Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-01-01
REC0RDOF THE YEAR.
IMPORTANT LOCAL EVENTS FOR THE
PAST TWELVE MONTHS.
A Complete Seminary OF rhe Happenings
Around Richmond and Published
In the Dispatch.
JANUARY.

JASuARY.
Sd. Messrs. =. 7. Barry and @. l. Hewitt
fled deeds Of assignment. Captain VIII
liam Simpkin disappeared.
4th. Captain Hugh u. Garden, OF the
Olcott Committee, arrived IN the city to
couter with the commissioners.
5th. Mr.. Edward '. Valentine and Mrs.
Catherine r. Mayo married. Electric
light contract awarded.
9th. Messrs. B. +. johnson q Co. trans
ferred their business TO the Historical
Publishing Company.
9Th. John Wheelwrieht instituted suit
against Il. g. Baylor for $4,000 damages
for slander. John A. Kratz made an as-
sigament. The Virginia Mercantile and
Ssfe-Deposit Company organized;
18th. Presentation of Plnafore" for
the benefit of the Private Soldiers and
Sailors monument.
18th. Mr.. john n. Inman reelected
president of the Richmond and Danville.
1lth. Richmond Architectural Club or
ganized.
18th. Mr.. Miller Michaux killed and his
brother, Julian, badly injured by, tram
in Manchester. Report of the debt COM
missioners sent TO the Legislature. AM
nual meeting of the Virginia state
Agricultural and Mechanical Society.
10th. Ground covered with six inches OF
snow.
nth. Peter McAleary killed at the Rich
mond Paper-Mills.
18th. Madame Bernhardt at the Theatre.
Seyenty-three men put of at Dsnvllle
shops.
2lfh. Mr. Charles W. Garrett killed on
the Richmond and Allegheny railroad.
28th. The Saraband danced. The Ken
dals at the Academy.
Goth. Charles Bowen. Of Swansboro',
drowned in the old canal-loeks.
FEBRUARY.
4tb. Ladies' reception at the Westmore-
land Club. Feod-store of Savage d Bever-
idee damaged by fire.
9Th. Transparent ice-factory destroyed
by fire.
10th. Brilliant reception at the home Of
Major Ginter Richmond-C Club house sold
to Mr. Clay Drewry.
21st. Robeit Ii. T. Hunter Association
organized.
Gath. Meeting of James River Convoca-
tlon at Monumental church.
25th. Dixie Plow-Works damaged by fire.
27th. President Harrison passed through
Richmond on his way to Virginia Beach.
Serious CHARGES preferred against Com
mander Graham, of the monlter feet.
Banquet by the wholesale grocers OF the
Masonic Temple.
MARCH.
1st. Investigation in tho case of Com
mander Graham commenced.
4th. Annual award OF badges and pins TO
the First Regiment.
5th. f. III. Platt and Walter Clark Nose
lev killed on the Allegheny railroad.
9Th. Arrival in the city of the statue Of
General A. p. Hill.
7th. Veteran New York fremen IN Rich
mond.
8th. Patrick Carroll run over by a train
al Acca station and killed.
9Th. Rev. Baylus Cade called TO the
pastorate OF Venable Street Baptist
church.
missed
18th. Petition signed by Jurors and others
circulated in behalf of Buford Grymes.
James 2. Heath dropped dead at the
Chesapeake and Ohio shops. New cavalry
company organized.
18th. The Rebekah Peterkin Memorial
Association chartered Electrcal-plant
site purchased. Appearance of the aurora
bCrealis.
l4th. Celebration of the centennial an
nyersary Of Richmond Royal Arch Chap
ter.
eth. Masquerade ball given TO the chill
benefit of the Savannah Orphan Asylum.
18th. Mr.. L. Roberts Baker retired from
the drug business.
list. Rev. +. A. Cutler resigned the pas
lonte of tho Marshall-Street Christian
idurch.
IB2d. Mr.. william r. Bovall lectured at TIE
fhoatre for the Soldiers and Sailors mon
ument.
18th. Or. r. G. Flower arrested for prac-
4 ,oJf srsAhnnk a hnanCa
list. Rev. Baylus Caoe assumes charge
Of the Venable-Street BaI ;st church. The
ca e Of DR.. Flower dismissed.
APRIL.
4th. Bob Lawrence (colored) killed by
beng thrown from freight train.
9Th. The Supreme Court of Appeals rem
dered two important decisions involving
the rights of property-holders as against
municipalities IN the matter of making
street improvements.
18th. Colonel 81. L. Spotswood demand
ed q recount of the ballots cast for Com
| monwealth's Attorney in the primary cleo
tion.
18Th. Tho Grand Lodge of Virginia. I.
90. f., closed a successful session here.
18th. Assignment Of Edel Brothers. +.
B. Grymes released from the penitentiary.
toth. The Masonic Fair opened under
brilliant auspices Old City-Hall lot sold.
Rd. Horny Marsh drowned IN the Dock
while attempting TO board a vessel.
18th. The recount of the entire primary
vote gave Colonel NJ. l.. Spotswood fcer
| majority.
Chicago.
2sth. A little girl named Gebhard as
saulted by a negro.
2eth. Convention of Presbyterian elders
in session.
Sd. Bishop Van de Vyver left for Rome.
| The Masonic Fair closed. having cleared
about $1,000.
sth. The Westmoreland baseball nine
defeated by that of the Commonwealth.
7th. William j. Tyler died from wounds
inflicted by William Gillian.
9th. The broom and brush factory of
thp Goodman Manufacturing Company
| burned.
18th. Rev. s. A. Goodwin, ID. D., called to
pastorqte of the First Baptist church of
| Savannah, Ga.
nth. The trial of John Davis. charged
| with embezzlement, begun in the Hust-
| ings Court.
18th. The State Democratic Convention
met.
2sd. The Governor commuted the SEN
tence Of Wayman sutton to imprisonment
| for life.
soil. The statue of General A. P. Hill
unveiled.
| JUNE.
lst. The body of William L. Abbott found
| in the dock. The Mason railroad bill went
| into effect.
9th. Colonel John b. Purcell resigned
from the presidency of the Chamber of
| Commerce..
llth The commsslon-house of II. b.
| Ta;isfsrro a. Co. burned.
! l4ih Western drummers in Richmond.
18th. The Seven-Pines railroad sold to
| Mr.. George f. Fisher. Stuart A. Madison
| drowned while bathing in the river near
| the shiD-lock. The Richmond and DAN
| Vile Railroad Company placed in the
| hands Of a receiver.
18TH The Virginia delegation left for
1 Chicago.
18TH. Mr.. Amistead B. Curtis, of Hano-
yer county, took his life in the family
burying ground.
24th. Grand Sovereign Consistory in an
| nual session in Richmond.
| 9th. Family of Mr.. Corydon Sutton
made SICK by eating canned ox-tongue.
29tb. Ghs Founding Hospital OF Vir.
ginia organized.
| July.
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