Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-04
BATEMAN'S ILLNESS.
ANNUAL REPORT or THE ATLANTIC
AND DANvlLLE RAILROAD.
Tho Roads Business in Excellent Condi-
tion-Norfoik's Water suppIy-Three
Bishops Leave for Edenton.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispstch.I

NORFOLK, December 3, 1890.
General Thomas Ewing. president oil
the Atlantic and Danville railroad
writes to the City Council of Ports
mouth that it will be impossible TO pre-
pare the annual report of the business
OF the line for the meeting of the stock
holders to be held in Portsmouth next
week owing TO the continued serious
illness OF Commodore A. E. Bateman,
and whose assistance is indispensa-
bic. He states that the business OF
the road is excellent and constantly in
creasing and the outlook OF the company
altogether encouraging for extending
the line through TO Bristol within the
next three years and fulfil all the pro-
misses made TO the city for her subscrlp-
ton OF $4,000. The English manage
ment has been cutting down expenses to
the lowest notch within the past few
months and operating the line on the
most economical basis.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
The City Council OF Norfolk is greatly
charging it's facilities for water supply
to meet the demand of increasing popu-
lation. There are many who look for
ward to the time when the present
source of supply will be inadequate and
the city will have to go to Lake Drum
mond.
About twenty bales Of cotton were
damaged by FIRE on the Roanoke and
Baltimore steamboat wharf late yester-
day afternoon.
The City Council adopted an ordi-
nance last night imposing fine of 81 on
all persons caught smoking on wharVes
where Gotten is stored.
A CORDIAL INVITATION.
The CITY Councils have received a
formal invitation from the cOlored peo-
pie of the city to participate in the cele-
bration Of Emancipation-da on the lst
proximo and occupy carriages IN the
line.
Bishop j. w. Hood, OF Virginia aud
North Carolina, Bishop Jones, of Wash
ington, ID. c., and Bishop Thompson,
OF New York, left here this morning to
attend the annual session of the African
Methodist Episcopal Conference in
Edenton. Bishop Hood viii preside.
The ministers and lay delegates of the
churches in the two cities also left at
the same time.
Twelve machinists and twelve labor
ers were discharged from the hayward
last night owing to the completion OF
the work on the Atlanta. This fine
ship will now leave here very shortly
and rejoin the white squadron.
MR.. LEwIs's FUNERAL.
Rev. Ashley II. Lewis, who died sud-
denly Of apoplexy, was buried this alter
noon from Zion Baptist church, and
there was an immense funeral.
First Lieutenant II. Clay Fisher, Of
the marine barracks, left for the North
to-day on "a months leave.
Mr.. H.. j. Nicely, leading lumber
merchant and manufacturer OF this sec
ton, is dying at his home in Portsmouth.
He has been long time i'll with con-
sumption.
Harry Neale, the Young white man in
Jail on the charge Of stealing so from
Captain Enoch White, has been dis
charged, Captain White failing to appear
against him.
TOwED IN FOR REPAIRS.
The schooner Grace Watson, Captain
Insby. bound from North Carolina to
Baltimore with cargo of lumber, sprung
a leak in Albemarle sound yesterday and
was towed into port to-day for repairs.
PAY 40 PER CENT.
In the United States Circuit Court to-
day in the suit of the trustees OF Balm
a Brothers against William II. Peters,
receiver. decree was entered by Judge
Hughes directing the trustees to pay 40
per cent. dividend on the second-class
claims secured in the deed OF Balm AZ
Brothers.
Purchasers Of the Rokeby, formerly
the property Of the family of Chief
Justice Marshall, paid $780, 900 for it.
Ii is considered one of the finest farms
in Eastern Virginia.
MOTHER AND CHILDREN RESCUED.
This morning the police discovered a
frame house III Turner's court on
fire and broke open the doors and found
the room in a blaze. a kerosene lamp
having exploded scattering its contents
over the bed which was occupied by a
colored woman named Ella Thomas and
her two children. The officers succeeded
in getting the children from the bed,
but the woman was frightlully burned
about the face, shoulders, and breast.
The fire was extinguished. The woman
will probably die.
SUIT AGAINST A RAILROAD.