The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-09
SHOOTING SCRAPE
Between Two COIored Men In an Uptown
Groggery is Being Kept Quiet.
REPORT OF DYPTRERIA is UAFouHDED.
No Session OF Court Ycstcraay-Tbc
Child Evangelist To.Day-A swell
Calico Bnii-Hnd n Fit on the
Street Committed TO the County
~tnii-Jaiscd For Indecent Language
This is sexuagesima Sunday.

IHiS Is sunday.
cold spell ma be expected after
Read the advertisement of ]. S. Craw-
ford.
There was no session of the court
yesterday.
TWO negro men were locked up last
night for lighting on Crawford street.
The Street Committee will hold an
important meeting Monday night.
IN navy yard employees were paid
yesterday for the last half of January.
Mr.. n. Smith was fined $3.50 in the
Mayors Court yesterday for disorderly
conduct.
High School will take place his week.
IT Will be quite interesting.
y negro, named Harris. was commit
ted to he county jail yesterday for
breaking in "a house in Huntersville.
F., The Virginia Baseball State League
will hold their annual session in Rich
mond Tuesday, to elect officers for the
season.
Thu Taylor Sunbeam Society of the
Calvary Baptist Church will hold their
regular monthly meeting this afternoon
OF 3 p. m.
The calico ball, about which mention
has been made, will come off ut Kim
Hall Monday night. 1t will be quite u
swell affair.
Tho entertainment which was. to be
held at 81 Fifth street on the 5th inst.
was postponed on account OF The severe
storm, until Monday, 10th inst.
h three electric ilaunchcs, which
were used on the lake at the Atlanta
Exposition, passed through this city
yesterday en- route for New York, where
they belong.
An aged colored man had a 1T on
Crawford street yesterday, which last
ed for some time. He finally recovered
and went TO his home. He looked at
one time II ii he was dying.
Rev. DR.. Hines, who has been assist
ing DR.. Owen for the past two weeks
i'm holding meetings, left yesterday for
Raleigh, where he goes to assist DR..
Simons in holding a meeting.
Attention is called To al. OF II. b.
wilkins, IN which he states that lie can
furnish you with good dry wood in wet
weather, because he keeps II under a
w~ell-covcred shed. See his ad. and give
him 4 gall.
The Board of Stewards of the North
street Church desire to state that hey
will NOT provide separate seats for white
people at their church to-day, but the
white people are welcome IL they come
TO hear the child evangelist.
There was Il shooting scrape between
two colored men Friday night in an up
town bar-room. The parties are trying
TO keep the matter quiet. c~onscGuently
~ ithI' ott pt ithi iltNt III lltl
one of the men was badly shot.
The physician referred to yesterday as
having four cases of dyptheria on one
street, says II informant was mis-
tax fe told him that he had four
cases OF typhoid fever. caused by the
dumping 0f trash. etc, near these homes.
The Y. NJ. c. a. Convention will assem-
BILE Wednesday night at Monumental
NJ. +. Church, at 9:l5 y. III. The l~ateness
of the hour Is caused BY Il large number
of delegates being unable to reach here
before the Norfolk and Western train
comes In.
The shooting in L~incolnvinc. about
which there was SO much complaint
some time ago, has commenced again.
y few nights ago Dick. the janitor for
the County Clerks Office. came near
being hit by Il stray bullet while on
his way home
An electric light wire caught fire on
High street yesterday afternoon and
spit fire for some time. Finally II burn
ed ont and fell to the ground, striking
a dog that was passing at the time,
knocking him scnseless. AS soon as
the dog recovered he made tracks for
home.
VIM. Murry. a resident of South Ports
mouth, was fined 81 and costs In the
Mayors Court yesterday for drunken
ness. and $40 for using ulg and in
decent language on the street cars in
the presence of ladies. In default, he
was committed to Jail for fifteen days.
The Nirgintan is again compelled to
remind its readers and those who de-
sire TO express themselves trough our
columns that no communication with
out the name of the writer will be pub
lished consequently the one received
yesterday will share the fate of all
others.