The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-21
Personal AND GENERAL
Interesting Facts About Richm"n"s o'''
sens and Other Matters.

Interesting Facts Aoe"s
sens and Other MATTERS.
DR. n. II. Levy is recovering from ssri-
Gus illness.
DIR. NJ. d. Hogs. Jr.. returned last night
from Ocean View.
Miss Bessie Jackson has gone 10 fniladel-
phia TO visit friends.
! p. Beard. sheriff of Amherst county,
was at the Capitol yesterday.
Mr.F. A. Ezekiel and family are spend
inc the summer at Mountain Lake.
Mrs. J. t. Taylor. of Church Hill. is visit
ing relatives in Isle Of Wight county.
Miss Emnie Mclaughlin will leave Fri
day 10 visit friends in Trenton and Camden.
Mr.. Joheph Flahertey is out, after being
confined to the house tor two weeks with
an injured foot.
Miss Hart Powell, of Greenville county. is
visiting her sister. Mrs. John III. Collins,
AZ North Second street.
Miss Kate Trice. Of Louisa county. is
visiting at Mr.. Stephen Hunters, corner
Tenth and Capitol streets.
A marriage license was issued in Wash
ington Monday to Albert Stokes. OF Rich
rnond. Virginia. and Lottie Moore.
Mrs. James f. KesrneY and daughter.
Mary, of this city. are summering at Dun
can villa. Catskill mountains, New York.
james Miller. Esq, president of the Union
Bank. Ia able to be about his home IN Ash
land again after severe spell OF illness OF
several weeks.
In the chancsry court yesterday Colonel
John 3. Purcell qualified as administrators
d b. n c. I. a. on the estate OF James -.
Purcell, deceased.
The many friends of Charles Collins,
who was injured in q railroad wreck last
SUNDAY evening near Florence. South Caro-
lima. will be glad to to learn that he Is
improving rapidly.
Mr. John Kemple and wife and Mr.. J. G.
Thompson left last evening for NIAGARA
and other points North and West. They
will be gone about two weeks.
II is said that the loss in various parts OF
the city Oh account of the storm OF Tues
day night was so great that there IS prob
ability of several damage suits against the
city.
Nominations of officers Of Sidney Lodge,
No. 42S. !. q. Ct. r., will be made Friday
night. Business of Importance will be
transacted. and all members are requested
to attend.
The Baltimore News OF Tuesday says: Mr.
for Europe. accompanied by Miss May
Handy and her sister, Miss Madge Ould, Of
Richmond. Va.
Dir. Edwin Farmer. the young piano stu
dent. delighted a number of music lovers
gathered at Ramos music store yesterday
evening by rendering several beautiful
classic compositions Dir. Farmer left Rich
mond last evening.
The ambulance was called yesterday at
AS =. NJ. to I. G. Williams tobacco fac
tory to a cOlored woman who was suffering
with commissions. She was treated and
taken % her home. on Seventeenth street
between Main aud Cary.
Among the passengers on the Old Domin-
ion TO New York Tuesday was Mrs. John
King. who has for several weeks past been
visiting Mrs. Ann Murphy, of north Nine
tenth street. BY her charming manners
and many accomplishments she made a
number Of friends during her stay here.
Mr.. +. P. Burke. fire commissioner from
Clay ward. in a communication to TIE
TIMES yesterday said in reference 10 the
report of the meeting OF the board OF tre
commissioners Tuesday evening that he did
nominate Mr. j. s. Trower for the position
of permanent first assistant chief. but that
be did 20 or his own responsibility aud not
Will MI. IIOHcI CbbcChb VI hhOn4SN6Vs
Mr.. Trower made no effort whatever to
secure the position.
Mrs. Colonel W. H. McCsrdle of Aissis-
sippi. and her son Battle. student at the
University OF Virginia and now on his yaca-
ton. are at No. IS south Fifth street for
few DAYS. Colonel William II. McCardle is
the noted Southern author and journalist
who. in conjunction with Governor Lowrey.
of Mississippi, wrote a history of that State,
which. by request of the authorities. Colonel
McCardle is now engaged in adapting for
the public schools Of Mississippi.
A telegram from Baltimore announces the
death at II o'clock yesterday morning of
Mrs. John A. Hambledon, vito of q
prominent retired banker of that city.
Mrs. Hambledon was sister of Ma.
Charles Watkins. of this city and had been
an invalid for some months past. Mrs. Wat
kins only returned TO Richmond yesterday
morning. and gave cheering accounts from
DR.. Hunter McGuire, of this city, who Was
in attendance as an expert physician. aud
the terrible shock may be imagined on re-
ceipt of the telegram saying that the sister
whom she thought so much better bad Just
died. Mr.. Charles Watkins ana his wife
left for Baltimore on the o'clock train last
evening.