Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-28
ON THE COAST.
THE NORTHEAST GALE CONTINUES
TELEGRAPH LINES STILL DOWN.
Tho Wreck OF tho Schooner Joseph Wild
The Bicycle pnrade-Other
Norfolk Notes.
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NORFOLK, August q, 1889.
The northeast gale continues, and as
the Government telegraph lines are
down nothing can be heard from the
coast below Virginia Beach. Disasters
are looked for from Hatteras. The life
saving crews will not 90 on duty for the
winter until Sunday next. They have
been Off since the list of May, and If dis
asters have occurred the shipwrecked
unfortunates have Jared badly. On the
Richmond-bound ice-schooner Joseph
Wild, lost in collision at the Capes only
one man Was injured, the steward,
who had his legs crushed. Captain
Reed and all his crew are here waiting
TO hear from the owners and trying TO
save what property washes ashore from
the wreck of the Wild. In two minutes
after the schooner was struck IN the col
lision her decks were under water and
she had turned completely on her beam
ends. The crew climbed into the rlg-
ging Of the schooner and from there to
the steamship Nessmore, the ship that
cut down the schooner. This morning
Captain Reed noted protest before a ma
rine notary, Major J. Hardy Hendren.
AFFAIR SLICE.
Norfolk evidently got fair slice Of
the Bahama hurricane predicted as
coming up the coast several days ago,
and was central in the Gulf stream some
where near Haiteras. The storm pre-
vents the United Stntes practice-ship
Constellation from bending her sails and
getting to sea.
BROKE IT Up.
The storm today broke up the State
bicycle parade and races Mt Gymnasium
Park. and they were POSTPONED for one
month. The visitors will mostly leave
for home tonight.
No trace whatever of the crew Of thir-
teen men WAS discovered by the week
ers in blowing up the bark Z. l.. Petten-
gel.
THIEVES CAPTURED.
The police OF Portsmouth about day
break this morning captured boat and
five harbor-tbieycs. young white men Of
Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Berkeley. The
boat was loaded with such plunder as
ropes, anchors, lanterns, canvas, oil
clothing, and other stuff taken from the
unoccupied oyster and truck-bOats lying
around the harbOr and creeks.
A Young colorcd man named Eli
Young WAS arrested in Elizabeth City on
Sunday. charged with assaulting colored
girl ut tdenton named Florence Turner.
There is great excitement among tho
colored people and strong threats Of
lynching Young.
TIE A,PHITBITE.
The plans for the completion Of the
double-turretted monitor Ampbitrite
will arrive here just before the contract
ors, Messrs. Simpson d Son. turn over
the new dry-dock to the Government,
and the monitor viii be the first ship to
20 in the new dock.
Rev. c. J. Jones. of Ohio. Christian
Church evangelist and fine pulpit ora
tor, is laboring eiioctually in Nansemond
county.
In Nansemond, Isle of Wight. and
southampton counties the protracted
rains have so affected the sweet-pota,o
crop that not more than a hall crop Will
be made.
SCTEs.
W. W. Sylvester and Abram Aronheim,
OF this city have been appointed liquor
gaugers for this district under Colonel
Brady.
Dudley Page, editor OF the Maryland
Union, of Frederick, Nd, is visiting
Norfolk with his wife.
Norfolk Typographical Union will join
the trade organizations OF the city IN the
celebration of labor day next Monday.
The Norfolk Light Artillery Blues
will not lay the cornerstone of their
new armory until the 22d of February.
their next anniversary, but Will make
the event q memorable one
State Superintendent Hull, OF the
Massachusetts public schools, will con
duct a teachers institute in Norfolk
county next week, commencing Monday.