Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-02-22
INCENDIARY.
YUaTREa PARTICULARS OF THE FIRE
NEAR NORFOLK.
Tho Less About $50, ooo-consuiting with
the farmsrs-Gloriss In Ter
Crims-Noies


ICorfospouuence OF me htcnrohu D'sp@s>'@l
NoaroLx, February ~. 1889.
The origin OF the Ere Mt Tuuis d serpclVs
lugnber- mills last might l. siill btieycd 70 De
inceudjary, aud when discovered about IL
O'Clock bad gained great headway. The
large saw-mils. costing 100000. aud the
plarine-mill were sayed-the istter IN
damaged condition. rho destruction was
mostly oounaed 10 the small Mill, drying
kllps, saved aud dressed lumber, ani nm
Osr-sheds. fae loss j. about $50 600. ana j.
covered BIZ Insurance. a sectlon OF ihe
Norfolk nc department went over b the
mills acout o'clock this morms. and ala
good work IN preventing the sDresd Of The
tlamcs. Operations at the mills will only &c
suspended few DAYS. Three hundred
hand, are employed there, aud the payroll
Is 81, 900 a week md sometimes more.
Colonel w. Ballard Preston and Professor
W. b. Atwood, Of tDe Virginia state agri-
cultural governmental station at Blacksbufg.
arc 10 The city TO-DAY in consultation with
the farmers OF this section OF the State VINO
are interested In the WORK OF the experiment
tai station.
Tbls morning the mulatto girl Nellie
White, who killed her lover, Thomas Gray,
on the street last night for abandoning her,
was before Justice Baum. and after examine
ton was committed for trial al the next
criminal term. She says she told Gray II he
did not stop going with Sallie Shepherd,
another mulatto girl, she would Nil him,
aud glories IN having kept her word. The
murder has c. ealed great sensation among
the colored I,eople and many OF these sympq-
thize with the woman.
IL il said ihat q rev lumber-mill, with n
capacity OF 10000 600 feet per annum, will
soon be erected in TINS vicinity.
The New York Yacht Clubs steam
yacht Norma, ashore six miles from this city,
has been foated, and started on her way to
Florida.
Tue proposed extension Of the United
States buoy-yard In GOsp)rt, for which land
has been purchased and $4,000 apprO-
priated, will make the yard twice the present
size, with one or more sdiiliO1al docks. The
extension and improvement Of the buoy
yard does away with its ever being removed
to Old Point, as was contemplated some
time ago.
Captain James G. Bpin is thought to be
better, though be is still very low at his
home, IN Portsmouth
The Old Dominion Guard OF Portsmouth
will tender all the military companies Of
Norfolk a banquet al the City Hall to-mor-
row, in celebrating the TWeuty.second."
Captain James NJ. Biuiord, the much-loyed
commander OF the Old Dominion Guard, has
been presented with a costly gold.mOuuted
sword by bis commsnd. The name of Cap
tam Dennis Vermiiou, killed at Malvern
Hill while commanding this COMPANY, was
placed on the rolls OF Stenewall Camp last
night
The new basket and crste-iactory in
Portsmouth now has 10 employees on its
payroll, and is one OF the largest establish
ments 10 the United States for the manniac-
ture OF baskets and crates.
Mr.. George u. Balm. late cashier OF the
Exchange National Bank, who was pardon
ed from the Albany peniientlsry on Monday,
il sick in New York, and will not be home
for two weeks q.