Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-20
DISMAL SWAMP.
PROPOSED INLAND WATERWAY FROM
NEW YORK TO FLORIDA.
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Cardinals Oyster Beds-Col-
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correspondence OF tho Hichmond Disoh'cn.i
NORFOLK. February 10, 1890.
The contract for widening and deepening
the Dieual Swamp canal. Il II said, was
give, ont Yesterday and work will be COM
menced in q very few days. The present
locks will all be taken down and enlarged
aud the route will be made ship-canai 50
ae 10 make a continuous inland WATERWAY
for ships from New York to Florida. Ine
deeneuinQ of the canal will do away with
the scheme 90 build railway from Ports
mouth 10 South Mills. and the. improve
mont by its great drainage Will BRING I'M
der cultivation thousands Of acres OF the
finest corn-land IN the State and make &C,
,essihle a great abundance OF splendia
juniper timber. New York and English
capital is backing this work.
A party OF capitalists are expected mere
to-day on prospecting tour WIN we"
% investing in lands and enterprises III
this section.
The case Of George Mcdonald for shoot
inc George Ainsworth sOme time ago was
called in the Court Of Hastings to-day ana
dismissed at the request OF the party prose-
cutting. o..
The Portsmouth Young Mems Christian
Association have raised 5000 TOR the
building it is proposed 30 erect next year.
The walls Of the new opera-house III
Portsmouth are going up rapidly.
Three thousand dOllars' worth o. new
machinery has Just been added TO the
Portsmouth BaskeS-Works. One hundred
and fifty hands ere now employed about
these works. 80,
Councilman c. Il. Brown, Of Danville,
disabled with broken leg, will be carried
home on Saturday. =.
Mr.. John ID. McChesney, chief of the d.
vision clerks Of the United states Geology
cal Survey, IS on d visit to the city.
The Disciples Of Holiness, who have been
holding a revival in Portsmouth for the
last year, have left for Indiana.
The Cotton Exchange and Chamber OF
Commerce will close on Saturday IN honor
of the glorious 22d."
Contributions for the Greenesville suf-
ferers are going ougradually and n fair sum
will be raised in Norfolk.
The raids made by the Virginia ond Ma
ryland oystermen on the Oyster-beds OF
the North Carolina sounds will be q great
benefit TO that section, and will result IN
establishing q number Of packlng-hOuses
there next season, and great amount OF
money will be expended that never went
there before. The North Carolina oysters
now have an excellent reputation, and
there are enough IN the sounds TO supply
the demand for fifty years.
been condemned and all work OF repairing
stopped. Tho wOrkmen found her hull 20
rotten as TO necessitate rebuilding the
ship. Several thousand dollars had already
been expended on her,
In going out last night the Bay-Line
steamer Virginia ran INTO the schooner
Oracle Chambers and another schooner
(name unknown, and badly smashed
both Of them forward. The captains
noted protest before a marine notary to-
day.
Sixtv-fve of tho students of the Staun-
ton Military Institute visited the yard and
the cruiser Baltimore and receiying-ship
Franklin today. Captains Dame and Flour
noy had charge of them. They left this
afternoon for Washington. ID. 9.
The Merritt Wrecking Company has dis
patched ITS steamer, the Victoria J. Peed.
with a full wrcckng outfit 20 New Point
Comfort, in the bay. the object being 10
raise tho sunken schooner. Frank Pratt
Lee, sunk by collision of that point q
few DAYS ago, az before reported.
Vessels coming down the coast to-day
report passing thirty miles east Of Della
ware Breakwatcr about 1000 barrels OF
petroleum and large quantity of wreck
age.