The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-13
Matters Of Small Moment About the City
Very Briefly ChronlcIsd.
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS NOTES.
A Full and Concise record or the
Minor Events OF o Growing Sea.
port city Laid Bare to the Many
Readers of tho Newsiest of Nor.
folk Papers.
and threatening to shoot.

several vessels are reported aground
Mrs. Or. Thomas. Of Washington
passed through the city yesterday.
me restaurant at Ocean View has
been opened for the winter season.
The Postoffice at Virginia Beach was
entered Wednesday night and robbed OF
s25.
The Talbot building. next to the Post
Office, presents an attractive appenr-
lance.
The tug Willard Is endeavorIng to
iloat the two barges ashore at Sewells
Point. $50
Yesterday was an exceedingly disa-
streets.
An oyster supper will be given to-
night In the lecture-rooms of Grace Bap-
fist Church.
Fenton A. Price. who left his home,
NO. .oi Chapel street. some time ago.
has returned.
lie Austin. colored, was arrested yes
.srday for stealing q lap robe from
IThayer's sta BILE.
Rev. Dr.. VIM. e. Evans has decided
not to accept the call to ST. PauTs
Church. Petersburg
From O'Clock last night to 1 o'clock
this morning not q single arrest was
| made by the police.
Police Sergeant Taylor was taken sud
denly III at the station-house yester-
day and had to be sent home
! MIR. VIM. McKenna is confined to his
residence, No. 1G Shields street, by a
severe attack OF sickness.
| Wills Scott, colored. of the crew of
the schooner John II. Plat, has been
sent to ST. Vincent's Hospital with a
broken arm.
| white man, living at South Nor
folk, Is said to have been robbed on
Commercial Place Wednesday night of
about SO.
! The furniture stock Of the late B. a.
Johnson was sold at auction yesterday
for $4,000, Mr.. M. H. Lash being the
purchaser.
the residence of Mrs. Spaine, No. 1879
Church street. and stole two conts and
pair of pants.
J The plan of keeping incoming and out
gong passengers separated ut the ferry
wharf. which went into effect yester-
day. is q good one.
: Driver ID. e. Bell, of the Fire Depart
ment. who was sent home sick several
days ago, is still confined to his home,
on Falkland street.
The police yesterday arrested VIM
! Griffin. white, charged with stealing
an overcoat and meerschaum pipe from
McCreary az McClellan's stables
The bark Bruce Hawkins has been
| bonded and released to Captain Cur
ney. The vessel is now undergoing re-
pairs at Thomas shiIeYard; Berkeley.
| On account of the unusual popularity
or the attraction at the Academy Of
Music Tonight. the date OF Dr. Carriers
lecture has been changed to the 18th
| instant.
Mr.. Frank Barrett. of the Fire De
partment. was married Wednesday
night TO Miss Elizabeth c. Burfort, al
her home, on James street. the ceremony
being conducted by Rev. W. S. Lacy.
| d. -.
captain L. V. White went to VII
| liamsburg yesterday. where he last
night delivered his lecture descriptive
iof the great battle of Hampton Roads
IN 1852. between the Monitor and the
Merrimac.
| Mr.. James q. Hoyts house boat Noah
has arrived here from New York. er
route to the North Carolina duclxinc
waters. Mr.. Hovt left New York bv
r'tl. and will meet his boat when she
arrives there.
The Everyday Dollar Party. which
was to hnvc been held tonight (Frj.
dhy, at GranbY-Strcet NJ r. Church
mas been postponed 10 Friday. the 2otf
/ inst. In order that 1t might be held in
the nev- 11pworth NJ. z. Church.
| Mr.. John a. lIesner and Constable 7
>. Carmlnc became involved In a fight
on the ferry boat Wednesday night
with the result that Mr. Lesner ycster
DAY sWore out warrant for the Cor
STABLES arrest upon charges of assault
In the North Carolina sounds
! oland King. runaway boy from CT
lrard College. Philadelphia. who has beer
in jail for some time for tresspa ssino-
ON the Norfolk and Western railron z
property. was yesterday released to ac
cent posi'ion secured for him by she
cial officer Frank Barron, who arrested
him.