Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-09-02
p.rsnnals md Rriefs.

Personals and Briefs.
Rev. DR.. Nelson. of Staunton, is on
visit 10 friends IN Richmond.
Miss Lulu Meade left yesterday for Pitts
burgh, where she Will visit SICK aunt
MIR. William II. Bailie, of the Buena
Vista Adcocate, was III the city yesterday.
Mr.. Frank D. Hill and family returned
Yesterday from the Roanoke Red Sulphur
Springs.
Mr.. Herbert II. Ezekiel has accepted
permanent position on the local stan OF
the state.
Miss Lizzie Word. who is visiting friends
end relatives in Petersburg, will return IN
few days.
Miss Rosa Redtord has returned to the
city after q pleasant visit TO friends IN
! Goochland.
MIR. Stuart A. Weiss and Mrs. Susan
Archer Weiss have left the city on visit
TO New York.
Mrs. T.. b. Ballou. who has been visiting
relatives in this city, left yesterday Tor
| her home in Halifax county.
DIR. Charles A. Mercer has returned from
| a trip 10 Roanoke, Montgomery Mhlte,
| and Yellow sulphur Springs.
Mr.. James Z. Cook, who returns TO
| Halnpden-Sidney September 9Th, preached
/ his anal sermon at Emanuel churchSunday
/ afternoon.
Miss Alice East. of Richmond, has re
| turned from n very pleasant visit OK eieht
weeks 10 the waterng-places and to the
| Eastern Shore.
The Sons Of Confederate Veterans will
| have an important meeting to-nlght.
| Among other things the election of secre-
| tary aud treasurer will take place.
Bishop Peterkin. of West Virginia,
| nreached at st. James church Sunday
! morning. He had large congregation,
and gave them an excellent sermon.
The cause for turning in an alarm of fire
| at 2 o'clock Yesterday afternoon was the
| burning of a wood shed on the premises OF
| John Griffin. No. 1926 II. John street.
| Loss trinling.
Rev. Garter Helm Jones, who has so ac-
ceptably filed the pulpit OF the Second
Baptist church during Dr: Landrun sum
mer vacation. preached his closing sermon
| Sunday night.
Mr. Thomas w. Gentry returned to the
CITY last night from hying trip TO ka-
ioiGb. n. C., accompanied by his son,
Charles Douglas, who has been visit oil
some months TO Oak Grove.
MIR. W. D. Morriss. OF Petersburg. was in
the city Yesterday on his way to Staunton
TO attend the annual session of the Elr-
glnia Funeral Directors Association. when
meets in that city this morning.
Rev. DR.. William f. Evans passed
through the city yesterday en- route to Farm
Vile. He spent las. week in New Kent
| county, where he dedicated a Methodist
| church and delivered several lectures.
Mrs. Douglass p. Powell and son. Master
Charley Powell. of III Nineteenth street,
have gone TO Petersburg. From there they
Will 90 To Norfolk, Old Point, and Virginia
Beach, where they will stay week or two.
Giles b. jackson. the well-known col
orsd LAWYER leaves this morning for wash
ington to attend meeting of the Grand
United Order Of True Reformers. After
this meeting adjourns Jackson Will deliver
an address ia Boston before club Of that
city.
A gentleman named Morris. who lives on
Seventeenth street, was taken suddenly III
IN the Capitol Square Yesterday evening
and was removed to the office OF the Re
gister of Lands in the Capitol. DR.. Mon
teiro was summoned and the sufferer was
soon relieved and went home.
Rev. Jabez Hall, pastor of Seventh-Street
Christian church, dedicated Disciples
church at Ashland Sunday morning. The
debt was 500, and the collection raised
over $500. There was a great crowd in at
tendance. Mr.. Hall preached q most ex-
cellent sermon.
The Good Templars had an interesting
religious meeting Sunday afternoon al
Howard Grove. The exercises were open
ed with singing by the choir OF the Metho-
1,at churph and nraver ny Mr. ballard OF
Church-IIil Lodge. Stirring aud impress
siye addresses We're made by Rev. Leroy
Phaup. of Howard-Grove Lodge. L. VI.
Stratton. of Trinity Lodge. and J. B. Bur
roughs, of Jefferson Lodge.
There are on exhibition in the window
of Messrs. Ii. NJ. Starke & Co. two beauti-
fully engraved badges presented by the
Washington Artillery. of New Orleans, 10
the Richmond Howitzers as slight ac-
acknowledgement OF courteses and kind
nesses received at the Lee-monument un-
veiling ceremonies-one of the badges for
the present company and one for the Vet
eran Association. On each is inscribed
the motto Try U.s."
Among the passengers on the Old Do
minion steamship which left New York
saturday and reached here Sunday were
CAPTAIN A. G.. Babcock, who had been on an
attended trip, including Saratoga and Mon
traal. James Aston Cabell. ESQ who spent
a month at Bar Harbor: Mr.. j. b. Lacy and
,y;fe who were week visiting the points
Of interest in New York and vicinity; Mr..
n ID. wilkinson, secretary of the Young
Mems Christian ASSOCIATION. who spent his
, vacation up the hudson; and Mr.. kaies. a
prosperous Young businessman OF New
: York. who comes to this city to visit his
} parents.