The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-25
ACROSS The ELIZABETH
News Gathered in the Prosperous
City of Portsmouth.
Died in the County Jail. Funerals of
Mr. Guthrie and Mr.. Armstrong.
Fined $50. To Build
New Church. Illness of
MIR. Manning.
To-day is pay day in the yard.

Today Ia pay day III tue yard.
81 ost of our space to-day is given to
memorial exercises.
Capt. Joseph l.. Young is visiting
friends in Riohmond.
| All OF the county returns we're not in
up to O'Clock yesterday.
The funeral OF Mr.. Bedoll Hamilton
will take place Sunday slteruoon,
j. Austrian was fined S20,yester,Iav
for doing business without q liceuce
The corner stone OF the South strest
Baptist Church will be laid with masonic
honors.
There will be two Memorial Days
next week-Norfolk and Federal Memo
rial Day.
There ore but two moro regular
meetings of the present Council before
they retire.
Trsmps are getting very numerous
on the suburbs und are WY trouble.
some at times.
Mr.. Job z. Manning, OF tho County
Clerks Office, is confined to his resi-
dence by illness.
The funeral of Mr.. Benjamin w,
Guthrie will take place this afternoon
at o'clock from st. Paul's Catholic
Church.
Tieman, the latest addition to the
pitchers of the Portsmouth Club, has
been released and left for New York
last night.
In our yesterdays issue, the mar.
rlsge OF Miss Kitchen to MIR. Wakefield
was made to read Mr.. Kitchen aud Miss
Wakefield.
The funeral of Mr.. VIM. G. Arm.
strong will take place this afternoon Mt
. O'Clock from Court Street Presbyte.
rian Church.
The Returning Board of Norfolk
county Will meet to-day and will can
vsss the returns of the election which
was held on Thursday.
The case OF Berman, who charged
two negro men with stealing six pa,r
pants from him, was dismissed, the evil
dence not showing their guilt.
mute who was confined in the
county jail about ten days ago for car
rying pistol, died yesterday. He will
be buried at the expense Of the county.
1t Is said that Central NJ. j.. Church
will make an effort TO build new
church. Over $1,000 has already been
subscribed and the list has not started
yet.
q. V. are requested to assemble at
tho camp room this afternoon at $3.50
O'Clock to attend the funeral of B. w.
Guthrie, which will take place at 4
y. IN.
In the Fifth Ward returns Mr., w.
V. II. Williams was. only credited with
tweuty.three votes; it should have been
iifty-fhree. 1t was purely typograph.
zeal error.
white woman from the Florence
Crlttenden Home. in Norfolk, aud
slightly demented, was arrested at
O'Clock yesterday morning, and will be
sent back to Norfolk.
Mr.. ii. +. Butt, Jr., returned from
Buffalo, N. T., yesterday morning,
where he had been attending a aession
of che Grand Lodge of Elks, US a dele
CUTE from Portsmouth Lodge.
postal was received from the sol
diers yesterday. stating that they were
iarlng we'll at Pocahontas and that ali
were vol. They do twenty four hours
duty aud are OF forty eight hours.
They ure enjoying it very much.
Miss f. b. Rogers, former resident
OF this city, died suddenly yesterday
at pm. in Brambleton, in the 77tb
year of her age. She had lived in
Portsmouth all her life up to about six
months ago, whsn she removed to
Bran bleton.
MIR. stephen Casey, an old and we'll
known citizen, died at his late residence
yesterday at ii 30 q. NJ, after a linger
lug Illness He has been IA resident of
this city for over forty years. He was
~ years OF age. The notice of funeral
Will appear Ill next Issue.