The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-10-02
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Passing Mention Made of Many Minor Hap
penings In the City and Suburbs.
FAl7ss'uL SUMMARY OF THE DAYS NEWS
In Order TO Get in Everything NJ
wns Necessary to Economize space
nv Applyfue Condenser 10 Many
Items Worthy OF Much More Ex.
tended Notice Than that Given.

A colored preacher at West Norfolk is
In trouble.
Several marriages have been set for
this month.
There will be an important meeting
of the School Board tonight.
There are five houses in the course of
erection at Port Norfolk and number
of others will be started very shortly.
Several pei sons received injuries COM
ing from the circus Wednesday by being
tangled up among the railroad tracks.
City taxes for 1896 are due and the
City Collector announces by card in
this issue that he is ready to collect
them
There are no courts in session now.
Judge Portlock was engaged yesterday
in selecting a grand jury for the next
term of the County Court.
Owing to the pressure of business Mr..
Louis c. Phillips did not go 10 st. Louis
Democratic Clubs which meets in shat
city on Saturday next.
Mr.. J. Stewart Hopkins, sweet sing
err from Richmond. has kindly consented
to sing at the Y NJ. c. A in this city
Sunday afternoon next
Mrs. NJ. Hammill, who moved from
here with her son to Baltimore about
two months ago. is critically Ill with
but little hopes of her recovery.
Attention is called to the advertise
nant of Messrs. Nichols & White. In
have another car load of fine apples
soon.
Yesterday a colored man named Neil
Phillips while at work at the North
street depot, had his hand badly injured
by q bale of cotton falling on II. He
was attended by DR.. B.lisoly.
Information was received in this city
yesterday Of the critical illness of Colo
mel L. L. Felt's wife, who resides near
Boykins, Va. The Colonel has nume-
rous friends in both cities who extend to
him their warmest sympath!es.
Those who attended the circus We'd
nesday night met with rather cool re-
ception. They had to sit and look at the
performance with nothing but the can
oples of the heavens to protect them
from the weather.
Yesterday afternoon Il horse attached
to q cart that was loaded with potatoes
became frightened at an electric car, and
attempted 10 back across the track on
London street. The cart was turned
completely over. No one was injured.
The mail train on the Seaboard Air
Line did not reach Portsmouth We'd
nesday night until IL p. M, on account
of the wires being down. The morning
train yesterday was about one and j
half hours late, but they report the
wires all right now.
Two of the eScursionists that came in
OIL. Wednesday night got full of old
John Barleycorn and had q row in the
Union depot. That night they We're ar
rested. and were detained until yester-
day, when they We're assessed So each,
which they paid and had TO pay an addi-
tional fare to get back home
Abram Brown, long, tall darkey,
who has nguered in the courts conside-
rably, but recently reformed and went
to preaching, has again fallen from
grace, and IS in the hands of the law.
This time he stole 81 from the person of
another eolored man, who was asleep
for which he was locked up to await
trial.
Sheriff Riddick. of Hartford county
n. c.. arrived in this city on the Nor,
folk and Southern road with two col
ored men en- route for the Raleigh peni-
tertiary. They were both sentenced
from his county for one year each. The
men were lodged in the county jail until
the midnight train left and then he
carried them with him.