Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-04-15
Portsmouth, The Beautiful City
By the Sea.
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Tho --latest Happenings in tho city
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day-Preaching by the pastor, Rev. l..
b. Betty. II a. m. subject: Trans
mitted Piety;" 7:45 p. m. subject. THE
Wise Purpose of the Head of D!stin-
guished Family
Quartermaster Sergeant Walter r.
Bennett. of the Fourth Virginia Regl-
ment, now encamped at Savannah, Ga,
has. been called home by the death of
his mother-ln-law Mrs. Mary A. Law
renee.
Thursday night crowd Of boys got
Into the fine flower garden Of Mr.. Jo-
seph Booth, on the corner of Fifth and
Jefferson streets. and carried away and
destroyed q large quantity of flowers.
The parties are known and it is very
likely they will be prosecuted.
Judge Watts yesterday granted liquor
licenses to Sam Wasserman and More
land G. Lawrence. all Of Crawford
street.
The virglnian-Pllot representatives
received numerous congratulations yes
terday on the appearance of their new
Office. ''It is a beauty" was the ex-
preston of every one.
1t will be Just two months before the
public schools close.
The meeting at Central Church is
progressing nicely. The attendance is
large and the interest great.
The thermometer went up to SO yes
terday-a regular summer day-but the
Weather Bureau says the mercury will
come down to-day and 1t will be much
cooler.
A party will go to Southern Pines
Monday night to attend the meeting of
Northern settlers at Piney Woods Inn.
The condition of Mr.. Walter Webb.
the young man who got his leg cut off
on Thursday in being run over by a
car, was as comfortable yesterday as
could be expected under the circum-
stances.
A white man named Iverson came
nMr tn,
being thrown from a horse.
So Rev. ]. w. Mitchell will begin n series
of meetings Sunday nignt at the South
Street Baptist Church. Rev. w. W.
Hamilton, Of Bluefield. w. Va, will as
sist him.
There were six conversions at Cal
vary Baptist Church Thursday night.
The meeting will be continued until
Sunday night.
Spring chickens were plentiful in the
market yesterday at 90 cents each.
The street sprinkler was badly need
ed on the streets yesterday. Tho dust
few around in clouds.
Messrs. Levy & Jacobs advertise a
dig drop in clothing and quote prices.
It has been definitely settled that the
soldier boys will arrive here on the 2Sth
instant.
Wiley Smith, colored, was commit
ted to jail for three months for using
obscene language on the street
"A
the peace yesterday.
Miss Catherine Miller. OF Baltimore,
Is in the city on a visit to friends This
is her first visit here in twenty years,
and she thinks that the improvements
have been great.
Norfolk Academy of Music yesterday
to attend the opera Of Priscilla, given
under the direction of Mrs. ]. B. Shipp,
of this city.
+ Miss Efie Donaldson. of Poughkeep-
sie, N. Y, is in the city. visiting Miss
( Matte Brown.
Jeremiah Brown. colored, while chop
+ ping wood yesterday morning on God
win street, had a cash cut In his right
cheek by flying splinter.
A gentleman who is well posted on
such matters, told the Virginian-Pilot
yesterday that this year would be a
wonderful one in development of ter
Eitory adjacent'to Portsmouth.
h Dennis Michean, a young man who
Bald he came from Newport News, fell
day afternoon and sustained a fracture
of his right arm and a severe cut on
his forehead.
MIR. Chas. B. Burrough, the we'll
\ known locomotive engineer who has
been confined to his home by sickness
for the past ten days. was out on the
streets yesterday for the first time
Mr.. M. w. Dennis. our well known
West Norfolk trucker, furnished our
people with home grown asparagus yes
terday.
The collier Lebanon came out OF
dry dock in the yard yesterday morn
ang.
The ladies' OF the Confederate Memo
rial Association have appointed Friday
May 26, as memorial day.
About $50 will be the amount real
azed from the talent meeting which was
given Thursday at the Court Street
Baptist Church.
For using improper language on the
street a colored woman named Smith, a
well known character. was sentenced
10 jail for three months by Mayor
Baird in the Police Court yesterday
morning.
Judge A. 8. Watts in the Hastings
Court yesterday. overruled the motion
for a new trial in the Alexander a.
CULLEN Flynn & Mccarthy controver-
BY.
The old st. Johns Church organ has
been sold to ST. Pauls Catholic Church,
and will be placed in the King Street
Chapel. where It will be used after a
thorough overhauling.
Mr.. w. B. oaughtery Informs our
readers that he wants 1000 customers
TO keep cool with one of his popular
fans free OF charge.
There was a. shooting scrape in the
6tiburbs last night, but no particulars
could be learned
Last night about 9 O'clock n regular
wind storm. accompanied by clouds OF
dust. blinded people who were on the
streets
1.-THE Dolphin will come UP to the yard
to-day for some repairs. She Will have
b new topmast put in and her decks will
be caullsed. Orders have been issued TO
DO the work Immediately.
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