Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-29
THE TWIN CITIES.
The Recent Cutting case--Arrested on
the Charge CT Larceny Personal
Memorial-Day, &c.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch,

| Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.
NORFOLK, April 2S. 1886.
Solomon Carter, who so desperately
cut several men at London Bridge, was
examined by magistrate this moraiog
and sent on for trial at the June term.
The son Of William Godfrey, who was
almost discmbowelled, became security
for the appearance Of Carter in the pen
atty Of $4,000. IL seems that all the
parties in the row were very good
friends, but were crazy with rum when
the stabbing took place.
This morning woman named Eliza
Brown was arrested on board the
steamer Old Dominion, charged with
larceny in Richmond. The woman and
her effects were searched, but no money
or valuables were found. She was
taken in charge. and Major Poe, Chief
Of Police Of Richmond, notified.
A colored woman named Fannie
Newbern was found dead in bed at her
house, in AddiDgton lane, this morning.
The local-option election in Seaboard
and PuDgo townships, in Princess Anne
county, takes place on Friday next,
and people from that section say the
townships will go dry. Norfolk's most
popular seaside resort, Virginia Beach,
is in Seaboard township.
Copious rains fell all through this
section last night and this morning,
greatly to the relief of the truckers and
farmers generally. The continued dry
spell had commenced to prove dam
aging. Strawberries would undoubt-
eddy have been shipped this week if
rain had fallen last week.
The dry weather of the last two weeks
started large fires in the Dismal Swamp,
and considerable timber and hundreds
Of cords Of ire-wood have been de-
stroyed.
A day or two since a colored girl at
Deep Creek died in less than an hour
from eating yellow jasmine flowers.
She died in great agony, frothing at the
mouth from the effects Of the poison.
Mr.. W. T. Pearson, a prominent
merchant Of Portsmouth, was stricken
down with paralysis yesterday, and is
IN critical condition.
Memorial-day will be observed in
both cities next month with elaborate
display. The Confederate camps have
commenced preparations for large
demonstration.
Millions Of Colorado beetles are wash
ing ashore at Cape Henry.
All Sing, Of Shanghai, China, who
was cook on the ill-fated American ship
Frank S. Thayer, which was burned
by two Malay mutineers last winter,
was a passenger on the British bark
George b. Doane, which arrived here
rom Barbados last evening.
The case of Ann Towel, the negro
woman from Petersburg, charged with
numbering and burning the body of her
husband near the Monkey House, in
Norfolk county, in February last, came
up for trial in the County Court to-day,
and is still in progress tonight. Twen-
ty-one witnesses are in attendance, and
the evidence will not close before mid
night. All the evidence against the
woman is circumstantial. She is de.
Tended by colored lawyer.
Governor Scales and party of eight
North Carolina officials, who have been
on trip to the Carolina sound fisheries,
arrived here this afternoon by rail from
Elizabeth City. After viewing the
hayward and the harbor in the steamer
Little Nell the distinguished visitors |
enjoyed an elegan. dinner in Ports
mouth as the guests of Captain j. II.
Bogart, and left on the evening express |
on their return to Raleigh.