Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-12-20
ON A BOOM.
WEST NORFOLK AND ITS EXTENSIVE
IMPROVEMENTS.
Tho DI.maI-swamp Canai-FIve Hundred
Thousand Dollars to DO Ex-
pendeti-Notes.
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fCorrotpondence OF the Richmond Dispatchl
NonroLK, December 10, 1882,
West Norfolk, on the Craney-island sue
of the river. the deep-water terminus VI
the Atlantic and Danville railroad. Is now
on very promising boom. uoVeInoi
jackson, OF Maryland. heads manuiac-
turing company that has Just started rae
tory there for the manufacture of coarse
woodenware, barrels, boxes, etc, 10 employ
1850 hands. Several places OF business nave
been started and twenty residences erected
with an immediate demand for fifty more:
The town ut present embraces nearly fUO
acres. laid of in large-sized lots, WIN
streets co, 80, and 100 feet wide. Inc
steamer Spray keeps up q regular ierIy
connection with Norfolk, while Portsmouth
is connected by the Atlantic and DanVhle
road.
DIsMAL-swAMP CANAL.
Five hundred thousand dollars Will at
once be expended in improving the Dismal
Swamp canal, now the Norfolk and Norih
Carolina canal. Additional locks Will DC
built. so as to allow vessels $50 rect IN
length TO pass through. Ut IS also conteIn-
plated TO build tresh-water BASIN near
(iilmerton locks to store United states
war-vessels in. as the company controls
the fresh-water supply from Lake Drum
mond. Mr.. L. T. Lynch, of New YORK, mas
been elected president Of .he company, and
the capital stock is fixed at 81 ,0O1.O 900. the
most of which is paid IN. The future OF
the old canal for a very useful commercial
highway is now looking very DriShI.
xAyAL MATTERS.
Chief.Fnqineer John z. Bingham, who
has been ordered to the command OF the
United states steamer Alliance, reported
for duty to-day and another steam trial OF
the ship will commence tomorrow unueI
his direction. -,
Hannibal II. Coles and A. J. Andrews.
leadino witncsscs in the trial If Rev. J. VI.
Arinistead. were before the Mayors Court
in Portsmouth this morning on the charge
of having violated the law IN various pr
tjculars on their own admission on the
witncss-stand and were fined $50 eacn.
The wreck of the capsized schooner
picked up of Hatteras and toWed INTO
Hampton Roads by the United States
steamer Despatch and the tug Argus was
carried TO the nayy-yard last nlghs anu
placed under the shears to be nghted.
CRUISER 30. 9.
The work of laying the keel Of Cruiser
No. commenced at the navy-yard tnlS
morning andas fast as the material - de-
livered by the contractors the work VIII 80
ahead.
NOTES.
The remains of the late murdered County
Constable NJ. w. Allen were buried yester-
dav in the Catholic cemetery, Rev. Father
CASTOR Payne performing the funeral rites
at the residence. >.
c. l.. Saunders. Appointment coiored poll.
tician of Norfolk, died last night OF
Bright's disease.
The newly-erocted st. Johns African
Methodist Episcopal church, on Butte
street Will be dedicated on Sunday night
by Bishop Wayman, assisted 10y various
colored ministers Of the city.
Mir. L. Archibald McEorie and bride are
spending few DAYS in Norfolk before pro-
ceeding to their home in Danville, where
Mr.. McRorie Is connected with the Atlantic
and Danvillc railroad. They We're married
in Washington. the bride being the daugh-
ter of Colonel Beverly c. Saunders. OF Bal
tlmOre.
Large crowds OF negro laborors have re-
Gently left this section for West Virginia
and Ohio TO work Oh railroads.
The Russian grip has reached Norfolk,
several cases being reported to-day. q.