Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-04-05
NORFOLK MAYNARD.
A LARGE FORCE OF HANDS TAKEN IN
YESTERDAY.
The Bsttle.ship Tsxss-Prospeot Tor busy
Year--Gensral News
Notes.
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correspondence Of the Richmond Dispstch.l
NORFOLK. April 4. 1883.
Fifty ship-csrpenters, machInists, pam.
ters, &C., were taken In the nayy-yso
this morning. the most OF them 10 wo,k
on the Pensacola. The rush 10 get TINS SUI
to sea within six weeks causes the men 20
work day aud half each daV. ibis hurry
is, indeed. a god.send 10 the nsyy.yaro men
Just now, oud there Is q comparatively large
force engaged on eyerv part OF the ship
Material IN considerable quantities now
arriving from the steel-works aud the Wo'k
OF constructing the battleship Texas VIII
commence actively In q DAY or two. ana
large force will doubtless be required In
the ward after the work gets fairly under
wav. The patterns for the stem ana s'eTu
post OF the Texss have Just been con,
pleled at the yard and will be forwarded
to the steel.works this week. In conse.
ouence OF the destruction OF The meet ~
samoa 1t Is thought 10 naval circles mere
that work will be brisk At the yard through
out tee year, rs the appropriation that De-
comes available on the LIST oil July VIII DC
rapidly expended in repairs. -,
The training-ship jamestown viii have an
her repairs completed by the close OF the
week, and Will 90 into commission on tne
10Th instant. and soon after JOIN the Constel-
latlon IN Hampton Roads for cruise EAST.
There Is great activity among the droner
Republicans 10 Norfolk county, and meet
ings arc held nightly by that faction and ad-
dressed by the local leaders seekins POSITIONS
IN the navy .yard in opposition to The Asbohe-
ite aspirants. A regular campaign Is IN pro-
gress, and the igbt is hot at times among inc
antagonizing elements. The Groner meets
fnCs never fail to adopt resolutions de-
nouncing the Malone following.
Cborles johnson, an employee at Ropers
cedar-yorks, near Deep Creek, was caugbi
under n falling pile OF heavy lumber yester'
day and so badly crushed that his life Is de-
SPARED Of.
GOOD force OF lsborers have gone 10
work lmproyng the DismaEswamp canal,
and as soon 81 practicable the new company
will have several hundred workmen and la
borers engaged all along the line.
Bishop Whlttle will commence his Vlslts
10 the churches Of this section OF Underwater
on Saturday next, commencing in BefkleY.
Mir. Charles Reid. merchant OF norfolk
for sixty.eight years and still actively en-
gagged in business, celebrated bis elghty>
ninth birthday to-day.
The sanitary inspectors aud clinatologiats
will he invited 10 visit Norfolk on their re-
ItIQ from II lOIIUts hhh 49, 49,
ing on to give the strangers handsome re-
ceDtion.
II IL estimated by business men that the
fishing season this year in the Albemarle
section OF North Carolina will bring over q
hali.milion dollars to those engaged IN tho
business, ~ the season Is good and the hshe'
ries are doing we'll. This will largely beat
the enormous corn crop and the cotton crop
of tho sp1fiOn thrown in.
To-day the sixteen 'longshorcmen en-
ployed on The New York. PbiladeIphia
and Norfolk railroad arrested for violation
az the sunday law we're before Justice l..
NJ. Baum. the accused being represented by
T.. d. Borland. The Justice reserved bis
decision.
The United states training ship Conslela'
ton arrived in Hampton Roads to-day from
a cruise IN the West Indies.
Captain o. Jacobsen, OF the Dutch BARK
Jscobus JohanDscn, died at st. Vincenr'
UOspitsl TO-DAY.