Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-06
INTERESTING ENGAGEMENT.

INTERESTING ENGAGEMENT
The most interesting engagement thus
far reported from the summer place
where Washingtonians have spent the
past season Is that OF Miss Edith Da-
/ vidge and Mr.. Algernon Sartoris, wnlcn
said to have come about at the White
! Sulphur Springs, where Mr.. Sartori
made short visit on his return from
Cuba. Miss Edith Davidge is the young
est daughter OF Mr.. Walter ID. Davidge,
and with her sisters has been spending
the summer al Virginia springs NO date
is mentioned for the wedding Mr.. Sar-
toris, who is an officer on General Lees
STAFF, is now with his family in New
York. He is the only son Of Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris, and only reached his ma
jority last year.
PERSONAL
General Marcus j. Wright, OF the>War
Records Office, has gone 10 New YORK,
via Norfolk, accompanied by his sister,
in-law, Mrs. Womack, and his daughter,
Miss Casey Young Wright.
W. Il. Gay, of Richmond is at the Ra-
leigh.
General william r. Cox, OF North Car
| DINA, Clerk of the Senate. Is at the
Shoreham.
| Eugene Lrltle, OF WaueSDOTOs ~, 10
at the Wellington.
Frank c. Poe, F. c. williams, North
Carolina; Captain NJ. d. Rowe, Of Fred
ericksburg; Mrs. Virginia Lamb, Of VIII
mington, N. c.; Mrs. Carmichael, North
Carolina; s. ]. Stevens, Lynchburg; w.
b. Puett and wife, North Carolina; Mrs.
w. II. Osborne, Greensboro, n. c.; o. p.
| Moffitt, Lexington, N. c.; ID. OConner
Goolrick. Fredericksburg-M Metropolitan.
Mr.. II. MEG. Bigger. of Richmond, was
| in the city few days ago, on his way
| north to take a two-weeks' vacation,
when he was summoned to Lynchburg
by WIRE on important business.
PATENTS.
| Among the patents issued to-day were
| the following: Edwin c. Compiler, Lees
| burg, Va, fitting gate; William +. Dick
| inson, Wilmington. N. c., propelling me-
| chanism; George w. Duval, Norfolk, Va,
boier-tube ferule; Sarah A. Hazlewood,
Lexington, Va, domestic oven; Il. Lewis
Meyer, Richmond, Va, girder-rail groove
cleaner; Mary L. Robertson. Charlottes-
| Vile. Va. bolt-lock; Nathaniel b. and D..
| Updike, Chestnut Forks. Va, registering
| device for poultry crates.
ARMY ORDERS.
by direction Of the Assistant Secretary
Of War, Privates James Johnson and
| Thomas NJ. Tavanaugh, Hospital Corps,
now in this city, will be sent to Fort
Monroe, Va. They will report upon their
arrival TO Northumberland Alfred A
| Woodruff, deputy surgeon-general, for
| duty.
THE subsistence department will pay
Communication Of rations in advance at
the prescribed rate for one day, 1t being
impracticable for these soldiers to carry
rations Of any kind.
by direction of the Secretary Of War,
the Tenth Company, United States Vol
unteer Signal Corps, under command of
Captain Thomas F. Clark, now stationed
at Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Ala, six
officers and about ffty-fve enlisted men
will proceed to Boston, Mass. for muster
out. This company having served outside
OF the limits of the United States, the
enlisted men thereof are entitled each 10
sixty days furlough. The Quartermas-
ter's department will furnish the transpor-
tation and the subsistence department the
necessary travel rations and coffee money.
by direction OF the Assistant Secre-
tary of War, the telegraphic instructions
of September IL, 1925 from this Office di-
reoting the discharge from the service CT
the United States by the commanding Of
nicer Oh MS SlduOU VI IIlNdlc w llildlH
Cousins, Company G., Fourth Virginia
Volunteer Infantry, are hereby confirm
ed. This soldier is entitled TO travel-pay.
by direction of the Assistant Secre-
tary of War. the telegraphic instructions
of September 16 1898, from this office, di-
recting the discharge from the service Of
the United States by their respective
commanding officers Of the following
named enlisted men, are hereby confirm
ed
Sergeant Christopher C.. Cousins, Com
pany H; Corporal Oscar V. Seasons,
Company A; Privates Charles II. Dixon,
Company b; Edward ]. Mclaughlin,
Company e, and John j. Clarke, Com
pany G., Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infan-
try. These soldiers are entitled to travel
pay.
by direction of the Assistant Secre-
tary OF War, the telegraphic instructions
of September u. 1898, from this office, d.
recting the discharge from the service OF
the United States by the commanding Of
ficer Of his station of Corporal Guy NJ
Cherry, Company III, Fourth Virginia
Volunteer Infantry. are hereby confirm
ed. This soldier is entitled to travel-pay.
by direction of the Assistant Secre-
tary OF War, the telegraphic instructions
OF September Is, 1898, from this office, d.
recting the discharge from the service OF
the United States by their respective
commanding officers OF the following
named enlisted men, are hereby confirm
ed:
Sergeant A. II. Hargrove, Company G,
Fourth Virginia Volunteer Infantry.
Private Theodore Jones Company II,
First North Carolina Volunteer Infantry.
'These soldiers are entitled to travel
pay"
POSTAL.
The following important orders have
been issued:
Office OF Postmaster General,
Washington, ID. c., September q. 1898.
Order No. Az:
Section BIG, Postal Laws and Regula-
lions, is hereby modified so as to read es
follows:
Section BIG. Further points of dehni-
ton.
PRINTED MATTER.
First. All impressions obtained upon
paper or cardboard, by means of print
ing engraving, lithographing, or any
other mechanical process easy to recog-
nize-except the typewriter, letter press
or manifold copy-are held to be printed !
matter, If not in the nature of an actual |
and personal correspondence.
Second. Matter prepared by the type |
writer must be regarded as personal cor |
respondence and unavailable at the third |
class rate Of postage; but fac-simile |
copies OF manuscript or typewriting, OBJ |
tanned by a mechanical process, such as |
the printing press, electric pen, mimeo-
graph, hektograph. copygrdbh, etc, are
assimilated to printing and may be re-