Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-06-19
Personals and Brtefs.
No Hastings Court yesterday.

No Hastings Court yesterday.
The subscription Of stock to the
oad-Street Bank has been increased
to GAL ,000.
The colored voters Of Madison Ward
will hold meeting at Hams Hall on
Monday night at 8 o'clock.
The next caucus Of the Reformers
will be held on Tuesday night, when .
number of nominations will be made.
On the City.Hall lot this afternoon
two colored paper balloons, one seven
and the other fifteen feet high, will be
sent up by Mr. d. W. DeSylyia for the
amusement of children.
Rev. F. Willebald Baumgartner, o.
S. B., is expected home to-day from
Hampton, where be has been attending
to the spiritual wants of the old Ger
man soldiers in that place.
Cary street from Seventh to Ninth is
being paved with granite spalls, and 10
all that neighborhood, owing to the
building of the Union passenger depot,
property is looking up"
Rev. Henry Schell Lobingier, pastor
Of the Seventh Street Christian church,
left the city with his family on Fridays
northern train expecting 10 spend the
next three months recruiting in the
Catskill mountains.
Chief of.Police Lipscomb, Of Man.
chester, lost his infant daughter Bessie
wray. yesterday, aged 5 months and
3 weeks. This popular gentleman and
faithful officer has the sympathy OF
many friends in his bereavement.
The work on the Union depot is
steadily progressing. The building
will be a very handsome one indeed.
Already several officers Of the compa-
nies have been given temporary quar-
ters in an annex which runs out along
the west line Of the shed.
The art and museum hall Just com.
pleted at Richmond College in honor oi
the late James Thomas, Jr., is now
open TO the public. 1t is one Of the
most spacious and beautiful halls IN
this country, and will well repay in
spection by the lovers of art.
The Outing Club Of the Young
Mems Christian Association, of whict
Mr.. Charles NJ. Wallace, q member o
the Virginia Boat Club, is leader, vii
row down to Powhatan's seat thl
afternoon, and after visiting the point
of interest will row back, arriving q
Msyo's island at $40 o'clock.
Right Rev. r. Japssens, Bishop c
Natchez, will arrive in this city o
Thursday next en- route to Baltimore
assist at the ceremony Of conferring th
cardlnalate upon Archbishop Gibbons
which will take place on June 30tt
He will remain here until after Sunds,
the 9th instant, on which day lie wi
preach at the Cathedral.
, A large force Of conyicts have 70
three weeks past been engaged i
making an excavation on the peniten
tiary grounds TO reach culvert tha
has cayed in. They have now reache
the culyert, and sscertained that it wa
crushed in from the sop by the i'm
mense weight Of earth put on 1t,
having been laid where great 3" I'LL
was made last year.
Hon. George d. Wise, writing to hi
brother here and referring to the n
cent reception at the White House
saws: 81 attended the reception. es
corting Miss C, very pretty an
stylish girl. Mrs. Cleveland is beal
tiful woman. | would have selecte
her as the prettiest woman in th
White House on the night of the receI
tion. She has agreeable manners, an
bears herself with decorum and dil
nity."
Mr.. II. W. Fuller, general passeng'
agent Of the Chesapeake and Ohio raj
way, has been appointed in additic
general passenger agent Of the Ches
= peake, Ohio and Southwestern, rul
ming from Louisville to Memphis, al
= it is understood that be will remove
Louisville in the early fall, so as to |
near the centre Of the line betwe'
Newport's News and Memphis.
branch general passenger Office will st
be kept up in this city.