Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-06
DOWN BY THE SEA.
uxvs NOTES AND GOSSIP FROM TIE
TWIN CITIES.
Pa western Branch Farm Hands-Sody
washed Ashors-supposed TO be
Fatally Injured.

scorrespou denoe OF the Richmond pispatch.l
NORFOLK, May S, 1886.
There is no news from the strike OF
farm. hands, which 1t was reported yes
ssrday would take place IN the West
srn-Branch section to-day, and truckers
coming In report that they SEQ no indi-
cations Of strike among the negroes.
The hands have demanded an increase
Of wages, but there is no ogsnization
among them, and the truckers are not
inclined TO believe strike Is meditated.
They say the hands are well paid Tor
their labor on the track.farms--prooa-
bly, much better than are farm laborers
elsewhere. The busy season is com.
mencipg, and thousands OF hands VIII
be brought here from every direction
within the next two weeks to WORK Id
the pea and berry.felds.
The body Of another OF the eleven
persons who persisted on the 1ll-iated
schooner Anthes Godfrey in Lynnha-
ven bay came ashore last evening, be-
ing that Of . young girl about twelve
years of age, daughter Of Captain Rig
gan, who commanded the vessel. This
makes the fourth body recovered. 1t
was badly decOmposed and was at once
buried.
The improvement Of the public schools
for the colored people is being looked
after both in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
The Council last night appropriated
a12,OOO 10 build new school-honse Tor
them. In Portsmouth there is a com
par.tiyely new building for the colored
schools, the finest in the city. In this
respect the Democratic party is doing
It's full duty by the colored people.
A number OF the stockholders OF the
Seabo,rd and Roanoke railroad joined
President John NJ. Robinson in trip
over the line to-day as far rs Raleigh
n. c.
A coal band named Henry Barnes, OF
Portsmouth, engaged in unloading the
recently.stranded steamship Enchant-
ress. was struck on the head by fall
ing tub Yesterday afternoon and is be.
lieved to be fatally injured.
Messrs. L. T. Blick and Robert j.
Dyke left this morning for Alexandris
to attend the annual meeting of the
Supreme Lodge, Independent Order of
Mechanics.
Thelate Moody and Sankey choir-of
between three and four hundred men,
bers-was organized last night into an
oratorio society.
Mr.. Louis F. Jordan, Of this city.
died in St. Louis last Monday.
The leaking United States training
ship Saratoga was placed in the dry
dock last evening for repairs. A sur
yey was held on the ship, and she will
be fitted out here to 60 with the Con-
stellation on the summer cruise OF the
midshipmen in June.
This morning about . o'clock the
work Of canvassing the vote cast at the
first days primary election yesterday
was completed. There were l,734
votes cast, and the following candidates
were nominated For Mayor, Barton
Meyers City Sergeant, John A. Brim-
mer City Collector, Leroy II. Shields;
Clerk of the Market, j. w. Blick;
Physician to Almshouse, DIR. j. G.
Riddick; Keeper of Almshouse, James
E. Mccoy Keeper Of Cemeteries, G. Q.
Lee; Sealer Of Weights and Measures,
NJ. T. Cashin; Liquor-Gauger, John 5.
Fantone. There are four candidates to
be nominated at the election to-day.
a.