Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-08
PorsonnIs nnd Rriers.

Two small suits were instituted in the
City Circuit Court yesterday.
Attorney General Ayers is detained at
his home in Scott county by the illness
of his wife.
Rev. DR.. Hoge was expected to sail
from Liverpool yesterday on the steamer
City Of New York.
Mr.. A. C. Gordon, Of staunton, has
been the guest OF Mr.. Thomas Nelson
Page for several days.
Mrs. C. w. Green is in Prince VIII
liam at the bedside Of her Oldest boy,
Herbert, who is sick with fever.
Colonel Thomas Whitehead, Commits
siOner OF Agriculture, has moved his
family from Amherst to this city to live
Colonel John Bell Bigger, Clerk of
the House of Delegates and Keeper of
the Rolls, was in his Office at the Capitol
yesterday.
Mrs. II. Brunhild and daughters Of
New York are here on a visit to her sis
ter, Mrs. d. B. Kalniyeiler, 307 west
Grace street.
Police-Justice Crutchfeld and Alder
man Richard NJ. Taylor have returned
from Eagle Rock, where they went with
a fishing party.
Rev. DIR. Goodwin, OF Leigh-Street
Baptist church, will occupy his pulpit
tomorrow for the first time since his re-
turn from Boston.
W. W. Barrow, Esq, has been elected
assistant instructor in chemistry, cleo
tricity. and physics in the night-school
of technology of the Virginia Mechanics
Institute.
The Rev. J. Calvin Stewart, pastor Of
the Fourth Presbyterian church, has re-
turned to the city, and will occupy his
pulpit on Sunday, as usual, at IL A. NJ.
and p. NJ.
Mr.. Edward NJ. Rowelle. deputy clerk
OF the City Circuit Court, has returned
from Gloucester county, where no spent
his summer vacation and enjoyed a much
needed rest.
Hon. Henry r. Pollard has sold his
place at SteveDsville, King and Queen
county, and will take up his residence in
this city, having some months ago pur-
chased dwelling here.
The open-air concert announced to be
given on CANDLES Hill yesterday after
noon by Iardella's band was, on account
of the rain, postponed until next week,
the day yet to be determined upon.
Rev. W. T. Walker, of Monroe. Ga,
who filed the pulpit OF the Second Bap-
tist church in the absence of the pastor,
has returned home Mr.. Walker won
many friends during his brief stay in
our city.
The lately-appointed Methodist mis-
sionaries to Brazil, Rev. NJ. Dickie and
wife, Rev. J. Tiley, and Miss Ella Gran
berry, accompanied by BishopJ. @. Gran
berry, have reached Brazil in good health
and begun their labors.
The city ambulance was called to the
corner of Fifth and Broad streets yester-
day morning to white man, a aconsump-
tive, who had started out to the city
almshouse, but whose strength had
failed him while he was on the way.
He was taken to the hospital in the am
bulance.
The Clay Ward Actiyes will hold q
meeting next Thursday night. at which
officers for the next year will be elected.
The president. Mr.. William Ryan. being
chairman of the City Democratic Com
mittee, will not be o candidate for re-
election. From now until November
this club will meet every Thursday night
About II o'clock yesterday morning
one of the incandescent electric-light
wires on Main street near Ninth fell and
in its descent struck colored man, who
was going into the State Office, on the
head, slightly shocking him. The break
was caused by the wire coming in con-
tact with an iron rod on one of the poles,
causing the wire to take fire. The break
was soon remedied.