Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-25
PORT NORFOLK.
sczooxxs srnHrcKsoN IN THE LATE
sroRx-ANorHRR MISSING.
seaside Business = EAvy-Yard Matters =
First Cotton-wrecksrs 1t Work
Personal, Etc.
IspocIal .eIOeram o the pIspsich.l

NopyorK. VA, August 24.--The
schooner Charles p. Sinnickson, from
New York to Alexandria, With cargo OF
fertilizers, arrived in this port in distress.
and this morning her captain noted pro-
test. He states that he encountered tho
gale of Tuesday last about ten miles OIL
Hog Island light, with high wind and
very heavy sea, in which the vessel
labored SO heavily that he put back for
the Delaware Breakwater. The next
day. with the wind and sea still high and
shippinQ a great deal of water. had fore
sail and jib blown away. and the Dui-
warks on both sides stove In.
Theschooner Ida, which sailed from
near Williamsburg in July for Philadel-
phia. with cargo OF ties and poplar
boards. has not since been heard from.
The large 5.0OQ.pound anchor and
thirty fathoms OF chain belonging to the
steamship Hungarian, recovered by
wreckers of this city at Newport News,
was entangled in the wreck of the Con-
federste cruiser Florida, captured In
Brazilian neutral port during the war
and taken to Hampton Roads, where she
was scuttled and sunk.
The first bale of the North Carolina
cotton crop reached Norfolk to-day. 1t
was shipped by Toisnot, Wilson county,
n. c., graded middling, slightly gin-cut,
owing TO being green, and was sold at
ten cents per pound.
This has been red-letter summer in
the excursion line, more excursion par
ties and many thousand more people
having visited Norfolk this season than
ever before. The accessibility OF the
seaside ia a boon to Norfolk in attracting
strangers.
Fafl-like weather has prevailed here
for several days, and last night the mer-
curry went down to 60, which Is
very comfortable in town, but uncom-
Portable for the soiourners at the sea-
side.
The wharf and bridge-builders in this
section have all the work they can do for
many months to come, the, heaviest, OF
course, being the railroad work.
The police have succeeded in capturing
a band of eight negro sneak'thieves and
house breakers and committed them to
jail.
An open-air concert takes place every
day now for the public in the hayward,
the Naval Post Band, the band OF the
flagship Pensacola, and the band OF the
receiving-ship Franklin furnishing the
music.
A syndicate OF cotton-dealers OF this
city have proposed to the Seaboard and
Roanoke railroad to build them large
warehouse on the river-front in Ports
mouth in which they can store their
cotton and have their business offices.
The Lee Rifles and Norfolk City
Guard enjoyed dress parade at Ocean
View this afternoon with the Naval Post
Band and a hop. A crowd from the
city attended.
The wrecking schooner Julia. Merritt
was towed out to the sunken steamer
Eureka off the capeS yesterday. The
wreckers are very successful so far in re-
covering the cargo of the Eureka,
although the divers have to work at
great disadvantage in sixty feet of
water.
Commodore George Brown, of tho
navy. yard, has gone to Indianapolis.
Lieutenant Lincoln Karmany has been
ordered to the marine barracks at this
navy yard, and Captain W. Il. Brown,
OF the barracks, has received months
| leave.
Mr.. i. L. Meyers, superintendent OF
the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad, has
returned from Long Branch.
The taxpayers of Portsmouth raised
such row about the Increase OF the tax
rate to 81. 80 that the City Council last
night reduced it to $3.50.
General-Superintendent I. 0. Troy OF
the Virginia Beach Railroad has accepted
the position of general superintendent
of the Atlanta and Florida Railroad and
Navigation Company, with headquarters
at Atlanta.
A number of Norfolk and Portsmouth
friends of the late Dan. Hagerty went up
to Baltimore last night to attend the
| funeral. u.