Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-24
rup RICHMOND DIsPATCH-sUNDAY. JANUARY "a. 1885,


Of February.
Miss Ellie Humphrey, of Ashland,
who has been visiting Mrs. Page, has
returned home.
Miss Carrie Lee Butler, Of this city,
is the guest Of Miss Annie Scott, OF
Fredericksburg.
Mrs. Henry s. Trout, OF Roanoke
city, will be in the city this week, and
will stop at Ford's.
Miss Mount Buerthe, who has been
visiting Miss Lathrop, will return to
Charlottesville Tuesday.
Miss Alice Thurman, daughter OF
Senator Thurman, is visiting Miss Annie
Williams, 205 east Main street.
One Of Georgia's bellies, Miss Emma
Hughes, of Columbus, is visiting Mrs.
George s. Vashon, Jr., SIC north Fifth
street.
Miss Ella boswell, of " Bullfeld."
is stopping with her aunt, Mrs. Will
liam Sutton, at the Arlington, for a
few days.
Miss Lena Terrell, Of Danyille, the
guest of Miss Carrie II. Pace, 100 west
Franklin. will remain in the city during
the winter.
Miss Helen Pace, of Anne Arundel
county. Md. who spent the holiday
with relatives in this city, left for home
last Tuesday.
DR.. James G. Watson has been APP
pointed by the Governor surgeon for
the penitentiary. lie is a good man and
good doctor. .
Mr.. +. c. Crump is to be foreman o.
the Wing. lie has been livingin Wash
ington for some years, but never lost
his citizenship in or affection for Rich
mond.
Mrs. John S. Wise, Miss Page Aylett,
Miss Josephine Coleman, and Miss
Burwell, Of this city, represented Rich
mond at the charity ball last Tuesday
in New York.
Mr.. Is. A. Nance, a prominent citi-
zen Of Charles City county, father Of
/. NJ. Nance, member of the House of
Delegates, suffered a stroke Of paraly
sis last week.
Peyton 5. Coles, Of Albemarle, was
in the city yesterday. lie came from
Portsmouth, ria the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, where he had been on
important Masonic business.
Mr.. S. S. Elan has been appointed
chief clerk of the accounting depart
ment of the Chesapeake and Ohio, Eliza
BEETHOVEN, Lexington and Big Sandy,
and Kentucky Central railroads.
The pleasures Of the peculiar chase
that reioices the heart Of the colOred
brother are not confined to the country.
The engineer at the Dispatch office
caught 'pOssum in the Capitol Square
yesterday.
Rev. DR.. Louis Iarfeld, of New
York city, will deliver lecture at the
Mayo-Street Synagogue this Sunday
afternoon at half-past three o'clock
subject, " Resurrection ; or, Restoration
to Life" The public are invited to be
present.
Charles W. Allen, Esq, well-known
builder and good Democrat, has been
appointed foreman of the custOm-house
enlargement. Mr.. 7. II. Powell is the
superintendent in charge and Mr.. Writ
Chesterman assistant superintendent Of
the work.
Rev. William Hague, u. d., one Of
the most eminent preachers Of Boston.
Mass, has Just left Richmond. He
went to hear John Jasper last Sunday,
and pronounced him Z" an orator Of
great ability" DR.. Hague thinks
some of Johns " flights " could not be
/ excelled.
Miss Julia WaldrOn, Of New York,
is the guest of Mrs. Henry L. Farmer,
lO4 north Fifth street. She will take
the principal soprano part in the opera
4" Robin Hood" which will be pro-
duced February Sth at Mozart Acade-
my under the auspices of the Mozart
/ Association.
DR.. John L. Buchanan will leave the
city Monday to attend the marriage of
his eldest daughter, Miss Maggie Lee
Buchanan, to Mr.. Charles NJ. Yates, of
the United States Geological Survey.
Mr.. Yates is of Washington, Miss
Buchanan of Abingdon, Va. They
will be married on the 9th.
The Norfolk Landmark says: " The
case Of W. d. c. Marrow, a young
white man from Richmond, charged
with giving a bogus draft to Messrs. r..
b. Brown a Co.. proprietOrs Of the
Purcell House, for $50. has been settled,
and the young man was released from
prison yesterday morning."
There was a meeting Of young men
held on last Thursday evening, and, in
view Of the hard times and bad wea-
ther, it was resolved to boycott hack
men for the present. A motion was
unanimously adopted that every men,
Der should provide himself with gum
shoes, large umbrella, andice-clamps.
Mr.. W. II. Graham, formerly of the
general managers Office of the Chcsa-
peake and Ohio railway, is in city in
connection with the meeting of the
Board of Visitors of the Blacksburg
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
MIR. Graham was elected to the position
of general boOkkeeper and Chair OF
Commercial Science.
Rev. +. l.. MagOon, d. d., of Phila-
delphia, proposes to spend week in
this city with his old friends, arriving
here Friday, February 9Th. lie was
pastor Of the Second Baptist church
from September, 1889, to July, 1916,
and under his ministry the house OF
worship now occupied by that church
was erected and its membership was
largely increased.
Miss Jennie McPhail has this winter
visited in New York her cousin, Mrs.
John Lee Logan, who is daughter OF
Hon. j. Randolph Tucker. After