Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-04
NORFOLK.


lfJoFFcGpQulence Of the Richmond Dispstch.l
NORFOLK, May 8, 1856.
The May term OF the United States
Circuit Court commenced to-day, Judge
Hughes presiding. The proceeding
against ths officers of the Exchange Ma
tiooAl Bank was called, and q motion
Of Judge Crump, Of Richmond. TO con-
tinus tie cases to the fall term Is being
argued. Mr.. Charles T. Barry, the
master. sent In his report Of the trans
sections Of Balm Brothers, Of Ports
mouth, with tho Exchange National. 1t
Is lengthy document. +.
The body Of an unknown colored
sailor ives washed ashore ct Cape Hen.
~ yesterday and buried by the light
house people. The skull Of the man
was found badly crushed, and the opin.
ion prevails that tho man was murdered
and thrown overheard from some pass
ing vessel. !,
Tia bodies of Lemuel Williams and
Joe Harris, tho colored oystermen who
were drowned on Saturday, were found
this morning by dragging q short dis
lance from where the men went down.
The Norfolk Southern road, which
connects the sound region Of North
Carolina with Norfolk, isshortly to run
into the city over the Norfolk and
Western bridge instead Of stopping in
Berkeley. Is for several years back.
The Democratic primary commences
tomorrow, and the excitement among
the seventeen candidates and their
friends manifests itself considerably on
the streets already.
The life.savipg stations along the
Virginia and North Carolina coast all
closed Saturday, and the disbsnded
crews went off to the interior to their
usual summer work. But one man,
the keeper, is retained at each station
until September, when the crews come
back sgain. In the opinion of the
Government there are no storms in the
summer time.
The spring session of East Hanover
Presbytery commences in Bramble-
ton, near this city, tomorrow at p.
NJ. The retiring moderator, Rev. l..
II. Baldwin, Of Atlantic City, has re-
ouested Rev. S. X. VIM, of Peters
burg, to preach the opening sermon.
Besides the routine business there will
be preaching each day and night by
visiting ministers at Park-Ayenue
church, in Brambleton.
r. G. Banks, who was in the Legis-
lature from Norfolk, will be the Re-
publican candidate for mayor, it is said,
Colonel Lamb declining reelection on
account of business matters.
The Norfolk Light Artillery Blues,
numbering forty men, left for Savan-
nah this morning under command Of
Captain James w. Gilmer, to attend
the reunion Of the Chatham artillery.
The Blues will be gone week.
The total cotton receipts at this port
for April were q ,4Sl bales, being
nearly 10000 more bales than were
received in April last year. G.
Clarke-C County Farmers ON Coupons.
The following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted At the April meeting OF
the Central Agricultural Club of Clarke
county:
Whereas the payment Of State taxes
in coupons would seriously cripple the
revenues of the State, and cause an in
crease in taxation; and whereas the
Governor Of the State has, by proclama-
ton, requested the people to pay their
taxes in money: be it therefore
Resoired, That the members Of this
Club pledge themselves to pay their
taxes in money, and to use their inhu-
ence to prevail upon all others to do the
same.
Resolred furthermore, That the mer-
chants of this county BIO requested to
make distinction between wholesale
merchants and drummers who pay their