Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-26

| Mary Watson, Mrs j. q. Watson, miss
Annie Watson, snd Captain s. b. Hern-
don.
Miss Tnez Brown viii leave tomorrow
fora brief visit 10 friends in Cumbcr-
land county.
George Greenwsld, Esq., left last night
for a few days stay at Old Point and adj
jacent watering places.
Miss Alice Pearl yeedbam has re-
turned TO the city after protsccted visit
to relatives in the country.
Mrs. J. Elicit and daughter Lorene
are spending the summer With Mrs. W.
+. Wingfeld, OF Hanover county.
Mrs. L. 4. womble aud sister, Miss
Eva Lufsey, have returned TO the city
after two months trip to the noun
tains. =.
Company d, Old Dominion Guard,
meet at their room in the Regimentai
Armory next Thursday night 10 elect q
first lieutenant.
Miss Sallie b. Elicit. OF west Clay
street, left the city last Tuesday for Han
over, where she will spend several months
visiting relatives.
The Manchester Railway and Improve
ment Company Marshall LiDe) have
completed their street-railwsy to Seventh
street on Marshall.
Messrs, J. J. Pullen anu @. II. Lester.
OF the Richmond and Danville railroad
Offices, Washington, are on visit TO
their parents and friends in this city.
Mira William Spratley, OF this city,
left yesterday for Cobb's Island, where
he will Join party OF friends and spend
week or ten days fishing, boating, &c.
Mrs. Bertha G. Haasc. who has been
on visit to Philadelphia, Atlantic City,
aud New York for the past SIX weeks.
has returned home much charmed with
her trip.
Mr. Roger Gregory, son Of DR.. Julien
Gregory, OF Tunstall's Station, New
Kent county, is in the city, and after the
Ist OF September will be engaged in
business here.
Mr.. Charles II. Langford and Mrs.
I.angford have been called homo from
Charlotte, N. c., by the serious illness
OF his son, Thomas j. Langford. at the
residence of his grandmother, Mrs. Ty-
Ter, 400 south Laurel street.
Mr.. w. A. Dickinson, Keeper OF Oak
wood Cemetery, met with the misfortune
to dislocate his elbow few days since,
but owing TO timely medical aid the limb
is rapidly improving, and he will no
doubt soon recover entirely.
The funeral Of Captain John W. Gill,
whose death was announced in yester-
days Dispatch, will take place at Mil
ford, his late residence, In Caroline
county, this morning at ii o'clock.
Many Masons from this city will attend.
A number of the employees of the
Richmond Union Passenger Hallway
Company will give ball at the New
pump house tomorrow night. Messrs.
l.. A. Bethel, William Rhodes. Benia-
min Leaman, and W. Sinclair are the
committee.
Messrs. Lee e. Co., who for some time
past have operated q turf exchange IN
Norfolk, have moved their Office to
Richmond. This is the first venture OF
the kind ever made in this city. From
their Office, at No. south Twelfth street.
they have special wires to all the leading
race tracks in the country.
Captain John S. Wise will leave Sep
TENDER 1st for New York, where he goes
to accept the position Of general counsel
for the Sprague Electric Motor Com
pany aud other corporations. He viii
remain there until the lst OF October,
when he will return to Virginia to wlad
up his affairs here. he will move his
family to New York the LIST Of Novem-
ber after voting in Richmond.
The statue to be erected on Gettys-
burg Hill in Hollywood to the memory
of General George e. Pickett will lie
unveiled October 9TH. This will be the
third day of the Exposition. There will
be a grand parade of Pickett's division
and other ex-Confederates, and the occa-
sion will no doubt be memorable one
in the history of the city, as General
Pickett was o Richmond man. While
here Pickett's men will have their head
onarters at Old Market Hall.