Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-10
NORFOLK.
xwoxAN xAKEs TWO Arrzx2Ts Al
SUICIDE.
Severely Injured Stricken with Parsly-
ssis-Firs In Norfolk County
Wreckiug other News.


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correspondence Of the RIchmoud Dispatch
AUGUST 0, 1886.
An unfortunate woman by the name
Of Esther Long, living in Summers
Court, made two attempts yesterday to
commit suicide. FIRST, she tried to
drown herself in . barrel Of water,
which act was discovered and pre-.
vented she then jumped from . second
story window Of the house in which she
lived, breaking her right leg and other
wise badly ipjuring herself. She was
taken to the hospital.
Mrs. Jane Austin, Of Washington,
D. c., who took passage at Baltimore
on Saturday night on the Boston steam
er Decatur II. Miller, aud arrived here
yesterday, was stricken with paralysis
on board Sunday morning, and is in .
very critical condition. +
This morning the Baker Salvage
Company's steamer towed into pore the
thrse-masted schooner Maggie j. Law
renee, which had been ashore for
week, three miles below Ocean View.
The Lawrence was bound from Bslti-
more to Charleston, S. g., with IN as
sorted cargo, all Of which was taken
out in barges and brought to this city.
TIE schooner is not much damaged.
She will be repaired here.
The large ice-houses Of Maupin Il
Co. and Charles R. Nash, on Queen
street, Portsmouth, were both burg'ari-
ously entered last night and robbed OF
money and valuables. A stranger from
Washington, giving his name as james
Quinn, Was arrested by the police this
morning on suspicion, and is held for
examination.
Tho large barn Of Captain James
Watts, q Norfolk county trucker, about
five miles from Norfolk, on the Ocean,
View railroad, was destroyed by an
accidental fire on Saturday night, to-
gether with the farming implements,
provender, &C., which the building con-
tanned. The property was insured.
Yesterday morning the wrecking-
steamer William F. Taylor and wreck
g.schooner Annie Collins, Of the Baker
Salvage Company, left here for Cape
Hatteras to 60 to the assistance Of the
Baltimore bark Codorus, wrecked on
the Diamond shoals with 5000 bags of
coffee on board. Captain Willism ID.
Benson, commanding the bark, arrived
here on Saturday night by the inland
route to contract with the wreckers,
and left on the Taylor yesterday on his
return to Hatteras. Captain Benson
saws the bark was half full Of water
when he left and will be total loss.
If the weather is favorable the most OF
the coffee can be saved, but the weather
is doubtful. The captain says be went
on the reef in consequence OF misjudglng
the distance from the lighthouse and
by the vessels becoming unmanageable,
owing to heavy currents and contrary
winds.
The police department has just occu-
pied the spacious and convenient build
ing erected for the purpose on the cor
ner of Cove and Avon streets, and all
are now as we'll provided for as the de-
partment can possibly be.
! Captain Babel Taylor, q prominent
citizen and well.known steamboat-man,
died yesterday morning at Lake Springs,
Roanoke county. Captain Taylor had
been suffering for years from a disease
contracted while steamboating on the
Roanoke river, which annually pros
trated him, and the only relief afforded
was the waters Of the Roanoke Red
Sulphur Springs. He was on his way
to that point, when he became so i'll
that he could get no further than Salem
and Lake Springs.
Justice George W. Beach, a leading
citizen of Norfolk county, and promi-
nent Virginia Odd-Fellow, is dying TO-.
night.
Mrs. Mary Nottingham, wife Of
Thomas j. Nottingham, we'll known in
Richmond, is dead.
There is now no Geographic communi-
cation with Cape Hatteras from Norfolk,
the line being cut off at Nag's Head.
During one of the severe storms last
spring the submarine cable across New
inlet was torn from its fasteniDgs and
lost. The appropriations for the sea-
coast signal.service lines having been
exhausted a new cable could not be OBJ
tanned, and no intelligence of q disaster
can reach here from Cape Hatteras I'M
der two days. q.