The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-06-13
PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLOSED.
Death OF Mr.. wiIlfain u. Marks toad
Crops tn Danwiddie.

neHth Oh William u. Marks a4O0 Il
Crops tn Dinwiddie.
Petersburg, Va, June II (SpeciaD.
The closing exercises of the public
schools OF Petersburg took place to-day
and were quite largely attended The
following were the fun graduates at the
High School: Misses Fannie Riches
Whitehead. Lucy Gray Madison, Kate
Jordan Stiles. Katherine Mann. Lima
| Victor Noltenius. Mary Alley Ledbetter.
| Sibyl Edmonia Adkins, Minnie Elizabet IN
| Martin. Pattie Percivall, Susan Orpah
Dabney, and Masters James Edward
! Routh. Charles Henry Heincman, Geo.
Floyd Rogers, Charles Clyde Shelton,
John Stevens Jones. The exercises At
| this school were opened with prayer by
! Rev. r. T. Wilson. iMessrs. Simon Sc
ward, Richard b. Davis and John w.
Bradbury. of the School Board. were
present,1and suitably presented the sew
eral awards. Mr.. Seward, the President
of the Board, presented the High School
medal to the full graduates
AT the Anderson School the exercises
were opened In the several departmnts
by the Rev. Drs. Edwards, Battle and
Pitcher, who assisted tine members of
the Board present lin the delivery of the
certificates and awards. or The School
Board there were present Messrs. r. b.
Davis, b. b. Vaughan, John w. Brad
bury, j. r. w. Smith and Simon Seward.
who made suitable addresses to the chill
dren In delivering the awards of this
years work.
Mr.. William b. Marks, whose con-
tinued Illness has been announced In
this correspondence, died this morning
at o'clock The deceased. with his
brother, the late a. H. Marks. for wears
carried on the planning mill business here.
and were large contractors The Pea
body colored School-house In this CITY
~
member of Sycamore Council. ROYAL Ar
canum, In which order he carried n life
insurance of $4,000. He was a life mem
Der Of the Petersburg Benevolent Me
chanic Association. He leaves three
children-two daughters and one SON
all unmarried.
Mr.. II. S. Purdy. a widely known citj-
zen, of Chesterfield county. died at his
home in that county yesterday morning.
A large number of young ladies' from
the Farmville Normal School arrived
mere this morning en- route to their re-
spective homes
The condition, of Mr. Morton Riddles.
II, Road Master of the Richmond and
petersburg Railroad Company. who is
III at his home in this city, with typhoid
inalarial fever, is unimproved
General Stith Boiling and A. w. Har-
RS delegates to the Republican National
Convention, to be held inst. Louis will
leave here for Richmond Tomorrow;
morning, where they will ioin n mart,
which Will leave Richmond for ST Louis
Tomorrow afternoon.
~ gentleman from Dinwiddie who was
In the city to-day, told me that the
crops OF tobacco, wheat and corn in thnlt
county were looking more encouraging
than he had seen them for years.
Archie, the three-y year old son of Police
Justice Robert Il. Bragg. was run over
DuEOV
ry street, and narrowly escaped being
seriously injured
MT. Richard Seymour, who disappear-
ed so mysteriously from his residence
on Pearl street yesterday morning. re-
turned home last night unconscious of
the great anxiety he had caused his
FAMILY. Mr.. Seymour had gone TO visit
a friend in Dlnwiddie county, a short
distance from Petersburg.
An interesting series of meetings have
been In progress during the past week
at the Baptist Church in Ettrick. Ches-
terheld county. There were three con-
versions last night.
The hospital for the colored epileptic
insane of the STATE. the foundation for
which is now being dug, is to occupv n
site one hundred feet west of the Central
State Hospital II will have accommo-
dations for one hundred patients. and IL
expected TO be completed by next De-
cember. This number of epileptics Is
is now in the Central State Hospital. II
Is estimated that there are between four
thousand and five thousand epileptic in
sane In the State.
The regular monthly term of the
County Court Of Dinwiddie will be held
| on next Monday. There are no cases of
| special interest on the criminal docket.
At the July term the court Will appoint
road surveyors.
Mr.. j. Frank Pate. of Sumter, N. c..
ana State Secretary of the Jr o. u. A
| NJ, was In rhe city to-day en- route
| to Denver Col. where the National
| Council of the order commences its an
nual session next Tuesday. He was
i shown around the city before his depar-
| ture by 5. c. Secretary Ivey
Mr.. Simon Seward and daughter left
tonight for Asheville, n. G. Miss Sew
ard goes to Asheville TO attend a Wo
| mans Convention there as a delegate
| from the Woman's College of Richmond.
HEREFORD.