The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-06-25
AFFAIRS IN GENERAL.
ISucc'nct Statement Of News Events Strip.
ped Of Much Of the Details.
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
snort Paragraphs Personal ana
observation-disclosures OF Events lin.
terestfnE to Every Kender-'Eopfcs
Discussed on tho Streets and in
Offices and Homcs.

al Watermelons from North Carolina will
aps coming in soon.
a Miss Annie Smith, of Baltimore, Is in
Hthe city on @ visit.
"A number of the teachers will attend
She summer normal
Il a number Of new houses are being
1built at Port Norfolk:
s. MIR. Edward Hannill of Baltimore. is
I'm the city on business
Grimes Battery will go into camp on
#5uly 18th, at Ocean View.
4 Mr. Hollands little child is critically
III at their residence in Scottsville.
4 1here Will be no more cases tried this
an1onth after Linn Is tried on Monday
The Boone case Will he called in the
3Alayor's court for examination today.
Two colored boys were fined So each
4 yesterday for bathing in the city with
aout clothing
!. Monumental Sunday school carried a
aAarse crowd on their picnic to Buck Roe
$Beach Sunday.
4 There was a grand free fight in Sweet
canaan on Wednesday night. One man
! was badly beaten.
Ar. Geo. Halstead fell wednesday
a"hiie playing baseball and cut himself
sQu!te badly In the hip.
- negro man was committed to the
3county Jail yesterday for 80 DAYS for
carrying CONCEALED weapon.
me dog tax is being paid right along.
lime number paid so far is greater than
1 II mas been for q number Of years.
II MT. u. w. Skeeter and wife will leave
tomorrow for Halifax, N. c., TO visit
sIar. Skeeter'S mother for q short while
"A colored baseball club from Newport
3NeWs came up yesterday and played a
game OF ball with Portsmouth team.
II there was a scrapping match yester-
fday morning In the market between two
oolored boys. No arrests were made
Grimes Battery loaned Lee Rifles
LOT Norfolk their big tent. which they will
use at Ocean View next week for camp
purposes.
10000 Will be paid to the employees Of
the yard today. This amount Is small to
[What It should be, but it will help con-
eidera bly,
a young named Sweat, who lives on
armstrong street, in Park View, broke
MS arm yesterday. He was attended by
Drs. Butt and Bindenwald.
Inc Firginian acknowledges the re-
cept or an invitation to accompany
Grimes Battery on their excursion to
Soldiers Home on Tuesday next
Ehe Norfolk county Democratic Elk
acutlVe Committee will meet Saturda,
night at the Mansion House in Norfolk
10 wind up the business Of the year
quite q number OF people took adj
vantage OF the cheap rates to Richmond
yesterday and went OH the excursion.
Ihey returned at q late hour last night.
The Public Property Committee Of the
IGouHcll ana the school Board held n
meeting last night and examined plans,
etc, for the neweschool house IN this
9th Ward.
Two women tried to take possession
OF one Of the S. ~. L. cars yesterday
They were arrested by Constable Lime
han and were carried before Justice
Haynes, who let them off with costs
Justice John T. Griffin had violent
attack OF cholera morbus "Wednesday
night. Two physicians were with him
Tor several hours. He was much better
yesterday, but was unable to leave his
bed
Miss Oracle Bland, a well known
young lady of this city. and niece of
Niessrs. W. ]. and Joseph A Parker,
left last night for Brooklyn, N. Z, to
become member Of the order OF Sisters
Of Mercy.
1t Is more than probable that a num-
Der OF special constables In the county
VIII be broken, it having been discovered