Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-16
NORFOLK'S COTTON.
INCREASED RECEIPTS or $4,000
BALES OVER LAST SEASON.
Close of Murphy's Successful Temperance
Meetings in Portsraouth-Com-
modore Batcman's Interests.
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NORFOLK, November ID, 1890.
Norfolk has received $50, 733 bales OF
cotton since the lstof September against
ia. 800 last year. There Was consider
able falling off in the port receipts this
week, those controlling the staple in the
country holding it back for better prices.
Nearly 10000 bales are on hand to-day.
II is said a few points better prices
are obtained in Wilmington than in
Norfolk at present. and good
deal Of cotton that would come here
is going to that market. Several steam
ships are now at the wharves of the Nor
folk and Western railroad loading cotton,
that company having gone into the busl-
ness OF shipping cotton to Europe TINS
season on their own account. In the
Albemarle sound section Of North Caro-
lima cotton-picking is very backward on
account of pickors being scarce, and
some will probably be lost.
THE TEMPERANCE HOME.
MIR. Francis Murphy closes his sue
cessiul ten-days' meeting IN Portsmouth
tomorrow with an afternoon temperance
mass-meeting and love-feast. On Tues
day night he will lecture at the Sam
Jones tabernacle for the benefit OF the
Gospel Temperance Home just estab-
lished among the saloons on Market
Square and Main street. ANY white man
or boy finding himself in Norfolk with
out a place of shelter can find at the
Home comfortable reading-room, n
nights rest, and q cup of coffee before
leaving next morning. At an early day
a Sunday school is to be started at the
Home.
The body OF OH unknown white man
probably q sailor who was drowned-was
found at Lambert's Point yesterday, and
an inquest was held by Coroner Newton.
The Norfolk City Guard and the Old
Dominion Guard will both elect COM
handing officers next week to fill va
cancies caused by the promotion OF Cap
tain Biniord and Captain Hodges.
NAVAL NEWS.
The training-ships jamestown and
Portsmouth will come up to the navy
yard on Monday and will be placed in
| the dry-dock az soon as the Petrol and
Atlanta come out. Orders have been re-
ceiyed to hurry up the work on the Pc
trel and get her to sea as early as posi-
bic.
Constructor j. II. Linnard has been
ordered to Washington on special duty.
The new residences recently erected at
the yard as additional officers quarters
are completed, and as soon as furnished
will be occupied by officers now living
outside of the yard.
Boatswain Hallowell Dickinson, who
resides in Portsmouth and is attached to
the receiving-ship Franklin, was before
a medical board yesterday and was con-
demned on account Of i'll health and
will be retired from the service.
Anegro man who was brutally assault
ed near Berkeley by another negro and
thrown into we'll few nights ago has
since died Of his injuries.
BATEMAS's CONDITION.
General G. b. Peck has returned from
New York. where he went to have an in
terview with Commodore A. L. Bate
man in regard TO the various interests Of
the latter in this section. lie found the
| Commodore, who has been i'll since last
spring from an operation performed in
Paris, very sick man yet, and not able
TO walk the length of his room. Commo-
dore Bateman is still director in the
Atlantic and Danville Company and at
the head of the syndicate owning and
operating the cotton congresses here.
| The annual meeting OF the stockholders
of the Atlantic and Danville Railroad
Company will be held in Portsmouth
next month, and is likely to be an i'm
portant one.
Rev. James Daily, of the Virginia Con-
ference. is seriously i'll at his fathers re-
sidence in Berkeley.
Mrs. Martha A. Leake, of Charlottes-
vile, died at the residence of her daugh-
ter in Berkeley yesterday. The remains
were taken TO Charlottesville this morn
ing.