Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-27


Ex-AttOrncy-Gencral Frank ;. Blair was IN
the city yesterday.
Judge h. A. Hancock. Of the Chesterfield Cir
cult COar,, was In the city yesterday.
Mr.. william Tinken. Of Fulton, will sail from
New York tomorrow for Bremen, to visit his
brother.
Miss Bette Conrad daughter Of Hon. Holmes
Conrad. OF Winchester, is stopping at DR.. Hunter
McGuire's.
The suit reported yesterday from the Circuit
Cour. for $3.50 has been withdrawn IL was In
sututed under misunderstanding
J. T. Montgomory's class meets every Sunday
morning In powells Hall, Church-Ilill avenue, at
8 o'clock. All are invited 20 attend.
A telephone pole At the corner Of shnfer md
Franklin streets fell down last night. The wires
kept II from falling clear TO the ground. No one
was huri.
Mr.. and Mrs George y. Wilson have issued In
yifatiOns 10 the marriage OF their daughter, Mi=s
May. TO Mr. Richard n. Anderson Wednesday
morning, June 1th, at ll:4J, at Soventh-street
Christian church.
Robert Crenshaw icolored) was arrested and
lodged In the Second Police station yesterday 10y
Policemen Wren and Shields, charged with being
a suspicious character.
Mr.. :. McG. Fisher, instead Of Mr.. Beverley
I. Crump, as has been stated, has boen elected
presldeu, OF the Virginia Bnilding and Loan
Comp ny to succeed Mr.. Hermann Schmidt.
IL was reported yesterday afternoon that there
would be a boxing contest at the True Reform
ers' Hall last night. Captain Angie looked into
the matter and found that there were no founda-
ton for the report.
The members OF the First Virginia Regiment
Band will leave tomorrow for North Carolina.
where they 20 10 play az the commence
ments OF Wake-Forest College and the Unlyersi-
ty OF North Carolina.
u Ir mil Aa1i hta .afa
bratod lecture on THE Almighty Dollar" at tho
Academy Of Music next Monday night. Mr.. Dixon
needs no Introduction, having been here several
times. HIS at,ainments as a speaker are supe-
rOr and his style Is original, ornate, and match
less.
Captain Angle has succeeded in getting pass
for Mrs Martin aud her two little children,
who went 10 tho Second station last Sunday In a
destitute condition. The woman came here TO
SEQ her hus band, who IL serving term in the
penitentia-y, and 20 endeavor % secure q par
dor for him. Her home IL in Wise county.
Sergeant Robert j. Brooks was yesterday pre-
scented with very neat tooth-pick by William
Williams. who was released from the peniten-
tiary after serving term for shooting an Onlcer
In Alexandra, Va. The toOth-picS, william
said was made by Shaw. who il new serving a
term of eight years Tor wounding Sergeant
Brooks.
Mr.. j. F. Mnligan, Of Norfolk. president o; the
Mexican Veterans, has written 10 Major John
Poe, an old comrade, asking why none OF tie Old
survivors OF tho Mexican war, In which Mr.. Da-
Wis WAS so bravo a soldier, have been invited 20
attend the reinterment ceremonies. lie says
only seven OF them are left IN Norfolk and six
In Portsmouth.
Tho Chesapeake and Ohio trestle near the
Lower Works was discovered 70 be on rre
Thursday afternoon. The blaze was quickly Ca
tinguished by Messrs. e. II. Hall and James
Gentry. OF the Richmond Fire Department with
tho assistance OF a colored man. The origin OF
the flames is supposed to have been sparks IRON
passing locomotive.
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