Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-02-17
Personals and Briefs


Mr. NJ r PIeasants. clerk of the United
Htates Circuit Court, is in Norfolk.
Mr.. II. H.. Wilson, Washington CORE
spondent of the Times, is in the city.
Mrs. w. Russell Robinson is the guest
Of BIrs. J. Adair Peasants. 5tS east franh-
lin.
Miss Mary McCaw left Yesterday morn
inc for a brjef visit TO friends in New
York.
DIR. Hunter Mcclure. Mrs. Mcclure. and
Miss Mary Mcclure left on Tuesday morn
ing for Florida.
Miss Mary Murdoch, of Petersburg. W:
Va, is visiting Miss Montague, on west
Franklin street.
Mr.. ]. J. Hampton is very i'll With pneu-
mona ut his residence, 5li north twenty
eighth street.
Mr.. James W. Pegram. who is confined
TO his house on account OF sickness, was
reported better Yesterday.
Captain w. G.. Waller. managing editor
Of the Times, has been detained at hoho
for several days by sickness.
Mr. Hugh Hamilton. Treasurer OF tau-
nuier. and Mr.. William Green. OF west
Point visited the Capitol yesterday.
Mr.. Douglas Rider, who has been Quit,
III with pneumonia. is very much improved
and. II is thought. will soon be out again.
Miss Anderson, daughter of Mr.. r., W.
Anderson. teacher Of the Male orphapn
Academy. is the guest Of Mrs. Joseph Il.
Gill.
Mr.. o. A. Mallory Is very i'll with .pneu-
monia at the residence of his son-in-iaw
n. A. TAYLOR, No. SOB north Iwenty-eiSh'h
street.
4 dog which showed signs Of having the
rabies was killed on the streets az Bartou
Heights Wednesday. As far as known u
had bitten neither person nor animal.
LB. Tlam A Co.. ]. r. Goddin & Co.,
and Cabell & Wilson, real estate agents,
Yesterday sold the brick residence No. Sva
east Grace street TO Mrs. Jennie Ii. Chalk
ley for $500.
Christian Balton was arrested by Ofh-
| GERS Harris and Shoemaker yesterday eve
ming for being drunk and driving his team
| into the buggy of DR.. Edward MeGuire
and badly damaging u.
Acknowledgement r. TAYLOR Scott has
about completed his brief IN the virginia,
| Tennessee boundary-lIne case. which VIII
be argued IN the United States Supreme
Court about March 9th.
Mrs. ]. Taylor Ellyson requests a full at,
| tendance of the Virginia committee o'
| the Memorial Bazaar at O'clock saturday
afternoon in the board-room OF the Young
Mems Christian ASSOCIATION.
Mr.. Alexander Mcdonald, the editor OF
| the Lynchburg Virgindn. who mas Dgel
| confined for the last three days at Dr;
Isaiah Whites sanitarium. has recovered
| and returned home yesterday.
George Lewis and William Jones (bott
| coiored) got into an alteration on u,
teenth street yesterday morning IN whlct
the latter was cut with knife. Jones
| wound was not serious one. Lewis nu'
not yet been arrested.
| DR.. J. c. Hiden has made study Of
Edgar Allen Poe, and his lecture this eve.
ming at 8 o'clock at the Grace.Streel
| Presbyterian church will be literary
treat. The lecture is free and the public
is cordially invited.
The funeral of klrs. Walter J. Hechler
whose death Wednesday night was an
| nounced in yesterdays DISPATCH: VIII tah'
place from Union-Station Methodis
! church at o'clock this afternoon. IA
| deceased was member OF Union-Sta'loi
choir and was generally beloved.
The committee Of the Academy of Medi
cine and Surgery appointed Tuesday nigh
| 10 consider the question OF cooperation
| with the Norfolk Medical Society IN re
spect Of national quarantine laws me
| Wednesday night and the chairman. Dr
Charles NJ. Shields. was instructed 10 stat
il as the sense of the Academy that a Do
| tional quarantine law, rather than an IN
| dividuai State quarantine was desirable.