Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-30
OLD KING COTTON.
CLOSING OF THE NORFOLK COTTON
YEAR--A FALLING OFF.
Advance ~ Prircs and Good Promise
Refractory Faiiurc--Naval, ship
ping, and Other Matters.
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NORFOLK, August ~, 1852.
Nearly all the foreign cottOn-buycrs
rro back from Europe aud located, and
&c dealers generally here arc getting
tia.rs In trim and preparing their plans
far the new season opening next week.
Tho cotton year closes on Saturday.
rnl while the gross receipts have not
le.n so great by nearly seven thou
taul bales as last year. the season
las been ycry satisfactory. and the total
furthe port is almost a half million
lalcs The foreign feet of coitOD.ships
vlII Commence arriving next week, and
t.c rush of cotton 20 This port is expect
O. to be- on by the 20th. as prices have
r. lvanccd. and tie growers first IN the
market are likely 20 fare well. Dealers
fav tho factories are BADLY IN need Of
GOOD grades Of thcy staple 20 work up
ST. large amount OF poor material on
land.
ICK-FACroRY FAILURE,
Tho refractory in Norfolk proved a
l4iure for some reason, probably the
competition of the numerous dealers IN
northern zee. and all tie machinery and
other property Is advertised for sale.
The company lost about go, 900 making
Size experiment.
Tho whole volunteer fire department
O. Portsmouth leaves for Baltimore Mon
Gar 20 take part ia the Oriole cclohra-
ton. carving one hundred and fifty
men Iu iul uniform with two crystal
hose. carriages and two bands Of music.
Chief Engineer w. L. Robinson will 20
IN command.
NAVAL MATHIS.
Tho storm having abstcd, the United
states dispatch steamer Fortune left to
dav for various northern navy yards with
flores
Commo lore George Dewey, who has
boon az the yard inspecting. lett Tor
Wa-mugtou last night
Fortv-fye uniforms have arrived from
R.ctmonlior the new military company,
the Portsmouth Rifles.
The schooner yacht Helen, flagship of
tho Quaker City Yacht Club Of Phila-
dolphin. IS in the harh0r.
& coiorcd man named Alfred II. era
vcn died ON the street from hemOUhage
last night At the statlon-hOuso "A bull
dog revolver loaded WAS the only thing
found ON the body.
Naval Constructor s. W. Armistead,
% Brooklyn. is Vi iting bis mother and
relatives IN Portsmouth.
llc construction force OF the Postal
Telegraph Company Is here working to-
wards Petersburg and running lines into
Norfolk and Portsmouth. Tho force
numbers forty men. WHO are living in
tents Tho company viii DC ready for
business hero Cctobor lst
INFORMATION WANTED.
Vernon Lock. o sick sailor ut st. Vim
rts Hospital. who was serving in tie
BRAZILIAN navy. and in prison III Para
rly when hlswilc died in Princess Ammo
c.l-ty. a. ks tho Dis7I0fch TO inquire for
lIs only SON. Vernon y. Lock, at work
somewhere 10 Richmond.
The captains OF the Washington
steamer George Loary and tho tug Arc
Uc we're 10th suspended yesterday for
blame in a collision.
The proposition 80 erect monument
20 tho Confederate dead in Norfolk IL
rapidly taking practicable shape under
,hc auspices Of Pickett Buchanan Camp,
Confederate Veterans.
PERSONAL.
Rev. DR.. Tobias Salzman, the new
rabbi Of the Hebrew synagogue on Cum
bcrland street. has arrived with his family
from baltimore. where no was rabbi Of
the Ejcn-Stroet synagogue for fifteen
years
An unknown tramp was run over and
killed on tine Norfolk and Western rad
road, near Windsor. Tuesday.
The body Of an unknown man was
wsshed up ct Ocean View on Tuesday