Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-12
Brief Local Items,

Illustrated views of Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress will be given ct an early date at
the Grace-Street tabernacle.
The Board of Supervisors Of Henrico
county was in session yesterday and trans
acted much routine business. The County
Court meets tomorrow
DR.. George Cooper will preach and adj
minister the sacrament at Sharon (colored
Baptist church, First and Leigh streets,
this afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
The officers Of Richmond Assembly, No.
90. ROYAL Society of Good Follows, have
paid Mrs. Martha +. Kern, wife of the late
Edward +. Kern. the amount of benefit
certificate held by him at the time OF his
death.
At the meeting of Fraternal Lodge, No.
| 81. of Masons tomorrow night number
of petitions will be presented. This Is one
of the few lodges that increases its mem
bership rapidly without now and then get
| ting in scrub.
The city ambulance was summoned yes
| terday morning at 1895 o'clock to attend a
man at the Old Dominion IRON and Nall
| Works on Belle Isle who had his knee
sprained. He was taken to the almshouse
for further treatment.
There were fifteen professions Of faith at
the revival meeting held at the Fulton Bap-
| fist church last Friday night. Rev. j. T..
| Hutson, the well-known evangelist, con-
Quoted the services. The meetings will
| continue all next week.
Sergeant Matthews returned to this city
| Friday from Wilmington, n. c., where he
went 10 deliver Charles Bailey alas Knox.
who was arrested in this city some weeks
ago on the charge of being fugitive from
| Justice from that State. Bailey was identi-
| fed at the North Carolina penitentiary as
being an escaped convict.
The Good Templars of Sidney Lodge as
! sembled in full force Friday night at Belyi.
| dere Hall. The usual docket of new and
unfinished business was cleared and five
persons were initiated. Under the Good
| Of the Order" Mr.. Bradley, of jefferson,
made an address; chorus by the choir, and
some interesting questions were asked by
| the Committee on Programme.
At joint meeting of the Baptist Central
| Committee of Missions for Virginia and
! the Woman's Missionary Society of Rich
mond held on Thursday last at the mission
rooms Mrs. r. Adam, who has been the
| faithful treasurer for twenty years, resigned
| because of the magnitude of the work, and
| Mrs. William r. Ellyson was elected in her
stead. Thirteen hundred dollars was re-
| ported as having been raised by the socie-
| ties during the past quarter.
While the condition Of Mr.. George Ten
| ser, who came near being suhocated to
| death last Wednesday night in the boiler
! in the new City Hall, Is greatly improved,
/ he is still unable TO give an ineligible &C
| count of the accident that befell himself
and James Bolton, the latter losing his life
| on the occasion. He is the only son of a
widowed mother and is her only depend
ence for support. The case is very sad
one.
Libertas Lodge of Perfection. No. s, An
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite. will hold
its regular monthly meeting Monday. April
| goth, and O called meeting Wednesday,
! April 22d. At these two meetings all the
degrees of the Lodge of Perfection-fourth
! to fourteenth, inclusive be conferred
| on large class of candidates. The CON-
mittee on invitation TO candidates will
meet Monday evening just before the OPEN
ing ceremonies.
1t is said that the Chesapeake and Ohio
railway had contract to deliver twenty
| trains of sugar in Chicago by midnight OF
| Tuesday, March 31st. sugar being free on
| Wednesday. April LIST, and the penalty was
| $4,000 day for each days delay. When
! in Haryey's tunnel took place all these
trains were caught east OF IT and were
strung along as far as Clifton Forge. They
| didlnot get through the tunnel till Monday,
March 30th, but they were given the right
| of wav from there TO Chicago, and made
the trip successfully.