Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-03
WATCHING BRIDGES.
TAKING PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE
DAMAGE BY PREsHETs
Norfolk Hsrbor Of Pilots-A Strange Story
from Princess Anne County
Personal Notes
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispaich.l


NORFOLK, April 2, 1883.
A special train with force OF hands
was sent out yesterday morning on the
Seaboard and Roanoke railroad under
Roadmaster 8. L. Hand to watch the
bridges on the Roanoke and Tar-River
division, which the freshets in the Meher-
rim and other streams threaten TO carry
away. AS yet the bridges are intact.
/ No trouble is apprehended on the Sea-
board Line. All trains have been ordered
TO suspend running on the Tar River
road until the water subsidies sufficiently
to obviate danger
The Harbor of American Brotherhood
Pilots, Just established here, has nearly
one hundred members, the largest har-
Dor in the United States II comprises
pilots, masters, and owners OF vessels
and steamboats,.
A strange story comes from London
Bridge, in Princess Anne county. A
Mrs. Ford. who went into the woods last
week to hunt stray turkeys, wns found
tied and unconscious, her body beaten
and bruised. and her clothes torn. Her
mental condition is such that she cannot
give any account Of the affair.
Invitations are out for the first after
Lent german to be given by Miss Lucy
Baylor to her guests, the Misses Ross,
of Richmond.
The first passenger and express train
on the Western Branch railway went to
Churchland this morning.
Yesterday was lovely Easter Sabbath
here, and the services at all the churches
of Norfolk and Portsmouth were at
tended by larger congregations and there
seemed TO be more interest taken in the
great festival than ever before.
Rev. n. Summerville, ID. d., OF Ohio,
fraternal messenger from the Northern
Christian Convention to the churches
South. preached at the Christian church
yesterday.
Sixteen steamships and four banks
cleared from here for foreign ports
during the month of March with cargoes
valued at 81, 130,0l9, a decrease of
SS5, 900 on last year.
Mr.. James T. Croker, a farmer of
Nansemond county, died last Friday
from injuries received by falling on the
machinery of his saw-mill recently.
A force of timers, iron-workers, brick
layers, and helpers were taken IN the
navy-yard this morning to work on the
shops going up for the new tools to build
the battleship Texas.
There were twenty five deaths in Ports
mouth during the month of March.
The passenger and freight trains OF
the Atlantic and Danville railroad com
mcnced running to Franklin, Southamp-
ton county, this morning.
The African Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference Will adjourn tomorrow night.
The body was engaged to-day in dis
cussing the financial and statistical re-
ports.
The schooner Susan Ellen, from Ply
mouth, \. c., to Baltimore, arrived here
to-day in distress and leaking badly.
The African Methodist Episcopal Con
ference selected Danville this afternoon
as the place of the next annual meeting.
Before aijourning the Bishop called
upon the judiciary Committee in refer
ence to the reported drunkenness of |
Rev. Jessie c. Asbury, recently trans
ferred to this conference from the Ten
nessee Conference, and most scathingly |
any and all who indulge in
the use Of liquor IN any form. q.