The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-18
SOME CITY GLIMPsEs
The Sum and Substances Of the Less I'M
portant Events of Yesterday.
FAITHFUL SUMMARY OF THE DAYS NEWS
Not Much About Anything But
Something About Many Thinga-
A Kinetosraphic View or Lafc in
Norfolk inI Its sInny and vnry.
Ing Phases-Brief. Faithful, vivid.

Miss Maggie Wills Miller leaves for
New York shortly.
Mr.. A. L. Lelouis. OF Danville, Va. is
In the city prospecting.
Mr.. Saunders Garland, of Washing
ton. ID. c.. is in the city.
The Pocahontas will carry another
excursion to Cobb's Island Sunday.
The First Baptist Church runs its
annual excursion to Shaw Springs to-
dav.
The School Board of this city will
hold its monthly meeting this afternoon
mt l o'clock.
The quarterly convention of the Nor
folk District w. c. T. U. will be held at
Hampton September I'd.
An excursion from Burlington and
points on the Southern railway will ar
rive here on the goth instant.
Both the Norfolk and Western and
Chesapeake and Ohio routes brought
Rev. John w. Sykes, rector of Grace
Church. Toledo. o., formerly, of Nor
folk. is visiting friends in this city.
Israel Thompson. colored, had his
right leg badly mashed Saturday night
between two schooners on the river
front.
Mr.. H. II. McKenney. Of the Rich
mond Dispatch. a former wellknown
typo of Norfolk, is in the city visiting
friends.
Rev. Dr. w. w. Smith. president of
the Randolph Macon System of Col
leges and Academies, was in the city
Yesterday.
A negro man, a spectator in the Po-
lice Court yesterday morning, fell In q
fit. and had to be removed from the
Court room.
A beer delivery wagon Of the Robert
Portner Brewing Company turned over
at the Southern railway wharf yester-
dav afternoon.
Rev. Rober, COPELAND, the assistant
rector. conducted the Sunday services at
ST. Luke's p. l.. Church in the absence
OF the Rev. a. S. Lloyd.
Mr.. r. Schiller, of the Excelsior Cloth
ing House, left this morning to visit
his former home, Roanoke, Va, and
spend some days with his friends there.
Mrs. L. NJ. Isaac and son, Louis. left
last evening by the Bay Line for Ar
Verne. Long Island. where they will
spend several weeks with Mr.. Isaac's
mother.
The French Costume Musicale, which
will be given at the Princess Anne
Hotel Virginia Beach, "Wednesday
night. promises to be the foremost social
event of the season.
Pocahontas Council, Royal Arcanum,
will. at an carly date, give dan eScur-
sion to Old Point and the Capes for
benefit of the Infant Sanitarium at
Virginia Beach.
Rev. DR.. r. B. Thames, of Danville.
Va. preached an eloquent and forceful
sermon at the Freemason Street Baptist
Church Sunday morning to large and
attentive congregation.
The big Methodist camp meeting at
Nimmo's Church, Princess Anne coun-
tv. closes to-day This has been the
most successful meeting of it's kind held
In Princess Anne for some time past.
Huntersville Lodge, No. 1913, l. O. O..
f, gives its much talked-of excursion to
A., n.
number of attractions, among them
dancing at the pavilion, tub racing, etc.
Rev. z. Hughes, pastor of the Mt.
Pleasant Baptist Church in Norfolk
county, baptized eleven candidates Sun
dav and gave the right hand of fellow
ship to twenty-one new members of his
church.
The annual moonlight excursion for
the benefit of St. Mary's Orphan Asy-
lum. this city, will be given tomorrow
night on the steamer Pocahontas TO
White Shoal Light on the James river.
| MI Gus WinSlow, a clerk at the Nor
| folk and Southern railroad in this city.
! is spending his vacation in New York.
| Mr. David Garland, son of Rev. j.
Powell Garland, and a prominent young
| LAWYER of New York City, is in the city
visiting his parents.
Rev J. e. Schank, pastor of the Luth-
| eran Church in this city, and family
left Yesterday for n stay of several
weeks at Waynesboro, Va, where Rev.
Mr.. Schenk will attend the sessions of
the Southern Synod. He has declined
| the call to Salem. Va
James Williams, colored. was arrested
yesterday and is now in the lookup.
1 He is the same man that threw the
captain of barge overheard few days
| ago in Albemarle Sound, and peltcd him
with coal until he was almost drowned
Mrs. Charles +. Collier, the charming
| wife of Mayor Collier, of Petersburg. is
| the guest of friends here. At Epworth
NJ. e. Church Sunday night She rendered
| a solo. by request, in beautiful voice
and manner which won her many
| friends among the congregation.