The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-12
SuCGlnl Statement Of News Events. Strip.
ped Of Much Of the Details,
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
Short Paragraphs Personal ana
observation-disclosures of Events I'm.
tcresttnr TO Every Readcr-Topics
Discussed on the Streets and in
0mcos and Homes.

Yesterday was a regular summer day.
Poultry sold for almost nothing yes
terday.
Much cooler weather is promised for
to-day.
The Mcdonald company has gone to
Suffolk
The rates ION the Bay Line will soon
go up again.
There was no session Of the Hastings
Court yesterday.
The Chambers Fire company's harness
ds all right again.
The Rev. MIR. Sven has left the city
and returned to his home.
There are several marriages .announc-
ed to take place next week.
Attention Is call to ad. of a phaeton
dor sale. Apply as directed.
The merchants are slow this year dec
Grating their stores with evergreens.
Several colored maidens of the county
were before the justice yesterday for
fighting.
The Board of Trade will meet Mon
day at II IN. uo consider matters Of i'm
portance.
MIR. p. ]. Lyons won the picture of
the old frigate Constellation that was
ratified off Friday night.
MI. Dickerson. superintendent of the
portsmouth Street railroad, is still at
st. Vincents Hospital
Bids for the purchase OF the Fifth
ward bonds will be opened Monday
night by the Finance Committee.
Attention Is called to adj of boarders
wanted in this issue. Read adj, call as
directed. and you can secure a good
home.
Mr.. Joshua DENLY is meeting with
considerable encouragement in begging
FOR the, widows and orphans fund for
Christmas.
Mr.. Harry Tlemmlng, a well-known
Citizen. is critically i'll at his home No.
131 Bart street.. His friends fear that
his end Is near at hand
Ihe case Of the negro, Charles Miller,
charged with stealing money and clothes
was continued from yesterday until
Tuesday at the request Of his counsel.
The meeting ut the Friends church is
simply wonderful. There are n large
number OF conversions, and much good
IS being done. The meeting will con-
tinue.
raise alarms OF fire are getting COM
mon. Parties who turn In On alarm
should be sure that there Is some cause
Tor the department to come out before
they do so.
The case of Rag Sam" Williams for
murder, Will be tried in the Hastings
Court on the. goth, and the Ainswtorth-
Rutter case ION the same date in the
County Court
a delivery wagon broke down on
Green street yesterday and threw the
driver out. but fortunately the horse
made no attempt TO run, so no serious
damage was done.
The gutter Mt the corner of Washing
ION and County streets is badly in need
OF attention. There Is n hole there that
is calculated 10 break most any vehicle
down and hurt some one at any time
The number OF prisoners at the county
I'll Continues to decrease. The colored
people are either behnvng themselves
better or else they pay their fines, as
only few OF them are put in Jail now.
There are quite number of broken
pavcments around the city which need
attention. The city has already been
paid for repairing them. Why should
the citizens have TO suffer for the DELAY
of fhc street inspector or some one
else?
Attention IS called to ad Of II. n.
fearson, In which he offers nuts, fancy
ana plain candies, fireworks. etc.
cheaper ttt retail than you can buy them
al any place In the city, either whole
sale or retail. See adj
Two negro boys were fined 50 each
yesterday for fighting with barrel slaves
on Crawford street. On account of their
age they were locked UP In the station
mouse all day and then released, with
Il warning inst If they came again they
would not fare so well.
IN Ehis issue Messrs. Maurice A
Brandt x Co. advertise that they have
decided to put down all their worafad
SUITS that were s27.0O. $500, s2o.5o etc
down TO $3.50. In order that they NAV
crosse them out. Those In want Of bar
cams had better secure them carly.
Mcssrs Anderson & Thomson c,u
attention to to-day's advertisement In
alo,her column that they are over
stocked In lamps and are sclIine ihoa,
very low to close out their entire stock
Iheir special book sale VIII continue
anttl after Xmas. Give them n call
me condition OF Mr.. S. w. Gary. of
Deep Creek, was not improved any
yesterday. He received n slight stroke
OF paralysis, hut he will no doubt soon
ne aole no attend TO business again; at
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