Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-14
Rrief Local Items.

The next meeting of the District Lodge
of Good 1emplars will be held July 18Th
at the Soldiers Home.
Mrs. r. A. Schultz aud Miss Ada b. Cosby
left Yesterday for Anderson. W. Va, where
they will spend the summer.
Messrs. C. ]. Peters and II. E. Black,
civil engineers on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway, are visiting MIR. |. n. Jones,
of this city.
Hook-and-Ladder Truck No. 2 was called
ont Yesterday to extlnguish q small fire in
the vicinity Of their house, Eighteenth and
Grace streets.
The Methodist Sunday-School Society
meets at Central church, Manchester, this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock, and the Baptist
Association at Eest-End church alta o'clock.
The receipts from fines in the Police
Court for the portion OF the month OF
June past have amounted to over sou, be-
ing more than IN any half month of the
present year.
Poles are being placed in position for
the street railway over the tltth-Street
yladuct. This road will join with the
! Seyenth-Street line and connect Highland
and Forest-Hill Parks.
J1bertas Lodge of Perfection, No. 5. An
IT'S regular monthly meeting next Monday
night. There will be work in the fourth,
| fifth, and sixth degrees.
An examination of those desiring TO OBJ
| tain licenses to teach in the public schools
| in this city will be held at the High-School
| building, S0j east Marshall street, Wednes-
| day morning az 3 O'Clock.
In the Hastings Court yesterday the APP
peal case of j. II. King, charged with al
! lowing his COWS to run at large in the
| streets. was tried. He was fined s., the
same as in the Police Court.
The tea given in the parlors of the Broad
| Street Methodist church Friday afternoon
| by the Woman's Missionary Society was a
very delightful affair. DR.. Tudor made
! a brief address and there was also prayer
and singing.
A sale of lots IN West Point yesterday
was conducted by Messrs. Chewing *
! Rose. of this city. About $4,000 worth of
J land was sold, quite good portion OF 1t
being to Richmond buyers, who were
transported on a special train.
Elba Democratic Club has reorganized
| with the following new officers President,
| X. #. Davis First Vice-President, John III.
| Gardner; Sergeant-at-Arms, Robert Scott.
| f. f. Tholl, j. Z. Wright, and Robert
| Scott were appointed acommlttee on men,
| bership.
The idea of publishing school history OF
| the late war. to be written by southern
/ man, is meeting with appreciation through
! out the entire South. Colonel Smith, CON-
mander of the Grand Camp of Confederate
| Veterans, is receiving great many letters
| bearing on the subject.
As vet no application has been made at
| the city almshouse for the white baby
which was taken there by muIatto
woman Friday morning. upon suggestion
Of Justice Crutchfeld, of the Police Court.
The story of the woman 10 the Justice and
also at the almshouse was published in
yesterdays DISPATCH.
The closing exercises of the Moore-Street
Industrial Institute will be held at that in
| stitution. No. Sl4 Moore street, Thursday
June 18th. at O'clock A. Nj. There will
| be Rotations, &c.. by the pupils, music
and addresses by well-known friends OF
education. Professor John Oliver is su.
perintendent OF this school.
The State Council of Virginia will be
represented in the National Council, Ju.
nior Order United American Mechanics
which meets al Cleveland. o., on Tuesday
by Messrs. G. Mann Rawson, Charles III.
Langford, and w. j. Tyler. Of Richmond