Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-03-31
AT COMMENCEMENT.
SPEAKERS TO MAKE ADDRESSES
Military Parades, banquet, and
Three oermnns-AthfeHo Exercise.
and battalion Drills-vrospect OF
nm Electric RaiIrOad--Fruit Crop.

BLACKSBURG, VA, March 3O.-The
speakers who have accepted invitations
to deliver addresses at the commencement
are as follows: The baccalaureate sermon
will be preached by Rev. pr. Tudor,
Methodist minister. OF Norfolk; the SER
mon before the Young Mems CHRISTIAN
Association will be delivered by Rev. DR..
l.. G.. Broughton, OF Roanoke. Hon. X.
Il. Byrd, OF Winchester. will deliver the
literary address before the Lee and Maury
literary societies. The annual alumni adj
dress will be by Judge wilcox. OF Nor
| folk and the Hon. Claude A. Swanson,
member Of Congress from the Fifth Dis
| trict. will be the orator on commence
ment-day proper While the true COM
| mencement-day Is not until the 18th OF
June, the exercises Will commence with the
baccaLaureate on the 18th. The above-in-
dIcated exercises. together with the mill
tary parade. alumni banquet. and three
germans give US quite n full programme.
Judge Waller r. Staples has been at the
last several ommsncements. and has al
ways delighted his audiences with an I'M
promptu speech. He will be present again
and Mrs. #. +. Campbell, and we shall
expect fully as good things from him as
In the past.
By invitation OF the two literary socie-
ties Professor Atwood has consented 70
address them on the evening OF April
18th.
The interest OF the ladies' OF the
town in the Athletic Association as mani
tested in the very entertaining amateur
play presented on last Friday evening
for it's benefit. is highly appreciated by
both the students and faculty. II was
certainly very nice thing on their part.
and the handsome proceeds which It
Melted served 10 relieve the good but
hard-pressed fellows very much.
NEW UNIFORMS
A handsome new set of uniforms has
been ordered for our baseball players.
and the question arises as 10 how good
looking they will b. when they don them.
since they are now Just too handsome for
anything" In the old ones. The match
game with Roanoke College IS but just
one week off. and out boys are rapidly
getting into good form. While the posi-
tioas of the players have not been de-
clded with absolute denniteness. they will
probably play as follows: Catcher. Watts:
pitcher James; first base Da-hiell; second
base. Rosenstock. third base, Greenwood;
short-stop, Craighl: right field. a. +.
t.skridge; csntre field. l.. III. Lancaster;
left field. Wainwright.
OF these. Dashlell. Eskrllge. Lancaster.
and Wainwright were on last seasons
tam. The others are all new men.
FIELD WORK.
Colonel d. c. Shanks. commandant OF
cadets Il 1QNl
his fathers home, in Salem. The cadets
have commenced ne q work I'm battalion
drill The Commandant insisted rlgidy
on severe discipline in the exercises, and
in drill before he would allow the bat
talon formation, and the wisdom Of this
was evinced by the fine bearing Of the
corps and their remarkable precision when
put into the field IN battalion formation.
ON seeing them In battalion drill one Is
struck more forcibiy than ever with what
a fne-looklng corps 1t Is The State may
well be proud Of il.
Mr.. King, now a student Of Union Theo-
logical Seminary. Hampden-Sidney. Va,
| but originally from Canada. delivered be-
| fore the College Soung Mems Christian
| Association an address on The Gail TO
| the Gospel Ministry" quite a goOdly
audience-perhaps 80 studsnts-met the
| speaker and listened TO him with marked
been well considered. and was delivered
in a style both pleasing and impressive.
Whether IL results I'm turning finally the
thought OF any OF our students TO the
ministry or not. such an address cannot
fall 10 do much good. While her. Mr..
King was the guest OF Colonel and Mrs.
u. c. Shanks.
Bishop A. NJ. Randolph has written Dr.
John McGill. rector OF the Epscop1i
.ft b,t fs, mill ,fs.f, ~
on the 18th Of 10Th of May. The Bishops
visits are always the occasion OF much
sincere pleasure. not only 10 the members
OF the. church here. but 10 others as well.
on his last two visits here he has con-
firmed a class. and will, in all probability,
DO so on this occasion.
FALLEN THROUGH.
am sorry TO say tn, plan Of securing
the enoampment OF one Of the Virginia
regiments here during the summer has |
fallen through. since no money was APP
propriated for this purpose. The regret |
is sincere and general, since We sshould |
have been glad TO extend the visiting or |
ganization the courteses OF our town. |
and really think we could have made the |
visit one OF sincere enioyrt mt 10 them.
Reports still come TO us of the posi- |
bility OF an electric railroad connecting |
Blacksburg with the Norfolk and West |
ern; not very definitely, however, only |
sufficiently so 10 keep our hopes alive.
HOME AGAIN.
Mr.. ". W. Bennett, who has been In |
England for the past three and a half |
months, returned home on Sunday last, |
having came over In the Paris and landed |
in New York on Saturday last.
Rev. j. NJ. Holiday the pastor OF the |
Presbyterian church. being away conduct |
ing series of meetings, the weekly SER |
vices In his church were conducted by Mr.. |
W. Il. Pratt, postgraduate student OF |
the college.
There Is every prospect that we shall |
have avery fine fruit year. Until few |
days since the weather has been such |
that no trees had budded at all, and con- |
sequently there is no fear OF the fruit |
having been killed. II this should prove |
true It will be the first time in a number |
OF years that our crop has not sun red |
materially. whilst last year IL was a |
total failure. even the hardest apples |
being killed.
Reports from Hon. a. A. Phegar OF |
Christiansburg, are that while still con-
fined TO his bed he is very much improved, |
and hopes soon 10 be up and out again.
In the County Court, held this week, the |
negro boy who some time since stole |
VT. DONldHp morse ana rode IL TO Rad 4
ford and offered II for sale for 81 was |
sentenced TO three years In the State /
penitent.ary. The lightness Of the SEN
tence was due TO the extreme youth Of the
cuiprit, since he was only Is years old.
"A gentleman from the country, who was
in Blacksburg last week, stated that he
had seen few days before a flock Of FIVE
partridges. These are. though, the first
have heard Of since the severe weather
We have waited long and are waiting
still for Wythevile's earthquake, but IL
doesn't come Who would have thought /
that Just common, ordinary little town |
like Wytheyills, with no boom on, would |
or could have had an earthquake all to
Itself?
There was a slight error IN stating that
the Randolph-Macon College tam would
play two games here. IL should have
been the Randolph Academy.
The subjects OF Professor Yore's four
lectures 70 be delivered here on the 9Th
and 9Th Of April. are az follows. The
Beginning OF Geodetlc Work" Some I
Notions Regarding the Earth, |
It's Size. and Shape "Geodetic Work in |
the United States" and 1.-THE Decimal
System OF Measures and It's History"