Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-05
STATE AT LARGE.
NEWS NOTES AND GOSSIP GATHERED
DOWN BY TIE SEA.
Norfolk and Portsmouth Hotes-Threat-
ened Strike Of Farm Hands-Asiigious
News-Appealed-The Primary.


lcorrespondsnce ofthe Richmond pispstch
NORFOLK, May a, 1886.
The Circuit Court has adjourned for
several days. Judge Hughes having to
20 to Richmond to-day to attend to
Official business. The officers Of the
Exchange National Bank renewed their
bonds to-day, tho trial Of their cases
having been continued TO September
and November.
II is said that the colored farm-hands
on the trucking farms on both sides OF
the Western Branch will go on strike
to. morrow for higher wages. The men
are now paid from tl2 to s23 per
month, with board and house-rent free.
The pea and berry-picking season is
about setting in, and the negroes are
taking advantage Of it.
The returns from the local-option
election in Princess Anne are in.
Pungo district went dry by q majority
of As. As stated, Seaboard district
went wet by Q majority Of AZ.
Bishop J. @. CRANBERRY will preach
at Cumberland-Street Methodist Epis.
copal church On Sunday, and Rev. w.
W. Duncan, d. D., president OF Wof.
ford College, Spartanburg, s. O., will
preach at Granby.Street.
The steamship Senator cleared for
Liverpool yesterday with $500 bales
of cotton-an immense cargo.
Portsmouth had thirty-one deaths du-
ring the month of April.
During the past two weeks l55 per-
sons have connected themselves with
the Methodist churches of this city, and
the Baptists have done equally as well.
In Portsmouth the Baptist and Metho-
dist churches have largely increased
their membership-nearly as much as in
Norfolk. At the Baptist church in
Brambleton, on the suburbs, Rev. Mr..
Cridlin will baptize thirty-five persons
tomorrow night.
A delegation of Norfolk business
men are in Danville in the interest Of
direct communication with Norfolk over
the Atlantic and Danville railroad.
Rev. Or. T. G. Jones, of Norfolk, and
Rev. A. E. Owen and Rev. O. N. Don
aldson, of Portsmouth, participated in
the installation OF Rev. A. i. Duna-
way as pastor of Shoulders Hill Bap-
tist church, at Churchland, on Sunday.
The country people are greatly pleased
with the new pastor.
There is great interest manifested in
the Democratic primary to-day, but
there is no disorder on the streets or at
the precincts.
The case of Ann Towel, the Peters
burg negress convicted of numbering
her husband, was appealed to the Court
of Appeals yesterday.
Norfolk Typographical Union, No.
80, at . meeting last night passed reso-
lutions demanding a discontinuance Of
the use of "plate matter" and calling
out on a strike any Of its members en-
ployed in offices which persist in using
it.
The annual meeting of the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad Company was
held at noon in Portsmouth. The at
tendance was small, and no special
business was transacted. All the old
officers and the old Board of Directors
were reelected, and the annualreport Of
the President was submitted and read,
showing the condition Of the road snd
the improvements made and projected
during the year, and the earnings and
disbursements of the line for the same
period. The reports exhibited graft
flying business and the efforts being
made to push connections southwark
over the Raleigh and Augusta branch.
Recently q man by the name of @. @.
Jones was arrested in Isle of Wight
county for an embezzlement committed
in the West, and was carried back by a
detective named Norris for trial. Nor
ris has made second visit to this Sec
ton and has settled up Jones's affairs
in Isle of Wight, disposing Of his place
on Godwin's bay, on James river, and
all the personal property except a wa
gon and very fine canoe. With these
be arrived to-day and will take them
with him to the West.
The bricklayers of Norfolk have re-
considered the matter Of making eight
hours a days work, and have decided
on ten hours, except Saturday, at $3.50
per day.