Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-06
Personals and Briefs.

f. Fl. Sothern and G. b. Bishop are at
the Exchange Hotel.
The Committee on Streets will con-
clude its tour of inspection to-day.
Police-Justice Richardson has been
suffering for several days with a severe
cold.
Services are being held at Broad-Street
and Centenary Methodist churches every
night this week.
DR.. Y. n. Neblett was yesterday ap-
pointed coroner of Lunenburg county
by Governor Lee.
Mrs. Edwin s. Kinks, of Baltimore,
is visiting her brother, the Rev. &. NJ.
Funsten, at the Mt. Vernon.
jefferson College, of Philadelphia, has
conferred on DR.. Hunter Mcclure, of
this city, the degree of LII. d.
Mayor Darlington is seriously i'll, and
his family and friends have therefore
withdrawn him from his candidacy for
the mayoralty.
A marriage-license wasissued in Wash
ington yesterday to Lewis A. Whiting,
of Richmond, and Alice i. Lingan, Of
Henrico county.
Rev II. NJ. Jackson will preach at the
Soldiers Home chapel Sunday afternoon
and music will be furnished by the
Grace-church choir.
Six applications-three from widows
Al,.oo fro,, eo11.orc ,,apoiopo
under the State law were filed in the
Hastings Court yesterday and allowed.
The meetings at Pine-Street Baptist
church are largely attended, and seem
to be growing in interest. The preach
ing is done by the pastor, Rev. j. b.
Hutson.
At the last meeting of the Committee
on James-River Improvement sub
committee was appointed to receive bids
for a new steam-boiler for the tug Henry
Christian, which belongs to the city.
In the City Circuit Court yesterday
Patrick McDOnough, native of Ireland,
was admitted to citizenship, and L. Burn
stein, a native of Russia, declared his
intention to become a citizen OF the
United States.
A meeting of the joint Committees
on Finance and Light was called for last
night to consider the resolution adopted
authorizing them to receive bids for the
lease of the gas-works, but quorum
could not be obtained.
The memorial windows dedicated to
the memory of General John Pegram,
Colonel William j. Pegram, and Lieu
tenant Colonel Austin f. Smith, son of
Ex-Governor William Smith, have all
been placed in position at the Soldiers
Home.
At the meeting of Enterprise Council,
Junior Order United American Me-
chanics, Wednesday night an interesting
feature was the presentation of a hand
some case for the gavel by Mr.. r. $.
Waring. The case was the gift Of some
Massachusetts, brethren, whose council
bears also the name of Enterprise.
Rev. Josiah Strong, ID. d., general
secretary of the Evangelical Alliance,
will deliver lecture next Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock in the Grace-Street Presby-
terian church. Dr. Strong is the author
of the book so much written and talked
about, known as "Our Country, and
will, no doubt, draw large crowd here,
as he does wherever he lectures. There
will be no collection.
Rev. DIR. Hoge was invited by his old
friend, the celebrated DR.. Agnew, OF
Philadelphia, to attend the banquet to be
held in that city in honor OF DIR. Agnew's
fiftieth anniversary as practitioner OF
medicine, but found il impossible to
leave Richmond at this time. He will,
however, shortly accept pressing invi-
tation to visit Secretary-of-State Bayard
at bis home in Washington.
The will of Miss Fannie W. Armis-
tead, whose estate is valued at $1,000,
was admitted &c probate in the Chan
cery Court yesterday. She leaves all
her property to her mother during her
lifetime, aud at her death the estate is to
be divided equally between her (testa-
trix's) sisters--Mrs. James ID. Crump and
Lula L. Armistead. ]. ID. Crump, who
is named as the executor, qualified. The
will is dated March 25, 1884.