The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-03
JUST AMONG HOMEFOLK,
News Concerning the Great FAM
lily of Norfolk.
LAYMEN'S UNION MEETING.
Society for the Prevention Of Cruel
ty to Animals. Officer Nichols
Suspended. Property As.
ment. Death of Capt.
Geo. Ironmonge".

- ne SCHOOLS resumed regular ses'
slons yesterday.
Warmer weather expected today
with possibly light snow.
DIR. Q. Il. Vance has returned
from visit to Bristol, Tenn.
Most OF the schools have resum ed
after the holiday intermission.
The Farmers Alliances held their
first meeting IN 1895 yesterday.
Police Officer Nichols has been
suspended for violation of rules.
The licensed embnlmerS are regis
tering with the Board of Health.
Miss Maggie Rose is quite i'll Mt
her residence on Cumberland street.
Mr.. S. a. Stevens, former we'll
known citizen Of Norfolk, is in the
city.
Mr.. Sam Davidson, formerly of
Norfolk, now OF Stanton, is in tue
city.
AaThe Board of Police Commissions
ers and the School Board will ho id
meetings to day.
There were only few unimpors-
ant druDks before Justice Bur.
roughs yesterday.
Hon. Hill Carter, a prominent
lawyer of Ricbmoud, is Visiting DR..
Anderson on Bank street.
Last night about $50 o'clock
slight fire occurred Mt n barroom on
Plume street, near Talbot.
Messrs. Santos, Paunill and Wins
low have commenced the work of
assessing the property of Norfolk.
Miss Annie Nortieet, of Suffolk. Is
r,g TN, fn
5. Eaton, Mt No. ~ Wake street.
Judge Brooke released from mil
yesterday number of persons who
we're unable to pay the fines i'm
posed.
Mir. r. G. Evans and wife of
South Dakota, arrived here Sunday
aud will locate. He is much pleased
with Norfolk.
&sThe Acme dining and lunch rooms
81 Main street, will be open to day,
when free lunch will lie served from
10 q. ID. to $3.50 p. IN.
Jake Nilraln, the weli.known eX.
pugilist, who will referee the Me.
Murray-Sherman fight, will arrive
III the morning on the Baltimore
boat.
Material is being rapidly deliver.
ed for tue new building at the cor
ner of Lee and Water streets, which
is to be erected by MIR. ID. Lowen-
| berg.
Ex-Policeman Hargrove, NorfoIA's
hest baseball player, has signed
with Manager Brady, of the
Portsmouth League team, for next
season.
The people of the West End ap-
preclate very much the street car
service they have secured since the
brambleton cars have been running
around York street.
Capt. Geo. j. Ironmonger died
at Grafton. York county, on De.
eember 30th, of typhoid fever.
Capt. Ironmonger was formerly n
resident OF tbs city and IS years
OF age.
The annual meeting OF the Society
Tor the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animate will be held on the evening
OF the 9th of the present month M
the \. Nj. G. a. Hail. DIR. Tudor
viii deliver an address.
The explosion of gasoline stove
caused slight fire in Ferris cook
shop, corner of Washington street
aud Chapel lane. at 500 O'CLOCK last
night. The department extiuguished
the IRE after iittlo damage.
i be building No. SO Main street
and for many years occupied hy
Mir. VIM. ErNieven, has been very
neatly reii,ied and viii he occupied
10y MIR. y. l.. Murray as n tirst.
class lunch ana dung room, Euro.
pean plan.
lhe January meeting OF The Lay.
mans Union of the Methodist
Church Will be held ut Monumental
Church, Portsmouth. DR., Coke
smith will deliver an. address on
"Methodism. There Will be nm ey.
cellent musical programme.
wages In iiic COTTON tic,d,.
Nv Southern Assocmtci Pres.
MERIDIAN, Miss. ,JRuuory 1.-The
cotton planters of the Yazoo DELTA
have Just concluded convention Mt
Nltayuma. ut which steps were taken
to fix scale of wages for cotton
hands all over the cotton States.
hesolntionS were passed fixing the