The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-06-20
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
short Paragraphs Personni ana
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or Events,
tefestihS to Every Rentter-Topics
discussed OH HE Streets ana in
Offices ana" n ONES.
Plenty plcnics this week.

me St Josephs School commence
ment Tuesday. NY
o. Inc ann dog catchers will begin getting rid
Ihe June term Of the Norfolk Comfy
Court will begin Monday
me gunboat Nashville arrived at the
yard yesterday at 3 o'clock.
u IS sald that the Bijou Theatre will
open for the season next week.
Another small child was picked M
wandering around the street yesterday.
Two white boys were fined 81 for
palhlnE in nude state at the t;osport
bridge
A big excursion party left for dlrcrcnt
points along the road Yesterday for
Nashville veg 80
Percy Fields was committed to the
county jail for ten days for beating q
woman :
Attention is called to the ADVERTISE
ment of w. L. VirneIson e co in on,
local column
Dohllnan's case will come up for trial
on tuesday next on the burning Of an
oyster-house.
Turner Goldman was locked up yes
terday for beating woman quite ba div
on King street
Virginius Powell, colored. was COM
mtted to jail for ten days for stealing
pair Of shoes.
Mrs. Il. Flynn. OF Now Yorl. (-ity &C.
visiting her mother, Mrs. Sullivan on
Crawford street.
The soldiers will be back tomorrow
and the Confederate Vets will go to
Nashville in few days.
~ ~ gentleman gen went out fishing yester-
Jay ana In less than three hours he had
caught nearly two hundred fish
me bricks for Parker's new ware
mouse nave all arrived. MI. Burroughs
VIII begin laying them on Monday.
| II was rumored yesterday that another
young couple had gone to South Mills
TO be married. 1t could not be verified
The handy grndy man came over yes
terday, played for awhile, got disguised
| field.
| Two bicyclists collided last night on
High street. One Of the wheels was badly
damaged. but neither of the riders were
hurt
Attention is called to the advertise
| 'nent OIL merchants license In Norfolk
| county, which is offered for sale: also
| a good extension table, nearly new.
Six lunatics were taken from the coun-
" jail yeStcrday-tO the asylum at Pc
| tersburs-four females and two males.
Ihls clears the jail Of all crazy people.
- ~ small child, about years Of age,
lell OIL porch on Griffin street yester-
day afternoon and broke her collar bone
she was attended by DR.. Troy colored
physician.
A guard from the penitentiary came
down yesterday and carried ellis r
years and Ben. Davis for one year They
left on the $40 train
i Chief Engineer Smith, OF The L S. NJ.
IS preparing an answer to Captain
GleaVes' report on the torpedo boat
Gushing. This is done by request of the
Secretary OF the Navy
The case OF Alice Newsom, who was
| sent to jail for thirty days, will be re-
opened tomorrow, new evidence having
been discovered which her counsel claim
VIII show her innocence.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Portsmouth and Norfolk county Baptist
sunday School Association will be held
| TINS afternoon at o'clock with the
South Street Baptist church
There will be plenty Of picnics this
week. Tuesday the Central goes to
Buch Roe Beach. The same day owens
Memorial goes to Smithfeld and Fourth
Street Baptist goes to Newport News
Grimes Battery will attend services
at Central church Sunday. July 4th
They have invited the Third Battalion
to accompany them in uniform. They
will fire salute on Monday a sunrise
Rev. George l.. Bitter, of Leesbure
Va. who caches at the Presbyterian
| church to-day, arrived in the city yes
terday by the Washington steamer. and
is the guest of Mr.. "A c. Friedlin. Of
Hatton street.
There Is an ordinance requiring all
pavements that are broken up to be re-
placed by one OF the street force under a
penalty. Yesterday a gang Of negro men
We're employed in replacing the bricks
| around the electric railway poles
| A colored man named Jake jenkins
| desires us to state that he has never
been arrested for stealing in his life
| and requests The Virginian to so state.
| 1t having been published that he was a
| thief. He claims that he can bring ,es-
| timonials to that effect.
! (SaOtnin Warren saws tl,ot ~ y,o,7
| understanding with the Committee on
| Public Property that Grimes Battery
guns were to be put up on the third
story Of 0. l.. Williams store for any
length Of time, but only until the Council
| could build him q suitable place
n negro man reported to one OF the
| county Constables yesterday that while
passing Armfstead's woods Friday even
! ing late three shots passed close 10 him
They were fired by some one, but he
does not know who did it. This locality
| is getting to be dangerous and some
thing will have to be done to break il up
About II O'Clock Friday night q gen
| tleman living on HOLIDAY street Park
View. saw 4 man trying to break In his
chicken coop. He fred both barrels OF
his gun at him. but with what effect he
cannot tell, but one thing he does know
and that Is that the man holooed pretty
| loud after he fired. II he did not cripple
him 1t was not his fault. His intentions
were good.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles James. the ma :
rents OF the late y. G.. James, desire m
express through the columns of The Vir