Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-08
MRS. CAUDLE AT HOME
THE MISSING LADY RETURNS TO
HER ANXIOUS FRIENDS.
OTHER ITEMS FROM MANCHESTER.
Rev. w. w. sisk Writes n Letter
OF Acceptnncc-Eurck Furniture
r. \. Matthews sIcIs-Othcr Notes.
Man UfucfU

Mr.. James Caudle. OF Manchester, has
returned home.
This lady disappeared from her home,
Mt Third and Hull streets last Wednes-
day very UNEXPECTEDLY. Her husband and
family did not know what TO think Thurs
day and Friday passed. and nothing
whatever was heard from her. The fam
ily had reached the point OF frenzy about
her. Last night about dark she came in
az suddenly as she left.
Sho had been on a visit 10 her sister.
out in Chesterfield, as surmised IN the
/ Dispatch yesterday morning.
4 thing which added much TO the un-
easiness Of the family was the finding I'm
the Caudle home of an empty bottle.
which had onco contnained audanum.
/ They conJured up the idea that the wife
and mother had committed suicide. Seve-
/ rel members OF the family remembered
/ hearing her make remarks which left the
] impression, now that they were thinking
! OF II, that she was contemplating self
! destruction.
There was great rejoicing in the home
/ las, night.
DIR. y. =. MATHEWS SICK
DR.. Thomas =. Mathews IS quite sick.
| Or. Mathews came home from a call
| about 1 O'Clock Friday, and was forced
! by indispOsition 10 keep the house an the
| evening.
Yesterday morning he was not so well
! All day no suffered much. Or. William
i. Mathews said last night that his IA
Their was still quite sick.
The report that Or. W. =. Mathews was
sick is a mistake
Rev. Mr.. Gwathmey, Of Richmond Col
lege, Will preach al Bainbrdge-Street
Baptist church to-day. Nj Gwathmoy Is
an ordained minister and q very good
preacher. He very acceptably supplied
the pulpit Of Ioieh-Street Baptist church
during last August.
LETTER FROM REV w. W. sIsK.
Rev. W. w. Sisk has formally accepted
the call 60 Clopton-Streot Baptist
| church. SwansbOro. The Dispatch PRINT
! ed recently that Mr. Sisk had resigned
his church at Wavorly with q view TO
coming here But at that time nothing
had been heard by the committee Of the
/ church.
Judge 3. A. Hancock, chairman Of the
| committee, received letter yesterday
| from Mr. Sisk, officially accepting the
call. lie writes that no will take charge
Of the field here about December LIST.
FURNITURE FACTORY CHARTERED.
The Eureka Furniture and Manufacture
ing Company has been granted q charter
by Judge John ri. Ingram, Of the Man.
/ chester Hastings Court. This concern,
under q slightly different management,
/ operated I'm Richmond until short time
| ago. It has now moved 10 Manchester,
and erected cOmmodiOus new factory
adjoining the Richmond Woodworking
Company.
The charter provides that the capital
| stock shall not lc less than s. Ou. IL
is not 20 exceed $1,000
The company will engage In the manu-
/ faCture of furniture of all kinds; also,
/ carts. wagons, etc. The stock Of Tho
company Will bo divided into shares of
/ 800 each. The corporation is not 10 own
/ at any time more than 100 acres OF land.
The principal Office is 20 be in Man
/ chester The organization is Mr.. LandOn
| J.. Jones, president: Mr. William Gratz-
nowsky. yice-president; Mr.. Jesse j..
/ Lawrence, secretary and trc0surer-all
these gentlemen have their homes in
I Manchester
The Board Of Directors is composed Of
Mossrs. Land0n p. Jones William Crate
l uOWskv Jesse j.. Lawrence Charles j..
/ Wineo. and James ID. Crump. The last
I two gentlemen live I'm Richmond.
| NOVEL AND SUCCESSFUL SCHEME.
The exercises at C0wardin-Avenue
/ Christian church Friday evening were 2
/ great success, from financial point OF
| view. TWO weeks ago the pastor, Kew.
/ j. A. Spencer, gave to each of his con-
/ grcgation a penny. Ills Injunction was
/ that each person should bring that penny
/ back on last Friday night, ana with It
/ as many as possible. The scheme work
/ ed I'm a charming way. The cash receipts
/ last night were something like $50. Some
/ persons are yet TO report.
OPEN NINTH-STREET ROAD.
The CheSerleld Road Commissioners
had a meeting az the courthouse yestel-
/ day. The question which this commits non
ersI .l.f f.4au or he
/ Street road shall be opened from Whtby
. farm ON 90 the Warwick estate. Inc
/ commissioners sitting I'm the case are
Messrs. George ". Bittle, d. ID. west
/ and William -. Brooks
/ The Finance Committee now has IN
hand the matter of the erection or a CITY
/ Hall. At the joint meeting ftday Hl-Al
/ of the Building and Lands committee ana
Inc Finance Committee. tho matter was
given over 10 the latter body to make the
report 10 the Council.
TROUBLE AT THE CANTEEN.
Great excitement was caused just be
/ fore midnight at the Canteen, a saloon
/ kept by a negro at Nineteenth ana Hun
/ streets by Charles GOOde firing MS pl7-
/ f0l twice The negroes who We're IN the
/ Mace scampcTed in every direction
short while later Onlcers Smlth ana
Wright arrested G00de at his home.
PERSONALS AND BRIEFS.
Mr. George Stein. OF lOl6 Hull street. IS
/ detained at his residence by illness .,
Rev. J. il. Busby win pieach at Clop-
ton-Street at both services to-day.
Mrs. j. w. Jones, on POcohontas street
is ont after being confined TO her resi-
Mr. r saunderson. who has been quite
/ an an his residence for several weeks, was
/ IcuOrted better yesterday. 80,
4 meeting of the Baptist Young People s
Union will be held this afternoon at ,
/ O'Clock at Bainbrdge-Street church.
| There will be prayer-meetlhs az VIC
CITY Home this afternoon az clochS
conducted by the Epworth Leaguers Oh
VIE, -i 1iodies' Aid Society Of West-End
cburcb Will meet at Mrs. Amelia Mann >;
/ ON Clopton street, this afternoon "' o
The I'G Chndren's-Day will be he ga. az az
stockton-Street Baptist church to-uay az
II n A very interesting pIoEi aiLiIn1
/ - been arranged. At O'Clock the pas
/ t0r Tev. J. T. Hicks, VIII preach. .
The fourth quarterly conference OF tne
/ central Methodist church wlll DE hellua
I tomorrow night. The usual services VIII
! Ge hold al this church to-day, at each OF
/ which Rev. j. G.. Reed VIII preach.
PATRICK COUNTY.