Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-20
Personals and Briefs.

No cases were tired IN the Hustlngs
Court yesterday.
Mr. Theodore Hamilton will soon give
an entertainment in this city for the
benefit OF the Soldiers Home.
Floyd Kurtz, Esq, editor of The
Eastcru Nhore Hcrdtd, spent Sunday
last in this city, the guest of Rev. j. r.
Suwgis.
Howard VI. Smith, one OF the recent
graduates of the dental department of
the University of Maryland, is a Rich
mond boy.
Union Council, Royal Arcanum, has
paid to Mrs. A. J. Tucker $1,000. the
amount Of her husbands death benefit
in that order.
Mrs. N. L. Garnett, with her
daughter, Mrs. DR.. George p. Steel, and
two children, left for Jacksonville, Fla,
by the fast mail yesterday.
George II. Balm. of Norfolk, under the
custody Of a Deputy United States mar
shal. was in this city yesterday ca route
to the Albany penitentiary
There will he an important meeting OF
the Andrew Jackson Democratic Club
Of Monroe Ward tonight at Columbus
Hall, corner Third and Broad streets.
Captain George 4. Ainsie left the city
yesterday for Washington to attend the
meeting Of the Executive Committee of
the Worlds Exposition, Of which he is
member
During the session Of the Common
Council last night Mr. Il. \. Hughes was
notified that his wife was very i'll and he
was accordingly excused from further at
tendance.
Miss Susie Z. Swinburn and Miss Bes-
sic Alien, both of Newport, r. J., who
have been the guests OF Mira. LeRoy f.
Brown. $50 west Grace, returned home
yesterday.
The strcot-cars were all crowded Sun
day evening and the Electric Line could
accommodate scarcely one half OF those
who wished TO ride between the hours
OF I ami 7 o'clock.
At The meeting Of the Committee on
Grounds and Buildings last night the
contract for stone for the third story of
the new City Hall WIS awarded to the
Nestham Granite Company.
The boy.sheet for Gilmore's Band
concert will be opened at 9 o'clock A.
NJ. on Thursday at Walter ID. Moses d
Co. 5 music store. Subscribers will find
it TO their interest to be on hand.
Mr.. ". II. Thompson IS engaged in
building an electric boat, which he in-
tends wheu completed to put on New
Reservoir lake. It Is to be built entirely
by himself, and Will be propelled by
electricity.
a meeting Of the Virginia Indian As
sociaton, a branch OF the Woman's Ma
tional Association, will bo held at the
Young Mems Christian Association Hall
to-day at 1880 2. NJ. al interested are
invited TO attend.
The wind Saturday evening broke
down three fre-aarm poles in Rockets
deranging the service IN that part Of the
city. Superintendent Thompson had
force Of men at work Sunday stringing
the wires on house-tops temporarily.
Mr.. William Henley, formerly of tins
city, died in Dakota Territory on the
18th instant. Mr.. Henley was the father
of Mrs. Z. J. Walsh, OF this city. and
was for many years engaged with Mr..
Garrett +. Watson in the lumber busi-
ness. He was well and fayOrably known
here.
An alarm Of fire was rung yesterday
evening about a quarter past 7 o'clock
from Box lS-enginc-house on Grace
street between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth. ID was caused by the partial
burning OF some woodwork on the third
floor of the house No l7l3 east Grace
street. Damage about so.
Governor Lee and General Sherman
dined with Mayor Hewitt. OF New York.
on Sunday. The Governor returned
here last night The papers report that
d" he made a good speech - at the st.
Patrick's Day banquet, and the World
of Sunday had a very readable interview
with him about Virginia, Cleveland,
Blaine. aud internal revenue.
The steamship Old Dominion, Captain
Couch, arrived yesterday from New
York with an assorted cargo of mer-
chandise, which was great relief to our
merchants, who have been cut of from
railroad transportation. Captain Couch
says that when he left New York many
of the streets were still blockaded by
the snow, and some Of the cross-town
street-cars had not been able 10 resume