The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-27
THE CITY and SUBURBS
Yesterdays Doings Carefully Gath
cred and Accurately Related.
The Norfolk County Democratic Com
mittee to Meet in September. An
Obstreperous Negro. Large
Crowds at Port Norfolk.
Personal and General.
Sanitary Inspector +. p. johnson is

attending to business ngulu.
The police now go on duty at 1880
O'Clock instead Of rs formerly.
Mr.. l.. ID. Gill and wife will return
from Ashevile, n. c.. on Thursday.
There will be no meeting of the
Council until the regular session next
week.
Mir. James l.. Harrcll, of Columbia,
n. c., liz visiting friends on Crawford
street.
The Port Norfolk railroad was taxed
to It's utmost to carry the passengers
ON Sunday.
Mrs. DIR. L. s. Hope and daughter
have gone to Suffolk to spend a week
with friends.
Attention is called to the add of
lost cane. with the request that it be
returned as directed.
The only business in the Mayors
Court yesterday was three DRINKS, vino
paid the usual fines.
Miss Hattie Young, OF Petersburg,
is visiting Miss Mary Robertson on
South street extended.
The w. q. L. U. Will Get this after.
noon ut o'clock with Mrs. NJ. a. lay.
lor, 627 County street.
The electric road is being pushed
force will soon be put to work.
Mr.. D. >. Crawford returned yester-
day from Gates county, n. c., where
he had been to visit his father.
All the absent ministers will return
to the city by next Sunday, which will
be the first Sunday in tho month.
A vessel load of rails for the Ports
mouth Electric railroad arrived here
yesterday. She will be unloaded at
once.
Tho insurance adjusters were ut
work yesterday estim lting the loss
caused by the fire about two weeks
ago IN the suburbs.
MIR. Albert Gaskins, who was in
lured by runaway horse. has suf-
hciently improved to return to his
work at j. >. Crawford's store
tlMr. Charles L. Durham will open
the Central Hotel saloon to. night. lie
has fitted it up In first class style and
will run 1t as n first class place.
A lnwn party for the Improvement of
the soldiers lot will be held to morrow
(rhursday) night Mt the north end of
Court sti Get by tho Junior Memorial
Association.
There is negro in the county jnil
that Is so obstrererous TINT he has to
10 cnained by the legs to one of the
coils. He is calculated to make disorder
III the building.
A match game OF ball was played YES
terday between the Little Cuulkers mud
the Gosport boys, which resulted in n
victory for the Little Cauikers by u
score of l3 to 5.
Caesar Eastou WAS fined 81 and cost,
yesterday for delivering beer in the
navy-ynrd on Sunday. 1t is said that
there was another man with him, but
he made his escape.
4 bunch of keys, an umbrella and a
pair of mits were picked up on the
street cars on Sunday. The owner can
got tho same by calling on Superinteu
dant Mcdonald at the stables.
The attendance at the baseball park
should be larger to day than yester.
day, as there will be but three moro
games at home dnriug the season
after this week. The management sh ould
have a good attendance.
Chas. Coston, white man, who
completed sixty-days sentence in the
city jail on Saturday morning, was run
IN the same night for drunkenness.
lie was let so on condition that he
would leave town, which he did.
nv -''A'o'h Spuulf DemOcrltlc
Committee will meet early in Sep,em
Der to decide upon the time for hold
ing q meeting to nominate delegates to
convention which will select a suita.
bic person for the Legislature and to
elect nn executive committee.
Sunday afternoon team in which
there were several ladies was rotarpipg
trom Port Norfolk. tho noises became
frightened and ran of, upsettiur the
vehicle, throwing them all out in tile
road, skinning some of them about the
face and hands. Fortunately no bone.
were broken. The horses were stopped
some distance from the place by a gen.
tleman who drove them back to where
the accident occurred and returned to
the city with the ladies.
An AccIdcuT.
Yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clook
MIR. Van Patteu, yardmaster at the
Seahosrd Air Line yard on GodwIu
street, was accidentally hit in the head
with stick of wood by coiored man
who WAS throwing it off a car. Tho