Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-21
G0Sp0RT MAYNARD
THE PRESENT AUTHORITIES NOT
PLlABLe ENOUGH FOR POLITICIANS.
Malone Wants Some Changes Made-Iudge
Watts Would Not Accept-i}riefs--
Personals.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispaich.l
49,, T,,1,. gn 1870

ltOFtetloLlcuNs OF AAe hlchluDuD DiHlh'Nsl
NoR7oLE. July 20. 1889.
A leading Republican of the Malone
siripc told the D1sp0fci correspondent last
night that he had information from Wash
ington that Commodore George Brown
would certainly be removed from the COM
mand OF the navv-yard by Secretary Tracy.
Malone re- anxious 10 have a cOmmandant
here after the order of Commodore Mayo,
vino hates ihe Democrats and eau be ma
uipulatcd This d especially necessary n
he IS 10 I've tie nominee for Governor and
the navv-yard IS 20 be worked by the ma
chine for what 10 l. worth, and 800 or
1000 voters foisted on the Government
during the election campaign. The Com
modore and Constructor here are not pAa-
bic enough for the politicians.
COULD MOI AcCEIT.
The friends Of Judge J.. z. Watts will
not press his name on the convention for
ibe second place on the Democratic ticket,
for the reason that the Judge could not
accept theposition If 10 We're rendered him..
Having % large and growing law practice,
and holding the positions OF president OF
the Bank Of Portsmouth and supreme re-
gent of the Royal Arcsnum, he could not
give three or four months in the year 10
public business.
Several naval officers Of the two citioo
who have just finished q cruise on tho
South Atlantic on the United states
steamer Alliance, now IN Hampton Roads,
are home with their families
BIG sHRKEs.
The iron masting shcers at the navy
yard that have been five months building
we're raised in position to-day, and are the
most powerful in the country. They cost
originally So. 900. and are located on the
site Of the famous wooden sheers that
were cut down by the Gederals at the
first evacuation Of the yard and fell across
the Merrmac.
All the Republicans Of both wings who
attended the late conference IN Washing
ton have returned. The anti-MahOneites
are IN rather bad humor.
THE GATLING SINK.
Lieutenant G.. j. Febiger. United States
engineer corps here. in charge of ryer and
harhOr Improvements, including Apo
mattox river. does not see anything strange
in the forty-fcct settling on the Calling
farm. in Prince George, and simply regards
II as a landslide. the result OF the recent
heavy freshct i'm the river. The heavy
rush Of the river in the bend undermined
the bluff. and the weight above being too
much the face of the bluf settled or sid
OF. The Lieutenant laughs at the idea OF
its being anything but an ordinary land
slide.
Grand-Maste- y. F.. Whtehurst. !. Q. O..
F.. Of Virginia. left here this morning on an
official visit TO all the lodges OF the Valley
and Southwest Virginia.
The machne-shops Of the Atlantic and
Danville railroad in Portsmouth Will be
completed in about ten days.
Extensive arrangements are beng made
for reunion of Confederate veterans at
Elizabeth City, y. G.. on the the 3lst in-
slant
Civil-Engincer Endicott. Of the navy
yard. left TODAY for Washington on busi-
ness relating to yard improvements.
A collision at Lambcrt'- Point last eve
ming destroyed several coal-car5 of the
Norfolk and Western railroad. G..