Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-28
NORFOLK NOIES.
Fires and Accidcnt-Arrest OF sup
posed Murderer.
correspondence otthe Richmond Dispatch.
nEcFMnER u. 1856.

DECEMBER 81. 1856.
Work Is commencing to grow slack IN
the navy.yard, and all the hands in the con-
struciion department to-day went in on
half-time. There Is no work to be done on
the Galona, though It was hoped there
would be. and after taking on coat and pro.
visions she will sail at the end OF the week
for Aspinwall. The Os,ipee i eX-
uectcd i'm the Roads next week from the
Asiatic station, aud there will be an effort
made to have her sent here. a she Is to 20
cut OF commission and be extensively re-
paired and retitied ioranother cruise. The
New York yard is also after her, ana may
get ahead Of our station. II will be very
dull at the yard next month unless another
shin l. sent here for repairs.
Il Is reported that negro man has been
arrested and committed To Jail in Princess
Anne who j. believed TO have murdered
The Russian ped5lcr. Eli kneamer, at North
Landing. I'm the possession OF the negro
vas found lot of the goods OF the pedders
pack and $50 in money. supposed to have
been taken from the pcddler's pockets, Is no
money was found on the body.
There were several alarms Of fire ye>tor.
day 10 call out the Department, one Of
which proceeded from the fir,t PrcsbYte.
rian church. The damage was t.illns M
each instance.
The wrockcr- have raised the steamer
ChipoaX, sunk in Cucklturk crccA hSl
woeh. and tOwCd her into port.
The wrccking expedition - Tmsicr
island returned yesterday with the strand
I'd drcdgc and mud.dumpers.
y number Of the latest improved twelN"-
cared surf boats, sent here from New York
were to-day taken down to the Wallops'
Beach life.,aving station by the revenue
cutter Alexander Hamilton.
Acting. Commodore George Brown, O.
ia, nayy.yard. today returned 10 hi> Al.
-, ooard duties nj WASHINGTON.
1he cbri '",as celebration passed OF yery
o,derIv in Mis- c,iT snd Va, without any
very ,eriou, accident. Th,' N'Ira n.Il'
Ter Of accidents, however, from toy, 's'0'',
some Of which required the attention o.
the doctors, and are likely to give future
trouble.
Senator rdmund,, Hon. Marshall Park,
and others returned to-day from their gun
ming trip to The ducking grounds OF the
Carolina sounds.
\ row j. reported from kemp>yiilo y'..
t,riay growing out Of drinking fr0lic, m
which farmer named Hare was knocked
on the head with heavy oak stIye, an1 80
severely injured that It /, thought he Will
CIc from the effects of the blow.
The dIy-dock at the nayy-yaId sudden
" started to leaking last night, and about
ffton feet Of water was In the dock. IN
dangenng the safety Of the ,tesn'r Dol
r!in before the oueines could be- started 70
pump the water out.
Last saturday Robcr' Power, a yoHns
man " no wa. employed in the ,aw.mi.. Of
Lawson Powers, Wis standing on the cc1-
die, which Wa, m motion, and, inadver-
ienily remaining too long, be vs. brought
i'm contact with tie saw and was Killed
outright. The 1cciden, occurred near the
line Of Cmr1uck and Norfolk counties,
and not ilr distant from the northwest 81
Norfolk county.
james iloWday was the man set up'n by
two negroes n1mcd Bob lllrrI- and Law
r,tcp johnson, mar kemp-viile, amt
c'unbod nearly to death. The negroes
have been arrested and lodged IN jill
Norton 4. Newton and Pey,pn Ein-
DELPHI, wcll.knowu citizen, OF Norioll. are
dead. Nh Newton, SON, ten years ago.
moved O. Richmond and ENGAGED IN the
iron business. Until at,ackcd with I'd. last
illness. when be came o. Norfolk % be
with lis family. &.