Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-04-04
FROM THE SEA-SH0RE
,ue NEWS IN NORFOLK AND PORTS
MOUTH AND VICINITY.
satisfled-He was Successful
In Norfoik-Tbe Dismal
swamp, sc.
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,c,rrasnondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.1
NORFOLK, Va, April 3, 1890.
r.,tv of Portsmouth businessmen
,,ho have been investing III Glasgow ana
tha Southwest have returned nome from a
IN, 81 inspection and investigation and
aDe ,rolI satisfied with the outlook, and say
IT, never saw such booming
country conf as that portion of virginia
through which they passed Iney
have great faith in the future OF VIZ
ginia and are arousing an interest IN t sne
brre before. In Norfolk strong iniiu-
ence in Southwest development has been
octive for some time. and considerable capi-
faI ia flowing from the seaboard 10 tue
mountains and reaching over the line into
Tennessee.
Tho clothing drummer who has been
working the Plymouth Rock Pants Com
many racket all over the state was very
successful in Norfolk and portsmouth III
the early part Of March. here ne repre-
house and secured quite lot OF advance
money on the orders taken. lie carried
welI-stored grin Of handsome samples, IL
Illustrated circulars. patent measuring appa-
raius. etc. and made fine, ouslness-lKe
display in securing trade.
DISMAL SWAMP.
Denorts from the farms in the Dismal
swamp state that the frost Yesterday
morning badly damaged the lrlsh-potato
croD on the low grounds. The truckers
Mrs. J. X. Barney. Of Providence, IL. l.;
the national superintendent OF lall ana
prison work. is laboring here IN the inter-
est of her department. c..u
At the annual meeting OF StoneWaI
Camp. Confederate Veterans, last hlenV
Georre W. X. Mcdonnell was elected com,
mander and the camp resolved TO attend
in a bodv the unwilling OF the Lee statue
in Nav. Next Wednesday night the camp
will have a reiinion and banquet at Ma
sonic Temple.
clerk. beat Colonel George A. Martin tor
the custom-house and to-day received his
commission as cashier.
The locomotive wrecked and ruined ana
sunk III the mud by the collslon on 5he
Atlantic and Danville railroad on TUESDAY
nigbt was new one Just purchased by the
company.
ONLY the Cotton Exchange and schools
will close tomorrow in observing Good
The Florida season having closed, the
northern yachts are now all passing through
on their way home.
All the colored ministers IN tins section
belonging to the African Methodist Episco-
ual Conference are closing up Their pas
toral work, and ministers and delegates
leave next week for Danville, where the
next Conference assemblies. .,
A stranger named Frailey was arrested
here to-day and committed for examlna-
ton for swindling Captain William Scott
out OF $40.
Two more Democratic clerks were fired
from the navy-yard to-day, recentiy-ap-
pointed Republicans reporting for duty.
MAYNARD.
A large force of calkers will be taken IN
the navy-yard tomorrow morning TO calk
the decks of the new cruiser Baltimore.
About three hundred marble tombstoness
arrived here to-day TO mark the graves OF
fine Federal soldiers buried in the Gene
terry at the United States Naval Hospital.
but there are not enough to mark the iorty
or fifty Confederate soldiers graves.