The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-13
SucclRct Statement Of News Events, Strip
ped of Much of the Details.
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
short Paragraphs Personal nnd
MISUNDERSTANDING OF Events In.
teresting to Every 1scader-Topics
discussed Oh tho Streels and In
@ Offices aud Homes.

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on business,
There viii be meeting Of the City
Council tonight.
The water company is doing much
better with the supply.
colored man paid 81 for riding
bicycle without a license.
Constable SiveHon pulled four parties
sunday for shooting craps.
\ large bicycle party took q run to
deep Greek yesterday nor ming.
Work on the Portsmouth Street Rail-
road was commenced yesterday. t.#w
a young man was fined $3.50 for as
saulting man named Kierstein.
There was scrapping match Sunday
on Carbon street. No one badly. hurt.
There was no meeting OF the Board Of
trade Yesterday for want Of q quorum.
An excursion of business men from
Durham, N. c., will be in the city to-day
ihere VIII be convention at the
baseball park this afternoon at clock
, Sam Stony, colored, was committed to
the county jail yesterday for stealing a
COW
Mr.. John Moore. Commissioner of
Revenue, Is i'll at his home, near Deep
Creek.
The Calvary Baptist Sunday school!
Will go 10 Buckroc Beach to-day on a
picnic.
Quite number Of people are making
arrangements TO leave the city for the
summer.
Not many people went on the excur-
sion to Newport News and the Capcs
last night.
{ The Court Street Presbyterian Sunday
f>on picnic
There were one or Two light showers,
sunday, but they were not sufficient to
lay the dust
Rev DR.. Hunter professor Of chem
istry. Is visiting Mr.. L. c. Brooks, on
Court street.
The hot wea Their had a tendency TO
churches Sunday
a man named Kicks was arrested by
Constable Elliott for carrying q pistol
He raid the $50 fine.
IL was !umored Yesterday that 4 well
known young couple had elopeu, but
1t could not be verified.
There was no meeting Of the Baptist
preachers yesterday, they having adj
iourned for the summer.
Constable Linpehan had i've parties
for shooting craps They paid S2G5
apiece. which WAS c0S.s.
The W. G. Il. y. will meet this after
noon at 4 o'clock with Mrs Mallory
Aoore. No. Clio Dinwidde street
Mrs Frank Stanley has gone 10 Bran
bleton to stay for awhile on account of
the illness Of her mother and sister
Miss Sallic Leigh, who has been Wis
ting her brother at The Madison. has
returned to her home, in Southampton
county. Va
John Parker beat Mollc Williams
about bedstead for Which he was fined
$50. In default he was committed TO
Jail for thirty days
The Funeral Of Mr.. Henbcr's little
child took place Sunday afternoon from
their residence, in Scottsville The re-
mains were inferred III Oak Grove Gene
terry
y party was arrested SATURDAY.
al 4,
thcr the man who made The charge nor
the PARTY charged put in theft appear
ance, SO the case was continued
y negro named Moses Martin was
committed to the county jail yesterday
upon charge Of attempting to wreck
a passenger train on The Ocean View
railroad Sunday He was sent on To
the grand jury, which meets this month.
The CherhW Chronicle, which is pub
lished at Cheraw. c. S.. contains a
glowing account Of the industrial exhibit
/ presented by the Seabonrd Ar Line at
Z t;heraw and other places in South Caro-
INA. Tho Seaboard Air Line is MAILING
q big hit in this enterprise.
NIT. George JameS,a prominent trucker
or norfolk county, while in Norfolk yes
terday morning, was overcome by the
heat. MIR. James was brought 10 the
Hotel Madison, BY Messrs. Walter Nee
and Fl. s. Butt. DR.. Parrish was sum-
moned and rendered medical aid.
George Stewart. colored, proceeded to
clean out the county Saturday night and
started the fireworks by making q
punching bag out Of the head Of Henry
Jones. He was arrested and will spend
five days ot Hotel de Codd. FL, has an
other charge staring him in the face,
that OF hitting q white man by the name
, Of Speers
Grimes Battery, thirty-six strong,
under command of Captain Warren,
went into camp cstcrtlay morning It
Ocean VitW for ten days. They carried
WIN thcm two OF their heavy guns ana
WEI nave target practice and gun drills
every afternoon. The members Of the
company who could not leave the city
for ten days will join the company there
overy afternoon.
Mr.. Charles Wilson died at his resi-
dencc. No 206 First street. Yesterday
morning at 2:35 O'Clock Mr.. Wilson wa :
IN the Doth year Of bis age. and for thirty
years was chief gunner's mate in tho
united states Navy. His funeral will
take place from his late residence. this
+ afternoon and the intcrmcnt. at the re-
quest Of the deceased, VIII be In the
Naval Cemetery.
Two coloted men created a disturb
ance Sunday night. One hit Tho Other
with an axe for which warrant was
iae.sued. Yesterday the man went before
a county justice Of the peace and said
he had no desire to prosecute tho man
who struck him rs both were drunk,
and asked that the warrant be dis
missed, which was done upon the pay
mcnt OF costs.
Levi p Jones colorea, who has been
confined In the city Jail for three
months. charged with temporary insan-
ity, was discharged yesterday his mind
having become balanced. When he was
arrested he said lie was fort:-one years
old. had been to sea 300 years. Ycster-
day he reduced the time to twenty