Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-18
Personals and Briefs.

Rev. A. q. Brown. Of Norfolk. was in the
city yesterday.
Mr.. W. O. English viii sail from New
York next weed. for Europc.
The Curls-one Democratic Club viii
meet VI their headquarters tonight
Mr. W. II. Sadlrr returned yesterday
morning from visit 70 tluUnna county.
Mr. Thomas W. Gentry and Master
Thomas Christian Gentry are at Niagara
Falls.
Captain William B McCrlry, Of the
York-EIvcr S,camboa Line. Was lu the city
yesterday.
Miss Bledsoe Coleman, Of PoVhatau
county. is visiting her sister, Mrs. ". J..
French. of Church Hill.
Rev Dr. %. i. O'ConucH, rector Of tho
American College at Rome. is expected to
visit Richmond tins ummor.
The Marshall-Street railway line enjoyed
q fair share of the large public patronage
bestowed upon all the cars Sunday.
Irou for the portion Of the City railway
track that j, 20 bee laid anew has arrived,
and work Is expected to begin to-day.
Mcs.us Joseph Bryan, r. VI. r. T-.cott,
and Sol Haas have returned nome from q
fishing excursion down the York river.
Mrs. W. T. Hanes. Of Cumberland. who
has been visiting friends i'm Richmond and
Manchester. viii return home this morn-
IN.
No cases of public concern were tried at
the HenricO courthouse Yesterday either
IN the County Court or before Justices OF
the Peace.
Mr. W. O. Sydner Chesapeake and Ohio
railway agent an StauntOn, passed through
the city yesterday on hls way home from a
visit to Norfolk.
The song service nj the Male Orphan
Asylum Sunday afternoon was conducted
by Mn Albert l.. West, assisted by Dir.
Charlie, W. Hunter.
Prophetic lectures" are being given in
the pavilion at Bleuners Park lwest Mar
shall street, by Elders Il. G. and william f..
Brown. There Will bc lectures tonight,
Thursday, and Friday nights at o'clock.
Colonel George Dodds, superintendent
of the extensive coal-mIneS at POcahontaS,
arrived In the city last evening. He IS
we'll known as the former manager of the
Midlothian mines, in Chesterfield county.
At the closing exercises OF Kenmore
University High School Aubrey Weymouth,
Of this city, was awarded prizes in Latin
and French. and WAS also specially dis
tmguished in trigon0metry, algebra, and
German.
Messrs. D. Clrdwell. of the Richmond
and Danvlle: Z. ID. HOtchkiss. Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway; l.. l.. Ne
Cleskie, of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air
Line. and ". A. Turk. OF the Richmond
and Danville, were IN the city yesterday.
Rev. James Taylor Dickinson. a Rich
mond boy (son of Dr. A. T.. Dickinson,
closed his sermon on Sunday with an ap-
peal for funds with which 10 enlarge ms
church in Orange, n. j.. and raised ~Z5 600.
lie is a worthy chp OF the fine old block.
The following gentlemen will constitute
the crew wh1ch the Virginia Boat Club
will send 20 the regatta at Baltimore on the
26th instant: George B. Pegram, /; A. >.
Petticolas. 2; Frederick W. Broadnax, 3 ;
David Edmond, stroke, and W. /. Ilnsley,
coXswaln.
Brother Michael, Of the order Of Xave-
rian Brothers. one of the most popular
teachers of st. Peters Cathedral school,
has been transferred 10 4 school in one of
the northern States. He viii leave here at
the close of the session. Brother Michael
has been in Richmond nine wears.
Rev. Carl f. Grammer professor in the
Theological Seminary Of Virginia, near
Alexandria, preached an able sermon at
St. Marks Episcopal church Sunday morn
ing from the text, Except your righteous
ness shall exceed the righteousness Of the
Scribcs and Pharisees, % shall IA no ease
enter into the kingdom Of Heaven"
The management Of the Virginia Boat
Club have received letters from Washing
ton and Baltimore clubs signifying their
purpose TO enter crews in the regatta here
on the 4th Of July. The University Club
has entered the following crew Tor the
four-oared gig race; Ii. 4. Hillebrand,
c. II. G. Preston, . J. b. Wilson. 3; v.
Hall, stroke, and John Redwood, coxswain,
G.. Eugene HarGeld, the author, leaves
to-day for Washington. where he will call
on President Harrison by special invita-
tion, and from thence he Will go TO Long
Branch, where he viii spend the first part
OF the season in a cottage by the sea y
with friends, and the remainder he will
pass at Saratoga Mr.. HaIaeld has been
extremely successful WITH his work, An
Oriental Constellation