The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-11
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
Short Paragraphs Personal ana
othcrwise--Accounts of Events Ia.
.teresiinE 10 Every Rcadcr-TopIcs
Discussed OH ihe streoIs ana in
Omcos ma Homes.

ISL Ilhe City Council will have an ad-
5oumed meeting Tonight.
The Fern came UP 10 the yard yester-
Gay and went IN the drydock.
The Norfolk County Court will be-
gin fts February term next Monday
The w c. T. U. will meet this after
noon at $3.50 o'clock ait the Y. NJ C, A.
There were four dsorderlys and
two DRINKS in the Mayors Court yes
terday.
Geo. Smith was fined $40 in the
mayors court yesterday for disorder
~ conduct
The Beard of Supervisors will hold
their regular nIonthly meeting to-day
at o'clock
u heavy !Iaiin would be a boon
10 this city. 1t would wash out oil the
cutters, etc.
Rev. john Dickcrson, Portsmouth
boy preached at Trinity p. e. Church
Sunday night.
REV. c. w. Duke, of Berkeley, Will
preach at the Fourth Street Baptist
Church tonight.
The mill at the S. A. l.. shops is
being run cve: time every night now
10 get W1:e:ial ahead.
Mrs. Shipp wiM have her first rchear-
sal on Ycrng AIiss Winthrop tonight
ns Elks Opera House.
The Ladies' Ala Society, Of the Caval-
ry Rapttet Church. will have an oyster
supper Thursday night
~ glove pipe came uniointed in II. O.
Pcarp2n's store Sunday night and
came near causing n fire.
The Park View R2scbuds bloomcd
INFO full bloom roses Sunday and had
a most excellent meeting.
Inc truckers are p!an:ing the heav-
ie:t crop OF potatoes this spring that
h2s been planted in years.
~ band OF German musicians, con-
si'tSrrg of mgn and women, was out on
tha streets playing yesterday
NIr'. Samuel Y. Brown qualified be-
fore the Mayor yesterday morning as
a mcnber of the Pclice Board
MIR. Clarence Wallace, Jr, of WASH
insEon, D. c., is visiting the family OF
Chief Wiersdorf In Ceurt street.
The charter amendments az prepar-
cd by the City Attorney will come up
to-niert for ratification by the Coun-
Gil.
The singing Of Miss AIcrtie Pablo ut
Wright Memorial Missionary meeting
Sunday afternoon was highly compli-
nented
Edward Burton was committed to
the county Jail yesterday for forty
five days for trespassing and carrying
a pistol
Sunday was Epwor;h League Day
devoted to That GAUGE. The attendance
WAS large.
Mrs p. II. Branur ana children. who
have been spending the holidays wl:h
her parents in Wilmington, n. c., have
returned home.
y negro man was trying TO sell n
c!cnk ON King street worth about S15
for Is cents. It evidently was Mrs
Bunkley's c.cal.
In 1s,,
FourH.i Slrccs Baptist Church Sunday
night and e2veral at the Churchland
Baptist Church.
There WAS a large attendance at
Wright Memorial Missionary meeting
Sunday afternoon. The singing was
exceedingly gn2d.
Hon. c. T. Bland returned 20 Rich
mond ye@.e.y!ay morning. He was ac-
compared by his wife, who VIII re-
main until Saturday.
DR.. NJ. r.. Broadus preached at
Churchland Baptist church Sunday
morning. Pastor Savage baptized two
candidates at night.
MES. James T.. NEaup'n VIII repre-
strt Fort Nelson Chapter. d. A. r..
at the convention 70 be held in Rich
mond next Tuesday.
A negro named Jim NIcClnud was
sent to the County Jail yesterday for
while making an arrest.
'Supcrint ermlent DickcrS1n. Of the
Port:mouth Stres'. Railroad, returned
yesterday from Philadelphia, where he
lladl been on bun.ness.
1.-The ladies connected with Wright
Memorial Church gave n, musical and
literary entertainments last night in
the E'ctlre room or that church
Sophia Blow shot a negro man nam
i cd X a Parker SnnIov iyG ~, ~,
dom s'.rcst extended Justice Rustic
fined her S. and costs yesterday.
Mes;rs. p. +. Cox, o. Dash.ell. Har-
ry Dnsh!cll and r. d. Cu;hrieN, Jr.,
will leave here this morning a, s.
o'clock for a bear hunt in the Dismal
Swamp.
The new choir at the Court Street
Baptist Church Sunday was greatly
admired and loud were the praises Of
6ie selections made by the musical
committee.
There Will be n large meeting of
tire working men at the City Hail to-
night 70 hear the report of the Cum
nlittcc who went to Washington in the
interest OF the worlsinSmen.
The South Street Baptist church held
their annual conference ard reelected
oil the old officers. The church raised
for all purposes during the ysar 81. 310. SO
and increased the membership thirty
Mrs. Irene White sang a beautiful
solo nj Owens Memorial Church Sum
day night. 1t was her last night with
that choir, as she will take charge OF
The Baptist Church organ next Sun
day
IA negro named James Bird, who
livet; ut Smoky Town, created con-
siderable excitement Sunday while
drunk. He proved to be rather live
ly bird ait that time, but he Is now a
tame jail bird.
Yesterday morning about $40 o'clock
a horse attached to wagon came