The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-20
Items of More Than Ordinary Interest which
Will Furnish Good Food for Thought.
CUTTING SIX MILLION FEET LUMBER.
Discharged Hucr Thirty Years OF
service The Portsmouth Baptist
Association 40 Meet S"Nt Tuesday
The Condition OF Mrs. George
W. Waits.
The travel South is immense now.

time nj Newport News.
There has been but fow deaths in
Portsmouth this month
Yesterday will rank we'll wit the
hottest days Of the summer.
The Russian Hebrews in the city
held services ut the City Hall yester
day morning.
1t is more than probable TINT the
Park View school will be built before
the end of this yenr.
The condition of Mrs. Capt. Il. VI.
II. Watts remains unchanged. Her
friends are npprehenslve.
Hhe conductors on the different RAIL
roids SAY TINT they huve never seen 1t
so dusty travelling as 1t is now,
\ puriy OF ladies aud gentlcm en-
gave hay ride last night aud wound
up ut Port Norfolk aud eat supper.
There was no docket in the Mayors
Court Yesterday. there beng no mr..
rests mude during the twenty. four
hours.
\ negro man while driving DIR. V.
q. CuipeppeS's carriage last night
broke the runuiug gear on High
street.
Messrs. Pace and Weisdorf caught
IjJ lne spot ana hog fish ut Ocean
View yesterday ami were not ont fish
in; long.
there is moro work being done at
Che Scabuard AIRLINE shops now aud
more meu are employed than there
ever was.
In another column Messrs f., G.
Stocks y Co give notice that they
NIL have plenty fresh cabbages 10 DAY
r.:i Saturday.
The SUI crosses the line to-day. aud
according to the calendar fall sets III.
but II yesterday was II sample We Will
prgy Tor winter.
During the ram yesterday lightning
ptruck II house On the cosutr OF Etling
Sun and Glasgow streets, but little
damage was done.
Rev. Mr. Allison viii deliver an al
.Iress at the Young Men's Christian
Gndenvor meeting ut Monumental Nj.
J.. Church to might.
Mr.. Thomas Onkhnm, IL well known
resident OF Norfolk county, is very Ill
:rom stroke Of paralysis. He Is at
81. Ninccut'S Hospital.
Capt. Jim Kidd VIII give n show four
duts next week ut Port Norfolk Driv-
ing Park. See advertisement III Sun.
day paper for particulars, etc.
Misses Margaret and Reggie Smith,
daughters OF General Agent Cnrroli
IL. Smith, OF the Suabunrd Airline,
leave for Atlautu TO day to attend the
Exposition.
The Portsmouth team Will go over
siter the Gayle cup before they dis
band. An effort Is being made TO get
the "rootets' together aud hire band
aud go over after It,
White Heath presses are selling for
81 30 basket IN Baltimore and are in
great demand at that place. Tnose
rho have not put up pickles Will have
0" pay dear for them.
All the old car sheds on the upper
end of High street have been torn
down. There is now nothing left TO
mnrk the spot where the u.d round.
house and shops stood.
Yesterday was the hottest day of the
year. The Thermometer registered 50
ut the navy ward gate at noon The
highest point II has ever reached dur.
ing tho entire summer is 81.
Rev. DIR. a. t.. Owen and j.. =.
Crawford Will leave this morning for
Reyno!csvilic, Gates county. n, G., to
attend protracted meeting They
Will remnlu for two or three DAYS,
AZ n meeting OF Stonewall Camp, &.
=, held "Wednesday night, Rev. j. ID.
POWELL rendered his resignation ~
chairman of the relief committee. but
he Will remain MS chaplain OF the
camp.
y weil-known young man, no is
employed III II dry goods store in Nor.
folk, and South Portsmouth Indy
Will be Joined III the holy bonds OF
1natrimony during the early part OF
October.
AIR. a. X. Parker. who has been in
the employ of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company in the capacity OF
stevedore and wntchmau Tor the past
thirty years. was discharged ON lhs
10Th inst.
The Y. NJ. c. i, committee have
commenced work to make the meeting
of the State ASSOCIATE on in this city III
February success. There is plenty
TO do aud the committee will require
the aid of tie public TO help them.
Miss Mary Li2zle. daughter OF Rev.
md Mrs. +. j. Taylor, formerly OF
this city. will be married ut Laurel
Street NJ. T.. Church. South. Rich.
mond. w., on October ., to Rev. j.
n. Jollil of the Virginia Conference.
Ia digging the trenches for the sew.
era on the corner of High and Wash.
iDgton street worhmen dug up some of
the ties OF the old original Seubonrd
/ rond. which were built some time in
the Critics. They were III u perfect
statG Of preservation.
Mr.. Hitch is cutting 60, 200 feet Of
z lQ1rlnr A Ioy nj hie mill IN MulliUop's