Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-25


Personals and Briefs.
Mr. Edgar r. Lanerty is visiting Ms
mother. at Crozet.
Professor Edmund Harrison is slowly but
steadily improving.
Rev. DIR. Charles II. Ryland IS al Mouh'
tam Lake, Giles county.
Mr.. Joseph Frebis. of Milwaukee, WIS.,
was IN the city yesterday.
Mr.. G. s. Gates is spending several weeks
at the White Sulphur Springs, W. va.
There was a very large excursion party
from North Carolina in the city yesterday.
Miss Leila Blunt left Yesterday TO visit
relatives and friends IN Cumberland
county.
Misses Minnie and Ida Keesee will re-
turn TO-DAY from their summer trip to the
Eastern Shore.
Miss Euterpe Fltz-Gerrell. of MI. Yer,
non, H., is the guest of Miss Hewitt, at SOU
east Clay street.
Mrs. William S. Hunter is visiting rela-
tives in Charles City county. She VIII De
absent month.
Mr.. Stuart A. Woiss has returned from
Washington. where he has been for the
last TWO lnOhtuS.
The Council Committees on Water and
Ordinances will meet this afternoon IN the
Council chamber.
Mr.. r. W. Hicks leaves to-day 10 visit
several Of the summer resorts IN virginia
and West Virginia.
Miss Lummie Cunningham, who went
on the Knights Templar trip TO Denver, Is
expected back this week.
Miss A. r. Wilson. of 2OS north Twenty
first street. has gone 10 visit relatives III
Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Mr.. John w. Strang has returned in inn
proved health from an extended trip to
New Mexico and Colorado.
Fx-Mayor Robert L. Hagan and BRIDE
and Mr.. Bernard lIagan left for Hunting
ton. W. Va, yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. b. +. Cornwell. of Woodward &
L0throp. is spending his vacation at Bar
Harbor rs the guest of his brother.
Rev. George II. Ray left the city yester-
day for CORTLAND, where he will deliver
tho address OF cornerstone laying.
MIR. Louis Rueger and his son. Mr.. Henry
C. Rueger. lett Tuesday afternoon for New
York. to be absent about three weeks.
Mr.. Ashton starke, chief marshal of the
trades parade. will APPOINT his aides in a
day or two. when thoy will be announced.
Mr.. f. II. Ferguson and Miss Jennie
Ferguson, who went on To Toronto,
Canada. and other northern points. have
returned.
Mrs. A. b. Armstrong, Mrs. G. x. Wren,
and Miss SUSIE Robinson. of Church Hill,
have returned home after a pleasant trip
to Washington.
During the storm Yesterday evening the
electricians were stopped, and consider
able Inconvenience experienced by pedes-
trans because thereof.
Mr.. James NJ. GALLAGHER, agent Of the
Old Dominion Line. Norfolk. Va, was IN
the city yesterday attending the funeral OF
Captain John NJ. West.
Messrs. Cabell Davis, manager of the
American Hotel. and Charles S. Powell
left the city last night for New York, where
they will spend few days.
Messrs. Charles J. Merriman and J. d.
Tanner. of Raleigh, y. c.. who have been
summering az the White Sulphur, arc IN
the city on their way home.
Miss Beulah Blanton and her aunt, Mrs
Stevenson. Of Philadelphia. are at Ocean
City, n. J. Miss Blanton Will visit Phila-
delphia before returning nome.
Miss Florence Tucker after a delightful
visit % her cousin, Mrs. NJ. A. Martin. at
Silver Spring, Chesterfield county, has re-
turned TO her home, in Petersburg, Va.
Mrs. Leila F. Harmon. who has been sick
in Petersburg for the last two weeks, was
brought 10 this CITY Sunday and Is very Ill
at her residence, No. 925 north Twenty
sixth street.
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have been spending the summer with her
mother, Nrs. NJ. Is. Leigh, at Aylett's, King
William county, will return home the
coming week.
A commission Of lunacy has been ordered
TO sit az the Henrico county court house
to investigate the mental condition OF Mrs.
Sarah WOOdfn. a white woman in the West
End, who Is supposed 10 be somewhat de-
mepted.
The Tazewell Mars says: Mrs. Silas
Shelburne. a most attractive society lady
of Richmond, has been spending some
time with the family OF her brother-In-
law, Professor Shelburne, at Tazewell Fee
male Seminary.
William Harris, a colored boy, was ar
rested and lodged in the Second Police
Station YESTERDAY morning by Policeman
j. ". Williams, charged with stealing two
backing-brushes of the value Of SljO
from Owens & Minors drugstore.
Balif Gibbons. of the Police Court. lost
a new pair of steel handouts Yesterday
while on bis way from the jail to the First
Police Station. He had landed his prison.
er safely behind the bars. and was return
ing when he dropped the bracelets
Ii Is reported that two Broad-stre mer-
chants have been caught recently for $l5
.h a .lanzibla gtVqnn.4r Nc a hoe haaO
going through the State distributing
bogus checks. The stranger tired to catch
q Manchester merchant few days ago but
failed.
There will be an open meeting of Sid
new Lodge, No. AS, L. O. Ct. L.. Friday
night AT Belvidere Hall. Rev. n. Il. Allison
will deliver an address and there will be
colo by Captain Frank Cunningham and
Rotations by others. The public will be
welcome.
A colored man named Scott dropped
dead on j street Just beyond the corporate
limits on Tuesday night. Coroner Lett
wlch was notified, and after viewing the
/ BODY yesterday morning pronounced
death from natural causes and no inquest
necessary.
A number OF ladies and gentlemen who
were driving on the boulevard yesterday
evening when the rain-storm came mp were
unable to obtain shelter and were deluged
by the downpour. Several members Of the
far sex had hight dresses and summer hats
ruined by the storm.
Two mules were shocked-one of them
quite severely-by treading on the tracks
of the electrician line at the corner of
Fourteenth and Cary streets yesterday
afternoon. One of the animals fell to the
ground and it was several minutes before
il could be gotten up.
News has been received here OF the
death at Fountain, Col, on the 18th Of this
month Of Mr.. Fred. Nj. q. Chapman. who
for several wears was an assistant IN the
dental Office of DR.. Steel. Mr.. Chapman
was the sou of Rev. A. Chapman, an
esteemed Baptist minister of Canada, now
residing at Alfred, Me.
Captain Frank Cunningham was to have
| taken part in the concert given at bu-
| chanan last night for the benefit OF tine
| Mt. Vernon Homo, which is TO be erected
| by this State at the Worlds Fair, but was
unable to leave fhe city, as he felt 1t a
| duty 10 attend the funeral of his friend,
| Mrs. John NJ. Higgins, which took place
yesterday morning.
The Best In the World.
Senator Henry @. Nelson, OF New York,
ION the 27th of February. 1888. | was
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