The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-07
AFFAIRS N GENE RAL
SucclnIet StateHentEot News Events, Strip.
ped Of, Much Of the Details. 81
YESTERDkY'S5 NEWS. BRIEFLY RECORDED.
Short Paragraphs Personal ana
Othcr:wlse--Aeconn OF Events I.a.
teresstnE 20 Every Render-ropics
Discussed Oh the Streets ana in
omccs and il ONES.
The dust on the roads is blindlng.

r lIe DUST on the roads Is fblfnding.
All the excursions have gone home
There was a miserable market yester-
day. I', <.
Men are being CALLED in the yard every
day now. g 4 at 60
It is said that Miss Mamie BIamire
cannot recover. gsy 81 {555g ..lHgs 1915
The Hastings Court will begin its
July term on Thursday. i n
The last people from Port Norfolk did
not get home until late
There was less disorder on the Fourth
IMAM there ever was before.
There was d pigeon shooting match at
Fort Norfolk on the Fourth.
Wright Memorial Sunday school will
go to Newport News tomorrow. IA
Work on the Portsmouth electric road
was commenced yesterday on Efling-
ham street = $500 -
Mr.J: Wesley Parker, of Petersburg,
Is visiting Mr.. Parkerfs family, at 9l4
County street.
There was a fisherman for every fish
On the Fourth. Both ladies and gentle
men were out
Miss Mabel Hill. Of 9Danville, is visit
ing Mr.. |. T. Van Patterns family. in
Cottage Place. II'sa I
'Ihe N. Johns church property will
be sold at auction tomorrow in front
OF the Courthouse
Ut Is said $4,000 people visited Ocean
View on the Fourth Fully 1000 of
SOAtiSt. to1Il Outil.
The South Street Baptist church, Cen
1ral NJ %. church and Grimes Battery
all lost money on their picnics
The only business In the Mayors
Court yesterday was three Saturday
night DRINKS and one disorderly.
Mrs. Clara Hudgins, nee Foster, Of
mathews county, Is visiting Mr.. James
Jordon's Camily,on Columbia street
me lady ushers at Central M. T..
church Sunday night was something
+ new and added much to the occasion.
Mr. AlcCobbin and children. iran,
Washington, ID. c.. spent The Fourth
with Mr.. Thomas Carr, on Second street
Several horses have been overcome hy
the heat during This hot spell People
cannot be too careful how they Gtivc
them lGatI !
There was not an arrest made in tha
city on the Fourth and only ore IN
the county. and that was for shooting
crap. El7l' =
We have had rain all around us ana
none here. If we could i:at a gool ro,n
there would be plenty of cItron IN the
market.
The hades Of ST. Joints s5cir:y win
nave q lawn party next Friday night In
the schooihouse yard on North sire /,
near Court
The All Americas I'D the sa.Yo,;
teams did not play ball OH tho Fourth as
was expected. The Snroll1 team failed
to show up.
There were several excursions in from,
dliferent places in the morning 1t made
the streets lively, but in the afternoon
they all went to Ocean View.
About 1900 people Witnessed The game
OF bail played by a colored club from,
Petersburg and the Portsmouth crack
nine on the Fourth
The Annex Hose company, about
twenty-seven strong, left for Winchester
last night; also delegates from the In
dependent Fire company.
Air. Joseph Parrish, one time Kcerer
or Oak Grove Cemetery. was stricken
with paralysis Sunday, and Is critically
III at his home, on Scott street
II was rumored yesterday that a col
ored boy was drowned on the Fourth
while out bathing in SCOTS Creek. hut 1t
could not be traced to anything reliable
Jeff Adams, colored, was discharged
from the county jail yesterday, having
served out his term. He was held as q
suspect, but nothing could be proven on
him. :
The crowd at Port Norfolk on the
Fourth was larger than was ever seen
there before. Notwithstanding this
they were handled with ease and with
out the slightest accident
b Henry Cooper, ] Ohm Page Robert Carr
and Alex. DodSon. colored men were
arrested at the ferry yesterday by De
putty Sheriff Joseph Abbott and Consta-
bic Andrew Sivertaon on a charge of
housebreakng. The arrests were made
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