Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-17
LITTLE LOCALS
xEVsY BRlEFss PERSONALS


Mozart Academy is badly lightet
under tho galleries.
Mr.. Bernard Peyton has gone 4
Baltimore on business.
John II. Tyler 4 Co., jewellers, hav,
removed to PAGES Block.
Miss Lizzie Hunt, Of North Carolina
is visiting Mrs. Morris T. Smith.
Miss Annie T. Powers, Of this city
Is visiting friends In Smith6eld, Va.
DR.. Hoge will have large congre'
CATION ct 0ld-Market Hall tonight.
Miss Mamie Hill, Of Scottsville, is
the guest of Professor Winston, sis
Clay street.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Booker, Jr., wife Of a
prominent tobscconist of Lynchburg,
is in the city.
Miss Freeman, Of Macon, Ga, is the
guest of Mrs. General Moore, $50 west
Grace street.
p. d. Sublett, ESQ.,, a prominent
commission merchant Of Staunton, was
in town Friday.
The Board of Directors Of the Peni-
tertiary will meet on Tuesday Of each
week at p. M.
Mrs. A. T. Robertson, OF Staunton,
Va. is visiting her sister, Mrs. DR..
Hunter Mcclure.
Miss Miller, Of Danville, is in the
city. the guest Of the Misses Beyili, Ala
west Grace street.
The Richmond and Danyille railroad
shops are working full complement Of
hands on full time.
Miss Lucy B. Lyon, who has been
visiting her friends in Page county, has
returned to her home.
Miss Richardson, who has been visit
ing at DR.. Tabb's, has returned to her
home, in New Orleans.
Mr.. j. Royal McMurran, Of st. Paul,
Mimi, was in the city last week, and
has now gone to Florida.
Miss TAYLOR, of Richmond county, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Bey. T. Crump,
Broad and Twelfth streets.
DIR. j. William Jones is to preach at
Colosse. in King William, this morning
and at West Point tonight.
Miss Peachy Powers will be married
on the Goth instant to Mr.. Samuel Mar
tin, of Powers, Taylor & Co.
Mrs. General W. II. F. Lee is stay
ing with her cousin, Mrs. Benjamin Ii.
Nash, l3 east Franklin street.
Miss Ellen Coggill, Of Morristown,
N. j., is visiting Misses Sallie and
Agnes Mayo, Franklin street.
Mr.. William Writ Henry, Of this
city. is preparing Life of Patrick
Henry, who was his grandfather.
Large shipments Of mules are made
over the Richmond and Petersburg rail-
road to the North Carolina market.
The revisers of the Code are asking
the Legislature to give them q clerk,
and the Senate has passed such bill.
Disorders usually follow very cold
weather. A peculiar sorc-throat all
nent was left in the wake Of the cold
wave.
Mr.. John Jackson, prominent law
yer of Lunenburg county, Va, has
come to Richmond to practice his pro-
fession.
Miss Virginia Warren, Of Bacon's
Castle, Surry county, will be married
to Mr.. Wilson, of the same county, on
the Goth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Mines, Jr.,
of Page county, are here for short
visit, and are at the house Of Mr.. John
c. Shafer.
Miss Z. f. Marks, a charming bru-
nette, will be married next Tuesday at
DIR. Hoee's church to Mr.. Vandeventer,
Of Cardozo's.
Miss Helen A. Dickinson, Of Range
mont" Albemarle, is the guest OF hel
cousin, Miss Anna Grace Lyon, Al.
west Grace street.
The Council committee is issuing
wood to the poor, but it is not a tire
mendous charity after all, as the re
cipients have to haul it home.
Richmond is IN sore need of larg'
and well-organized STRENGTHENING force
We now have to depend chiefly upoI
convict labor--the chain-gang.
Carpenters and bricklsyers are tn
Municipal sufferers by the cold snap
Hsrdly a days work has been done b.
the bricklayers since Christmas.
The meetings at the First Baptis
church, under conduct Of the paste
Dr. Cooper have been very interest
ing and will be continued this week.
This is the season when the man VIII
is his own tonsoIial artist puts off hi
shaving until the last moment, and thel
decides not to do IT until the next time
City elections are much talked about
and candidates are bestirring them
selves. Much coquetry and swee
talk are lavished on the working
man."
Mr.. Tazewell Darlington, one o
Richmond's most promising young mel
in the tobacco trade, will be marrie'
on the 2ist to Miss Watkins, Of Halifal
county.
Mr.. John r. Anderson, Of Rich
mond, has left for Vicksburg, Miss, Il
accept position as stenographer to th'
yicksburg, Meridian and Pacific Rail
way Company.
A hotel bartender complains that tn
average legislator spends his per diem
in some unexplained way, and does no
put il in the old channel, ''where it wa
likely to do some good"
Builders are brscing themselves "
1t the thought Of the erection ola YoupI
Mems Christian Association library, 1
State library. union depot, and Peters
burg freieht-depot building.