Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-24
PORT NORFOLK.
POLITICAL, NAVAL, AND JUDICIAL MAT
IExs OF MOMENT.
rcore.poudence Of ,no Richmond Dispsich.l


NoRFonK, August %. 1883.
The Republicans have commenced an
active canvass Of the Second congress
sional district and Hon. George X. Bow.
den is here great deal "laying pipes
for denomination, and never fails TO
speak at n pablo meeting in his own be-
bali. II begins TO look like Libbey and
oil other prominent competitors are
about 10 abandon the field to Bowden, or
else they are lying very low and their
friends keeping quiet for some reason or
other.
Rnmor bas il that State-Senator
Thomas II. Barnes, of Nansemond, will
be pressed by his friends for the Demo
cratic nomination for Congress. II IS
also SAID the Prohibihonists will pat
prominent physician OF Norfolk IN the
field.
Captain John Gibbs, OF Pasquotank
county, y. c., was arrested by Constable
Ross Evans, Of Norfolk county, last
night and locked up for stealing
fchoonsr-load OF corn, vasued AZ 800.
and selling the same. The sheriff OF
pasquotank arrived in search OF the
prisoner last night and carried him to
North Carolina to-day.
Mr.. V. ". Nash. OF Portsmouth, has
been appointed bill clerk TO tho general
storekceper OF the hayward.
George Carey (colorodD was run over
by tho streot-cars in Portsmouth last
night, and had his head crushed, hip
dislocatcd. and legs rashed.
The United States steamer Gaiena, de-
layed by the gale, will not now put to sea
until tomorrow morning for POrt-au-
Prince. She took on supplies for 4
twelve months cruise. and filed all her
bunkers and then her decks with coal III
bags.
CARPENTER @. T. Roberts, Of the Ga
lena. was taken 30 i'll yesterday that he
had 10 bc sent 10 the Naval Hospital
and The ship leaves without q carpenter.
Commodore Brown. Of tho yard, has
been notified that the monitor Puritan,
now az League Island, has been ordered
10 this yard 10 10 repaired and fitted
o1t and will give the wOrkmen a good
lob for several months after the bensa-
cola and jamestown are gone. The Pu-
ritan will be- towed here the first Of the
coming month.
A special officer has gone to Princess
Anne 10 serve SUbpo7Gs upon eleven
men summouing them to attend the Cor
poration Court on the 81 of September
Il testify for the Commonwealth III the
case Of John j. Evans, charged with
numbering Peter J. Mclean. The wit
nesses were attending market at the
time Of the murder.
The United States Marine Hospital
Service has made q contract with the
Board OF Health 10 takc charge OF the
smallpox cases discovered on vessels IN
the harDOr.
Mr.. John a. Curtis, of Richmond, is
visiting his brotherin Norfolk.
There are only three hundred men
now employed on the Simpson dry
dock at the navv-yard and are working
AZ depth Of forty feet.
The new City Democratic Executive
Committee organized last night, and
Holt ". Page was elected city superin-
Iendent There was q lively discussion
in regard TO the manner in which work
is managed in the maynard, and the
manner of appointments made IN the
varl were CONDEMNED generally, and
those made by Republican bosses espo-
eislly.
The four-maSted schooner Il. 4. Lam
bert, of Bath. Me-, carried from the
Lamberts Point coal-piers yesterday
26923 tons. the largest cargo of coal
ever shipped from this port.
VESSELS DAMAGED n THE LATE STORM.
The schooner II. W. Godfrey, from
Philadelphia to this port with coal, ar
rived to-day and reports encountering
the late storm OF Chincoteague, and had
several sails blown away and yswl stove
and the right leg Of Captain Carson
crushed.
The schooner Wake. from the Potomac
10 Philadelphia. with wood, had sails car
ried away and put in port to-day. Sew
eral vessels are reported in the lower bay
to-day with sails and spars gone, the
effects of the gale.