Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-21
AROUND NORFOLK.
THE NAvY-YARp AND THE OUTLOOK
FOR woaK.
The Traiping-ship Jamestown Painters
Taken on--psrronsl rotes-fwo
Sudden Deaths. y
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! Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispstch.l
NORFOLK, August 90, 1888.
This morning the United States tram
ing ship jamestown, Commander Charles
]. Train, having finished discharging
her powder al Fort Norfolk, passed up
TO the nayy-yard TO fit out Tor the winter
cruise in the West indies. She saluted
the pennant OF Commodore Brown with
eleven guns "a she left tho anchorage.
The jamestown will be here until the
middle OF November.
A force OF twenty painters were taken
in the yard this morning to paint the DIS
match steamer Fortune. She was put IN
the dry-dock this morning for the pur-
pose. The Fortune was smashed up IN
New York bay last winter, and has been
gradually undergoing extensive repairs
to machinery and woodwork ever since
and is now completed.
Farmers now visiting the city from
North Carolina report the cotton crop as
looking unusually well and all the lndl-
cations favorable for fair yield. There
are receipts at this port daily for coast
wise shipment to New York, which was
not the case this time Last year, and Will
30 swell the years grand total at the end
Of the month.
The end of this month closes the years
shipment of coal mt Lamberts Point
piers, which will reach considerably to-
wards million tons.
Sunday traffic at the stores was very
meagre yesterday, and strangers visiting
Norfolk have to bring along their cigars,
tobacco, and rum.
More Norfolk people are just now at
the mountain resorts than ever before IN
the history of the city.
The Norfolk presbyterians are about
to build church at Lambert's Point.
Rev. Calvin S. Blackwell, ID. d.,
preached to his old congregation at the
Church OF the Disciples yesterday.
The Republicans are flying campaign
banners in both cities, but no bandana
floats anywhere in this section. and not
even the muttering of Democratic thun-
der has yet been heard on the hustings.
Assistant Engineer Leo ID. Miner re-
ported for duty at the navy yard this
morning.
Mr.. John T. Kilby, a prominent
trucker of the Western Branch, is dan
gerously i'll. DR.. G. W. Townsend, OF
Boston, visiting his brother-in-law, +.
w. Seahury, on Freemason street, is
very low from nervous exhaustion and
brain trouble.
Captain r.. c. Marshall left yesterday
to join his family at Warrenton Springs
The United States steamer Galena
is expected here on Thursday to take on
supplies for her trip to POrt-au-Prince 10
look after the Haytien revolution.
Chief Engineer +. ID. Robe, IN charge
of the steam engineering department of
the yard, leaves with his family tomorrow
for the upper part of the State of New
York, and the family of Commodore
Brown leaves Wednesday for lndianapo-
lis, Ind. to remain until October
Commissioner of the Revenue ID. 5.
Sykes, of Norfolk county, died ct his
home in Pleasant Grove district yester-
day very suddenly. He was a colored
man and an excellent one.
Mr. Joseph Bourke, the Oldest mer-
chant of Portsmouth, died in his store
TO day. He was in remarkable health for
his age, and was not complaining of feel
ing unwell. He was born i'll San Do
mingo, L think, and was very old man.