The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-09-08
AFFAIRS FAT IN GENERAL
sueslnet Statement Of News Events, Strip
ped Of Much Of the Details.
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRlEFLYREcoRDEO
shoFt Paragraphs Personal ana
MISUNDERSTANDING of Events In-
seresting TO Every Nendcr-roplcs
. Discussed on Tho stroeis ma i'm
Offices ana homes.


yesterday.
The public schools are now all in
working trim.
Or. Carr iseued 113 gratis prescrip-
lions last month
Ihere will be no more holidays until
thanksgiving Day.
There will be a meeting of the school
Board Friday night.
Mt. n Mrs. j.. S. Anderton have
gone TO Washington on "a short trip.
mere was a very heavy fog yesterday
morning, which lasted for some time.
Ihere VIII be a large excursion in here
IRON the Tar River road on the 18th inst.
Inc Junior grade of the High School
is the largest this year that 1t ever was.
Inc travel over the Seaboard Air Zine
was immense Monday night and ycstcr-
day.
Misses Mary and Ida Peak, Of this
city, have gcue to Washington, d. c.,
on a visit. :
Three little negro boys were com
lnltted to the county Jail for stealing
ginger snaps.
There were five DRINKS in the Mayors
Court yesterday. All of them were as
sessed the usual fine.
a negro named Frank Norman was
sent to the coualty jail for fifteen days
yesterday for stealing.
MT. >. 6. Dickerson and family. OF
Morgan. Tex, are in the city, the guests
OF Capt. Thomas NJ. Hodges.
"A commission of lunacy was ordered
10 De held cn Daniel Parker, Il negro
lunatic confined in the city jail.
The Western Branch School Board
VIII hold a meeting at II O'Clock next
saturday to settle the Jones matter.
'ohn Lee, coIored, was committed to
the county Jail for 10 days for hoatiur +,
woman. carrying Il concealed pistol. etc,
READ the advertisement OF the New
York CLOTHING store this week, in which
week. ~
me portsmouth military have moth
ing 10 be ashamed OF at the showing
they made on Labor Day In the com
petltive drill.
ine negroes working on the street
rallroad are the happiest people in the
world. They work and sing all day
and never seem to tire.
Mrs. Capt. j.. E.. Williams. Of New
port News. who hrs been visiting her
rather, Mr.. Joseph F. Weaver, of this
city, returned home Yesterday.
fev. DIR. Ray will leave this morning
TOT the Eastern Shore of Virginia to
assist IN the laying of n corner stone
= of a church. He will be absent one or
= two days 4.
The Health officers say. they have
nothlng ITO fear from yellow fever reach
ing this section. We have always had
a quarantine with that section Of the
country In hot weather.
The annual meeting Of the Seaside
Union Epworth Leagues will NEE, at
central church, September 18TH. AT 80
o'clock. AT that time officers will he
elected for the ensuing year.
Inc two negro boys who threw glass
and mud In Sing Lees laundry, on Mid
die street. We're fined SIS each YESTERDAY
morning by the Mayor. This viii Ieari
some Of the boys some -rnsc.
waiter Ellis. a white man, while un-
DER arrest. attempted to assault an
olncer, but was prevented from doing so
by a blow from that gentleman. He
hf5aliy wound up at the statiun-housc
NIT. george w. Turner. of Scots
vile, Va. who fell from 81 stage. break
Ing and hurting his back at the chcml-
cal works at Primers Point, Is i'm
proving as FAST rs could he expected.
MIR. F.. D.. Soul. a well-known resi-
dent of Harrellsville, ". c., died n few
DAYS ago at lis home, In the 18th year Of
his age. Mi. Scull has n son in tits civ
VINO Is employed by the Seab0arl Air
Line.
Ocean Council r. ~, paid on Monday
to Mrs. May Ann Sullivan the sum Of
three thousand dollars, that being the
amount OF the policy held by her on her
husband, r. ]. Sullivan, who died Au-
gust Sth.
JOHN Freeman and Fanny Macx{o
were taken to Justice Grlhln's office yes
terday and were quietly married by
i'arson Thompson. The bridc-clect
broke out in tears when she left the iail.
she hated to leave there.
Will q gang of men were at work
putting in the switches corner OF High
n Court streets Monday night one
or them had his hand aadly mashed hv
o piece of railroad iron falling cl II.
He was carried to a physician, who
dressed the wound.
Mr.. lanes Sanford. II resident Of Park
View, who is employed as an engineer
on the atlantic and Danvillc railroad.
was brought home Mcnday afternoon
very sick with the swamp revcr. which
he contracted up the road while haul
Ing logs In tho woods.
a negro boy named Jessie Boush,
who was "A prisoner In the county iail.
was released some time ago. s)ne d.v
recently he called at the Jail and one
OF the prisoners gave him some mon"
to buy something for MIN. Since ,han
he has not been seen. The authorities
are after him.
The family of Mr.. JoEn Beck with. n
Harrison street grocer, living in Brigh-
ton, are minus all of Their shoes.
amounting to eighteen pairs. The house
was broken into Saturday afternoon
while the family were way and the
shoes, some old pairs and some new.
together with sundry articles of soiIcd
apparel hl a basket, were stolen.
Sunday night some one entered the
house OF MIR. Persons. on Glasgow stree;
extended, n robbed him of some
money and a silver watch. Mr.. Persons
Is employed as n conductor on the street
railroad. He had In his pocket a few
e!cklcs and some street car tickets that
were taken in on the last trip. The