Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-25
A MERE FORM.
THE ELECTION IN PORTSMOUTH YEsrER-
pAY-THR TICKET.
Coupon Cases - Pronounced inssne-ths
Temperance causs-Psrsonsl
and other Notes.
rcorr..nonnnncn Of ,ho Rlchmond plspascA.l

tcorrespondence OF tho Richmond Dtspascn.l
NoRroL9. May "a, 1889.
Tho election In Portsmouth to-day was sim.
PLY form. The Democrats hsd no oppos''
lion. and a very small vote was polled. The
foIlowinp municipal officers were elected
for The ensuing two years Mayor, j.
Thomson Baird; Clerk OF tbe Court, &. J..
Phillips; Commonwealth Attorney. X. r.
Griffin Commissioner Of the Revenue, Vir-
cinius Butt: Treasurer, james NJ. Binford
Auditor. G. :. Sherwood; High Constable,
T.. :. Anderion; sheriff. +. w. Maupin;
Keeper OF Cemeteries, Joseph Holiday. Sr.
There Is talk to the effect that by the pay
mcnt of costs The SUITS of the Common.
wealth against parties who rendered coupons
for taxes set for trial In the Circuit Court
tomorrow will be compromised
Mrs. Peasants, Of Kichmond. the state
president Of the Woman'S Temperance
Christian Union. will be here tomorrow
and address 4 i0int meeting OF the unions OF
Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Berkeley.
The commission ordered found Justice
Thomas MCGlennan insane. and The Corpo-
ration Court has directed that he DE sem 10
an asylum for treatment The Justice was
sent to Jail for six months for maleicsSauce IN
Office.
Judge II. W. Hughes Is one Of tlc mana.
gers Of The United states soldiers Home ana
attended the annual meeting Of the board.
A student from Richmond College IA to
take charge Of Scott'S-Creek Baptist church,
near Port, mouth, on the first Of June.
over two hundred Immigrants were andeu
here last night from the New York steamer,
~ bound 10 CalIoTniq.
Professor Waiter u. Toy, 81 the Univor-
. Il n
relatives. Judge George G.. Junkin, OF
Chri>tianShurg, Is nj the -. James.
WTeckeTs are busy trying TO haul OIL the
british bark Harvester. which was blown
ashore on the Berkley fats in the late March
gale.
Excursion steamers from this city and The
navy.yard carried quite throng Of people
10 the Hampton Normal College closing eX-
crosses to-day.
Pickett Buchanan Camp has voted medal
and SO 10 Miss Belle Boyd for her assist
ance on mcmorlal-dsy.
The bodies Of the two coored men drown
cd near smihfeld on Monday have been re-
covered.
Nlr. John Callahan, an elderly driver. was
% badly injured by runaway team IN Ports
mouth that his life f. despaired OF.
About Seycniv.iyC members OF the Order
li tIe ffNlOtN ldElt wiz III Ali' ny A''N"'
from Washington, and were entertained and
escorted about the two cities 10y the Norfolk
Knights. The visitors leit for Washington
again this afternoon
Professor Crawford IL. Toy. professor OF
Oriental languages in Harvard College, was
united m marriage this afternoon at O'Clock
10 Miss Mamie /. saunders, the only daugh-
ter Of Rev. r. NJ. saunders, president OF the
Norfolk Female College. The ceremony
took piace al GTanby-Street Methodist
Episcopal church. and was brilliant and
fashionable affair, the church being denScly
crowded with the elite Of the two cities and
n number Of prominent persons from other
cities.
The nuptals were soempized by the
father Of the bride, Rev. Il. Vi. Saunders, as
sisted by Rev. J. Lansing Burrows, u. D.,
Rev. ". '. Tudor. ID. D, aud Rev. I. g..
Jones. u. ID. The bridal couple held brlei
reception ~ the college parlors, and then
left on the Bay Line for New York and their
future residence at the North.
ihe British steamer Bruham, from Phila-
dclphIa 10 Central America, put in this har-
Dor to-day in distress, having been 10 the re-
cent storm.
The British bark Verona, loaded with
coal, was towed up from Lamberts Point
tl-dsy in a sinking condition TO discharge
her cargo.