Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-26
EARLY VEGETATION.
It's Prospect at the Chief Shipping Point
of the State.

Its Prospect AT the Nnlci ShippiHs fVihb
of the State.
correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK. March Is, 1890.
Hail has been falling all around this part
Of Virginia recently and the weather IL
quite cool again, but as there is nothing
on the truck farms that can be hurt no
damage has resulted. On the Western
Branch some of the truckers are now
ploughing up their cabbage-telds and
uniting in other crops, owing TO the IN
sects having destroyed the marketa-
BE value of the cabbage. Nearly oil tho
truckers have replanted green peas ana
there will be q full crop by the middle or
MAY, aud doubtless plenty OF straw berries.
A good many are shipping small cabbage
of the Jersey variety and getting $3.50 and
SAB barrel. which PAYS well; IN fact.
equally rs profitable az full-grown cabbage
ut Is cents and 81 a barrel in summer. In
the Great-Bridge section the grain andpo-
tato-raisers are getting well ahead with
their teamwork.
Between forty and fftv young negro
men residing on the suburbs OF Ports
mouth have disappeared since Sunday, ana
it is believed they have started Tor the
Oklahoma country. Agents are. also sue
cessfully working among the cOlored peo-
and numbers OF labOrers have been sent
South. The most Of these negroes are from
the sections where the crops failed last
year and have sought the cities in search
Of employment Negro labor here just
now is in excess of the demand, and vet
we find the cOlored hod-carriers in Ports
mouth refusing TO work for $3.50 per day,
and demanding Sl.75. The contractors,
however, had no difficulty to-day III re-
placing the strikers at the current rates OF
pay.
pose to build town south of the navy
yard was laid off rs town site several
years before the war and named Virginia
City. The three miles of waterfront has
o depth of from eighteen to forty-two feet
with intersecting creeks that can be
dredged out at little cost for large docks.
The syndicate will spend 100000 on the
property ut once, laying out the streets and
avenues and building wharyes. docks, fac
tories, residences, etc. The Norfolk and
Western railroad is said to be in the scheme.
The damage of the cyclone near Potecasi
is said to be much greater than reported
and the path of the storm is scene Of
desolation almost indescribable. The ap-
palling roar Of the storm and the rapidly
moving funneI-shaped cloud was seen and
heard for miles outside of its course. Rain
and hail fell in torrents and flooded every.
thing.
The Philadelphia League team. Manager
Harry Wright, played an exhibition game
on the Gymnasium-Ground this after.
noon, and expect to play in Richmond and
at Fortress Monroe, and reach Baltimore
on Friday.
Miss Mamie Broughton, eldest daughter
of the late Thomas G.. Broughton, died last
night.
The car-repair shop and the paint-shop
of the Atlantic and Danville railroad have
been brought from Belfeld TO Portsmouth
John Tllett. q fisherman, was drowned
in the Roanoke-lsland marshes on Sunday
while looking after his shad-nets. The body
was not recovered.
The Berkley-Ayenue Baptist church
Rev. George J. HOLIDAY. received an acces
sion of over forty members by the recent
revival