Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.
ITEKs OF INTEREST FROM NORFOLK
AND PETERSBURG.
Contributions for Charleston-ro be Tried
for Murder Fire Religious-Ka-
rine and other MATTERS.

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch
NORFOLK, September 9, lsS6.
This morning Mr.. NJ. 7. Cooke,
president OF the Council, notified Mayor
Courtenay, of Charleston, to draw on
the treasurer Of Norfolk At once for
$1,000, which was acknowledged by
Mayor Courtenay with thanks. The
fund being collected in the city from
private sources is very encouraging,
and, when completed, the exhibit Of
Norfolk's Eberslity will be very graft
fying. The $500 appropriation Of the
Portsmouth Council was acknowledged
last night. Collections will be taken
up in all the churches of the city next
Sunday.
The young grocery-clerk George r.
Ward, who dubbed the negro man
Jacob Banks to death on Main street
Yesterday, was examined before Police
Justice Saunders this morning and sent
on to the Corporation Court for trial
for murder. The counsel OF the pris-
oner proposes to bring the case before
Judge Brook on writ Of hGbeas corpus
tomorrow for bail.
The dying establishment Of j. NJ.
Marshall, on Main street, was damaged
by FIRE.
The United States steamship Trenton
is moored Off Fort Norfolk, dischsrging
her powder and awaiting orders to 60
up to the navy-ysrd for repairs.
Rev. DR.. j. W. NJ. Williams, Of Bal
timore, and the venerable Rev. Or. K.
r. OVERLY, Of Camden county, n. O.,
are expected here tomorrow to accom-
pany the delegates to the session Of the
Portsmouth Baptist Association, at He
bron church, Southampton county,
next Tuesday.
Mayor Barton Myers continues out
Of the city, his place being filed by Po-
lice-Justice Saunders.
The wind-bound feet in Hampton
Roads is said to be the largest for some
years.
MIR. L. Raphel, shoe merchant and
prominent Hebrew Of Norfolk, died
yesterday.
The Shaw Guard CcolOredl, OF BOs-
ton, Sixth Massachusetts regiment,
Captain George W. Brady, Will arrive
here tomorrow on visit. They will
be handsomely entertained by the color
ed military of Norfolk and Portsmouth,
and on Saturday will go to Petersburg.
Two eastern coal schooners-the
George L. Carman and a. 7. Cole
man--were in collision off Lsmbert's
point yesterday, and the latter was
badly damaged.
A number Of excursionists from
Lexington, Va, are in the city.
A colored man named Edward Will
son, living at No. Is Union street, was
frightiully burned last evening by the
explosion OF q can Of kerosene oil
with which he was kindling fire.
Z. B. Harris, a young white man,
who operated the shooting gallery at
Ocean View all the summer, was ex-
amined and committed to Jail for trial
this morning for swindliDg aud embez.
element in Norfolk county and for
stealing lamps from a Church-streeE
dealer last May.
He PAID $500 FINE-OTuER ITEMS
". II. Rowan, q Baltimore drummer
selling without license, confessed jIig
ment and paid a fine Of $500 in Ports
mouth to dsy.
The captain and several Of the crew
of the Norwegian bark Anna, from Hon
duras TO Queenstown, were carried %
ST. VinceDt's Hospital last night with
scurvy. The mate died o-dsy.
The steamer Grace Pitt, from Bllti-
more to Beaufort, put in poIt to-day
for repairs. u.