Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-01
Personals and Briefs.

DR.. and Mrs. Charles Steel are at the
MI. Vernon.
Judge Holiday is expected here K
open court tomorrow.
Five children were baptized in Monu
mental church yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Kinney, of the Kinney Tobacco
Company, visited Richmond this week.
Little Miss Ellen Lee, the Governors
daughter, who has pneumonia, is getting
better.
Rev. s. c. Clopton will preach at the
Soldiers Home this afternoon at 4
o'clock.
Miss Bette Allen, of Richmond, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Herzog, of Pc
tersburg.
Mrs. David A. Richardson has re-
turned after visit OF six weeks to friends
in Tennessee.
Miss Fannie Lewis, Of Brunswick
county, is on a visit 10 the Misses Webb,
on west Main street.
Misses Lizzie and Rosa Ward left yes
terday for a visit to friends in Washing
ton and Baltimore.
Two hundred and sixty-fve deeds
were recorded in the clerks office of the
Chancery Court yesterday.
Colonel Thomas A. P. Champlin has
just sold to his cousin, Mrs. Grover
Cleveland. his pair of fine sorrel horses.
At the confirmation service in Monu-
mental church Friday night twenty per-
sons were confirmed by Bishop Ran
dolph.
During the month of March the clerk
Of Henrico County Court admitted to
record 108 deeds and issued nine mar
riage-licenses.
There will be no services at Park Place
church tonight. The congregation will
attend Centenary church, where Bishop
Wilson will preach.
In the City Circuit Court yesterday
Richard A. Srewers, a native of Ger
many, declared his intention TO become
o citizen of the United States.
In the Circuit Court yesterday suit
was instituted for SIS, 900 damages by F.
J. Rudd against the Richmond and Dan
VILE Railroad Company. No declaration
was filed.
Misses Mabel and Rosa Page, of III
west Main street, have returned home
from an extended tour in the North, ac-
companied by Miss Emmie Stevens, OF
Newark, n. j.
Messrs. John Hankins and A. s. Baker
left yesterday for Philadelphia to take
part in a gymnastic exhibition in that
city. They will visit Cincinnati, Chicago,
and New York on pleasure trip before
returning home.
Mr.. Joseph Ii. Shepherd, clerk in the
First Auditors Office, received a tele-
gram yesterday morning announcing the
death of his father, Mr.. Champe Shep-
herd, at his residence in Berryville,
Clarke county, on Friday.
At a special meeting of the Board OF
Directors of the Capitol Building and
Loan Association Mr.. W. H. Talman was
unanimously elected trustee 10 fill the
vacancy caused by the death of the late
lamented A. II. Woodson.
Monsieur Henri Loumeyer, first secre-
tary 10 the Belgian Legation at Berne.
Switzerland, is stopping few days with
MIR. j. Enders Robinson, lib south Third
street. ca route to Mexico on special
mission for his Government
Rev. o. P. Clifford, D. d., of Boston,
Mass, will deliver an address at the
Baptist Social Union next Thursday
night on the subject of Making the
Most of Life" Each member on this
occasion can carry lady with him.
The following convicts were received at
the penitentiary yesterday From Rock
ineham county, A. s. G.. McCauley
(white), for two years from Portsmouth
city, Richard Blount (colored), one
year for malicious assault. and Gurnsey
Reid (colored), one year for grand lar
ceny.
IL seems not unlikely that O gentle
man whose name has never yet been
mentioned in the newspapers in this
connection will receive the appointment
Of City Collector. Mr.. 4. Fl. Smith,
formerly United States tobacco in.
spector, says that he 10 not an sppli,
can't Tor this or any other cfics.