The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-07
LOCAL BREVITlES.
Pointed and Pertinent Paragraphs of
Interesting City News.


Dancing at Port Norfolk continues
to draw crowds.
The Park View children will 60 to
school on Monday.
:. There was nothing done in the
Mayors Court yesterday.
Mrs. Thomas Briggs returned homo
last night after an absence of several
weeks.
Miss Essie Rosenbaum has returned
after three weeks visit ut Ocean
View.
In another column twenty hands are
advertised for at the basket factory.
See advertisement.
EMr. VIM. MIddletowu, of Baltimore,
was III the CITY yesterday and paid The
VIRaINIAN visit.
Richard Knox, O member of the
Portsmouth team, will play in the
games next week.
MIR. o. D. Ball is again ut his desk,
after an absence of several weeks on
account of sickness.
In another column reward is offered
Tor lost male and female setter dog,
See advertisement for description.
The birthday party entertainment at
the South Street Baptist Church
Thursday night was decided sucoess.
Vice President st. John, of the Sea-.
board Air Line, will not return to
Portsmouth until about the Let OF 90.
tober.
There were twenty.four deaths dur
Ing the month OF August in the city.
Seventeen were white and seven were
colored.
Capt. Leigh Edwards and party of
young men went down the river yes.
terday on a sloop on few days fish.
ing frolic.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Rosenbaum and
family have returned from their cot
tage at Ocean View after q three
months stay.
Yesterday afternoon horse attached
to wagon ran away and smashed the
top OF the wagon all to pieces, besides
running into another wagon aud smash.
ing the springs omit.
Mr. w. L. Backus, Jr., left yester
day evening for Cleveland, o., TO at
tend the supreme Council, Order
Chosen Friends, which meets in that
city on the 9th instant.
John L. and ii. @. Ansell wore sent
on to the grand jury yesterday for
beating man named IL. w. Nicholas
near Great Bridge. Nicholas is bad
OIL from the wounds received.
The route boys are anxious that their
patrons will be ready when they cal!
to-day AMI not compel them to have to
call several times, making it take them
all dny to collect their routes.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Cosgrove, who
have been spending short time with
| Mrs. John ". Dozler in North Green
! street, left for their home at Cape
Henry yesterday morning.
Whose duty is it to see that the
truck stand is removed from its present
location? The Council ordered them
to be moved last Tuesday night, but
they are still in the old place.
Read advertisement of NJ. Rosen-
baum. in which he calls special ntteu.
ton to the display of cloths and cassi
! mers IN his window for fall and winter
suits, which he is making to order.
Miss Edna Owens, daughter Off: MIR,
d. w. Owens, has gone to New York
TO spend II month. She was accom-
panied by Mrs. Mollie Dillon Davis,
who will remain With her rs compan
ion.
AT meeting of the Board of Direct.
ors OF the Y. NJ. Q. "A, held Thu sday
nlgnt they decided to petition the Slate
Committee to hold the next conyen-
ton (Which meets III February in this
city.
Three young white men w.re at.
tackled by about twenty negroes on
Chestnut street Thursday night. They
| would have been badly beaten but for
the arrival OF some others who came
| up and helped them.
a lady stumbled and fell over that
broken pavement In front OF the St
Elmo Hotel on thursday night aud
bruised heraelf quite badly. The
Street Committee should attend to it
at once before suit is brought.
Three well.known Physicians started
Wednesday on bear hunt in the DIS.
NAL Swamp. They had not been out
long before they met Bruln. Each
one forgot he had a gun and remem.
bored that he was wanted at home and
returned next day.
Tha lessees Of the cotton factory have
succeeded in sinking eight wells, which
Will supply them with an abundance
OF excellent water, which is said to be
of splendid quality for drinking pur
poses. The wells will average forty
five feet each In depth.
MIR. Allen, the gentleman who with
his wife came near finding q wut.rv
grave by Tho npsetting OF bout in the
river on Saturday last, has returned to
work. Both no and hia wife haye been
suffering considerable since the nccl-
dent from nervous proslration.
MIR. and Mrs. Fannie Miapo. of
NJ oceda, Italy, arrived in this civ