The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-22
AFFAIRS IN Gen ERAL.
Succlnct Statement Of News Events, Strip.
ped Of Much of tha Details.
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
short Paragraphs Personal ma
MISUNDERSTANDING of Events LII.
tereatfnE to Every Rendor-Copics
discussed on she streeIs and In
ORirt. ana Homes.
We had our daily rain yesterday.

We had our daily rain yesterday,
Theirs viii be a full moon on the 29th.
Saturday will he pay day at the navy
yard.
The Rev. Mr.. Fisher left yesterday for
Punso ferry.
North Carolina melons are coming in
plentifully now.
Tile water main on High street sprang
leak yesterday.
The County Court disposed OF three
ceseS yesterday.
biimes Battery will remain at Ocean
View another week.
Mrs. T. D. Gill is stopping at the AL
leghany hotel, Goshen, va.
The teachers who went to the normal
school will return next week.
Z There was % slight Increase In the
force at the yard yesterday.
Mr.. William Billups of Mathews coun-
~, was in the city yesterday
There Will be another excursion in
from Tarboro, N. c., tomorrow.
MIR. James CULLEN has been appointed
Special policeman for ocean View.
yesterday for fighting. He paid S..
Mrs, Mills Lester has gone to South
amDton county to visit her parents :
l. Is dangerous for persons to walk
across the trestle over Union bridge
Miss Maud Thompson, of Elizabeth
City, N. c.. Is In the city visiting friends
d "A negro woman was fined IS yesterday
for putting bucket offal in the market
house
There will be lawn party at the
Central NJ. e. church parsonage to-
night.
Miles Young, colored, was sent to the
psnitentlary for one year for highway
robbery i;a.,#
The railroad men who went to Ocean
View to spend one or two days returned
last night.
Mrs. Eula Deans will leave this morn
ing for Columbus, o. She Will be gone
only few days.
John Dempsey. who was struck by a
passing locomotive, has been carried to
his home in the county,.
The delegates elected to the Guberna.
torial convention VIII meet tonight for
the purpose Of organizing.
John Chopetes was sent to Jail for
forty days yesterday by the County
Court for stealing q watch.
A number OF Portsmouth people went
over to Norfolk yesterday to attend the
trial Of the Cannon-Hall case.
/: Mrs w S. ;Langhorn and daughter
Rosie are spending the summer at
Montvale. Bedford county, Va.
1t Is ruinored that Mr.. Peter Oaks
has been appointed foreman Of laborers
in the construction department.
Judge Watts will set one day next
week to try Crismond's case. Then all
the fire bugs will be disposed Of.
Mr.. Charles Brown has commenced to
fix up the ST. Elmo Hotel. He Will
push 1t ahead as rapidly as possible.
1t is thought that there will be some
thing startling taking place around the
yard In the next two or three days.
Tbc new general freight agent Of the
seahnard Air Line came from Port
land, Ore, instead Of San Francisco.
Mr.. George Pcrsuger, Of the New Jer-
sey Democratic Leader. was in the city
yesterday. and paid The Virginian n
call
Two bicyclists who were in a hurry,
collidcd on the corner Of Crawford and
High streets yesterday. Both parties
rccc 4 quite a shock
n e. Glassett and daughter left
las for Baltimore. Miss Glassett
vii; % Johns Hopkins Hospital for
ire: It to her foot.
To- are n number Of places in this
city where stolen articles are bought
from parties who steal them. Such
things encourage people to steal
past three days. In two cases the bur
glars have been captured. but In tina
last case there is no clue so far.
The Portsmouth Hook and Ladder
company carried quite nice crowd on
the picnic to Magnolia yesterday. The
rain somewhat interfered with them.
Misses Lille and Lena Everett and
Ethel Friedlin. Of Park View. have gone
to spend the summer with their friend.
N icC' o,.ko
Miss May Rogers will leave this after
noon for Baltimore to spend a few
weeks. While there she will visit Penn
Mar and the mountains Of Pennsylya-
MA
There Is plenty OF work. The Board
OF Health has plenty of work before
them putting the city In q sanitary con
dition, for 1t never was so dirty be-
fore.
Attention is called to the ADVERTISE
mcnt of Emmett Deans. IN which he
officers special bargains. Mr.. Deans Is
q new beginner and offers every at
tention.
The funeral Of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Blair's little child was conducted from
their residence yesterday afternoon by
Rev. T. j. Brady. The remains were in
tered In st. Paurs Catholic Cemetery
gentleman from Norfolk, who was
at work In the blacksmith shop in the
yard was overcome with heat yester-
day. lie was put in an ambulance and
sent to his home, where medical aid
was summoned.
It IS said that the present route OF the
Portsmouth Street railroad, which runs
past the cemetery to Scottsvllle, Will be
changed, and that the cars Will branch,
off in Goodwin and Columbia streets and
go through Cottage Place into SCOTS
vile.
Mr.. John r. Owens reported to the
police yesterday that the large plate
glass in his store window on Crawford
street had been tempered with 1t look.