Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-26
NORFOLK.
THE NAvY.YARD-rHE aALEHA OUT OF
DOCK.
Tho Training -ship-Insuranos-Msn Moving.
Southwest Virginia Cosl-Psrsonal
Notes and Briefs.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispstch.l

Correspondence of the Richmond DispatchI
NORFOLK, February %, 1888.
The United States steamer Galena
came out Of the dry dock this morning.
Additional repairs have been ordered to
the machinery amounting to Sl4, 900 In
order to keep the ship in commission
three years longer. The Galena viii
now remain at the yard until the middle
of April
The training-ships have received sail
ing orders, and will leave the yard in a
day or two, the Saratoga making trip
mp James river to City Point and the
jamestown up Chesapeake bay.
Large quantities Of creosoted sheath
ing and piling are now being delivered
at the hayward for the new Simpson
dry dock.
To-day the United States steamer
Pensacola came up to the hayward to
take on a supply of coal. She will leave
Monday or Tuesday for New York,
where her crew will be discharged and
new crew placed on board for the United
States steamer Omaha at Panama. She
will then leave for Aspinwsll and bring
back the old crew of the Omaha, whose
enlistment has expired.
The insurance-men of Norfolk and
Portsmouth have combined to oppose
the insurance measures now before the
Legislature, and are getting the mer-
chants generally Of the two cities to sign
petitions.
An aged man named John Ford, who
halls from Richmond, was sent TO Jail in
Portsmouth yesterday afternoon for six
months for stealing clothing.
Less than fourteen thousand tons OF
Southwest Virginia coal were shipped
from this port this week.
Past-G Grand Chancellor L. II. Virnel-
son returned home last night, and says
the Pythian Grand Lodge never had
such an all-arouud good time as the Dan
vile people made them enjoy.
The Atlantic and Danville railroad so
far as opened for the travelling public
passes through a beautiful section OF
country, and is already very popular
route from the Chowan section Of North
Carolina.
Mr.. Hanson H. McKenny, of the
composing room of the Dispatch, is in
the city OH the sad mission OF attending
his mothers funeral.
The powerful ocean tug B. W. Moore,
the largest tug afoat, whose bunkers
carry four hundred tons of coal, is in
port
The venerable George f. Taylor, for
over fifty years printer in Baltimore,
died at the home of his daughter here
last evening.
There is an immense crop Of Irish
potatoes planted in Norfolk county.
Sergeant r. j. Brooks and W. A.
Shields, OF the Richmond police de-
partment, we're in the city to-day to
claim the reward of $1,000 offered by
Messrs Chapman & Gale for the re-
covery of their goods. They had a
satisfactory settlement with them, getting
one third of the reward, to be divided
between them and j. A. Otey, and left
for home this afternoon.
G. B. Oliver, messenger of the Ma
tional Bank here, died OF pneumonia at
noon to-day. In 1851, when hostilities
broke out here, he was a gunner in the
United States navy and had charge OF
the magazine ut Fort Norfolk, and when
called upon, although his sympathies
were with the South, refused to surren-
der his trust and held the entrance until
overpowered. He entered the Confede-
rate navy and was gunner of the famous
ironclad Merrimac until she was de-
stroyed near Craney island. He was
afterwards messenger for Governor Gil
bert C. Walker, and was well known in
Richmond.
\ The negro woman who attempted to
murder her child with red-hot poker,
was before Justice Cook this morning
and was sent ON to the Corporation
Court for trial. q.