Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-11-12
THE AXE AT WORK.
DEMOCRATIC WoRKMeN BEING DIS
CHARGED FROM THE MAYNARD.
sportsmen ArrivIng-Chme In Abundance
CoaI-DoubIe Line of Steamcrs-ise-
iigious.-southampton Fair.
or,esponaeuco Of the Rlchmond DIsDatcn.l
EopYorK. November IL, 1889.

NORFOLK. November IL, 1881.
There was a considerable discharge
Of workmen in the hayward on sat
urday night. and all the men who
thought that within the next ten DAYS
ali the Democrats IN every department
will be " fred clerks. writers. workmen.
and laborers-as the Malone gang are
clamorous for all the party pap IN sight.
All white laborers in the yard are rapidly
giving place TO negroes. and several white
Republicans have had to step down and
out in order 20 accommodate innuentiai
colored voters.
The wealthy sporting clubs OF New YORK
and Boston are already arriving and occu-
pvinr their extensive shOOting-grOunGs in
Currituck and Albemarle sounds. The
ducks aud geese are feeding in the sounds
in great abundance, affording the usual
rare sport to the gunners and filling the
local and New York, Philadelphia, and
other markets with various varieties OF
wild fowl. Many steam-yachts OF northern
clubs are also going through 10 Florida.
Paymastcr David A. Smith. the new pay
master Of the Teceiying-ship Franklin, re-
ports tomorrow, relieving Paymaster Ring.
Under Democratic regime the post-oihce
in Portsmouth increased in value TO sucn
an extent az to pay the postmaster S2,OOJ
per annum instead of 5000
Nearly nineteen thousand tons OF South
west Virginia coal were shipped TINS week.
Fourteen British steamships plying be-
tween southern ports and Europe were
coaled here during October.
A good sized gang of cOnvicts from Nor
folk county was sent TO the penitentiary
this morning.
The BAPTIST ministers and delegates for
the General Association and the Metho-
dist ministers and delegates Tor the Nir-
ginia Annual Conference VIII all leave TINS
section for Charlottesville and Richmond
tomorrow afternoon. number OF the
pastors reviewed their years work ycster-
dav.
Bishop J. HID. Wingfeld, of Northern
California, formerly Of Virginia. preached
twice yesterday-at Christ church last
night and at Trinity church, Portsmouth,
yesterday morning.
judge Peek, of Hampton, will go up to
Suffolk tomorrow to try the election con-
test case between Smith and ROWS Tor
clerk of the court.
Rev. j. A. Speight. who has moved 70
Raleigh, n. c., to live, carried his family To
their new home from Bcrklcy on saturday.
Work on the new Christian church III
Berkley is moving along steadily. THIS
church. when nearly finished, was blown
down by the gale OF last April.
Nothing more has been heard from the
Treasury Department regarding the three
English cotton firms here reported for
bringing graders from Liverpool. contrary
to the laOOr-cOntraCt law, and the matter
has probably fallen through.
Alexander Carroll. a cOlored helper IN
the machine-shops Of the Seaboard and
Roanoke railroad, died to-day from the
effects of q car-wheel falling and crushing
his feet and causing lOckiaw.
A cOlOrcd man named scott Goodman
shot % woman named Sarah Carter III
Rogers court last night, intliciing serious
and perhaps fatal wound. Goodman IS I'm
jail to await the re. at Of the injuries OF
the woman.
The southampton Agricultural FAN
commences Mt Franklin Tomorrow.
CAPTAIN Charles Nanshine, Of No. Is
engine company. and party Of other
PHILADELPHIA hrcnen are visiting this Sec
ton to-day.
There is 30 money now in the consiruc-
tion department TO repair the ola ships
sent here for repairs, other yards having
used up the general appropriation, Tie
new slips will be the principal work here
for some time to come, as the money mas
been appropriated and set apart ior thcm.
The United States steamer Osipee went
out Of commission to-day and was placed
in charge of ship-kccper-. Nothing VIII
be done on her till next July. when she
win bt fitted UP either as cruiser or train
lnE-ship.
4 double line Of steamers on the Cope
Charles route 10 New York commenced
this morning.