Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-04
Personals and Briers.

privates.
Personals and Briefs
George +. Bowden, Esq, has returned
from visit TO Baltimore.
Miss Bessie Deuoon is very sick at her
home on west Main street.
Bat-shooting in the West End is be-
coming q very popular sport.
Mr.. A. +. Noel has returned to the
city much improved in health.
Rev. J. b. Hutson, pastor Of the Pine
Street Baptist church, has returned to
the city.
Colonel Eccles Cuthbert, OF the New
York Heraid, left for the White Sulphur
Sunday night.
DIR. G.. Smith has returned to the city
after two weeks visit TO friends and rela-
tives in Spotsylvania county.
Miss Fannie c. Cross has returned to
the city after visit OF SIX weeks to
friends in COvingtoh, KY.
Misses Emma and Emile Schneeloch,
who sang at the Mozart last night, are
the guests Of Mr.. Louis Euker.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
ington yesterday TO MIR. Antonio Ietelle,
Of Richmond, Va, and Mamie b. Har-
rison.
Mr.. Abe Nelson, Of Baltimore, former
ly of Richmond, is in the city, having
been called here by the death OF his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Harry Schwarz-
child.
Hon. Lyon g. Tyler, president of
William and Mary College. left yester
day morning on a trip to the eastern
counties Of the State in the interest Of
the institution.
Mr.. Henry Berger, one of the lessees
and managers of the Mozart Academy,
and family have arrived in the city from
New York, and will make Richmond
their future home.
Mayor Ellyson yesterday swore in
Captain Wesley n. Smith as n special
officer at Hollywood, with jurisdiction
extending for a quarter Of mile in each
direction beyond the cemetery.
The Swedish bark Yendandi, Captain
L. +. Hagberg, 307 tons burden, from
Rio de Janeiro. entered at the custom
house Yesterday to load flour for Brazil.
She will carry about 1900 barrels.
A recent issue of the Lafayette Ind.
COUyicr contains a very complimentary
notice of Mr.. J. NJ. Atkinson, formerly
OF Richmond, who is now superintendent
of the electric railway in that city.
Professor J. L. Hall, of the chair Of
English in William and Mary College.
has Just received from the publishers a
gift Of n copy of their last edition Of
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary for
the college library.
Mr.. i. II. Duesberry, purchasing
agent OF the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
and family are in the city, the guests Of
Mr.. J.. G. Walthal, Of 63i north
Seventh street. Mr.. Duesberry is "A
Richmond boy" and during the war was
a member of the Blues.
Architect B. J. Black is applying for
n patent for an electrical device in
vented by himself intended to propel
street and other cars by underground
wires. Mr.. Black is confident of the
successful operation of his system,
which he thinks will supplant the over
head wires now in use.
A little colored girl, Laura Washing
ton. was before the Police Court yester-
day morning charged with snatching
from Miss Mamie Hicks's hand her
pocket-book containing $40. Miss Hicks
could not positively identify the accused
and she was accordingly discharged.
Miss Hicks, who is employed at Allen Il
Ginter's, when walking home Saturday
afternoon. just after receiving her weeks
salary, had her pocket-book snatched out
of her hand.
Captain James VI. Whiticar, OF the
Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania, adjutant Of
the Philadelphia Brigade Association,
and Captain William S Stockton, of the
Seventy-frst veteran Pennsylvania regi-
ment, were in the city Sunday making
arrangements for the visit here on tho
occasion of the unyeiling of the Pickett
monument Of the Philadelphia Brigade
Association. They expect to bring
about one hundred and fifty members Of
the association and will be quartered at
the Exchange.
Rev. DR.. Robert Ryland, after spend
ing the summer here ministering to the
wants OF the East End Baptist church
and other fields, left last night for his
home in Kentucky. DR.. Ryland was for
many years president of Richmond Col
lege and pastor of the old African
church and other churches in this city.
He has been for some years a resident of
Kentucky, and is the father of Rev. DR..
Charles II. Byland and Mr.. Josiah Ry-
land Sunday morning he preached to
a large congregation at Pine-Street Bap-
tist church.