The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-01
IN OLD NANSEMOND.
Notes and Gleanings From Suffolk
and Surroundings.

NoteS ana GleaningS From Suffolk
and Surroundings.
Rov. j. w. Mccormick will re.
peat his series of lectures on the
English novel at the Episcopal rec
tory Friday evening"
Nominations for county officers
will probably not be made till May,
short time before the election.
1t is rnmored that Suffolk will
have new bank within the next
few months.
Jim Taylor WAS fined $500 for
uttering violent threats against
Andrew Jackson, night watchmau at
the Suffolk and Carolina depot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Ii. Lee, of
the county, celebrated the fiftie th
anniversary of their marriage by Il
golden wedding.
At u senses party contest, at Miss
kate Holidays, Miss Bette Rid
dick and Ii. b. Uuquhnrt gained the
prize Tor lady and gentleman re-
spectivoly.
In answer to numerous inquiries
about the absence of Suffolk news in
yesterdays NiRGINIAN we will state
that the local was sent as usual, but
was lost in transit.
FIRM DISSOLVED. A dissolution
has occurred in the dry goods and
gents furnishing house of Britt n
Eley, the junior member, Henry
Eley, purchasing Sidney Britt's
interest. MIR. Britt, accompanied
by his wife, left yesterday for Rich
mond, where he will engage in u
brokerage business.
PROPERTY TRASSFERRED.- -Floyd
Price and Arthur Woolford and
wife to Calvin Morris, two lots in
Cypress district, ,Nausemond county:
consideration Sl25. w. Ii. Jones,
Jr., trustee. to the Farmers Bank
of Nansemond. the Alliance Peanut
Factory, situated near Suffolk, aud
fixtures connected Herewith; con
slderatlon, 81 $40.
ROBERT JENKINS FuNERAL.-
remains of Mr.. Robert Jenk MS. who
died at the Retreat for tho Sick in
Norfolk on Wednesday night about
9:3O o'clock, will be brought to Suf.
folk this afternoon at 3:O5 on the
Norfolk and Carolina road. The
interment will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery about 4 o'clock.
CAR BURGLARS ARRESTED, ,-Sber-
III a. IL. Baker and deputies, after
some shrowd detective work, have
run down the perpetrators of
series OF periodical robberies OF
loaded cars at the Seaboard Air.
Line siding in Suffolk. The men
arrested are William Lewis, John
Daniels, his half brother, aud Ran.
some Enster, colored transfer
mnn. The gang was well organized
aud their work was done with such
art that the road authorities were
often ut loss TO know whether the
burglary was committed here or
some other point On route, the car
seals being broken and resealed with
SO much eXactneSs.
All told about 500 worth of
booty had been taken, principally
groceries, loaded and consigned by
the wholesale dealers here to their
customers. The splinter mill. near
the Senboard depot, was used as
storehouse for the plumber, and IT
was there that Sheriff Baker dis
covered barrel of sugar and other
articles. Lewis had also taken some
OF the mercandise to store which
he runs on Wilson avenue.
Lewis aud Daniels nave coufessed
to completely in the burglaries end
the confessions, with other evidence
Will bo sufficient for conviction
Lewis was yesterday taken from iail
to his store, where he designated the
stolen articles. They were turned
over to B. l.. Saunders ~ 90. whole
sale grocers, to whom he owed sew
erel small bills. In their confessions
Lewis and Daniels exonerate Easter,
saying that he hauled the goods in
llgnornnce OF their being stolen.
Perkins, another man who was ar
rested. has been discharged. the
officers being satisfied of his inno
cence. Tho preliminary trial is set
for to morrow in the Mayors Court.
n special grand jury will DO sum
moned at the next term of County
COurt