Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-12
RECONSTRUCTiNG THE N. S. R. r.
Slight Damage bv "a Thunder-Storm-Bow'
den's Neglect.

den's Neglect.
ICorrespondenco OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK. August IL. 1890.
The Norfolk Southern railroad is to
large extent undergoing reconstruction.
Iron bridges are being built to take the
place of the wooden structures. heavy
seventy-pound rail is going down the en-
tire length of the road, and heavy locomo-
tives have been purchased to take the place
Of the light freight engines. Originally
the line was built for a light business IN
Transporting fish and farm produce, but
the heavy lumber transportation that has
followed has entirely worn out the light
rail first put down. At present the line is
seventy-five miles in length, terminating
at Edenton. N. c.. but route through TO
Kinston has been surveyed and will be
commenced next year.
THROUGH TO CHARLESTON. g. G.
Property for depot purposes has already
been purchased by the company In hln-
ston. Eventually this will be the COM
pany that will build along the coast to
Charleston over a route selected and sur
viewed several wears ago. A direct line
from Norfolk to Charleston has occupied
the attention of railroad men here for
over thirty years, and just before the war
Ex-Governor l.. c. p. Cowper. OF Ports
mouth. was engaged in organizing CON-
pany to build the line.
HEAVY ENTHUSIASTICALLY. =,
An unusually heavy thunder-souall
visited this section yesterday afternoon.
| The lightning struck and split telegraph
| poles and badly dlsarranged the wires.
| Wbitehurst's Hall in Portsmouth was
| struck and hole torn in the roof. and
| other damage is reported around the two
| cities. but nothing serious. deluge OF
| ram fell and everything was badly Hooded:
| In the country the roads were badly cut
up and much stuff hoated away on the
| swollen streams.
NICE DIAL.
II is said that well-known citizen OF
Norfolk made 100000 in the Big-Stone
Gap transaction.
The British steamship Secilia is dis
charging 20 900 bundles of cotton-ties at
| the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad wharf
upon which the custom-house officers have
collected duty of $500. which of course
| is added to the cost to the cotton-planters.
| No cotton-ties are made in this country,
strange to say.
| MAKE IT HOT FOB BowDES.
| II is stated that CONGRESSMAN bowuen
| has paid no attention whatever 10 the 81
forts of the people living on Lynnna;v11n
| bay TO have a life-saying station estaolish-
ed at that point, and that scores OF letters
| have been written and no notice whatever
| takap Of them. MIR. John l.. Babcock, the
mayer Superintendent Kimball, and
others propose to make it hot for MIR.
Rowdep. The stations open the LIST OF the
month.
| HIGH FREIGHTe.
| Coal-dealers state that the freight rates
are kept so high by the demand for ice
carving schooners that it Snay affect the
price of coal this winter.
There are three murderers in the county
isil waiting for their cases to be carried tc
the Court Of Appeals.
Mr.. John Halstead. foreman OF the brass
foundry. and Mr.. William Hoffman, IL
charge of the rigging department in con
struction, were removed from the navy
ward on Saturday night.