Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-02
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UoFfeoDoodonce OF the Richmond Dtsoatcn.I
NoRrorx, January 4, 1880.
This morning wcll-known white man
by the name Of Charles Landsman. living
II Berkeley. went into q field back Of Man.
talaat and shot himself through the head
with pistol, causing instant death. Lnnds-
man was spreeing fellow, nearly always
drunk. and had been arrested and carried
before Justice J. j.. Jones for robbing has
wife of her clothes and selling them to pro-
cure rum. The wife withdrew the war
rant, hut the man became so Disguised
with his behavior that he soon afterwards
deliberately went outin the field ard Killed
himself. DIR. Wallace. the county coroner.
held the inquest.
xYw-yEAR's DAY.
Ncw-Ycar's day was observed in this Sec
ton as partial holiday: The Cotton TX
change. Chamber of Commerce. banks,
courts. and navy-yard were closed, and
business at the wholesale houses suspend
cd In the afternoon. Many prominent peo-
ple received. and the day was quite merry
In society circles. All the colored military
companies and civic organizations, with
several brass bands. paraded the city IN
celebration of the anniversary OF the
emancipation proclamation. and the pro-
ccssion was reviewed by Mayor Banks and
the Councils from the City Hall. An ora
ton and other exercises followed Mt Bank
Street Baptist church, and the military
had supper at night.
Ia GRIPPE.
There are forty-odd cases Of ls grippe at
tho United States Naval Hospital. The
doctors are predicting plenty of pneuno-
MIA as the result Of the late cold snap. To-
dav is bright and sunny and somewhat
mild.
CITY for the relief Mrs. NJ. Allen, OF Allan
tic CITY. whose husband was brutally mur-
dered by James Forbes. amounts to about
Commander II. C. Taylor has been Or
dered 10 the command Of the United States
steamer Alliance now at the navy-yard
waiting to go into commission.
Several hundred enlisted men on the re,
ceiying-ship Franklin and at the navy-yard
went of North Oh leave last night to spend
New Years with their friends.
Ensign George L. Blow, of Norfolk. has
been appointed on the staff of Acting Rear
Admiral George Brown on the Pacihc sta
tion.
A number of patent surf-boats for, the
life-saving station at Cape Hatteras have
just been sent down; They are OF the
latest improved models. and IL Is cia'neu
they cannot be upset.
The new railroad, the Norfolk and Caro-
lima. which opens up big cotton country
TO Norfolk. brought in the first lot of cot
ton yesterday, about fifty bales, from
BERTHE county. -,
MIR. L. Joe Lafaucher. treasurer of the
Academy of Music. and Miss Annie f.
Trower. eldest daughter of Captain John
X. Trower, of the Old Dominion Line,
were united in marriage last evening by
Rev. DR.. j. l.. Burrows.
Judge Parker reserves decision IN the
case Of Deputy Sheriff John J. Mcmahon.
charged with Interfering with the election
in Norfolk county. The trial closed last
night.
There were twenty deaths in Ports
mouth during the month of December.
Last month twenty-four marriages took
place in Norfolk, thirty-two III the county,
and fifteen in Portsmouth. u.