Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-03
DOWN BY THE SEA.
A VISIT FROM AND INSPECTION BY
NORTHERN CAPITALISTS.
Lynn Manufacturers Looking Around
Personal Notes and
Briefs.
,corrO.rondoncc Of the Iiichmond Dispa,ch.i
NORFOLK. December 2, 1899.

fcorrespondence OF the Richmond Dispa,chl
NORFOLK. December 2, 1889.
A party of Buffalo men and shoe manu-
facturers of Lynn, Mass, who were re-
Gently burned out (but not the party ex-
nectcd in charge OF Mr.. Theodore Price, of
Tho firm of Price, Reed * Coz, arrived
here Yesterday morning by the New York,
PHILADELPHIA and Norfolk railroad and
were met by number of business men and
taken care Of To-day the visitors are
being entertained by the real estate men
and shown the attractions and advantages
of this section for manufactures OF every
description. After looking over the
neichborhood a transportation agent
furnished q steamer and the Visi.
tors were shown the advantages OF
the harbor. They seemed very favorably
IMPRESSED with Norfolk and its business.
II these northern men decide TO locate
here they will undoubtedly be ohGed n
site free for their factories ana water ana
exemption from taxes for ten years. Inc
visitors will leave here tomorrow and IN
spect various points in other parts of the
South. II looks as if Norfolk is Just now
about TO have a boom. A great amount OF
northern capital Is moving this way ana
developing aud building MP Tldewater
Vircinin and the adjoining section of North
Carolina An English land improvements
and construction company. with TWO NIL
lion capital, has Just been organized 10
come here, and the purchase OF the three
cotton congresses here by New YORK
syndicate organized by Commodore B9te-
man and Mr. Inman. president of the New
York Cotton Exchange, Will bring 2lO,UOO
more bales of cotton year 70 Norfolk.
During the month OF November there
were f1rtv-thr.e marriages IN Noriolk'
twcnty-seven IN the county, and thirteen
in Portsmouth.
Durin. November seventeen deaths oc:
Cured IN Portsmouth, exactly one hat
beng cOlored.
Commodore Batem9n expects soon 10
get President Harrison and friends 20 make
a trip TO the Currtuch-Sound ducNng-
grounds on his handsome steam-yacht
Meteor.
NOTES.
Colonel Fred Ortliss. drauchtsman at
the Harlan a. Holinesworth Works, VIII
muatou, Del, has received an appoint ?
ment an the construction department oil
Rev. ". c.. Starr, D. D., the new pastor
Of Cumborlanl-Strect Methodist Episcopal
church. preached hi Introductory serm0n
Yesterday morning 10 a large cQn-regali m
At niEht she church was equally crow ieu.
The members of the LEGISLATURE from
tins section all leave here tins afternoon
for Richmond. 90.
Tho Portsmouth Dairy Progress made ITS
appearance yesterday, taking the pace oil
the Time Enterprise.
Postmaster Lindsay, Of Portsmouth. IS
miEinc his Republican mall-carricrs, Dlac
and white.
Dunng the first quarter Of the cotton
wear ending SATURDAY. night the total re-
ceipts of cotton at this port amounted 10
30. 80 bales. against 21O,3il bales last wear
The total shipments are little less than
oO.O00 bales. against 2jf. 0i5 bales last year.
Bishop WingGeld, of California, preached
twice in Norfolk ycstcrday-In the MORN
ing at -. Lubc'- and at night al ~. Paul 8:
At 81. Iukc's at night Alr. Charles wills, OF
NV York, first Vce-pre-ldcnt of ~. An
drcw's Brotherhood, represented the IL
terests Of the brotherhood
a large throng assembled at Frcemason-
Street Baptist church last night and en-
loved an address 10y Mayor j. /. EilysOn,
OF Richmond. in the interest OF the Young
Mems Christian Association Rev. Dr.
Burrows and other gentlemen spoke.
The name of tho Dismal-Swamp canal
has been changed TO the Norfolk and North
Carolina canal.
Ex-Un,ted states Marshal T. w. Scott.
from the Southwest, has been here visiting
for several days.
lie etutDutl Autil'5 " +hil' Nv ~
tain French, from New York to this port,
arrived here ~ distress and leaking badly.
Divers are at work on her bottom.
The tug Spray was run into bv the tug
Rather to-day and had her port-waist and
pilot-hou-e stove i'm about twenty feet.
The new United States steamer Baltimore
has been ordered here from Philadelphia 10
be fitted out for sea and receive her finish
ing touches at Gosport nayy-yard.
Seven large steamships. bound from
southern ports to Europe, have arrived at
Lamhert's Point for coal within the last
forty-eisht hours.