The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-15
FOUND UNDER A CLOUD.
Were the Many Brief Notes Found BelOv.
Aided by a Good Umbrella.
RUMORED CHANGES IN THE CHURCHES.
The County Street Mission and tho
Friends Church aIentioned-Thc
Widening of Crawford Street
Work ofthe Hastings Court aud the
Unlncky Number Yhirtcen,

Thanksgiving Day is just two weeks
Off
The tides are making very high this
week
There was no docket in the Mayors
Court yesterday.
1t has been very quiet around the
county during this week.
Mr.. Edward N1ilticr is confined to
his home on South street
The weather is so bad that it is al
most impossible to gather any news.
MI. w. Il. Johnson is able to sit up
and walk across the room on crutches.
Local preachers will fill all the pull
pits in the Methodist churches Sun
day.
The children in the public schools
are having their first quarterly exami-
nation.
"Pilgrim's Progress" Will be present
ed at the Court Street Baptist Church
tonight.
Capt. L. ". White will leave for Rich
rnnd this morning to attend the Metho-
dist Conference.
Ihere will be two marriages imnc-
diately upon the return of the ministers
frnm Conference.
Mr.. A. H. Martin, clerk of the Coun-
ty Court, is off on Il ducking expedition
ut Ragged Island.
Captain Jim Kidd has again return
ed to Portsmouth and has disbanded
his show for the winter.
All the windows and doors; also the
pews for the South Street Baptist
Church are EN- route here.
Work on warehouse ID is being pushed
ahead as rapidly as possible force
is working night and day.
Large congregations so to the
Friends Church nightly to hear the
celebrated evangelist preach
1t has been decided to hold services
at the Mission Station OH County
street permanently every night
Samuel Yanccy. the negro who car
ried Stenson q file in jail. was sentenced
to jail for six months imprisonment
All the delegates to the General Zap
tist Association, which meets in Pc
tersburg tonight. will leave for that
city this morning.
The Hampton football team wants
to play the Portsmouth team in Nor
folk at such time as the Portsmouth
team may select.
Mulvey seems to have hard luck
lately with his oyster roasts ut Port
Norfolk Every time he appoints the
time for one 1t rains.
IT is said that work on the electric
road Will be commenced next week
The public is getting q little impatient
waiting to see them commence:
Wade Holburg alias Brown, for
housebrcoking. The charge was dis
missed, the person having already re-
ceived twenty-eight years In the pen
itentiary.
The negro Stenson has threatened
to kill Jailor Abbott the first chance
he gets. lie says he will make it
warm for the parties who carry him
to Richmond.
1t took twelve horses to pull n street
car out Of the mud that had jumped
the track. The streets are in an awful
condition, and If the rain continues it
viii be much worse.
On account of the weather last night
the panorama OF Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress" which was to have been
exhibited at Central Church was most
poncd until Monday night
The negro Henry Simmons. who beat
coiored woman on the highway, and
tried to evade arrest. and was shot
while doing so. was sentenced TO three
months In the city Jail yesterday.
Rev. j. w. Allison made quite an i'm
preston upon those who attended
Portsmouth Division banquet Wcdncs-
day night. lie is fluent speaker, and
quite an orator besides this he is very
sociablc.
The Council is undecided Just how
to widen Crawford Stcct from Wythc
to South streets. They will meet there
In body shortly and settle on some
plan. The dirt which will be removed
from the streets will soon fiji IL up
Rumors have commenced to float
around about who will be sent to tho
Methodist churches in this city, and
conference has scarcely gotten to
work, nut lt seems 10 be underSt God
that there VIII be a general sweep
in Portsmouth.
In order that our readers may form
some idea of how The Firginian is
read, II Is only necessary to state
that answers have been received in
reference to the query about leap
year from North Carolina and Georgia
and even from out West
There were thirteen true bills found
aginst nine persons in the Hastings
Court and all of those on trial seem to
have gotten pretty good sentences
Not one has escaped yet. and there
are only about three more cases to try.
The unlucky thirteen did II.
In another column an advertisement
appears announcing that there will be
an adjourned meeting of the residents
of the Fifth Ward at the blacksmith
shop, corner of Glasgow and I!atton
streets, tonight. All interested In the
welfare of the ward are requested TO
be on hand promptly ut 8 p. m.
Indications All Point TO This BeiuG
The Largest week Yet. At