The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-04-01
Rs Is Ready Willing and Anxious to Begin
Laying the Tracks Down the Streets.
WASTE OF TIME AND TRYING TO PATIENCE
Churches Preparing for Easter Music
The Port Norfolk Furniture Fac.
Son with Theft-The knights of
Dixie's New Feature-Personals.
This is all fools day.
The Police now 90 nm T.,

IiS OisSS iiOM 81 Oli duly III 9 .oV y.
Yesterday was disagreeable day for
newS-gathering.
The Circuit Court is still engaged in
the suits for damages.
Attention is called to ad. of j. ]. BIZ
Esoly in our local column.
Mulvey will open Hotel Vernon for the
summer on the 18th inst.
Efforts are being made to start a
new Lodge of Red Men in this city.
There are twelve borrowing days and
then we may look for some good wealth
er.
There were but six marriages In the
whites.
Attention Is called to ad. Of young
man wanted who understands book
keeping.
Abraham Brown. who was arrested
upon Il charge of assault, was. bailed
yesterday.
The suit of w. B. johnson VS. the city
OF Portsmouth will come up for trial
next week.
Mrs. Cornelius Bidgood is extremely
i'll at her husbands residence, on West
ern Branch.
Court will not be tomorrow, but on the
9Th inst.
The case Of a merchant doing business
without a license will come up In the
Mayors Court Thursday.
Mr.. John Callahan, Superintendent Of
the Washington Steamboat Company,
was In the city yesterday
There were twenty-four marriages
In Norfolk county last month-four
whites and twenty coiored.
Lieutenant j. C. Prince, u. S. NJ, has
been detached from this yard and is or
dered to the Brooklyn yard.
All the churches are preparing spe-
riDl n cf, WI
will be sung at both services.
The members of Stonewall Camp c.
". are requested to be present al the
election of officers tonight. See ad.
Special rates to Washington ard re-
turn will be given the Portsmouth base
ball team and their friends who desire
to accompany them, next week to Wash
ington.
There Is but thirty days more al
lowed the Portsmouth street railroad
to complete the electric road. and moth
ing has been done except to put up the
poles and paint the same.
The contractors for the sewera ge pow
er-house say that they can complete the
l.uilding in twenty-five good working
Gays. The foundation is solid rock,
made from the old jail building.
The knights of Dixie have added an
endowment feature to the order for
twenty-five cents month the family
can receive at his death SIS for burial
expenses. outside the regular amount
allowed.
a colored man named James Walker
had his head badly crushed at Hitch
MIL yesterday. He was attended by
DR.. a A. Bilisoly. His nose was spill.
critical condition.
A father had his son arrested yester-
day. charging him with stealing from
his house two pictures. one of himself
and one Of the boys deceased mother,
which were valued at $40 The case was
heard and dismissed.
The entertainment at Wright Memo
rial Church Monday night was a decid-
ed success. The treasurer reported that
the society had raised $1,000 since its
organization. which had been used to
help pay for the Sunday School.
Mr. Mason expects to come down Din
widdie street from London. to Clifford
thence to Washington, to Harrison, to
Fifth. to Henry, to First. He says he
is ready to begin work at any time and
complete the same in sixty days or
less.
Yesterday morning during the absence
ON Mary Young, colored huckster.
who lives on High street. near Chestnut.
some one broke into her home and ran
sacked II in search of money. falling to
find any they left without carrying any
thing Off
The many friends OF Mr. A. II. Mar
tin. Clerk of the Norfolk County Court
in this city and the county, extend to
him and his wife their deep sympathy
in his sad bereavement. over the loss
OF his child. and the combined illness
OF his babe and wife
The Port Norfolk furniture factory and
tract Of land adjoining was sold at
public auction yesterday for S4900 Mr.
r. j. Nicely becoming the purchaser
Mr.. John Cox purchased the accounts
and stock for $780, Just what DISPOSE
ton Will be made OF the factory Is no;
known.
There were four funerals yesterday
1t looks like waste of time and try
ing of mems patience for the Board of
Police Commissioners to have to investi-
gate fires. IT never brings to light any
thing other than that the fire was or
was not of an incendiary origin, and
that most every one knows before the
report Of the Commissioners Is made
public.