Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-10
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lsCunsApsAxs BAv, Orr OCEAN VIEW,
Aee. e--1hs Bsy clnb surveyed Newport
Xofs fFun csntse - circumference last
n1[nA 1o6cual wharves and grain elcva-
tor, and Hs immense piers, one Of them
now containing besides other commodi-
~ i,cp two-thousand- pound hogsheads
q tabacco, and the fine harbor which
h affords are the promise of u
great commercial future. As the
terminus Of the Chesap AXE & Ohio rail
road system, its projectors claim that II
willtap theEuropcsn commerce TO and from
the West. The railroad company and its
Old Dominion Land and Improvement
company, an inside corporation, have laid
out the town ON an extensive scale. They
have built fine hotel with beautiful
pavilion on the headlands, overlooking a
delightful water view. They have a bank
and newspaper, good water works,
fire plugs, etc. Electric lights
which make the whole wharf and
its surroundings as light as day at
night. There are wide streets, with shell
roadways and some effort at tree planting
and lawn making; and two or three hun.
dreti very good houses Everything is
new and made. Nothing has grown. What
its future will be is not vet certain. It's
"boom" has wancd somewhat. Lots that
brought 81 500 some years ago now sell for
$500. When they can be bought for s2jc
TO $500 there will be better promise for the
town.
OF its 5000 population, probably 1000 OF
more are negros of a low class, ignorant
and mostly vicious. They are laborers,
longsIoremen and rousiabouts; and work
at Is cents an hour whenever they can find
employment shoveling coal, loading vessels
and unloading cars. a bali score If us sat
on rail fence in tho centre of the
city last night and interviewed some of
ther,a as they passed. one who told MS his
. pafiic was William Fox, and that he was n
local Baptist preacher, was particularly
entertaining and characteristic Southern
negro. He discussed abstruse theological,
social and economic problems with self
confidence and ready wit; and when he
! closed the services he lifted liberal col
lection.
The negroes assured us that they were all
Republicans and Malone men. Ry a pop
uiar vote the county seat of Warwick
county, formerly up in the woods fifteen
miles distant, was transferred TO Newport
News, and now the county court is holden
in the hotel Warwick house, and the
county iail is an old shed near the Goa
wharf.
A little old negro with gray wbiskers,
bad hat and good deal of pomposity. re-
lated with some pride tha, he was n natiy,
of Adams county, Pennsylvania, neal
where the battle was fought. " He hat
enlisted I'm the Union army come down
here and stayed and was the only North
ern-born colored man in the three counties
He introduced US 10 the peace officer o
the jurisdiction who informed us he held
his commission from the county court; and
that as vet, Newport News has no munich
pal organization, but is simply under tn,
county government. Under the guidanc,
and protection of this officer some of the
party took in =" The Rockets, u quarter
of the News that is made up of the mos
depraved and vicious negroes. A dozer
dens of iufamy are the scenes Of the mos
degraded orgies, aud persons familiar with
the vices of the French capital declare tha
no such shameless abandonment is TO bc
seen publicly even there.
The way from point To point In this cti,
lies often through branblc and under
kfOWtU vi buSitS, anu iotS aE'
grown up with cedars and scrub oak
We lay all night tied up to the Newpor
News pier, and early this morning put of
for Old Point Comfort, where the boa
tarried only long enough to send som
dispatches and TO lose George Hensel an,
Frank Hostetter. Then we made for thes
fishing grounds, and in four hours hay
caught hundreds of sea trout, croaker
and SPOTS. About noon the "Dandy
steamed into the same waters with Tn,
Quarryville club Oh board. Presently tn,
quarantine boat of the bay came aside us
carrying Hensel and Hostetter. When the,
were "let' at Fortress Monroe, DIR
s Clarkso the quarantine physician kindly
offered to bringithem out. lie had with hin
also Hon. Hugh S. Thomson, ex-governo
Of South Carolina, assistant secretary of tn,
treasury under the Cleveland administration
and now the Democratic member of the L
S. civil service commission. These gentle
men with another guest Capt. Evans, @
the navy, came aboard and the famou
historic remark which the governor o
North Carolina made to the governor o
South Carolina was repeated.
We land at Fortress Monroe TO take on
James river pilot, and then leave for Rich
mond, reaching there some time to- night
and uncertain as 10 the length Of our stay
II.
The Changers Picnic.
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