Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-01-11
virginia Nsvs Items.

NJ. +. Wiley. OF Hendricks W. Va. Is
on a visit 10 his old home IN Highland.
County-Superintendent Il. Hiner Han
sci H. visiting the schools throughout
Highland county.
Rev. sam Small will lecture in Williams
burg on the 18th instant for the benefit OF
the Good Templar lodge there.
The Eastern state Hospital Board held
n meeting on "Wednesday and all accounts
for the past month were audited.
A number of changes will be made
among the yard officials OF the SeahOaru
AIRLINE in Portsmouth the nrst or the
month.
Joshua Erwin. who had his head split
open with a Ratchet by his wife. Julia
Erwin, i'm Norfolk, died IN the jail hospital
there last night.
The United states steamship Kaleigh
was placed IN the dry-dock at Norfolk
yesterday. She will have her bottom
cleaned and painted.
Mr.. Robinson Eppes, aged 81 years, the
oldest white resident OF Prince George
county. died at his home IN that county
on Wednesday morning.
The w~eII-known Presbyterian evange-
list. Rev. &. NJ. Howard. H. conducting
u revival at Stony-Run church. twenty
miles south of Monterey.
There we're l76 marriages in Henry
county last year, and among them was
that of a young man p years Old who
married his step grandmother.
ID. G. Thomas, Of Roanoke. celebrated
the eighty-trst anniversary or MS blrth
Wednesday by giving a dinner, at whlcn
there were a number OF prominent cltt-
Zens.
Thomas Tatem (cOlOred). who was shot
by a trap-gun in Charles Cookies hennery
I'm Berkeley on Tuesday night died last
night at the Retreat for the Sick In Nor
folk.
Mrs. Hardenia L. Hundley. wife of r.
II. IIundley. died at Ashland on Tuesday.
after an illness OF three years. She wa.
a Miss Clolsh. and was born In Han
over about sixty years ago.
Licenses were issued on Wednesday for
the marriage Of Mr. Eugene b. Glenn 10
Miss Bette cOpenhaur. OF Marion, and
TO Mr.. Martin J. Tibbs to Miss Lula /.
Duncan. of the same place.
Judge q. II Fudge has appointed II.
NJ. Rector. William IL. shannon; and n.
g. Davenport to reassess the lands or
Smyth county. They are all flrst-class
men and good Judges OF lands.
$. A. Anderson, one of the most proml-
nent lawyers OF Henry county. viii soon
move 10 Richmond 10 practice his profess
sion. In this Alrtinsville Will lose an
admirable citizen and big Richmond Will
gain one.
1t Is rumOrri that the Baltimore,
Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Com
pany. which recently purchased the
Maryland steamship Company's proper
IL. is bargaining for the purchase OF
several other Potomac steamboat lines.
The steamers Sue and Arrowsmith
have been withdrawn from the cOan-
river route for the winter. The Wake
field will make weekly trips 70 Wash
ington, and the Potomac will also con-
tinue to run 10 both Washington and
Baltimore.
A charter was granted "Wednesday by
Judge Norton, Il the Corporation Court
If AleXandria. 10 the United states Com
ination Repress and F~ancy-Brick Com>
pany, Of Washington. which proposes 10
make ana sell patent brick machine.
II has a capital stock OF 100000.
The poultry show. under the auspices
OF the Roanoke Valley Poultry Associa-
ton. which began at Roanoke on Tues
dav. IS the largest ever held in the state.
The Judge. q. q. Brown. pronounces the
display as being creditable in every re-
sprct. AMI SAYS the birds ar" unusually
tin- in plumage. and that very few are
short In standard weight.