Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-15
COTTON AT NORFOLK.
LARGE PURCHASES AND HEAVY SHIP
MENTS BY FOREIGN BUYERS.
DIR. Wharton to Visit the Holy Land-i"'
D. Finance FIoated-A Deputy Sergeant
Happily Married.
Correspondents Of tho Richmond DisDa,ch-l

Correspondents Of tho Richmond Dispa'chI
NORFOLK, Va, October II, 1S9o.
Cotton receipts at this port ran up 10
G,000 bales to-day, and local business
was very active, but with quotations re-
duced &c. per pound. The foreign
houses here are now buying largely ana
shipments to Europe will be heavy Tor
the next two months. Good weather
prevails and picking is being pushed as
rapidly as possible in North Carolina.
In some places one cent pound IS PAID
pickers, aud the bulk of the freight OIL
the Seaboard and Roanoke, Norfolk ana
Carolina, and Norfolk Southern railroads
is cotton, to say nothing of the steamers
that come in loaded to the gunwales with
the staple.
The third annual meeting OF the
Portsmouth Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION was held last night, end MI
Theodore j. Wool was elected president.
Mr.. Wool removed from Charlotte coun-
w. Va, TO Portsmouth about two years
ago, and Is q rising young man IN the
community.
THE MEETINGS CLOSED.
Rev. DIR. Wharton has closed his re-
vival meetings in Norfolk, and large
number of conversions have resulted
from his visit here. The Doctor VIII
soon start for Europe on visit to the
Holy Land, and will be gone several
months. At times DR.. Wharton had as
high ms 1000 people attending single
meeting at the Sam Jones tabernacle.
The stranded schooner +. .. Dame IS
being repaired here instead OF beng
sent North.
THE MARINES PAID OFF.
Major n. Clay Goodloe. paymnster
United States Marine Corps, arrived
from Washington yesterday and paid oil
the barracks.
Father Micklc arrived from Cape
Charles last night and took charge OF
the remains of his brother, DR.. Francis
b. Mickle. who committed suicide. and
carried them to Baltimore this afternoon
for interment
The Brazilian steamship Finance,
ashore at Pigs Point, has been fiOated.
The Salvation Army here will hold a
memorial service on Market Square to-
night as n tribute TO General Booth
mother, Just dead in England.
Deputy-Sergeant James f.. Prince and
Miss Mary Ann Hart, formerly of New
Orleans, were united in marriage at ~.
Mary's church last night 10y Rev. Fa-
ther Doherty.
BADLY DISABLED.
The fishing steamer Grace, Of Tappa-
hammock. while entering the capes was
badly disabled on a wreck aud Is land up
here for repairs.
William Vincent White has been COM
mitted to jail in Norfolk county on the
charge OF arson in firing Italian Hall.
The United States steamer Phlox ar
rived here this morning from Annapolis
to tow the cadet engineers practlce-sh
Standish to the Naval Academy. Pay
Director Caspar Schenk, OF the AGA
deny, came down on the Phlox.
OTHER ITEMS.
Charles b. Clough, a prominent citi-
zen of Atlantic City Ward, died this
afternoon.
Rev. DR.. II. NJ. Wharton left last
night for Luray, Va, whore he Will
ofiiciate at the marriage of his niece.
Senator j. n. Stubs, of Gloucester
county, arrived in the city this morning
from northampton county. He reports
that the Democrats of the Eastern Shore
are enthusiastic, and Jones, the Demo-
cratic candidate, will poll the full vote.
DR.. John w. Lawson, the Demo
cratic standard. bearer of this district,
arrived here from Williamsburg and met
tine Hmtersvile Democratic Club this
afternoon. This evening he had a con
ference with the Democratic Executive
Committee OF this city, and to morrow
it is expected that he will visit Princess
Anne county. u