The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-12
GATHERED IN PORTSMOUTH
NewSy Matters of General Interest
For Sunday Morning Reading.
The Regular Meeting of the Methodist
Sunday School Association. Await
ing transportation to the Al
bany Prison. Personals,
Sneak Thieves.

night aud yesterday.
The Norfolk County Court will not
meet uutlll the 20th inst.
Rev. DR.. a. T.. Owen will return
from Washington this morning.
a white man was fined $3.50 for
trespassing by the Mayor yesterday.
Chief OF the Police L. +. lyman
Will leave for Texas Oh Saturday night.
Mr.. }. W. Womack, of the American
BOOK Company, WAS in tho city yester-
day.
There will be numerous attractions
at Port Norfolk to day 1t will no
donbt be largely patronizcd.
There will ho IL praise and PRAYER
meeting at Central VI, L. Church this
afternoon NJ $50 O'Clock.
Tho iiremens parade will take place
tomorrow ar . o'clock. The Forts.
mouth band will accompany them.
Ihe Junior Order of American Me.
chahlcs VIII give an excursion to Peters
burg on Friday. the 18th instant.
\ mission Sunday school of ST.
Johns Church will be commenced this
evening Mt o'clock at the Cottage
Place schoolhousc.
The case of John T. Clark. charged
with an assault on Sauue Hodges. will
be called III the Hastings Court this
week for trial.
Preparations are being msde to be-
gin laying the four tricks INTO the new
depot ynrd. a fancy shed and fence
VIII pe put up right away.
William Seiby, United States uris.
oner, is III the county Jail awaiting to
he sent to Albany peultentiary for
two years Tor robbiug the muil.
kev. MIR. Amlss, Or. Carter aud tina
balance of the part, have returned
from their trip TO the cspes after blue
hsh. They had excellent luck.
The negro George Williams, who
snntched pair of shoes from n little
girl aud kept them, was fined $40 yes
day, and IN default was committed to
jali.
Sneak thieves visited Mrs. Jackson's
house on Scott street Friday night aud
carried oil Il number OF clothes that
were IN the kitchen that had lust peeu
Ironed.
On account OF the success attending
the Odd Fellows inir az Deep Creek
and at the request of number Of Der
sons 1t viii be continued until Tues
day night.
A negro woman. who had been con
vlcteu OF pension fraud III the United
States Court. was committed to the
county Jail yesterday for thirty DAYS
aud 10 pay tue OF $50.
lead the notice announcing that
there will be liiiputlnn welding at
NJ Monumental Sunday school room on
tuesday, the 2lst. under the super
vision Of Mrs. Il. L. Warren.
Some OF the gang of trnmps that are
causing so much trouble between
Portsmouth aud Getty's station set tire
to the bushes Friday night and came
near doing considerable damage.
Mrs. Bennie Cherry, wife of the late
Alex. ii. Cherry, who lived IN tins clt>
Tor many years, died at the Norfolk
IolleSe Yesterday morning, She had
been employed there as a teacher.
Inc regular monthly meeting of the
Sunday School Association of the
Methodist Churches of Portsmouth.
Norfolk and Berkiev. will be held this
siternoon at $3.50 o'clock with Central
M e. Church.
Rev. I. II. Bolden. pastor of the
south Street Nj. Il. Church. has been
seiectei 10 denver tue memorial ad
dress Tor the colored people ut Mt.
OhVet cemetery, near this city, on the
3Oih day of May.
49, '"'H' has ieCu made al the
station house by MIR. Mitchell. who
keeps IA small watch repair shop on
County street, thaf watch had been
stolen from his store by negro boy.
1he police are after the bov.
Attention OF the members OF Old
Dominion Lodge. |. .. .. f.. is called
10 tue advertisement requesting them
to assemble this evening Nj ! O'Clock to
unite with Middleton Lodge Of Berklev
IN celebrating their 2lst anniversary
The members of the Chambers Fro
Company arc ordered to assemble at
the engine house to morrow Monday
afternoon at 4:3O o'clock in full mi
form, emitting red shirts, to celebrate
TIE twenty-ninth anniversary OF the
company
MIR. Rufus II. Horton. one o, the
finest tenor singers in the ola North
State and member of the choir of the
First Baptist Church in Raleigh. is IN
the city and will sing at Court Street
BAPTIST Church day at both morning
and evening services.
mr.. Abram Reynaud, the genial and
popular chief CLERK to the general store.
keeper ut this yard, will leave for his
new duties, Navy Pay Office, Philadel.
phia, "a, next Wednesday, much to
the regret of his many friends In this
city. He goes as the chief clerk to Paw
Inspector Robert L. Lsle. United
Suites Navy, recently detached from
this yard as general storek and
who has been ordered TO the Navy Paw