Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-04
THE HEAVY FREEZE
ANOTHER BLOW AT TIE TENDER
VEGETATION AROUND MORT
schooner Damaged - Personal In Dis
trcss-roIiccmsn Knocked Down by
n Marinc--Six- Months Cotton.
Of ,hn Rlrhmnni nIspatch.l


NORFOLK, Va, March 3, 1890.
7, was showing here all day yesterday
and hy niehtfall the hoary element lay on
the ground about four inches deep. IL
was the heaviest snowfall Of the season
and genuine winter-storm. The heavy
freeze that followed last night caught the
hiossoming fruit-trees and tender Vege-
tation. and, "a expected, CONSIDERABLY
damage resulted. "
oyster-packers. whose business Is best IN
COOL weather. and possibly other lines of
trade feel an improving touch. The WIND
Was HIGH. hut of shore, and no damage re-
shifted on the coast. To-day Is bright and
clear overhead Owing 10 the thick wea-
ther and gale the New YORK steamer ar
rived last night about midnlght-Dlne
hours behind time. =,
This morning the schooner William NJ.
Wilson. Captain Bragg. orTived here from
New York with nearly all her SAILS blown
away. several spars broken, and rigging
damaged. She caught the gale soon after
leaving New York.
Chaplain William i. Morrison has been
detached from the rcceivlng-ship Franklin
and ordered 20 take passage on the Alliance
for the China station. There Is now no
chaplain on this station.
MIR. Jesse T. Morris, tho well known Bap-
fist colpOTtCur, VIII leave tomorrow 10
labor IN the Rappahaunock Associa' ion'
working over the counties of Mathews
Middlesex, King and Queen, and Glouces-
ter.
The Atlantic and Danylilc railfo1u' ha9 IT,
signed his position and goes West
The schoolship Constellation has been
ordered here 90 tt out for the June cruise
of the midshipmon.
The bark Maiden CITY and the steamship
CITY OF Antonio are here IN distress, the
former with her sails blown away ana the
latter with her machinery disabled.
TIE RECENT STORM.
The storm Saturday and yesterday pre-
vented the United States steamer Alliance
from dropping down TO Hampton Roads.
A drunken marine and a substitute
policeman had "a fight ON Market square
Yesterday afternoon. The marine knocked
the policeman down. On recovering the
officer fired two shots at the marine. one
striking him. but he managed TO get away
and escape capture.
The town Of Berkley WI be supplied
with water by the Portsmouth and Suholk
Water Company.
COTTON.
Six months Of the cotton season have
closed. with The net receipts at this
port amounting 10 37G.4O2 bales, which ~
40. 3H bales short OF the receipts mere l4al
wear for the first six months.
The direct exports Of cotton from Nor
folk are larger than last season notwith-
standing the receipts here are smaller owing
tothe failure Of the crop III North Carolina
and Virginia.
The shipment of Pocahontas coal from
this port last week ran up to $4,000 tons.
Officers from Nausemond are here search
ing for man named White, wanted IN that
county for murder.
one half of the machinists in the steam
engineering department at the nayy.yard
have been discharged on account OF the
scarcity of work in that department.
The reassessment of property IN Norfolk
by the State. IT Is thought, VIII bring values
up to $lS, OOO. OOO which viii be handsome
increase.
Collector Banks will take charge of the
custom-house on the 10th instant.
The Board of Road Trustees Of Norfolk
county under the new law met at the
courthouse this morning and organized
with W. Is. Carney chairman.