Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-26
NORFOLK.
Row in the Republican CamD-COm'
pIIment TO Retiring Judge-
The Charleston FaDd-
Found Dead.

GOuuu behU.
ICorrespondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch
SEPTEMBER %, 1886.
There seems likely to be a split in
the Republican party in Norfolk coun-
ty unless Bowden heals the matter over
in the manner heretofore effectusl when
ike disturbances have occurred. Funds
for running the campaign in the county
have as yet been very slow in coming
il, and the darby managers are getting
FESTIVE.
On Monday night there is to be a
meeting OF the disafscted at Samari-
taos Hall, in Berkeley, for the purpose
Of electing a congressional campaign
committee Of their own to manage al
fairs and dictate to Mr.. Bowden and
the regular committee what shall be
done. A fighting door-keeper has been
appointed, and no one not holding a
ticket Of admission will DO admitted to
The hall. This precautiOn is for the
purpose Of preventing the regular ele-
ment from taking possession of the
meeting. Mr.. Bowden only received a
portion of the vote Of Norfolk county
in the convention when he was nomi-
mated, and his opponents in this coun-
ty persistently refused to make the
nomination unanimous.
It is now estimated that when the full
list Of collections is completed the ag-
gregate amount contributed by Norfolk
to the Charleston sufferers will be near
$4,000. This is very gratifying dis
play and much larger than was at first
expected.
A gang of sixty cotton-screw men,
nearly all colored, left here last night
for Wilmington, n. O., where they are
engaged for the season. The best OF
them are to receive SIS a day Of eight
hours, and the others 81, and all Of
them will make day and half every
day.
A force OF twenty-five caulkers left
Portsmouth yesterday and went to
work on a ship at Newport News. They
we're carried there by ex-senator John
Callahan to prevent the ship being
Lken to Baltimore for caulking, and
was a godsend to POr;smouth's idle
caulkers.
Judge George Blow, in retiring from
the bench of the Circuit Court of Nor
folk county this morning, was rendered
reception by the memberS Of the bar.
A number Of speeches were made, and
the Judge touchingly replied to the ex-
pressions Of goodwill towards him. A
handsome collation. followed at the resi-
dence of Major j. F. Croker. Judge
Blow has been the circuit judge Of this
district for many years, and will be
succeeded by Judge Hill the first OF the
year. lie will then resume the prac-
tice Of Jaw in Norfolk.
Senator John E. Kenna, of West Vir-
ginia, and party, from Washington,
we're entertained by the Virginia Club
last evening, and later left on their re-
turn to the capital. The distinguished
visitors went to Lake Drummond, were
entertained at the maynard, and had
a good time generally,
Miss Esther Richardson, Of Bram-
bleton, who was burned by an ex-
plOding kerosene-can, is still living, but
is shockingly injured.
Captain John l.. Roper has been
elected president of the American Fer
tiliziDg Company, of this city, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death Of
Captain @. L. Upshur.
Colonel William IL. Ward, of this
city, who served in the Egyptian army
for ten years, read most entertaining
and valuable geographical paper on
Egypt before the teachers meeting
of the public schools yesterday.
Major Churchill Semple, of Alabama,
is in the city to-day.
A strange negro, who gave his name
as James Cromwell, was found dead 10
a shed on Peters q Reeds wharf last
Jght. The jury determined that he dice
naturally.
Over six hundred bales of cotton came
| in over the Seaboard yesterday.
A negro man named John Nessor
was burned to death in the country
near Atlantic City yesterday by the
explosion of a kerosene-oil lamp.
LIGHTHOUSE STEAMER LOST.
The lighthouse steamer Holly, run
ming out Of this port, is reported lost
Several persons from this section wore
on the Holly.