Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-01

audience.
Colonel Hathaway win command the
kentucky division Of troops In place of
General Boyd, who was detained at
home on account Of eye trouble. He
was one OF the body o. troops who re-
fused to leave Jefferson Davis when he
was escaping. He was captured with
Mr. Davis. and put In solitary confnc-
ment. His family did not hear from
him for such long time that they gave
him I'D for lost
During the Confederate reunion the
Frauklin-st.ect entrance OF the Jefferson
VIII be closed, but the Main-street doors
VIII be open at all hours.
j. W. Nash, OF Walker county. Ca.
a member OF Company G. Ninth Georgia
Regiment. who left his home some weeks
ago to walk here. arrived yesterday
morning in good condition.
Broad street last night presented such
a scene as was never before the case In
this city. The sidewalk from Ninth TO
Foushee street was one mass OF moving,
happy humanity, and many were forced
TO walk in the middle Of the street. Al
the corner OF Seventh street, where cleo
tric-cars were continuously passing, -FOUR
policemen-Sergeant Allen, and Rounds
men sutton Curl, and Griffin-were kept
busy keeping people from beneath the
wheels of the cars.
Among the veterans attending the re-
union from Mississippi Is Colonel j. Il.
Power, an Old journalist ana present
Secretary OF State. He Is accompanied
by his accomplished daughter. Miss Kate
Markham Power and who, last sum-
mer, took up her fathers canvass after
ne was stricken with serious and pro-
tracted sickness. She is reporting the
reunion for the Memphis Commercially
peal and other papers. Colonel Power
is a member of the Jefferson Davis Mon
ument Committee. He is now serving
his twenty-eighth year as Masonic Grand
Secretary OF Mississippi. and VIII par
ticipate with the Grand Lodge OF VAR
sinia in laying the cornerstone Of the
Davis monument tomorrow.
Miss Mary NJ Beale, sponsor for Okla
homa, and her maid OF honor, Miss
Ophela Overstreet. together with Mrs.
Carrie b. Ross. are at Mrs. Spillman'
they having arrived in the city with
General easier and the Oklahoma Divis-
ion yesterday.
The surviving members of the old
Twenty-third Virginia Regiment OF In
fantry will meet at the Washington
monument in the Capitol Square to-mor-
row morning at o'clock, where short
reunion will be held.
General Harris, who commanded the
famous Mississippi Brigade. Mahone's
Division, Hills Corps, Army OF Northern
Virginia, sent the following Geographic
greeting 10 his old comrades in arms
yesterday:
san Francisco. Cal, June 30. 1896.
Major James ii. Capers, Richmond, Va:
To-day thirty-four years ago, the guns
Of the invaders were laundering at the
gates of Richmond. To-day these gates
stand aJar in welcome to her defenders.
Greetings TO my comrades.
n. II. HARRIS.
Mrs. Emma Lyon Bryan accompanies
s. b. Gibbons Camp, United Confederate
Veterans, from Harrisonburg, to the re-
union, and Will visit her brother, Mr..
Lyon, at 720 north Fourth street. She
painted picture of the spot where
| Turner Ashby was killed. which will be
! presented to the Confederate Museum
| this afternoon at o'clock. She Is also
the author Of '1S0O-'65," a romance of the
Valley of Virginia.
Mr. Isham Bennett Of Garysburg. n. c.,
| Is in the city. He Is very proud OF let
ter just received from General William
| H. Payne, in which the latter writes:
ut is an inexpfessible qualification TO me
| to get such letters from my old friends.
| recolect the scene that you describe
very well. | saw the United States flag
swinging triumphantly in the streets OF
| Hanover, and saw you tear, or attempt
to tear. II down in the face of pistols.
| sshres. ard rifles pointing from every di-
| recticn,"
There Is a piece OF grim humor In
an Inscription painted on cloth and sus-
| pended across Third street lust south
| of Main. and which reads: welcome 10
the Hobo Vets
In the east porch OF the westmoreland
clubhouse last night there was
| stationed ar orchestra, which played airs
suitable to this reunion occasion. There
were hundreds of visitors TO the CLUB,
! most of whom wished TO see Elder
| Battle of the Crater. and Carl Browne :
| famous full-length portraits OF DAVIS
| and Lee.
Churchill Roy, who was one OF the
tallest and most gallant OF the war
members of the Richmond Light-lnfantry
| Blues, now a resident OF one OF the east
ern counties OF Virginia. is I'm the city
Every Old army comrade had a CHEEKY
| greeting for him.
General Dabney III. AIaury had most
loving reception from his old army com
rades from Missouri at the JEFFERSON
| yesterday afternoon.