Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-03
Personals and Briefs.

ington.
Miss Irene Langhorne Is on visit to friends in
Baltimore.
Mr. b. N. Quarles, VINO was quite sick Sunday,
was much better yesterday
Mr.. c. A. Nesbitt and bride have returned
from their tour of the northern cities.
Rev. and Mrs. Niven, OF Dobo's Ferry, New
YORK. are guests OF Col. C. r. Barksdale.
Mr.. Arthur W. BodeI, OF Old Point, and Mr.. J.
A. Barlow, OF Norfolk, are on visit 70 this city
Mrs. John l. Roper and son are the guests of
Rev. DR.. W. " Tudor, No. S02 east Clay street.
Mrs. A. NJ. Kelley and Miss Marie Kelley
are the guests OF Mrs. Walter ID. Moses, I'll east
Franklin street.
Mr.. stanhope Boiling has returned from Hot
Springs, Ark, after a stay Of some months much
benefited IN health.
Miss Evelyn Kean, Of Goochland county, who
has been visiting Mrs. y. u. hean, returned
home yesterday evening.
samnel II. Roberts yesterday instituted suit in
the City Circuit Court against Henry and Lucre-
tia j. Gibson for sl,O7l.2y.
The City Democratic Committee will hold a
regular meeting In the City Circuit-Court room
at half-past o'clock tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. f. Eller and their little son
Eddie, OF West Point, are visiting Mrs. Josie
Bracket, Of 223S Venaole street.
The ladies' Of the Grace-Street Baptist church
carried a largo crowd with them on their excur-
sion TO Washington yesterday morning.
The Streets Committee will meet In the City
Engineers oflce az 1880 o'clock this evening.
Many important matters will come boforo 1t.
A colored boy named William Coleman was
arrested IN the First District last evening for
stealing lgnt oyercoat from some person un-
known.
A Lodge OF Elks will be instituted ia Peters
burg Wednesday the 4th. Richmond Lodge has
been invited, and no doubt large number will
attend.
Mrs. ]. W. Galbert, Of Messy Creek, Tenn, and
her little daughter are here on months visit 10
,rs. Galbert parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas +.
Hannegen-
In pursuance Of an order from the Mayor. the
Board OF Police Commissioners will meet this al
ternOon al o'clock, instead OF at the same hour
on Thursday.
Mr.. Joseph 5. Potts, the passenger agent OF the
Richmond and Danglle railroad, has removed
his Office from the Times building TO No. 9l9
east Main street.
J.. Ii. Macklin, B. b. Vaughan, and J. p. VIII
Hanson, OF Petersburg Va, and Il. A. Watson,
OF Bath county, were registered at the Tobacco
Exchange yesterday.
The contract for furnishing the police depart
ment with Ice has been awarded to the Crystal
Company at 40 cents per 100 pounds. Three
Nrs j. J. Cole. Miss Mabel Cole Master Jour-
ney Cole, and Miss Lizzie McCann, OF Berkley
ana Mrs. Lizzie Cole, Of Brooklyn, n. u, are the
guests Of Miss Lummie Cunningham, on Libby
Hi.
Anumber Of the residents OF Franklin street
have signed petition asking the Committee on
Electric Light not 10 carry out its determination
OF lighting that fashionable tnor0ughfare By
electricity.
r+a ot ~
penitentiary yesterday: John Lucas (colored),
Alexandria, housebreaking, two years; Willie
Gillian (ccloredl, Brunswick county, house
breaking, two years.
The ladies' OF the Oakwood Memorial Associa.
ton will meet in the brick school-hOuse In 81.
Johns Ichurchyard this afternoon at o'clock.
IL Is especially desired that all the ladies viii be
present on lnie occasion.
Mrs Mary Hunter, Of this city Is critically Ill
OF pneumonia at Rutleige, the residence Of her
son-in-law, Hon. William q. Parrish, near Char
lottesyille. Though somewhat more encou-
raging, her condition is still serious.
The Richmond Academy Of Medicine and Sur
gerry will hold its regular meeting at tho Young
Mems Christian Association Hall tonight at $50
o'clock. Tho subject for discussion Is "Jaun-
dice" and DR.. Michaux will DO the leader.
Thirty persons died In Richmond last week. OF
whom IL were white and 10 colOred. There
were 40 deaths for the corresponding week last
year. There were deaths from COMMISSIONS, .
from consumption, and 3 from heart-iisease.
There was an alarm OF lre from Station 3,
Third-Street engine-house az 1O:3S yesterday
morning. IL was caused by gas Jet setting FIRE
10 curtain and windo1-irame at 327 east
Franklin street, the home OF the late Dr. A. L..
Parks. The damage was trliiiDg.
Mr.. W. p. Dabney, Of this city, writes 10 the
DISPATCH that Mr.. Hubert Stobsrt, who was
drowned at Nuttlesburg Saturday, was a native
OF England. and WAS tutor in a family OF Abe
marie county for q long time. He secured a
position on engineering corps, and left Rich
fnond for West Virginia on the night OF January
| l, 1892. Mr.. Dabney thinks his fatner's family
| still live In Albemarle county.
| The break In the canal above the Old pump
| house. caused by the freshet OF last Wednesday
night, Is being repaired, and II Is thought that
| the usual supply Of water 1T the Tredegar
Works, the Gallcgo Mills. the Richmond Paper
Works, and other Establishments will be fur
| nished these concerns to-day. Tho decrease In
| the supply to these places mas practically sus-
| pended operations for the past few days.
| The ambulance responded TO two calls yester-
| day. The first was at l:20 O'Clock p. N. 10 Cul.
| lingsworths tobacco-iactory. Twenty-ffth and
Main streets, to q white woman suffering vita
| COMMISSIONS. She was treated and lett. II was
| again summoned at o'clock p. M. TO tho Rich
| mond Locomotive Works to white man whose
| toe had been mashed. lie was treated and taken
! TO his home, corner Of Sixth and Leigh streets-