Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-31
STATE AT LARGE.
NOTES rRox cHARrorrEsvILLE AND
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
Something About an Authoress-rne
Fruit. and wine-Men Stirred UP
The Moody Meetings.

,corrssnonoeuoe Oft Richmond Dispatch.]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, March 30, 'S6.
Several brief paragraphs have APP
peared in northern papers in regard to
the author of the leading article in the
Atlantic for March, the writer's OF
which seem unacquainted with their
subject. IL what everybody says Is
true the credit for the more than clever
short story Brother to Dragons is
due 10 Miss Amelie Louise Riyes, the
eldest daughter Of Colonel Alfred
Riyes. Her mother was Miss Sadie
Macmurdo, famous for her beauty and
splendid voice. She is granddaughter
Of the late William G. Rives, at one
time the representative Of this Gov
eminent at the French court.
During bis residence in Paris
he enjoyed the high esteem Of
the royal family, and when child
was born to him the Queen Of France,
wife of Louis Philippe d'Orleans, stood
godmother and gave her own name to
the child" Amelie Louise" This
godchild of the Queen Of France was
married to Henry Sigourney, with
when and her children Excepting one,
then a student at Harvard,) she persisted
ia 1873 in the Inflated French steamer
the Vile du Hayre. Colonel Alfred
Rives, the brother Of Mrs. Sigourney,
who, through his fathers position and
great influence, enjoyed the extraordi-
nary privilege Of being admitted as a
pupil to the "Ecole des Points ct
Chaussees," to which no foreigner had
ever been admitted before, to show his
appreciation Of the favor, called his
oldest child also {" Amelie Louise"
Perhaps no other county in the State
is as much stirred up on the question of
license or no license as this. 1t is the
theme of conversation everywhere, and
the fixing of the day for the taking Of
the vote but intensifes the interest.
The grape interests claim that it is 8
death blow the wine-makers declare
that it will annihilate their industries,
and argumentative responses are made.
The argument that the grape interest
will be injured is the most weighty yet
brought forward. Two hundred thou
sand pounds ofgrspes-probably more
are sold to wine-makers here each
season. "We cannot afford to lose that
item," say the fruit-men. The tenn
perance people here are not so unrea-
sonable, it is thought, as to demand ex-
termination Of the traffic in native pure
wines. The great purpose they profess
to have in view is the closing OF the
LIQUOR. saloons on the streets. They are
not laboring to procure a sumptuary
law, they say, but to prevent the Ii
censing of an unmitigated and acknow-
ledged evil.
The next lecture before the Young
MEMS Christian Association at the Uni
versity of Virginia will be by Professor
Holmes upon 1.-The Closing Century"
Thus far lectures in this popular course
have been delivered by Professor Noah
X. Davis, DR.. Mallet, DR.. Schele de We're,
DIR. Taylor, and Professor Thornton.
Preparations for the Moody meetings
at the University are making, and no.
thing will be omitted that would in
crease the interest or add to the chances
of success. The town choirs will unite
and form large choir to be led by Mr..
Sankey. The local committees had ar
ranged q very elaborate programme,
including preaching at most Of the
white churches and at one of the COL
ored churches, but this arrangement
was without authority, and the services
will be confined to the University.
Thieves are breaking through AID
stealing hereabouts with great persist
ence. One gentleman has been so I'M
fortunate as to have his Sunday dinner
stolen from his larder twice in success
sion. QUIP.