Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-03-28

w. II. McCalley, Of Caroline county
was In the city last week.
No business was disposed OF in the
Hastings Court yesterday.
! Mr.. Robert f. Richardson, who has
been i'll for some weeks, is improving.
Mr.. II. II. George, Of Caroline coun-
ty, was in the city several days last
week.
Mr.. G. G. Sutton, popular young
merchant OF Goshen, Va, was here last
week.
Miss Harrison, of Alabama, is the
guest Of Mrs. j. II. Drake. No. lOll
east Clay street.
Mr.. Willie Roach returned to the
city Tuesday after an extensive tour
through the South.
Miss Bessie Williams, Of South Caro-
lima, is the guest of Mrs. Stephen Put
ney, No. 1912 east Marshall street.
Mr.. C. B. Miller will leave for Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, Monday, March
goth. lie intends making it his future
home.
The Misses Mayo and Mr.. Henry
Cabell left yesterday for Colonel
Thomas Carter's, in King William
county.
Mr.. Preston j. Davis, formerly of
this city. has accepted an engagement
with II. Cabell Maddox, Of the Orkney
Springs.
Miss Mary Evans, Of Amherst coun-
ty, is stopping with Mrs. Duval, Eighth
and Clay streets. She will be here I'M
til June.
Applications are being made daily to
Superintendent Thomas ii. Powell for
employment on the custom-house i'm
provements.
Query Why is the old dilapidated
brick house on the site of the Young
Mems Christian Association building
left standing?
Mrs. Ashton Starke, who has been
spending the winter in Macon, Ca,
visiting her parents, returned to the
city yesterday.
Miss Lou Roper and Miss Florence
Norman, Of Williamsburg, have re-
turned home after a pleasant visit to
| friends in this city.
The cigar and tobacco men are said
to be feeling the depression in the liquor
business caused by agitation of the To-
cal-option question.
A pretty sight to be seen in many
Yards is fruit trees of several varieties
in full blossom. The sunny South is
thus making itself felt.
A picturesque sight in Manchester
daily TO be seen in the upper part of it
is lock of fifty or more sheep, with
small lambs skipping about.
Messrs. Strause Brothers, who for
merly did business at l4l3 Main street,
will move into their new store, 1909
Main street, about April 5th.
Mr.. W. b. Bishop, who is well.known
to the springs people, is now at the Old
Sweet Springs, and will travel West in
the interest of said company.
Mrs. S. NJ. Chalkley left yesterday at
2P. NJ. for New York. She will sail
April LIST on the North German Line
steamer Ida direct for Bremen.
DR.. Isaiah II. White wishes it stated
that his duties as surgeon on the ma
rine hospital for this port will in nowise
conflict with his private practice.
Pocketbooks are now being depleted
at the rates Of 40 or so cents each for
spring chickens Of the size Of cock
partridge. "None but the wealthy can
Afford" &c.
Mrs. Writ A. Chesterman will 60 to
Stanton Monday to see her parents,
Colonel and Mrs. A. w. Hartman, who
will shortly leave for Cincinnati, their
future home.
Robert Edmond, son of W. S. Ed
mond, who has been a cripple for sew
eIal years from an affection Of his hip,
has so far recovered as to be able to
walk without crutches.
Z. c. Vincent, proprietor Of the
farm and ornamental fence, has not
moved from Stanton as proposed,
but has opened large branch factory
here on Franklin street.
Military men say if the Military
Board carry out their proposed pro-
gramme of encampment it will result
in the First regiments being increased to
its full complement of men.
The little park which is being made
Of the angle between Grove and Park
avenues and Beach street promises to
be very pretty and quite refreshing to
the neighbors and passers-by.
Mr.. j. NJ. Fourqurean, Of Fourqu-
rean, Price e Co., who has been in
New York for several days past, has
returned to the city, and reports that
the jobbing trade is very active.
Mrs. Lisberger, Of Danville, is in the
city en- route home after visit Of some
weeks South. Miss Guckenheimer, Of
Savannah, accompanies her, and will
remain in Danville short while.
There was a meeting last Tuesday at
DR.. j. V. Hobson's of the homeopathic
doctors for the purpose Of electing the
Examining Board. After the meeting
Mrs. Hobson set out an elegant lunch.
Mr.. T. Roberts Baker, president Of
the State Board Of Pharmacy, requests
that all druggists in the city who desire
to be registered, both employers and
clerks, will send him their addresses at
once.
This is the season when the ladies,
with dainty hands, HE themselves to
their front-yards and little plots Of
ground with old knives and forks to
prepare the ground las they think for
flowers.
"The turbulent workingman" has
found no Judgement in conservative old
Virginia, and Governor Fitz. Lee does
not expect to join the four other Gov
ernors in issuing " law-and-order pro-
clamation.
The judges of the United States Cir