The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-05
BREvITIES.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, MINOR TOP
les, AND SMALL MATTERS.
The News ofthe Day Boiled Do
and Served Up in Con
densed Shape.

Mr.. Camm Patteson, of Buckingham,
is in the city.
The Arion Society meets at wilkinson
Hall tonight at o'clock.
Only one train to West Point now 1t
leaves at $3.50 =. NJ arrives at Richmond
at 800 A. Nj.
The guttering and sidewalk at the cor
ner of Twenty-second and Grace streets
is in a bad condition.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
ington Yesterday to Russell Vashon and
Miss Marie Hanna, both of Richmond.
The electric light was lit up last night
at 1920 and extinguished at 5:45 this
morning. Tonight it will be lit up at
1870.
James r. Tyler, of Virginia, a grandson
of President Tyler, was yesterday APP
pointed Waterman in the Interior De
partment.
The funeral Of Mr.. William H. Suther-
land from the Second Baptist church yes
terday was one Of the largest ever held
from that church.
Now that all the adjoining streets are
closed up, it will be good time to push
the project for bridge at the foot OF
Sixth and Byrd streets.
Miss Winnie Davis, who has spent the
latter part of her Richmond visit as the
guest of General and Mrs. Joseph r. An
derson, leaves to-day for New York.
The contract to furnish iron beams for
the first floor of the courthouse at Rich
mond, has been awarded to Carnegie
Brothers e Co. at their bid of $69S.13.
Mr.. James Hardie will appear in Rich
mond in his play, " A Brave Woman
He is one of the favOrites of the American
stage, and can make any play interesting.
Ryefield, near Vinita station, GOochland
county, has been purchased by a party OF
capitalists. They propose to erect hotel,
mill, and otherwise improve the property
and vicinity.
Isaac overly, boy about ten years
Old was badly cut at the Richmond bag
factory Wednesday. DR.. Claude Elsom
was summoned and rendered the neces-
sary surgical aid.
Colonel Catlett Gibson, district attOr
ney, and Mr.. James Lyons, assistant dis
trict attorney, have gone to Norfolk to be
present at the trial of the Messrs Balm in
the Norfolk Exchange Bank case.
There will be very interesting services
at the Salvation Army tent tonight and
tomorrow night. A silver collection will
be taken up to assist in procuring hall
and fuel for the winter campaign.
A number of Richmond relatives at
tended the marriage of Mr.. George I. VI.
Gibson and Miss Eugenia McGill at
Gainesville, Md, Wednesday. Rev. DIR.
Gibson, of Petersburg, assisted in the
ceremony.
Mr.. Baylor Thornton, formerly of this
city, won a very high reputation as an en-
gineer in the Baltimore and Ohio eastern
extension, and he has now eXcepteda. finer
position on the bridge across the Missouri
river at Kansas City.
The fair for the benefit of the Little
Sisters Of the Poor grows in attractive
ness 1t will be continued all this and
next week. Go up and help the ladies
and vote for some of the many articles to
be disposed of to the most popular candi-
date.
To-day is known in English history as
GUY Fawkes' Day in commemOration of
the discovery of the celebrated gun-pow-
der plot 1t is also a great event in Lon
don, as it is Lord Mayors Day and is the
one on which the new Lord Mayor for
the ensuing year is indicted into office.
In Washington Thomas Kessip, a school
teacher, sixty-seven years Of age said to
be from Richmond, while getting off a
street car yesterday morning at the cor
ner of Thirty and NJ streets, fell in
such position that the car wheel barely
escaped passing over his body. He was
slightly hurt and was removed to the
station.
A pound party lasting from 10 A. NJ.
until 10 p. NJ. on Monday next
will be held at the Presbyterian and
Methodist Home on Seventh street, be-
tween Clay and Leigh. The ladies in
charge of this beautiful Home for Aged
Ladies will expect every member of the
two large denominations represented and
their friends to show themselves at the
Home next Monday with some offering,
however small, to this noble charity.