Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-30
NORFOLK MOVING.
SIZE WANTS A GOOD REPRESENTATION
AT THE EXPOSITION.
Military--A Rcusing Democratic hestihg
in Brambieton-A Very Quiet
Wedding
rcOrrcspOnaonce Of tho Richmond DIspa,ch.l

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK. September %, 1888.
A meeting Of the businessmen OF
Norfolk was held at o'clock to-day at
the Merchants and Manufacturers Er-
change, and the matter of Norfolks
participating in the Richmond EXPOSE
ton was discussed at considerable length.
A committee was appointed to appear
before the Councils and petition an ap-
preparation Of 81 600 ~ make a suitable
exhibit OF this port ut the Exposition
The committee was also instructed to Or
Ranize an excursion to bring the western
and northern visitors TO Norfolk TO e1-
anime into the advantages OF this section.
The murderer of Edgar Haney IN
Berkeley last spring, Charley Cooke, Was
brought into the County Circuit Court
this morning and sentenced by Judge
Hill to eighteen years in the pcDitentiary.
Sheriff Bunting will take Cooke to the
penitentiary on Monday afternoon.
Inspector General Jo Lane Stern
last nj ght finished up his inspection OF
the military OF this section and found
all the companies in much better condl-
ton than when he was last here.
The Democrats OF BrambletOn had n
rousing open-air meeting last night,
with addresses from Hon. Il. G.. Mar
shall and others.
Another strong Democratic club was
organized in the First Ward Ill Forts
mouth last night.
Two ship keepers were appointed in
the nayy-yard this morning, and there
were twenty-seyen applicants for the
positions.
The cottOn-compresses are beginning
the busy season, and all OF them Will be
ut work within a week. Three cotton
steamships are now here awaiting car
goes, and more expected daily.
Two new steel turrets will have to be
built on the monitor Puritan at Gosport
hayward, and it is said 1t will be next
summer before the requisite material can
be obtained. The Government seems to
have hard time procuring steel sup
plies.
Another large Carolina excursion
crowd is in the city from the Berthe sec
ton to-day. One went ont tbs morning
mat came from thc NSluOn 0ON'4OH :. W
terday. re. ~
Mr.. Godfrey Morgan, son of Sir Wal
ter Morgan, OF Madras, and Miss Lille
b. Leigh. eldest daughter Of Major
James \. Leigh, were privately married
last night at the Presbyterian parsonage
in Brambleton by Rev. J.. i. McCluer
The Young people greatly surprised their
friends by letting no one into the secret:
Nearly eighteen thousand tons OF coal
were shipped from the LGmberts Point
piers this week.
over twentyfour hundred bales OF
cotton were received at thus port yester-
day.
i mass.mecting Of the Democrats of
Norfolk will be held on Monday night to
hear Hon. John I. Harris aud ID. Gar
diner Tyler.
Bones and clothing answering the de-
scription OF Alonzo Lewis, Of New York,
were found at the Hollys in clump Of
bushes two miles north OF Virginia
Beach Hotel by a boy named William
Tatem at O'Clock tonight. In tue
clothing WAS found watch and chain,
pocket DOOM COutdiHAhb - OCA''' "H' "
bunch Of keys. Around the body were
number of circulars OF the pump
house in New York with which Lewis
was connected, and by these the body
Was identified. The brother, W. Il.
Lewis, and the son Of the missing man
will go down to the Beach early to-mor-
row morning. The buzzards had about
destroyed the body.
Constable Brewer. an officer from
Manassas, arrived to-day to take back to
that place William Howard, the town ser
eesnt who deiaulted and absconded
with the town funds. He left with his
prisoner on the Washington steamer
George Leary this afternoon.
The Chambers Fire Company have
contributed $50 to the relief Of the yell
low-fever sufferers. q.