The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-07
Succlnct Statement Of News Events, Strip.
pod of Much of the Details.
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
Short Paragraphs EersonnI md
Othrrwise-Accounts OF Events In.
ieresting 40 Every Iscndor-ropics
discussed on Tho Streets ma in
Offices and lIoneS.
Figs are getting plentiful.

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ten days visit.
DR.. William Schmoele is In Philadel-
phia on business.
Book dealers are happy at the pros
poets before them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il, O.. Cain have gone to
Franklin on a visit.
The clerks at the Seaboard Air Line
all had holiday yesterday.
There was a very large attendance at
the Hospital Park Sunday.
Mr.. George W. Faurh is quite sick at
his home, on Sixth street.
one OF two places of business were
closed yesterday afternoon.
DR.. Grice and mother will return home
this week from the mountains
Communion was administered in q
number of the churches on Sunday.
Attention lis called to the card of
thanks OF Levy & Jacobs. in this Issue.
There was no game of football yester-
day. the Suffolk team failing TO show up.
Portsmouth has had anothe. hotel
added to her list. There are three III the
city now
The Norfolk county road board met
yesterday II transacted routine bus
mess.
Rev. Mr.. Abbott. of Port Norfolk, bap-
tized two people Sunday afternoon in the
river.
Mr.. Less Hall had his bicycle stolen
S az NShkbSS L l9lC SouIlulS
night.
1t Is said that By Sunday. the 18th
' instant, cars will be running to the new
Park.
There was no meeting of the police
commissioners last night for want of a
quorum.
There will be no meeting OF the super
visors to-day. They will meet next
Tuesday.
There was a meeting of the Holiness
convention last night at Friends
Church.
Mr.. William Gtttlebaum, representing
the New York Journal, il stopping At the
Madison.
Mr.. Ernest D. Miller, of Savannah.
Ga, is in the city visiting his parcnts in
Park View.
There Will be n large excursion come
In over the Seaboard Air Line on the
18th instant.
"A negro man was sent to the county
Jail yesterday for thirty days for carry
ing q pistol.
Mrs. r. A. Weaver, Of jackson, NC,
is visiting her sister. Mrs. II. II. jordan.
on North street.
Quite a number of people will go on
the excursion to Washington, which Will
leave here to-day.
a negro fish huckster was fined 500
yesterday for selling fish around the CITY
without a license.
The eXcursionists who went to Balti-
more Saturday night will all return
home this morning.
Mrs. II. o. Pearson has gone 10 Bal
timore to join her husband, who is in
the hospital there.
Miss Sue S~tatenfeld. OF Gloucester
county, is visiting Mr.. c. r. Smiths
family, on Washington street.
MIR. c.. t. Williams. 4 clerk at the
Union Depot. has returned from a
Weeks visit to Grcenport, N. =.
Ihere was n good attendance at the
Meeting at the South Street
Baptist Church Sunday ate, noon.
Mrs. j. E.. Parker. of No. 42S Columbia
street, who has been Ill with typhoid
fever for some time. Is improving.
There was n shooting match n; Port
Norfolk yesterday afternoon. in which n
NUMBER or local sports participated
"A negro man was picked up in n beast
~ state or intoXication ana was carried
TO the station house in a push cart.
+ 'Mr. t. G. Sykes returned Sunday from
Greenbr!er White Sulphur Springs.
where he had been spending a week.
~ coiored man Was arrested Sunday
AFTERNOON by Constable Hutchinson FOR
Using profanc language In Scottsvino.
Charles Edward Price, an old offender.
was before the Mayor yesterday 70. dis
orderly conduct. He was given ten
days.
Mr.. Powell. Of scottspillc. who me.
with an accident by the bursting of an
emery wheel. will lose the sight on one
eye.
DR.. D. G. Porter returned yesterday
from Culpeper county, where he had
been to visit his parents, who were both
sick.
In another column a nice house in
Park View Ia advertised for rent: with
all modern improvements. See advcr-
tisement.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ. Carroll, of Shelly
N. G., ale in the city visiting their
daughter. Mrs. Kimwcathcrs, on Craw-
ford street.
Mrs. DR.. V. G. culrcppcr retu~ned
Saturday afternoon from Roanoke Rcd
sulphur Springs, where she had been
spending some time
Mr.. Henry Kim and family. who have
been spending several weeks a. The
Sweet Ch&lybeatc Springs, returned
home Saturday night.
Two colored men had n regular Sct-to
yesterday on High street extended. one
Of them received a cut over the eve bv
being struck with a ring.
Mrs. Fred WiersdN,f, accompanied bv
her daughters, Miss Pauline, and Missy
Mary, left for Washington, D.. c., to
spend u week with friends.
Rev.W. r.. Bcadlcs. assisted by Rev.
Mr.. Proctor. ~ holding n series Of
protracted meetings nj Jnliff's Church.
near Bowers Hill, this week.
Mr.. Robert A. Stewart left yesterday
for the University OF Virginia, at Char
l~ottesrille, where he IL employed as an
instructor In Greek and German.
Mrs. r. L. Bunting and children re-
turned Sunday from Atlanta, Ga, where