The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-09
NOTES IN a MINOR KEY
Heard Above the Ceaseless Hum Of Traffic
on q Busy City's ThorOughfares.
ELECTRIC ROAD RAPIDLY ADVANCING
oyster ItOnst ut ocean yicw-'Ehe
Shutting nt Deep Creen-The Pros
pee.ive SCOTS Creek fridge ~
Popular Demand The Waste Of
thc wncer-A Runway.
Court commences to-day.


Read the advertisement of S. Lasting
in another column
Mr. Mason is not disheartened and
will come at the Council again.
There are only forty prisoners in the
county jail now This is quite u small
number.
There are three colored lunatics in the
county Jail. They make night hideous
some times.
The City Council did not get through
with more than half their business
Tuesday night.
Mi George a. Tabb won the ladies'
watch which was ratified ut Dunham's
saloon last night.
Scverty-SiX men in the Construction
Department at the yard were given
ten days furlough yesterday.
Tie funeral OF Mir. James Gallilce win
take place this afternoon at 3 O'Clock
from st. Faurs Catholic Chulch.
The building of n bridge Lcrc:s SCOTS
Creek seems TO have taken a tangible
turn. Everybody is anxious for it,
The Electric Road poles are being
put up very fast; in ten days suif-
Gent Iron will he here to lay the tracks.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Catherine
no.an will take place this morning
from st. Paul's Catholic Church at 10
IL IN.
Quite a large party of rientlemen
went out 10 Deep Creek Tuesday night
and skatcd on the basin until q late
hour.
The case of the Italian for shooting
colored boy was called in the Mayors
Court Yesterday and was continued un-
til to-day.
The resolution of Mr.. C. S. Sherwood
IN regard to getting work in the yard
was II good one. and il should be acted
on immUGiatcIy ..
W. j. GuyEn was fined $50 in the
Mayors Court yesterday for soliciting
or"ers for hay and selling the same
y norge attached to a. bread wagon
ran away eo!!y yesterday morning I'm
south For;smouth and scattered bread
I'm every direction.
chicken thief was run out of a lot
on WASHINGTON street, near Clifford
Tuesday night. The party who lives
there saw him. but would not shoe: at
him.
The funeral of Mrs. Harriet Bagby
Wilkins Mir;rr will take place ahis
residence of her husband No. 9l3 Court
street. IS
number OF the members of the
Portsmouth Atlantic Club. with several
strangers, went down to Ocean Wen.
Yesterday and lad an old-faShion oys-
ter roast
The members Of Ocean Council. II A
are rcquest5,l To assemble this after,
noon III o'cioc., for the purpose of
paying tho last tribute OF rcsncct To
~" dcr ,"c' 'rother. DANES Gal:ilcc
air T. W. Fauth wul attend Ia tie
focal al the Evening News I'm Ports
mouth commencing on Monday next. 1t
is Il good selection and the paper win.
river
The ladies who intend to take part
in Grimes Battery fair met last n..ht
and discussed the manner in which thu.
room should be arranged. y manager
VIII be selected by them III their next
meeting.
The funeral of Mr. Ernest Lewis
little daughter WAS conducted from their
residence. No. 523 South street. ,J.cst"r-
day afternoon by Rev w. II Edwards
The remains We're inferred in Oak
Grove Cemetery.
The City Council wisely decided 10
have some one 10. inspect the putting
own of the electric road poles and
the laying of the track TO keep Thorn
f"o" i'iurn9 tho sewer pipes. ii Will
be money well spent
The Christmas Cantata. entitled
Santa Claus Arrival" which was rcu-
dc:cd by the Fourth Street Baptist
Sunday School january I'd will he re-
pcated Tonight January 9th. for the
benefit Of the Sunday school
There Is q picture OF Diana on exhibit
ton in j. s. Crawford'a store window
1t was executed Shy Miss Lola Powell.
resident of Park View. The workman-
ship is excellent and shows that the
young lady is quit an expert.
The Water Company has asked the
Council 10 pass an ordinance To pre-
vent consumers from letting their water
run to keep 1t from freezing. They
claim that the waste is immense and
that it requires additional power to
keep the pressure on. The matter was
referred.
MIR st. John came. on, in a letter In
the Portsmouth star yesterday deny
Ing that he signed the Empire Trans
rcTtation Company petition for n ferry
charter as vice president of the Sea-
board Air Line. but only as an intivid-
lIal. and has so informcr Senator May,
nard and requests him TO act accord
incly.
VIM Mitchell n negro. who worked
for O. l.. Williams for several years.
was tried yesterday for stealing coat
from Mr. Williams. He admitted the
theft and was given sixty days in jail.
Mr.. Williams says that while Mitchell
worked with him he missed harness.
money and other things, but never sus-
pectcd him until this time.