Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-21
Personals and Briefs.

Mr.. S. Katten, of New York. was in the
city yesterday.
Professor Jacob Reinhardt has rendered
his services for the Connie Myers benefit.
Miss Airline Cosby, of the West End has
gone on visit to friends ard relatives in
Ashland.
Mrs. w. d. Kasencrantz, of Hohocus,
n. j., is visiting her sister. Mrs. John ,.
| Harwood.
Mr.. George b. Trueman. Of the local
| staff of the Times, has returned from trip
| to New York.
Mr.. John w. Starke has returned TO the
city after pleasant visit TO his mother IN
Hanover county.
Mrs. NJ. A. Meginley, of Portsmouth, IS
visiting her sister, Mrs. L. j. Smithers, 7Oo
west Clay street.
Mr.. L. b. De Quentini has gone TO
! Athens, Ca, on business and VIII be away
about twenty days.
DIR. Peyton b. Green and family, of
Wytheville, are at Mrs. Benefits, Sll east
Grace street, for a sew days.
CAPTAIN J. b. Angle, of the Second dis
trict. has two ladies' gold rings in his pos
session supposed to be stolen.
Mrs. A. V. White. who was Miss Nora
Coghlan, is on n brief visit to her sister,
Mrs. Captain j. E. Fitz, Of Church Hill.
The Academy of Medicine and Surgery
will meet tonight. and several interesting
pathological specimens will be exhibited.
Mr.. william +. Word and Miss Alice
Forbes Eubank will be married at the First
Baptist church Thursday evening at $3.50
o'clock.
Mr.. Charles Price and daughter, who
have been visiting Captain Fitz and family,
returned to their home, Mechum's River
Yesterday morning.
Preston johnson (colored) was removed
from the Henrico county jail yesterday and
incarce-ated in the State penitentiary, to
serve two years for hOusebreaking.
The Cleveland Eagle Refining Oil Com
pany, who are perhaps the largest pro
| ducers in the West, have established a
! branch house in Richmond with Mr.. John
A. Augustine rs manager.
DIR. A. f. Craig. of 917 west Grace street,
| is registered at the Grand Central Hotel,
New York. He went north to visit his
people in Doylestown. Pa, and is now on
a business trip to New York and Boston.
Mr.. W. W. Woodward, Democratic
! 9llDeTlnItHutuL
| i'm the city yesterday 10 see Governor Nc
| kinney and talk over the oyster question.
| Mr.. Woodward Is much interested in this
question.
There is some talk of the Boston Gro
| cers' Association coming here this sum-
| mer, and the question Of inviting them TO
| come here will probably be considered by
| the Grocers' Association of Richmond at
their meeting this afternoon.
Sheriff Southwark thinks the two color
ed prisoners who escaped from the Henrico
| iail few days ago are in Jail at Newport
! News, as Officer John i. Hall thinks he
| saw them while in that place yesterday,
and took steps looking to their arrest.
| DIR. Edwin II. Smith, Of Dinwiddie. at a
| late hour last night was not expected TO
| live until morning. The venerable gen.
| tleman is in his seventy-eighth year and Is
| at his sons residence, 1ll3 east Clay street
He is the father of Hon. John Amber
Smith.
Adiutant ]. Taylor Stratton is having
| made two handsomely engrossed copies OF
| the resolutions adopted by Lee Camp last
| Friday night, as a tribute to General John
| R. Cooke. These will be framed and one
COPY will be sent to Mrs. Cooke and the
] other TO General Cookies sister, Mrs. j. +.
| b. Stuart.
Vice-President Axtell, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, has returned from the Warm
| Springs Valley, where he went to look
| after the interests of the Warm Springs
Valley Company. of which he is president.
He reports the construction on the railroad
from Covington up the valley as pro-
crossing rapidly. The road will be finished
by the lst of July.
Professor and Mrs. +. J. Bacon, of Con
necticut, the eminent banjoists, are at pre-
sent the guests of Mr.. A. S. Bacon, super
intendent Richmond Paper Manufacturing
Company's mills, No. 1909 Decatur street
| Manchester. At the solicitation of hume
rous admirers of the instrument Professor
| and Mrs. Bacon have consented 10 MAKE
| Manchester their home.