Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-26
Personals and Briefs.

MIS-. w llllt Attn hoS iSe"AHO' AAON%
Savannah.
Miss Mollie H. Little is visiting rela-
tives in Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. Taylor Fisher has returned from
voyage to South America.
Miss Barksdale, of Danville. is visiting
Miss Elise Coke, 100 south Third.
What has become of the bill in the
Legislature to widen Bank street ?
Miss Mcintosh. of Maryland, is the
guest of Mrs. Joseph r. Anderson.
Governor Lee has gone TO Washing
ton to attend Mr.. Corcoran's funeral.
Miss Rose Gordon, of Baltimore. has
been visiting friends here during the
past week.
The Misses Stavro, of Atlantic City,
are visiting their sister, Mrs. Christian,
SIC north Ninth.
Miss Maggie Sheppard. of Fredericks-
burg, Is the guest of her cousin, Mrs.
Tabb, Franklin street
Miss Lille Staples, who has been
visiting Miss Minor, 3 west Grace, went
to Alexandria Thursday.
Miss Ellen Harris, Of Louisville, who
has been the guest of Miss Harris, her
aunt, returned home Wednesday.
Mrs. Massie, of South Boston, Former
" Miss Lulu Slower, of Richmond who
has been visiting friends in this city, re-
turned home last week.
Miss Kittie Cook, daughter of B. G.
Cook, ESQ, formerly of this city but
now of Attica, Kan, is visiting Miss
Laura Atkison, of west Marshall.
In the City circuit Court yesterday the
case of Garmoway's administrator as.
The Westham Granite Company was
called and continued until the next term.
The February No. of Captain Dick
Frayser's Mercantile and NGnufac-
turinq Journal is crowded with able arti-
Giles on the industries and progress of
Richmond.
Lenten services have been well attend
ed during the past week. The weather
has in the main been beautiful, and
mornings and afternoons the churches
have been crowded.
Mr.. J. d. X. Sleight will make adj
dresses to-day at the k-River church,
near Williamsburg, in the morning, at
the asylum in the afternoon, and at the
Williamsburg Presbyterian church at
night.
At regular meeting of the Southside
Democratic Club held last night they de-
cided to go into the primary election, and
elected Messrs. James Il. King and John
f. Marren as their members Of the Adyi-
sorry Board.
An entertainment at once unique and
instructive will be given Tuesday night IN
the lecture-room OF the Second Presby-
terrain church by number of Chinese
students. who illustrate the life, cos
tunes, &c, of the people of the fowery
kingdom.
The committees of Richmond and Man
chester lodges of Knights of Pythias, APP
nointed 10 form q general visiting COM
mittee. will meet tomorrow night at
Castle Hall of Syracuse Lodge, corner
Mayo and Franklin streets, at 9 o'clock,
for organization and work.
Coroner Taylor yesterday viewed the
body of Nelson Meadows, a colored floor
waiter. who died at Ford's Hotel OF
heart.disease. Deceased was forty seven
wears of age; was member OF the
Catholic Church, and was well known in
the city and to the travelling public.
Work has been begun on q new hoist
ing tower in the new City Hall by the
side of the one already built. The
present tower does not and was not de-
sigped to do hosting work on the west
ern side of the hall. Hence the neces-
sity for another. The new one will be
as high as its companion-about 100
feet.
The Florida Herald announces that
Rev. A. L. Dickinson. OF Richmond,
Va, preached last Sunday in the Opera
House at st. Augustine. In his sermon
he made an appeal for a new Baptist
church at ST. Augustine, and predicted
that in the near future there would be
such church there and an ornament to
the place. The Methodists are building
a church there TO cost $50, 900.