Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-09-04
FOREIGN SHIPPING.
CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE
AND STEAMSHIP DOCKS
Nv the Seaboerd Air Line -Bowden's Gus
tom-Housc Confab-A Notice to MARI
ners-Oysters and Cotton.
norresppndsnca Of the RIchmona pIsps,ch.l

Correspondence Of the Richmond DIspa,ch.l
NORFOLK. Va. September 3, 1890.
The Seaboard Air Line has large force
of carpenters and wharf-builders with
acknowledges and pile-drivers at work az
the foot of North street in Portsmouth
constructing an immense warehouse on
the waterfront extending from North 10
Glasgow street. with extensive steamship
docks on each side sixty feet wide. The
warehouse. it is said. will be used exclu-
siyely for the foreign business of the COM
pany. which will be established on the
completion Of the Airline system TO At
lanta. IL is stated that the company Is
making arrangements 20 charter and LOAD
steamers for Europe next season as the NOR
folk and Western is now doing at tins port
for shippers over that line.
oILING TIE MACHINE.
Congressman Bowden had a conference
with his lieutenants from all over the dis
trict mt the custom-house yesterday, oil
ing up the machine" and arranging that
IL shall work smoothly at the precinct
and ward meetings. Colonel George A.
Martin has given up the fight over the
Craftsmanship and resigned. and Norfolk
county now has only one chairman OF the
Republican Executive Committee.
The City Councils last night adopted the
report of the Finance Committee refusing
TO increase the salaries Of city officers, but
the Judge of the Corporation Court having
fixed the salary OF the Commonwealth. s
Attorney at : 900 that had to be allowed.
]. II. pritchard and X. ;. Cooke have
been elected justices of the peace OF At
lantic-City Ward.
James Talbot Dcolored) dropped dead on
Church street last night.
A BOOMING COMPANY.
4 number of gentlemen from the upper
part OF the State. with b. G.. MoOmaw OF
Buena Vista. president. have organized
the Norfolk and Lambert's Point Land
Company. 10 buy lands aud erect houses,
and build up the booming section around
Lambert's Point.
The Unprecedented buoy to the south.
ward and eastward of Thimble Shoal
Light. in Hampton Roads. Is IN sinking
condition. only about eighteen inches OF II
showing above water.
TIE OYSTER TRADE.
The oyster-packers are sending off a few
plants TO the North. but will not get down
to real business before the 18TH.
Rev. Charles n. Holt. Of Christ church,
fOrdudUl, y. -, WHO ih1 brHii oNN4A4iNA AZ :
here. returned home to-day.
Rev. Harry Minnick. who resigned from
the Church Of the Disciples, left yesterday
for Portland, Me. =.
The water commissioners have applied
for a 10. coo 000-gallon pump to add TO the
machinery Of the water-works.
TIE NFw ROAD GETS THE COTTON.
About 300 bales Of new cotton arrived
here Yesterday. All the Atlantic-COasi
Line cotton that heretofore came over the
Seaboard and Roanoke railroad IL now
coming in over the new Norfolk and Caro-
Ina road.
Charles J. Rudd, a well-bnown painter
of Portsmouth. fell from ladder Thu:
morning and was badly injured.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
Major KempA. Elliott, president OF the
Norfolk Storage Company, attempted t
lump from a runaway team on Broad
Creek turnpike this afternoon and tell
breaking his right leg IN two places.