The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-21
NOTICE.
Owing TO tho heRvy pressure of adds
u greater portion OF the Portsmouth
locnl Will BIO q und Oh the 9th pnge.

tonight whether they wllrenter the COM
petttiye drill at the fair or not. Twenty
applications for membership Will be
voted on.
Mr.. VIM. H. Hart. chief dlaughtsman
In the construction department of the
uavy-yard, accompanied by his wife,
mother and child returned from short
visit to New York.
Mag White, an old Jail bird, had a
woman arrested last night for assault
ing her OH her way to the county jail
She beat the woman while the officer
had her In charge. Mag was given
sixty days in jail.
Substitute Police Officer George S.
Hutchins yesterday caught n runaway
horse and wagon belonging to the Nor
folk Steam Laundry at Court and Coun-
" streets Neither horse nor wagon
suffered any damage
gentleman in this city received a let
ter yesterday from a firm In Atlanta in
which it stated that their bookkeeper
had been taken down with the yellow
fever and THAT there was considerable
excitement over the matter.
MI NJ. l.. Hunt. a fireman at the
power house, was elected substitute as
sistant engineer, and Cherry substi-
tute fireman. Mr.. Hunt is performing
the duty of assistant now, and Mr..
CHERRY is also acting as fireman.
Turner Brown, colored fourldryman,
employed at the Seaboard Air Line
shops. was arrested yesterday on a Sc
rlouS charge preferred by Jessie Battle,
"a colored girl. 10 years of age. The case
will be heard before Justice w. H c.
Sykes this evening.
Constable Linehan went to the Sol
diers' Home yesterday and arrested w.
A. Cade, an Inmate of the institution, on
4 warrant sworn out by Mrs. Mary Eure,
charging that he owed her ,S12 for board,
which he refused to pay. Cade was
brought tothe county jail.
There should be no delay on the part
of the Council and the Board of-Trude
In taking some action In reference to tho
armor plate plant coming here. Other
cities have taken action. We should not
sit down and wait for others to do for
us what we should do for ourselves.
Mrs. p! H. Gardner, who resides at
Port Norfolk and her neighbors, Nj.
and Airs. William Martin, had quite n
spat about a fence which Mrs. Gard
ner claims that Mrs. Martin pulled down
and let n goat In on her The case will
be heard before n magistrate to-day.
Some of the public school teachers did
not like the sta tcment made in The Vir-
E:rian. last week. which was that the
School Board made the rules for the gov
eminent OF the children, and that the
tional ones. Facts are facts and it was
the plain truth
The candidates for : the Legislature
each received a communicated from the
conservative Democratic Committee yes
terday requesting them to express them
selves on the action OF the Democratic
Executive Committee. The candidates
have the matter under consIdera ton
whether they will reply or not.
gentleman named Forbes, from Nor
iolk. who is employed In the yards and
docks department in the navy-yard
while walking under n stage, was ac-
cidently struck on the mead by falling
brick and was knocked senseless, besides
cutting cash several inches long In his
head. He was attended by the yard sur
Scon. after which he was sent to his
home in the yard ambulance.
Sunday morning early Mr.. Henry
Pi0escher, proprietor of Cedar Point
farm, on the Eastern Branch, found a
pigeon in his barn. and seeing that it
was greatly fatigued, took 1t in his hand,
! when lie noticed an aluminium band
around one leg. Examining this. Mr..
Procscher saw the following figures:
'246i-9. w. F. The bird showed
signs of having been out long time.
There came near being a collision be-
tween two electric cars on the Port
Norfolk road yesterday morning at 0
o'clock at the corner OF Water and
County streets. One car was coming
from the ferry and another car was
going towards the ferry and both were
running pretty lively and would have
| come together right on the curve but
for negro man calling AT The top Of
MS voice to beth. They stopped within
close proximity to each other. They
| turn this corner entirely too fast and
but seldom ring their bell