Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-13

where.
The course lectures to be given under
| the auspices OF the Association for the
| Preservation of Virginia Antiquities VIII
| possess their usual interes during the
winter. They will be given in the hall OF
| OF the House of Delegates. In the Capitol
building. There will be three lectures
one by Mr.. Lassiter. Of Petersburg; one
by Mr.. J. Stuart Bryan. and. the thir'
| lecturer has not been arranged tcT tut
| Will be announced later.
| Mrs. Caskie Cabell and Mr.. w. G. STAN
! ard form the Lecture COMMITTEES.
The Junior Co:illon will meet again
Thanksgiving night at Belridere Han
This will be brilliant german. especial
| ly In honor OF the University students
and other strangers in the CITY, 1t Will
| ba the last meeting al this place The
successful dances already given JUSTIFY
the removal of the class to the JEFFERSON
| Hotel hereafter. Further particulars or
the Thanksgiving german VIII De IN the
next Sundays papers.
An engagement has Just been announced
| In England, which is of univer "l interest
to literary people. The Hon. Neville Lyt-
ton will soon marry the only daughter OF
Mr.. Wilfred and Lady Anne Blunt. MISS
Blunt is the great granddaughter OF LORD
| Byron. The groom-elect is the grandson
| Of Lord Bulwer Lytton.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton will meet at the Virginia Histori-
cal Society on the 18th. On this occasion
Miss Mary Lyons Mayo will read paper
on real Daughter OF the Revolution,
who has Just died.
| The Colonial Danes annual meeting
will be held at the same place, November
18th, at 4:30 o'clock. Election OF of1cers
will then take place.
Miss Nancy Brooks. Of Stratford-on-
Avon, will, for the benefit of the associ-
ated hospitals, put the midsummer
| Nights Dream on the boards this WIN
| ter. Miss Brooks has lately had charge
of the same play at Northampton,
Eng, where 1t was signal success
The Rosemary Library Board met on
Tuesday at the literary rooms. only rou-
tine business was attended to.
The Saturday Afternoon Club had its
first literary meeting yesterday at 4;5o
| O'Clock. The subject was 1.-THE -Four
Cars Of the Nineteenth Century"
Mrs John B. Turner. Of New Kent
county, is staying with her daughter, Mrs.
I. N. Jones, on Floyd avenue.
The Virginia Home for Incurables re-
ceived from Mr.. e. Raab, from the es-
tate of the late r. NJ. Raab, $50, part
of which will be used to fit up room IN
this institution in memory of the donor.
Mrs. Peyton II. Hoge and daughter are
stopping at 100 east Grace street.
Rev Lucian Kinsolving. Of the Brazil
ian Mission, will return to New YORK III
December. Great interest in his conse-
Grafton is felt in Richmond, as he Is
Virginian, and his brother married a
Richmond girl.
There are 500 delegates in attendance
at the United Daughters OF the Confede-
racy convention, at the Hot Springs ARK.
Letters of greeting have been sent TO Mrs.
Stonewall Jackson and Mrs. Jefferson
Davis.
Miss Annie Mayo has returned to the
city for few days on her way TO Anna
polls.
Thursday, November the nth. will be
donation-day at the Sheltering Arms Hos
pitaI The ladies of the board earnestly
beg that the public will remember The
city's charity hospital. Either checks or
provisions will be gratefully received on
that day at the hospital, zoos east Clay
street.
Mr. william c. Mayo, OF Washington.
Is visiting his daughter. Mrs. w. I. OPP
penhimer.
Mr.. Peyton Randolph Nelson, OF Glen
Dale, Henrco county. Va, mas just re-
turned from the Klondike, and reports
things so lively out there that Richmond
looks a trife dull A friend Of Mr.. Net
sons staked a claim and soon sold it for
$50. 600 He, himself was not quite 20
lucky, yet he brought home neat little
sum and expects TO return TO Alaska.
Petersburg, during the last week, or
ganized literary club with lOs members
Mr.. e. c. Venable was elected president;
s. W. Arlington. secretary; Mrs. X. {.
Scott, vice president. and Mr.. T. w. Allen,
treasurer.
Major Hotchkiss, of stanton. who has
just recovered from severe operation N
this city, has returned TO his home.
Miss Alice Hotchkiss Is visiting ths
Misses McAlllster. in st. Louis, where she
Is receiving a great deal Of fiattering ell
tention.
Miss Margie Knowles has been regularly
engaged as leading contralto at st. PauPs
church Her full. rich voice gives general
satisfaction.
Among the singers Of Richmond who
are beginning to attract universal atten-
ton are Miss Adelaide Watkins, whose
solos at the Wednesday Club have been
so thoroughly enjoyed; Miss Annie Lee
Camn. who possesses q contralto OF me
tone and sympathy; Miss Lillian Taylor.
and Miss Frances Digs.
Among the seasons most attractive de-
butants are Miss Elizabeth Christian ana
Miss Estele de Saussure.
Mrs. William F. Jones, Miss Harriet
Thurston, and Mrs Charles Corey. OF
Gloucester. are at Murphy's Hotel.
Miss Frances Dickens, OF Washington.
is at Mrs. Kate Brockenbrough's, Oh
Fourth street. Miss Dickens's brother,
Randolph is an officer on the battleship
Oregon, which had such a thrilling expe-
rience in the late war.
Mrs. Charles watkins and daughter and
Miss Claudia Palmer have returned from
York Harbor on the coast o: Maine,
where they spent the summer. One OF
the most attractive cottages at this ele-
CANT health resort is that OF DR.. Thomas
Nelson Pages.