Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-09
PORT OF NORFOLK.
ACTIVITY IN ssIPNEETs AND GENERAL
NEWS OF THE Oily.
The Murderer Still at Lsrgs--Srs. epratrs
Conditien-Ths CanveHs-Psr-
soEals and Deaths.
Correspondence of tho Richmond Dispa.ch.I


NoRFoLK, Va. SeptemberS, 1888.
The total number OF tons OF Southwest
Virginia coal shipped from tho Lam
bert's Point coal-piers during the year
closing september lot reached 81, 5oO.
Total number of vessels loaded j. OBJ.
Norfolk is picking mp as attic mar
ket and the sales OF live stock last week
is surprising TO those lot IN the business.
The ice manufacturers hero are dong
n large and successful business, the ice
of the factories being in demand.
The long-delayed Washington steamers
came in to-day, having been in ColnHeld
harbor, in the Potomac.
Mr.. William Urquhart, a well-known
railroad man employed on the SesSoard
and Roanoke and Suffolk End Carolina
lines. died at his home IN southampton
county yesterday.
The negro murderer George Coleman
is yet at large, having successfully
sIuded q largo searching party. 1t Is
now believed he has gotten into the Dis
nal swamp, endeayoring to get to North
Carolina, where he came from. IL looks
now very much ike the murderer will
get away. He is known to have stated
on the day OF the murder that ne was
going back to North Carolina. Tho
funeral of the murdered man took place
yesterday afternoon, and the body WAS
Inferred in the Catholic cemetery, of
which he was keeper. Mrs. Louisa
Spratt Is now 1T St Vincent's Hospital
suffering greatly from her wounds, and
in a very critical condition.
All the coupon suits in the courts OF
Portsmouth have been transferred 10 the
Circuit Court of the city OF Norfolk.
Commodore George Brown, of the
navy-yard, is in Indianapolis, Ind, at
tho sick bedside OF his mother.
Mr.. Henry Hopkins, venerable citi-
zen OF Portsmouth, fell and broke his
thigh last night.
Captain Demosthenes Bell, a wealthy
farmer and merchant OF Chowan county,
y. O., died on Thursday after brief i'll
ness. He was an officer in the Army Of
Northern Virginia.
Atlantic Division, OF Portsmouth, will
institute the new b. J. Turner Division,
knights OF Pythias, Of Hampton, on the
22d.
Hon. T. c. Marshall, Democratic
nominee for Congress, will commence
his canvass in the Second district next
week.
4 large amount Of wheat arrived here
during the week from Tennessee for
shipment 10 Liverpool.
Navsl-Constructor Bowles, OF the navy
yard, is still very Ill ut kennebeckport,
de.
The Grand Army OF the Republic dele
gates from the Department oil Virginia
left this afternoon for Columbus, o.
Mayor Il. c.. Banks, Of this city, is re-
ceiVing contributions for tho yellow
fever sufferers OF Jacksonville.
Nearly all tho pastors of the two cities
have now returned home from then sum-
mer soJourns IN the country.
The truckers say the recent rains Will
bring along the fail crops in good shape.
Colonel Waiter II. Taylor, Of this city,
has been elected president OF the Nor
folk Street Railway Company, III place
OF Orson Adams of New York.
The passengers by ths Washington
steamer Excelsior this morning state
they were seventy hours on the passage
tied up on account OF tho storm. The
provisions gave ont, and passengers and
crow were reduced to coIn-brcsd and
coffee q.