Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-11-24
NORTaLK-tIIY NOTES.
Employ ees Discharged frem the Navy
Yard-Eeturn 30 anie-Beiium
siorehouse Plan. dc.

NoEFWE, November 23.-Iast night
about seventy-Gye mechanics and laborers
were discharged fIOm the maynard IN
consequence Of an order being received
from Washington 20 discharge all men en-
pluved on miscellaneous work. An effort
Will be- made 20 get the men back again on
The first.Qf the month and put them 10
work 90 the three ships now repairing
here. The return 70 the ante bellHm plan OF
Keeping all the stores Of the ward in one
siOrehOuse. instead Of four, n NJ present
will do SWAY with the services OF q number
~ clerks and writers in the yard. some
twenty Years ego il was thought best 10 do
away with general stOTehOuse and give
rscli depnrt ment ~ the yard store. which
plan greatly enlarged the service and pro-
yidrd fat Offices for q number Of good
Republican workers. The return 10 the
old plan will save the Navy Department
SlOO.000 annually. as u affects all 'he yards.
This morning the coITt-martial for the
trial oi Captain John II. Higbee, United
states MAJ Inc corps, for drunkenness while
on duty. convened at the yard. Three
captains and two commanders Of the navy
and one colonel and two majors oi the
marine CORPS. with a lieutenant n Judge
advocate, constitute the court. Captain
liigbrc came here about SIX months ago.
Tie court viii be in session several DAYS.
Mnufe-guns were fired nearly all day
Yesterday from the frigate Franklin In
memory OF ex-President Arthur. and the
Co., on tine ships and station were bali
ma,ted.
The Government cOasi-ielegraph line
from this city only extends 10 Kitty Hawk.
sud from that point 10 CaSe Haiieras the
line has been down several months. owing
% The inSuffcicncv Of the appropriation FOR
rs maintenance and repair. Had 10 been
IN working order The wreck OF the British
bark Haw,s County last Friday Of HATTIE
III, would hgye reached here immediately,
and prompt measures looking 70 the safety
~ the crew, vessel, and cargo would have
been undertaken. A. it was, everything
was lost, including portion of the crew.
An ofl-shore storm prevails along THE
Virginia CO.'S: today.
A plumber OF changes are being made IN
he officers Of the United state, training
ships now here.
Captain James barrow. 81 New London,
T. here adjusting the damage caused Dy the
recent collision between The steamship
WvanoEc and the barge Moro Castle.
The receipt, of cotton az this port ycsier-
dry reached 500 bales.
The veteran clerk o. the courts Of Isle OF
Wight county, Nj. Nathaniel Young Is
visiting The cily.
The sunday ship 81 the Old Dominion
LiuetO thi, pori has been discontinued on
account OF The labor troubles.
Colonel Robert Beverley, OF Fauquier
county, left here Yesterday ior Washing
. tom.
Two hundred naval apprentices from the
trainin--ship- went North last night 70
tbGr homes 10 spend Thanksgiving-day.
CAPTAIN v. ". BauLh, prominent clfi-
zen Of >urry county, is dead. The de-
ceased wa at one time captain OF the Pc
tersburc Artillery
Captain Zoe sam Browne, the popular
master oi transportation on the ocaDoard
md Roanoke raiIcad, l. again seriously
iN.
The store and restaurant Of james L.
MadaIty. al >caboard station. on the sea-
board and Roanoke railroad, caught fire
early yesterday morning, and was totally
destroyed.
Colonel Levin Gayle, venerable citizen
IS Portsmouth, was stricken " It'll paralysis
YESTERDAY. and is very low.