Richmond planet., 1897-12-18
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS

Va, called on US.
Mr.. solomon Latney of Ashland
Va, called on US.
Mr.. Greed Robinson. left last
Thursday for>New York Oity TO spend
the Christmas with his sister,
Mrs. E6monia Hall, who has
been quite indispossd at her residence,
1llS Sc Paul ST., is improving.
Mics <. Beatrice Wyatt of loIsl
north 4th street, has recovered from a
recent illness of two weeks.
The city Council has passed over
Mayor Taylor's veto the resolution re-
ducing the number OF City Hall en-
ployees.
Rev. j. I. Carter, of 513 west
baker Street, is much improved after
his long confinement TO his residence
from the effect of a rising hand.
Rev. Evans Payne, pastor of 4sh
Baptist Church, was in Washington,
ID. e., this week IN attendance upon
the Baptist Congress in the interest of
Foreign Mission work.
p. n Watson, OF AIexdndrIs,
was in the city this week and paid a
visit to the Grand Lodge OF Masons.
Pref. s. ]. Sutton is the happy
father of boy. Prof. Sutton is prin-
cipal of the public schools in San An
tonic, Texas, and is too well-known
here to occasion further comment.
-Messrs. J. B. Morris and J. H.
Spiller of Norfolk. were In the city
this wesk.
The State Senate Committee on
General Laws has decided to report in
favor of the law prohibiting the play
ing Of football, The vote stood to 4.
We have received an invitation
from the faculty and students of Harts-
horn Memorial College to attend AT
Home" Dec. %, from Z 80 to 10 p. m.
Mr.. P. X. Martin. of the Virginia
Normal and Collegiate Institute, called
on us TO make arrangements for q foot
ball game.
Mr.. Magnus L., and Rev. R. b.
Robinson, president of the John Hay
Industrial School of Alexandria, Va,
called on US.
Rev. B. H. Walker, pastor of Mt
| Gilead Baptist Church, of New York
ed Thursday.
| Miss Clara A, daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs ]. @. Farley, is now in Phil
adelphia, the guest Of Mrs Bette
Thomas Lewis. She has visited New
YORK and New Jersey and may return
home during the holidays.
The st Luke's organization hal
decided to purchase the residence ol
DIR. Bright. on the corner of st. James
and Baker SITS. The purchase price il
$4,000 Attorney G W. Lewis has the
matter in hand for them
Last Tuesday night Mr.. Will,
Ellis. welded Miss Hunter Hill, at the
residence of W. A. Parham, ol6 Nortl
2nd Street. The ushers were Will,
Evans. and Walter Jones.
M. w. Grand NJ. A. NJ. Jones, O
Eastern Light Lodge. Number 4, o
Norfolk, Va, and 5. W., George O
Ramsey of Campbell Lodge, Numbe
Lewis, of Commonwealth Lodge Mum
ber II.
The Sixth Mount Zion Baptis
Church. Rev. John Jasper. pastor. de
!. clared it's deacon board vacant ant
/
I1y ali of the former deacons we're re
elected.
The legislature of Virginia i
desirous of retren ching expenses. an
? wishes to abolish offices. They ar
still c0ntending among themselves q
, to which to abolish.
Marie Carpenter, white woma
who is said to have come to this cit
recently from Connecticut drank car
bOlic acid. She died at the almshous
on last Sunday evening. It is though
she was born in France.
Mr.. Charles T. Goddin, clerk {
{ Chancery Court of this city resigne
On the 18th inst. Mr.. @ 0. Saville hs
= been named as his successor. No RET
J. son is assigned for the change. Bot
! gentlemen are popular.
w. A. Kemp, eolored, who kille,
+ youhg Morris Boyd, about two year
. ago, and was sentenced to the peniteI
: tiary for eighteen years was pardone
a by Gov. O'Ferrell, on the llth inc
n Since his incarceration his broth'
a has died.
James Hill, charged with KILN
" Charles Conley, was tried in the Hus
ings Court on the IA th inst, and a.
, quilted. Both were white and bot
: inmates of the City jail at the tim
Q The public school teachers of tn
% city rendered their services free
D charge to the school board of this cit
The offer was accepted. The Git
|. Council declined to make an addition
y al appropriation of $4,000 and the mo
Is ev In hand would only pay to Dec. /
d 1897. Had not this course been pu
t. sued the school would have clos
le Friday, Dec. 10th. The effect of tn
J. will not be felt until January as all
i'd the instructors received nearly II
p months pay.