Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-11-26

Personals and Briefs.
The banks VIII lie closed on Thanks
clyin--day.
Roy. Dr. william T.. Hall, Of New York,
is at the st. Claire Hotel
llr. W. G. Farrar Of the Scottsville
Cou7T, was IN the city yesterday
Miss Page Booker. OF Richmond is visit
ing Miss Lizzie Taylor, of Norfolk.
alr. Iredeu jenkins. Of Baltimore. is on
a hving visit to his Richmond friends.
Bihsop Randolph IS oaiciatine This week
at the Episcopal churches IN Pllcc55 Anne
county.
The grand officers Of the Royal Arcanum
will visit Henry Clay Council, OF Ashland,
Tonight
Assistant Postmaster +. Courtney Jen-
kius was able TO be at his desk Tor q short
while yesterday.
Colonel Joseph 7. Cauington, Of the Ex-
change Hotel, though stu very III. was
much better yesterday than on Sunday.
The estate OF the late r. c. Leake. Jr., is
valued at @2l5.0Jo. Tho p@s9na estate "a
valued at S23O0JJ and the realty at $4,000.
NIcssrs. John B. Book and Frank I. Roy
nolls. of Clayton, Del. who with Their
wives have been visiting 3ir. Jones l.. Otey,
returned home >terdny.
Colonel T. VI. r. Talcott and Mcssrs. Jo-
saph Bryan, T. ID. Christian, and others
have returned from their trip 10 Blrming
ham and other southern points.
The University School football team #
Petersburg ha. accepted q challenge from
the Richmond College team Oplav match
game in Richmond on Ihanksgiving-day.
Rev. Mr.. Simmons. missionary to China,
will deliver an address 20 the Baptist Woe
men of Richmond IN their missiou-roOms,
corner Fourth and Franklin streets, to-day
at il o'clock.
Mr.. W. W. Vaughan, who has been con-
nectel with the Richmond Union Pessen-
gcr-Railway Company, has gone 20 New
York % accept . position with the Sprague
Motor Company.
Mr ". W. Mosley. Jr. formerly an EN-
plovc of the Richmond and Danville rail
road, has left with his wife for sanford.
Fla. TO take q position on the =. +. Il. r.,
between Sanford and Tampa.
The continued absence Of the midnight
car on the Main-StTeet line is still subject
of complaint and proof that on this great
tLOrouchfare at least the strtet-Car service
Is not improving, but deterioratng.
Mr.. Carl Ruehrmond. the architect,
leaves to-day for New York and sails IN
few days for Berlin. He goes TO attend
the convention Of architects Of the Royal
Architectural Society. Of which he is a
member
Some Richmond people visiting in the
country recently had the rare opportunity
OF eating raspberries IN November. The
berries were raised on the farms OF Messrs.
William 4. BlOxton and Henry Armistead,
near Williamsburg. Va. and were of the
second crop and ripened in the open air.
Colonel II. c. Jones. recently elected TO
succeed Colonel III. L. Spotswood. First
Virginia regiment: Colonel a. l.. Phillips,
elected TO succeed Colonel J. V. BidgoOd,
and Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain j. h.
Derbyshire. elected major, have accepted,
and will at once enter upon the discharge
Of their duties.
Sunday Coroner Taylor was called to No:
$40 south Cherry street TO view the body of
an infant thirteen months old. Lucy Davis,
the mother (colored), told the Coroner the
child, who had been i'll for several days,
was found dead in bed about o'clock.
The Coroner was Of opinion that death
resulted from natural causes.