The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-08
tP|TOM|ZED LOCAL EVENTS
News of the City and Suburbs Re-
lated in Paragraphs.
Attempted to Clean Out Justice
Haynes Office. Rescued From
Drowning. Fell Into Sewer
Hole. Will Leave for Louis.
vile. Other Notes.


Miss Orie Weaver has returned from
o pleasant visit TO York county, Va.
The City Council will hold an ad.
3ourned meeting on Tuesday night.
Peter Clinch was bound over to keep
the peace yesterday by Justice Haynes.
The Norfolk County Court will be
gin its September term on the 10th
instant.
Workmen will finish paving First
street down to Wythe street by Mon
day night.
Mrs. Thomas Briggs returned home
Friday night after al absence OF sew
eral weeko.
Workmen are engaged in putting
factory engine.
Maj. j. f.. Croker and wife are ex.
pected home this morning from their
trip to Europe,
The Board OF Supervisors of the
county will hold the If regular monthly
meeting on Tuesday.
Read the add of +. Hitch, in which
he offers good mill wood, large carts,
for rs cents load. Orders solicited.
The Portsmouth Lumber Company
will begin to rebuild Immediately the
dry house which was burned few days
ago.
Is The three negro tramps that were
caught in one of the Seaboard Air Line
cars on Friday were ordered out the
city.
SsLewis Barks and James Gaskins, COL
oreu, were committed to the county
tail yesterday ior sixty daya for steal
sng.
The Democratic Executive Commit
Zee OF the county will meet at the st.
elmo Hotel on Tuesday, the 10th in .
slant.
number OF young men have form.
Oh club. and will attend the Atlanta
Exposition III body some time during
,he fall.
The Rev. r.. Il. Bowden will address
She Taylor Sunbeam Society at the
Soottsville Baptist Church to. day at
ESQ p. III.
Mrs. John W. Tatem. ST., and
daughter, Miss Missouri, will return
to day, after q week visit TO the Cap
ital CITY.
Gen. siesfried and party of North.
ern friends arrived here yesterday and
made n circuit of the proposed electric
TOAD. They were much pleased.
Mrs. Stewart, wife of Lieut.. j. w.
Stewart. of the U. 5. monitor Amphi-
krlte, ls visiting her cousin, Mrs. j. w,
barclay, No, III Crawford street.
Lust night negro man. who was
citing on the rail- on the Wythe street
bridge, was taken with q fit and tell
overheard and came very near being
drowned.
little son of Mr.. r. s. Brooksshad
one OF his toes badly mashed on Fri
day night. While riding bicycle he
cot his foot caught in the chain and
came near cutting the toe oil.
LIE NinGiNlAN returns the thanks of
the ferry patrons to the Street Com.
mittee for having the hole on Water
atreet Ill front of the St. Elmo Hotel
repaired. 1t was dangerous.
A small colored boy came near being
drowned yesterday while fishing at the
Cape Charles dock. In his anxiety to
get fish he fell overheard and was
pulled out by one OF the barge men,
Alter the meeting of Old Dominion
Conolave of Heptasophs on Monday
night surprise party will be given,
which will afford much amusement
Ihey meet in their new bali, Central
Hotel, High street.
Attention is called to the add of MIR.
a. w. Williams, III which he offers
jumper telegraph or electric light
poles Tor sale III any quantity. He has
large stock on hand, which he will
VI.
Tho roadway from Wythe 10 South
will not be paved yet. The Council is
making an effort to have land enough
condemned III that locality to make the
street 100 feet at South street and sixty
feet at Wythe street. then it will be
paved.
Miss Flolie y. Martin, sdaughter of
Carpenter l.. l.. Martin, Unlted States
Navy, has just returned from n visit to
she family of AIR. Harry Hayes in
Newark, n. j. MIR. Hayes is tho gen
eleman who 30 ably laid the water main
of our city.
Some OF the holes made by the sew
erage Company are filed with soft dirt
end arc lett III that manor, They are
dangerous. Yesterday Mr.. AL. Gas
Alns, while riding horseback, his horse
stopped III one OF them ana went ND to
Ais stomach. 1t WAS with ditiiculty
shat he was gotten out.
Fifteen members of tho Grand Army
OF the Republic leave here for Louis
vile, Ky, TO attend the Grand En-.
campment III that city. A portion of
ahem lett last night via the Bay Line
and Will take the Baltimore and Ohio
soad. Tho others will leave Monday
morning via the Chesapeake and Ohio
Soad.
Yesterday morning negro woman
named Mag Wright attempted to clean
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