Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-11
RICHMOND BRIEFED.
A GREAT DEAL OF NEWS GIVEN IN
VERY LITTLE SPACE.
Personal Points About Our Friends and
Their Movsments-soeiai Events
Notes on Current Topics.

tllcnds miss Lulh v. ccott wi csshfonhA-
sheriff J. II. Price, Of Charlotte county. was
one Of the visitors at the Capitol yesterday.
Mrs. Mabel sheryin. OF Fremont. Neb, Is vis-
ting her uncle. Mr.. II. J. shervin, OF this Guy.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dsvsy. Of New York, arc
making short sojourn hero on their way sou'n'
Mr.. Morgan r. Mills has been confined 70 his
room ct Fords Hotel for several days py SICK
ness.
Or. wolIsrd and vito have Just returned from
ZanesviiIe, Ohio, whore they spent the holidays
with friends.
After the sermon at the Grace-street Bopnst
tahsrn acie this morning DR.. Hatcher VIII receive
new membora
Mss Haliie strosher has returned 70 Rich
rnond and IL now visiting Mas Madgo freeoiey'
los east Franklin street
Mrs. WI. Cussen. OF Barcelona two miles
east Of Richmond. 10 critically Ill Little nope
Is entertained Of her recovery.
Mr.. George d. Fisher, collector for the Chamb Der
Of Commerce, has been confined TO his room ier
the past week with severe cold
Misses Kste and Bsrta Hocses, q Eiic or
City, Nd, are the guests OF their cousins, tne
Misses Fulton, 32l west Grace street.
Mr.. J. W. Pond having spent the HOLIDAYS
pleasantly with his friends and relatives nefs
viii return on Monday 70 his home In birmihs-
ham. Ala
In the Chsncsry Court yesterday Maria Veto.
ria Turpin (colored) qualified as eaocuuia OF
ths viii OF Augustus A. Turpin, deceased Inc
estate Is valued at Sl,4OO.
The Governor yesterday refused to pardon
Nicholas Dyer, Of Nelson county, VINO vas sen
fenced in August, 1883. to fve years in the peni-
Tertiary for HOUSEKEEPING
Hon. william c. p Breckinridge has signihed
his acce ptance Of an invitation 10 deliver the
commencement GRAFTON before the literary so
cietes OF Richmond College on the 2Sd OF june
Messrs. g. W. Travers. B. NJ Quarles, and n
8. Bosher have been appointed 10 recon I'm enc 70
the Board OF Directors OF the Young Mems chris
tiau Association a suitable person for secretary
AT We.t-yiew Baptist church toll night the COM
mittse appointed last sunday 10 consider that
question will report as 70 the edyissbllity OF OF
ganizing this mission into an independens
church.
Tbe sIx.h Anniversary OF Trinity Lodge, Inde.
pepdent Order OF Good Templars, will tane place
TUESDAY eyenirg, January 18th, at Central Hail.
A special programme has been arranged ior inc
occasion.
Mr.. sd. Chamberlayne, Of 1903 ives: Clay
street, who has been quito Ill Tor over Two
months, and bed.ridden for more man Ioriy
days with hemorrhases and other ailr'n''' /"
improving
1be mating OF the Common wealth Club TO
which reference was made IN yesterdays Dts-
patch will be held on the night OF SATURDAY,
February 7th. The conference will be very
important ono,
Ills understood that the opposition OF Damon
Lodge, knights Of Pythiss, to the rsntng OF Sor-
corsp Hall for colored performance OF flna-
fore will result In the managers OF tho entertain
msnt securing another hall
Rev. ]. n. Harrison preached 10 large con-
eregation last night at Pine-street bapust
church ana there we're ten conversions. ING
meetings, in which the interest ie growing nlent-
fl,r N yEaak and DOTnaDa
longer.
A meeting OF the West End Band Of Hope was
held Friday evening at 4 O'Clock in the lecture
room of Washing construct church The exer-
cises were varied with singing, music, anu reau-
ings, and were very interesting solo was , sung
by Miss Nellie Lambeth Mrs. Joseph Siii nad
charge of the entertainment
An order was entered in the City Circuit Court
Yesterday confirming compromise effected IN
The case OF Thomas Anderson against the clty Oh
Richmond, which was q suit for damages TO pro-
oerty near the northern terminus OF twenty
thiri street The amount sued for was $4,000,
but the Judgment awarded was for only ss2o'
Atb O'Clock in the afternoon OF Wednesday
the Plat Of this month o quiet marriage Will take
plAce In the parlors OF the Arlington Rouse,
when Miss Minnie Drewry VIII 70 married 10 n.
O. Bertrand, Of Galveston, Texas; MISS Drewry
Il one OF Richmond's prettiest girls, ana IN her
marriage to the young fexan society Will lose
one Of Its brightest ornaments
A pleasant evening was spent at the home OF
the Kisses Hentshel, on Franklin street FRIDAY
evening. After INDUCING In games ana osnclng
the party dispersed at q late hour. among snoso
present were Misses Houser, Henuhel, Bern
stein. Rlli:k. Hirshbers, Psie, and Jscoes, ana
Messrs vogel, Boynton, Bernstein, Miller,
Michael. Hentshel, and overly.
The Central Committee Of the Association for
the Preservation Of Virginia Antiquities has ex-
tended the members OF the Ladies' HOLLYWOOD
n Invitation 10 attend kl0
lecture 10 be delivered before the former 1850
citation on the night Of the Goth Instant At tho
Young Mems Christian Association oy HON.
James L. Gordon, whose subject will be the
Colonial History OF virginia
The Chancery-court Jury to which was re-
ferrod the two wills OF the late truman A.
Parker-the one probated on the 23d OF Deem
Der and dated October 6, 1880. and the one sub
seauently found and dated January Is, 1881, de-
cided In favor Of the latter. Both Wills are
Photographic and are substantially the same as
10 tho disposition Of the property, though the
one Of latest date Is simpler IN its language than
the other.
Mrs. Ball gave q very pleasant reception nj
her residence on south Laurel street. on
Wednesday last In honor OF her daughter, MISS
Jamie. Among those present were: sr. r.
Frank and MisB Ora Doherty. Mr.. Samuel Rack
ett and Miss Maude Jackson, Mr.. Luther Jones
aud Miss Florence Rics. Mr.. Il. Il. Pillow ana
Miss Carrie Rice, NJ. X. Carleton and Miss Nina
Vaughan, Mr. Allan and Miss Finely, Miss Hsr-
ris and Miss Carter.
Intelligence was received here yesterday oil
the sudden death of MI Melville Martin on Fri
day might at his homo In Chesterfield county
near Providence church. Deceased VINO was
worthy citizen OF the county and we'll known In
Richmond. was about sixty years old. ne had
been In delicate health for several years, oul
died OF heart-falure. DIR. William Z. Hatcher
viii preach the funeral Of Providence church Of
O'clock this afternoon.