Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-01
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED BY THE
DISPATCH REPORTERS.
Personal Points About Prominent People
Society Notes. Current Gossip. and
General Local Items.


IN Washington.
Miss Kate Poe. of Newport News, Is visit
ing friends in the city.
The Misses Green, of south Third street,
will visit Lexington soon.
Miss Blanche Barry, of Norfolk. Is the
xuest OF Miss Stella Burr
The Misses Hobbs returned to their
home, in Petersburg, last week.
Mrs. Winston and Miss Rosalie winston
are spending few days IN Baltimore
Miss Emma Deroyshire will leave on
Tuesday 10 visit relatives in BROOKLYN.
Miss Helen Randolph Wilson is visiting
her uncle. DIR. c. " Robinson, Petersburg.
Va.
Mr. Robert Bagnall, of Baltimore, is in
the ciiv on a visit to Mr.. James Neither
wood.
Mr.. s. G.. Amos, of Ashland, is visiting
her son. Policeman Amos, south Laurei
street.
Miss Minna Il. Finnev left the city last
week for visit TO her relatives IN Amelia
county.
Mr. Robert Leech, of Brooklyn, is visit
ing his sister, Mrs. Derbyshlre, on west
Man street.
Mrs. Theodore Nelson, children, and
nurse have left for New loikto attend her
sisters marriage.
Miss Mildred Cameron and Miss Ora:
ham. OF North Carolina are tho guests OF
Mrs. 7. II. Mayo.
Mrs. Ernest Boiling. who has been visit
ING her parents in the South, returned TO
the city last week.
Misc Percie Bradley. after q pleasant
visit of two weeks TO Norfolk and vlcinity,
has returned home.
The price paid by Mayor Ellyson for the
Edmond property. on Franklin street, was
$3.50 per front foot.
Mr.R. G. Traylor will conduct the meet
inc at Young Mems Christian Association
Hall this afternoon.
Mrs. Purviance Tams, of Staunton, is
the Guest of her sister, Mrs. Harry frayser,
ON east Grace street.
Messrs Harry Slaughter, and Thomas
Meade Of Danvilie, attended the fatti
concert Friday night.
Mr.. l.. T. Robertson. who has been SICK
for some time, has returned from the couh-
try in improved health.
Miss Holt, of Lewisburg, W. Va, who
came down TO attend the Patti concert,
left for home yesterday.
E.Mrs. W. Z. Huntley, Jr., who has been
visiting her fathers home, IN Louisa coun-
", has returned to the city.
Mr.. L. +. Robertson has returned home
much improved in health after spending
several weeks IN Richmond.
Misses Mamie and Nellie Smith returned
TO their homo. Shadwell. Wednesday, after
d very pleasant visit TO the city.
4 g raturOpH
home Tuesday after most pleasant visit
20 relatives IN Norfolk and tins city.
Ess Matte W. Booker, who has been
vsssting her aunt. Mrs. Finney. returned
TO her home, in Amelia, last Thursday.
Major b. +. Eakle, who has been at the
Exchange Hotel for several days, left yes
terday afternoon tor the White Sulphur.
Mr.. William Boiling, DR.. and Mrs ]. Is.
Winston. and number OF schoolgirls
from Waynesboro', attended the Patti con-
cert.
Notices have been posted all over the
CITY that the registration books of the va
rious precincts will be. open tuesday. May
10th.
temperance meeting will be held to-
nioht AT Venable-Street church. under the
auspices of Charity Lodge of Good Tenn
p!ars.
Mrs Rowe Boutwell, of the Atlantic
Hotel, Norfolk. Is visiting her brother. Mr..
Richard English Cooke, at PIG east Main
street.
Captain F. W. Cunningham will assist
the Young men Of Randolph-Street church
in a musical entertainment tomorrow
sight.
Misses Rebecca Schenck and Lucie Be-
vens, of Greensboro, n. c., are visiting the
family of Nlr. W. X. Miller, 303 south Fourth
street
Callie Rose, white woman, was re-
ceived at the penitentiary Yesterday from
Wise county to serve one year tor mall
cious cutting.
Mrs Julia A. Small has returned to the
CITY from Atlanta. Ga, after being absent
SIX months, and Is stopping at 22l north
Twentieth street
J. w. ellis and w. r. Gillian, Of Farm
Vile, Va, and j. ". Hobgood, OF Raleigh,
n. were registered at the Tobacco Ex-
change yesterday.
DIR. Phil. TAYLOR and wife will leave the
CITY III few DAYS for New York, whence
they will sail MAY the 18th for an extend
ed trip through Europe.
Mss Elise Meem. who has been the
guest of Miss Anne Walker for the week
past, left yesterday for Seattle, where she
Will reside IN the future.
A temperance meeting will be held to-
day at $3.50 O'clock. at Nenable- Street Bap-
fist church, under the auspices OF Charity
Lodge of Good Templars.
Mr. Charles T. Shervin, the private sec
rotary of Mr. Decatur Axtell, OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, is still quite
sick at his home, 27lS east Broad street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Cooke of Nor
folk, who came up to attend the Patti con-
cert. are stopping at the Exchange Hotel
They will leave this afternoon for their
hOme.
Miss Carrie Triplett. charming young
lady from Culpeper, IS the guest OF Miss
Louise Reins, north Twelfth street. Miss
Triplett came to this city to attend the
Patti concert.
Policeman T.. Il. Robinson shot and
killed on Church-Hill avenue between
Twenty-third and Twenty fourth streets
Friday afternoon a dog which was sup
posed TO be mad.
The ambulance was called last night at
$40 o'clock TO the First police station TO
colored boy who had been struck on the
head with a brick and slightly hurt. he
was treated and left.
Mrs. James Woodall. who has been on a
visit to her parents. MIR. and Mrs. NJ b.
Powers, at 304 west Marshall street. Will
leave Monday for her home, in Baltimore,
accompanied 10y her mother.
A difficulty occurred on Twenty-third
and Main streets last night between Arthur
Goven AMI Jacob Austin. two negroes. In
the course of the alteration the former
was painfully cut on the breast
On Friday night next Professor Leo
Wheat. assisted by the Miller brothers and
other amateur musical talent OF the city,
will give a concert at the Young Mems
Christian Association Hall for a worthy
object.
The earnings of the Richmond and Pc
tersburg railroad for March, 1892. were
S30,77s.62; expenses, S2OG95.07; and the
earnings of the Petersburg railroad for
same month were So, l27.92; expenses.
SIS, 76090.
Mr.. Ii. b. Valentine who. with his wife.
sailed from New York Saturday the 23d on
the Etruria for Liverpool. caDied yester-
day that they had arrived safely after q
pleasant voyage, which they had greatly
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