Tenth street.
The Governor attended DR.. Milburn's
lecture at Clay-Street Methodist church
Friday night.
Miss Hulda Staples, Of Patrick coun-
ty, sister of Senator Staples, is at
Ford's Hotel.
The brick-makers held q meeting
Friday with view Of systematizing
their business.
Peyton S. Coles, Jr., Of Albemarle
county, passed through the city Friday
from Westover.
Miss Ellen Crutchfeld, of Fredericks-
burg, is the guest of her uncle, Colonel
Richard l.. Maury.
Marshall Smith and Marshall Page,
Of Baltimore, were in the city last Tues
day visiting friends.
Hon. ii. G. Allen, Of Shenandoah,
and Hon. Eppa Hunton, of Warrenton,
are at the Exchange.
Rev. A. G. Brown, former pastor,
will preach at Clay-Street Methodist
church this morning.
Mitchell F. Allen, one Of the most
prosperous farmers in New Kent, was
in the city yesterday.
One of our most charming debutanteS
is Miss Nellie Rice, a granddaughter
of Colonel Sherwin McRae.
A six.foot paling fence will soon be
put around the east, west, and south
sides of Marshall reservoir.
There were several northern bidders
above our Richmond builders in their
estimates on the Union depot.
A Richmond mechanic has a very
readable article in the Labor Herald
on the colonization Of conyicts.
Mr.. II. W. Fuller, general passenger
agent Of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, left for St. Louis yesterday even
ing.
Park-Place church will probably be
ready for occupancy by the time of the
assembling of the General Conference
in May.
Applicants for positions on the GUS
tom-house building are numerous. The
superintendent, draughtsman, and clerk
are already on duty.
The handsome residence Of j. P.
Yancey, ESQ.,, northeast corner of Main
and Foushee streets, is now completed
and occupied by him.
Among the most graceful skaters on
the Reservoir last week were Wynd-
ham R. Meredith, Odin g. Clay, Frank
ID. Williams, and j. r. Tucker, Jr.
Rev. Garabeel Nsrgaraian, a Turlioh
minister from Nicomedia, Asia, is here,
and will deliver lectures in Turkish
costumes at several Of our churches.
Miss Emma Freeman, of Providence,
R. l., and Miss Lucy Colburn, of Bos-
ton, Mass, are guests of Mrs. W. IL.
Weisiger, No. 1907 west Main street.
Miss Boykin, daughter Of F. NJ. Boy
kin, Franklin street, will entertain her
lady friends next Friday evening from
2 to S O'Clock P. M. Invitations are
out.
Miss Ellie Peticolas, daughter Of Pro-
lessor Peticolas, of this city, who has
been residing in Halifax for the last
eighteen months, has returned to her
home in Richmond.
Mr.. j. ID. X. Sleight will conduct the
meeting at the rooms of the Young
Mems Christian Association this after
noon at 3:l5, and deliver an address on
Religion and Business"
| The funeral of Mrs. Talley, mother
of Mr.. G. T. Talley, of Hanover coun-
ty, will take place at Gethsemane
church at o'clock to-day. Mrs. Tai
ley was in her eighty-third year.
Mr.. p. f. Trower and bride, Of North
ampton, are the guests of Mrs. McKoy,
west Main street. They were married
January 18th, at the residence of Mrs.
Holland, the mother Of the bride.
Rev. S. Taylor Martin has recently
supplied the pulpit Of the First Presby-
teIian upon several occasions, with great
acceptance to the congregation. He
breaches there to-day at ii A. NJ. and
SP. NJ.
j. S. Barbour Thompson, Of Alex.
andiia, and who is connected with the
Midland road, was in the city yester.
day and called on Governor Lee. Mr..
Thompson is the nephew of Hon. John
S. Barbour.
While the time allowed by law in
which partridges maybe shot has ex-
PRED, the season for robin-hunting APP
proaches. Robins have already made
their appearance in small numbers
around the city.
Miss Lizzie Strother will be married
on the 10Th instant at st. James church
to Mr.. W. A. Freeman, who is con-