Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-24

Briefs end Personals
Mr.. r. NJ. Kent, of Louisa county.
occupied a seat on the Senate floor yes
terdsy ss the guest of Senator Bibb..
Judge John B. Horsley, OF Nelson
county, and Judge William McLaugh-
lin, Of Rockbridge county. are in the
city.
Ellis Snead, Of Amherst county, was
received at the penitentisry yesterday
20 serve a term Of three years for
housebreakiDg.
Governor Lee and wife, Mrs. Caskie
Cabell, Miss Mason. Mrs. Meredith,
Miss Ball Of Fauquier, Miss Annie
Minor, Rev. Frank Stringfellow, and
Colonel James Waller were on the
floor OF the House yesterday.
The House Finance Committee yes
terdsy reported bill giving the Gen.
tral Lunatic Asylum s2S, 200 to CON-
plete the buildings, &C., and 100000
for the support fund-the latter being
an increase Of 10000 on the annual
appropriation.
The present session Of the General
Assembly will probably be extended
for a week or ten days. Members will
get no extra pay. They are allowed
$500 for the session, no matter whether
1t covers thirty, ninety, or one hundred
and twenty days.
The people Of Hanover have three
times voted on the question OF re.
moving the courthouse to Ashland,
and the bill which passed the House
yesterday proposes to give them an
other opportunity Of expressing their
views on the subject.
A meeting Of the corporators Of the
Richmond, Petersburg and Manchester
Railroad Company was held Monday
night at Fords Hotel. Mr.. Charles P.
Stokes was elected president and Mr..
Robert McCandliSh. Of Petersburg, Sec
retary. After some other business the
meeting adjourned to March lst, st 1
O'Clock P. NJ, at the same place.
To be thoroughly effective and to
cause the Legislature to give the Arbi-
tration Law asked the Knights of La
Dor and The Typographical Union must
ratify the action of their committee
men as the businessmen did as to
theirs at the Sanger Hall meeting night
before last. 1t is probable that the
Knights will hold a mass meeting be-
fore long.
A committee consisting Of several
prominent citizens Of Petersburg came
TO Richmond yesterday evening to try
and get Mr.. Gaines's resolution provid-
ing for the appointment of a committee
to investigate the charges against the
Virginia and Carolina Railroad Company
passed by the Senate. Mr.. Gaines will
likely urge the adoption Of his resolu-
tion this morning.
DR.. Charles X. Gardner, a we'll
known young physician Of this city,
was yesterday morning united in mar
risge to Miss Jennie Minor, a talented
and accomplished young lady OF this
city. The services were conducted by
Rev. DR.. George Cooper at the First
Baptist church. The happy couple left
Immediately thereafter by the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
railroad for New York.
The conyict-labor bill having passed
the House, now goes to the Senate,
where it will probably meet with favor.
If the State is at liberty to take $50
convicts from Joseph Davis & Co., $50
from the South Atlantic and Ohio rail-
road. these, with the idle able-bodied
men in the penitentiary, will make a
total number of from 375 TO 400 men to
be disposed of to counties and to local
railroads in which counties are inter
eSted.
The 0dd.Fellows' Temple Associa-
tion, recently chartered by the Legisla-
ture, has organized with the following
officers W. c. Darlington, president !;
Arthur A. SpItzer, secretary; Louis
Aubel, treasurer: NJ. L. Spotswood,
attorney; DR.. II. c. Tabb, W. E.
Pearce, L. A. Tucker, 7. y. Kendler,
S. Proskauer, ". J. Epps, John c.
Teller, II. A. Catlin, George b. Davis,
{. Bergheimer. j. W. White, trustees.
The Association proposes to build a
handsome temple for the order in this
city.
At a meeting OF delegates Of the
various Irish societies Of this city held
at Cathedral Hall it was decided that
all of the Irish societies of the city
should meet at that place on the morn
ing Of March 18th (St. Patrick's S
Day, form in a procession, and march
to the Cathedral, where services will be
held. Committees were appointed to
wait on Bishop Keane and inform him
of this action, and to cooperate with
the committee Of the Catholic Benef-
cial Society to arrange for banquet
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