The Virginia star., 1881-07-23

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father, the old king Powhatan. We scN
left Richmond in the distance and abJsA
nine o'clock came in view of Il
CITY POINT. =
This place is hardly entitled to the name
of village although believe it is said to be
as old as Petersburg or Richmond. 1t is
mere cluster of houses comprising railroad
depot, few stores and dwelling houses.
Soon after we arrived, the steam cars tiled
away for Petersburg.
| The next interesting point was
DUTCH GAP.
| This piece of engineering will hand GEM.
Benjamin F. Buffers name down to the lht-
est searchers of history. 1t is caual cut
| through peninsula. The canal is perhaps
TWO hundred yards in length. and saved from
seven to fifteen miles of navigation arspnd
the peninsula. We steamed away down the
river, touching at the various landings. but
nothing of much interest turned up til we
reached
NEWPORT NEWS.
This is the terminous of the new branch
of the c.. & .. railroad leading out from
Rockets. 1t IS certainly busy scene.
Numbers of sailing crafts are unloading yaci.
GUS materials for railroad building. pile driv-
ers are at work, while hundreds of emi>
grants are doing whatever they can be made
to understand by signs. for they cannot vet
speak our language. Our whole trip t'as
: greatly ,enliyened by the sweet and
, nsSPIRNG MUSIC
J eftwo italian musia,KkID lGarpeE rs II Il NO
y s,|s..s :,sss /. n szs ss', es
. refined of our company. COG -
od 10 write their names, WIFI he IA s's' :,
lis canno write. 2fio benne TO scr
,h, 1 then asked him to give me their = : sea ar
I'M I wrote them myself. They were De,min
RI. and Bruno. The latter being evidently Il
tn older-both apparently being between Il
,os ages CT seventeen and twentysone. Th'
rendered "Baby Mine," 'In the Sweet 1
aud By" "The Mocking Bird" "Dlxie'" -
. Life on the Ocean Wave" and other popul
loi airs. AS the boat came up to the Wharl
ted Newport News, the crowd OF emlsran'
the heoring the music waited upon the oree2
ino seemed to regard the Ariel as fairy craft
The wharf is unfinished. They are hard
my WORK Oh 1t. ~ sunared M and twenty five fe
my wide. The festive company of passenSe
}. amused themselves by throwing ont clga
our tonacco. &C., to the emigrants who scral
will h1od for Them like so many hungry pi
cas- scrambling over ears of corn thrown aiiio
them. They jostled and tumbIed eacn o'n
about without mercy,
ara uo couId hut think of the possibilities
neil life, especially III n n oonId see some
the these smigrants or their descendants
rec stock holders. sooa oa'ceiS anu '''" - '''|
the same rallroau.
VPlY Next we came TO
4ho OLD POINT COMFORT
'Ho rortross Monroe. Here we saw hosts
ling Un,;dhmond neople. Thence we passed
Din-rans-a formidable looking 1ortr
tlon MI la,bptch was never completed because
ten foundation has never yet been ootaineo'
the We arrived at
WV NORFOLK
and ,.nan we stonned here
with tr at p WE We found much difficulty in indin
the hoardino house. The colOred people '
polls saen o Pares n.y. and hence the
ting Cling public find difficulty in finding Y
sue and they lose more patronage 'n'" '"''
State avn" NV letter is already long. will tell
N. more Of the city and the people here
weet#
gent s.n.aa1 nDrs and was buried Moh
burg He He was well advanced in age and ndnlnH lmms
with crowd was so great that many could dh ~
,r of get in sight Of the cdurGn en- ;n,s,era ouv VINO
the telee raphed for on Saturday or Sunday
n his mere al SIs the facts and interesting incidents
snn- m nec.ed with the life and death OF TINS !,
SUP nent Baptist minister of the gospel a anu !
love- them to the public in the next issue ~ NJ
~oot STAR.