The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-05-22
AFFAIRS in GENERAL
Succinet Statement Of News Events, Strip
ped of Much Of the Details.
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
short Paragraphs Personal amt
Othci vyase-Accounlx Of Events In.
'errst' ne To Every Rcnder-Fopics
Disc, 1sed on the Streets and in
OhlC CO and Homes
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Fish are biting nicely at Port Nor
folk.
Colonel Il. l.. Feltz, of Boykn, left for
home yesterday.
M Stephen Elliott is seriously i'll at
his home on County street
There was no business transacted In
the County Court yesterday.
The Epworth convention is over and
all the delegates have gone home
The Baltimore boat comes on this side
of the river Saturday afternoons
The coleman trial was resumed yes
terday- The usual crowd was in at
tendance.
~ negro boy named John Morris was
fined 81 Yesterday for throwing bricks
III the streets.
Two young men were fined 81 each
yesterday for skylarking in Il mans
place Of business
The cry Of fish through the streets
carly mornings is a perfect nuisance
ana should not be tolerated.
The directors OF the Portsmouth hos
pital Will meet in the Y. NJ. G.. A
rooms this afternoon at o'clock
Two parties were fined $40 each yester-
day for driving q wagon withOu: IL IL
censc. They both took an appeal.
There was scrap in the market yes
terday between two hucksters, one or
whom has bay window over his eye.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent. OF Capron, who
have been fnthe city attending the Ep-
worth services, left for home yester-
day.
The passage OF a resolution recogniz-
Ing Cuba by the Senate was received in
Portsmouth with a great deal Of pleas
ure.
The funeral Of Mr. ana Mrs. Harry
Gray's little child took place yesterday
AFTERNOON from their residence In SCOTS
vile.
The windows Of Messrs. w. c. Nash
ana Lawrence Il Welton's stores had
TO be taken out because the wood work
had rotted
The Karnival of IIommerce promises
20 De an attractive affair. / will open
Monday night. The Virginian will be
represented.
Attention IS called TO ad. of removal
Of Nichols & White. They announce that
they have moved from los High street 10
$40 Crawford street
Messrs George y. Tabb and John
Bright returned yesterday from Staun-
ton. where they had been attending the
Grand Council Of Red Men
Police Officer Diggs went to Roanoke
RAPIDS yesterday after Dr. Hatton's hi-
cycle. which was stolen from him in
front Of a house Oh Court street
Police Officer Diggs returned from
Dr. Hatton's bicycle with him. He says
that n young white man stole II ana
sold it up there
During the aesthetic cream to be
given by the Ladies' Auxiliary at the
y. NJ. G. A. next Tuesday night. music
the OrpheuS orchestra.
The Virginia representative has in his
possession a key which looks like n
store key, which he picked up on the
street The owner can have the same
by applying al this office.
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public school. is confined 10 her home
on account Of sickness. She Will hardly
be able to attend school again this SEES
SION She IS the oldest teacher i'll the
city.
Yesterday a negro man made uppli-
cation for warrant for 4 little boy
about years of age. whom he charged
with disorderly conduct. The warrant
was refused on the ground that il
would be ridiculous to issue q warrant
against such child.
The Pilot gives notice through lis
portsmouth column that there will be
several suits entered for defamation of
character and false arrest OF Mr.. George
w. Bland. 1t does not say whom The
suits will be brought against, but I;
will come out in due time.
Some one Went out TO the cemetery
yesterday and stole the ribbon with
which 4 sheath OF wheat was tied and
placed upon Ny James Shannon's
grave. They evidently must have been
hard up. An example should be made
or some of these people, and probably
it would be stopped
The baby carriage nuisance has com
menced again since the weather has
gotten a. little warm They go side by
side in rows Of four and five, and fire.
quently pedestrians cannot pass them.
but have to wait until they see fit to let
people pass. There Is an ordinance for
bidding this and the police should see
that it is carried out
Baseball.