The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-24
AFFAIRS At; T \ IN GEN ER'AL
Slce'nct Statsn'asat Of News Events, Strip.
ped Of Much Of the Details.
Yesterdays NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
snort Paragraphs PERSONAL and
0tiierwtse--Ac counts OF events ra.
terestins TO livery 7seadcr-Innics
discussed on lilo strceis nlld liz
Offices nnd Homes.

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Offices nnd Homes.
South street is in deplorable CON
dtio,l ass
Tomorrow will be the las: Sunday
in the month s55
The mail train came in all right yes
tcrday morning.
There will be but few nicnicS tht Eal-
ance of the season.
Ihere Was a good attendance at the
game of bail yesterday.
The market is abundantly supplied
with all kinds Of fruit now.
The farmers say they can do without
rain for some time 10 come
There was All excursion IN yesterday
over the Seaboard Air Lire
SeIera! car loads OF iron for the Port
Norfolk railroad has arrived
Mary Brown, colorcu, was bound over
to keep the peace by Mayor Baird
The Board Of Health should sea that
the weeds around the cit. are Gu; down
The Rev. MI. Ray will be li,me in
time 10 fill his pulpit Sunday morn
ing.
Watermelcns from the Western
Branch for % cents apiece yester-
day.
~ The verdict in the Cannon case did no,
T'give satisfaction OIL this side Of the
river.
a piano will be placed in the rca ding
room OF the railroad library at the
shops.
The Senatorial Convention will meet
in the Hastings Court room August I'd,
at u III.
The Y. NC. A. Sunday afternoon
meetings. have been discontinued for the
warm months.
Attention is called to ad. Of houEe for
rent OH Clifford street with all modern
improvements.
an expert electrician here repairing
ftheir dynamos.
i Three tramps were committed to jail
by Justice Rustic for trespassing on
railroad property.
Justice Rustic committed man and
woman to jail for thirty days for living
together unlawfully.
Mr.. Solomon Barclay Is suffering from
n severe attack of, kidney collie at his
home. in Park View.
MIR. Clarence Dowdy had a suit Of
Clothes stolen from his room in SCOTS
Vile Thursday night
The Rev. Mr.. Reed, of Lynchhnrs, a
former presiding elder OF this district,
was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. Benjamin Taylor either lost or
had $40 taken out OF his pocket while in
market vest erday morning.
The game Of baseball between the
Portsmouth and Suffolk teams was won
by Portsmouth. Score 0 81.
Several pistol shots were fired in rapid
succession yesterday morning, but the
scribe failed to trace the cause UP.
4 The case Of Moses Martin, charged
with placing instructions on the Ocean
View road, was continued until October
{. The two Misses White, Minnie ard
: Julia, will leave in few days for At
lantic City, N. j., to spend month or
so.
Miss Addie CHANNEL, who has been
visiting friends IN the city, will leave
for her home In Franklin this morn
ing.
The Cannon case was generally dis
cussed yesterday and the more public
1t is made the more indignant the peo-
pie become.
All the offices Of the Portsmouth
Street railroad have been moved from
Scottsvillc TO the corner of Water and
Queen streets.
The only business IN the Mayors
Court yesterday was q case IF disorder
~ conduct. The party was bound over
TO keep the peace.
Mr.. y. w. Balentine was out yester-
day for the first time in several days
He recently underwent a very painful
surgical operation.
Harry Davis. the man who Is charged
with robbng Alice Riddlck of s275 was
hailed yesterday, q we'll known citizen
going on his bond
The politicians are working hard to
remove some Of the bosses III the navy
yard. Both factions are frequent visit
ors at the yard now.
The locusts made quite q noise yes
terday morning, warning the public
that the weather would be hot, and
their warning came true.
a COW was picked up yesterday morn
Ing running at large. The owner can get
the same by proving property. paying
expenses and removing the same.
Augustine Byrnes, q white resident of
Berkeley, who has been in confinement
for several days at the county jail was
yesterday taken to the pcnitcnlIary.
Rev r. a. Compton, former pastor
Of Central NJ. II. church. Will nll- The
pulpit OF that church on Sunday in The
s. absence OF the regular pastor, Or. RAY.
MI. waiter Stroud and family have
returned to the city TO live They have
been living at Newport News for over
a year, but concluded 10 return home
The Board Of Supervisors or the
county Will hold the first meeting in
the present year on Monday There will
be no opposition to the present chair
man.
Joe Moore son OF MI M. A. Moore
had his hand badly cut yesterday while
fooling with q sprocket of a bicyclc II
was dressed at the drug store OF DR.
Z Frieger
Rev. J. II. Amiss will preach a. Park
View Sunday night on the Baptism OF
the Holy Ghost" Those who have heard
1t and those who desire specially Invited
to attend. y
1t is said that ,sei.k.ey boy vas
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