Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-26
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| DIR. Lewis Wheat has returned TO the
| city after brief visit TO Old Point.
| Miss Marie l.. Kuhn has returned home
/ after pleasant visit to Petersburg.
| DIR. James N. Ellis left the city yesterday
morning 10 spend a week in Buckingham
Miss Carrie johnson. of Petersburg. IS
| visiting Miss Marie Kuhn. of west Clay
street.
Richmond Commandery. No. 2, Knights
| Templar will have an important meeting
| tonight.
Mr.. w. L. Ogilvie, Of Church Hill, has
returned from very pleasant VISIT 10 re-
tersburg.
Mr.. William F. Crump, ofChurch Hill, is
] ON a trip 10 Ocean View. Virginia Beach,
and Norfolk.
Captain T.. G.. Morton returned TO the
CITY last night from a brief visit to his
! home at Stanton.
Mr.. W. W. Wake and family are home
| again from O pleasant vlsit 10 Ne"poi'
News and Old Point.
Misses Minnie and Lottie. Beasley, o.
Petersburg. are visiting their aunt ana
sister on Church Hill.
Mr.. George Dean and wife have returned
| from s. OelgntfUl IT'D 10 Olu O'bt, OSN"N
| View, and Virginia Beach.
Mr. w. Il. Wake has returned home
after n pleasant trip 10 the seashore and rs
very much improved in health.
Miss NJ. Goode Anderson has returned to
her home in King and Queen county after
visiting friends in Richmond.
Messrs. w. Cabell Trueman and James
| 7. Wood spent Sunday near Alton. where
| the family Of the former Is summering
Mrs. Sarah Brooks and her niece. Miss
Salhe Daily. left Wednesday for Norfolk,
New York, and other places of interest.
Miss Narcissa Barton leaves for Cleve-
land, Ohio, tonight. She will visit her
aunt. Mrs. Il. A. Lamb, for few weeks.
Mrs. Quarles and her daughter. Miss
Louise QuaEles, are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
c. g. Walden. at Gwathmey, near Ashland.
Misses Lesbia and Willietta Leavitt, of
Baltimore, are the guests of Sheriff j. L.
Hughes, No. 312 north Twenty-ninth
street.
A fine yearling belonging TO DR.. w. F..
Farrar was attacked Sunday with some
thing like sunstroke. 1t will probably
recover.
Miss Matte Hooe, of Cumberland coun-
ty, passed through the city yesterday en-
route to West Point, where she will attend
the Teachers Institute.
Although the weather was exceedingly
close and oppressive Sunday end yester-
day. there was not q single case OF sun
stroke reported either day.
Mr.. l.. Bowman. of Halifax. who has
been in the city under treatment of DR..
Mcclure. is much improved and will leave
for home the last Of this week.
Cablegrans were received here yesterday
announcing the safe arrival in England of
Rev. Preston q. Nash and Drs. Lewis G..
Bosher and Charles nj. Shields.
Messrs. r. I. Adams & Co. will run an
excursion to Norfolk Saturday night, Au-
gust 9th. the train leaving the Chesapeake
and Ohio depot at 11:30 O'clock.
Mr.. David w. Saunders. of the Auditors
Office of the Chesapeake and Ohio, left
Yesterday on summer vacation which he
will spend in Louisa and other places.
Mrs Paul Edmundson, who has been I'M
der medical treatment here for several
weeks, is much improved and will leave in
few days Tor her home, IN Halifax county.
The State Board of Agriculture will meet
at the Exchange Hotel today. 1t ia eX-
pected that every member will be present,
as questions of Importance are to be dealt
with.
Mr.. Harry Davis. formerly OF Baltimore,
now of Norfolk. accompanied by Messrs.
NJ. W. Lncke, L. p Smith, 5. =. Cotton,
f. ID. Cotton, and J. W. Meyers, of the lat
ter city, spent Sunday here with friends.
For several nights past there has been a
beautiful display of electricity in three
trees on Eighth street between Clay and
Leigh. II was caused by the electIic-light
wires recently put up, which pass through
the branches OF the trees.
Mr.. Henry G.. Cannon. who is summer
ing al NimrOd Hall. writes to friend that
he and his son went fishing on the day
after the arrival at that place of the
former and caught thirty-one black bass,
one of which weighed four pounds.
Officers Tomlinson and Hall are on the
lookout for a man named l.. Spiegel, who
il charged with passing forged checks on
Norfolk. Spiegel is said to hail from New
York aud to have left Norfolk Saturday
morning presumably for Richmond.
MIR. James r. Preston. formerly OF Virgil
MIA, but now Superintendent of Public In
struction IN Mississippi, is stopping at
Ford's Hotel. He will, with the party of
Point this morning and return tonight.
An alarm of FIRE was turned in from box
No. 1913 Sunday about | O'clock. The
occasion was the burning of mattress in
the servants room of the residence of Mr..
Hill. 800 west Grace street. The flames
were soon extlnguished, and the damage
was trifiing.
A match-game of baseball was played
at Island Park Yesterday afternoon be-
tween the Highland Springs and Randolph
PAPER Box Company's lnvlncibles. The
contest WAS very interesting end quite ex-
citing at times. The game resulted in the
defeat of the former nine.
The Newport News Commercial saws !:
Mr.. George W. helms has been appointed
agent for Adams Express Company. He
has been identified with this town for
years, and all who know him will agree
with us in saying that better appoint
ment could not have been made.
1t is announced that Mr.. Stevenson, the
nominee for Vice President. Will make
several speeches IN North Carolina during
the canvass, and II Is likely that the Cleve-
land and Stevenson Club of this city will
take steps TO get him to come 10 Richmond
while he is on his southern tour.
In the Hastings Court yesterday r. II.
Duncansou white man charged with
emtezzling funds belonging to the Con.
soldated Beneficial Building and Loan
Association, was tried and acquitted. Three
other indictments against Duncanson,
upon the same charge we're mole prosecuted.
II is said that John NJ. Langston, when
IN Richmond few days ago. gave his
friends to understand that he would be
the Republican candidate for Congress in
the Fourth District. and left them under
the impression that he had no idea of
giving his consent to the nomination going
TO Malone.
Mrs. c. Bulheller. of East Richmond,
with two sons. George and Joseph, Miss
Anna Siller. Mr.. George Siller. and Mr..
John Bulheller made party sailing last
Wednesday for Bremen by the North Ger
man-Lloyd Line from Baltimore, steamship
Dresden, for two months visit to the
Fatherland.
Mr.. William B. Isaacs, grand secretary of
the Grand Masonic bodies of Virginia,
and grand recorder of the Grand Encamp-
ment of the United States, will after the
adjournment of the encampment at Den
yer make trip TO California 10 visit his
son, who lives there. MIR. Isaacs leaves for
Denver on August 4th.
The ambulance was called Yesterday