Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-21
NORFOLK Notes. Personal, dc.
of the Alexandria GAZETTE

ICOrrespOnQe0ce
NORFOLK, Va, Mar. 19.-Though this is
a most seasonabie and beautiful day, there
have been the most numerous and futile
efforts to snow ever saw, during the past
winter. And in all those efforts We have
had one snow covering the ground, for
short time, half an inch deep. I look for
snow to. morrow, though presume | am the
only one who does.
Norfolk, as usual, is booming in the dis.
lance. If anybody away out West or South
dig ditch heading in this direction, as II
he were going to construct railroad, we
are Immediately thrown into paroxysm OF
ecstacy, and we all with one accord exclalm
"bu!ly for Norfolk" Already we nominal
ly have the Chesapeake and Great Western,
the Norfolk and Western, the Seaboard and
Atlanta, the Norfolk and Southern, the
Norfolk and Danvile, the Norfolk and Va.
Beach, tho Norfolk and Ocean View, and the
Norfolk 7. and New York railroads terminat-
ing here, and gentleman connected with the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad visited u.s. last
week, and we are certainly expecting that
road to reach us in short time. Thus road
after road and ship after ship comes into
this port, but the one is in search of the
highways of the ocean and the other the
rich fields and busy marts of the interior
And they would come all the same if there
was not house or living soul here, but
such az were needed by the merchant ma
rine, and the railroad companies. And yet,
all the people of Norfolk think our individ'
nal attractions and transcendant merits
have brought them all here. And we also
think that we are growing richer and popu-
lous because of our land and marine rela.
tons while the natural Increase OF popula-
ton from the inhabitants of one hundred
years ago. would have given us to-day
population of hundred thousand. Ii Nor.
folk ever becomes growing and populous
city, it will be from the energies and capital
of foreicnerp. For she is, as in all the days
gone by, but way station on the highways
of commerce, and so will ever be, till enter
prise and capital are invested in manufacto-
res.
The great democratic convention is to assemble
here un the 10th of May, and tho ALEXANDRIA
GAZETTE is cordially invited to come. In the
meantime you are requested to conhne your per-
ambuations to only parts of Main and CRANKY
streets, for am sure the cobble stones and OBJ.
structions on other streets will give you very
poor opinion of our thrift, enterprise and pros.
perity
Mr.. Walter A. Edwards, one of thu proprietors
of the Erening Ledger. one of our most energetic
and newsy papers, a genial and popular gentle.
man, is rapidly recovering from severe indispo-
stion.
Rev. Dr. t. G. Jones preached a sermon yester-
day morning on the Immortality of the soul at the
First Baptist Church, which for logical power and
pathos an old and intelligent citizen informs me
he has never heard surpassed. Many who had not
the pleasure of hearing are very DESTROYS for him
to repeat it. Indeed, DR.. Jones is one of the rich
est thinkers, accomplished scholars, accurate logi.
clans and inspiring orators in all our land.
Poor Mr.. Balm starts tomorrow for the Albany
penitentiary for aiding, in the opinion of many,
in doing moro towards this construction of credit
able houses in Norfolk than any other one man !;
for since the fracture of the national bank of
which he was cashier people seem much more
inclined to invest their money in lands and houses
than to deposit it in banks, even at per cent
interest. HANOVER.