Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-31
FREIGHTS SOUTH.
Six Hundred and Four Bales of New Cot
ton Received-One Thousand Build
inrs to BE Erectcd in Norfolk.


ings to BE Erected in Norfolk.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK, August 80. 1890.
At all the railroad depots in the two
cities the officers and employees say they
never experienced such rush OF south
bonnd freights IN August. The business
now dong on the roads has always oc-
ourred heretoforein October. and is chiefly
merchandise gong to the small towns or
North and South Carolina. Country mer-
chants evidently let their stocks run down
low. and in view of the abundant crops
now maturing have amply provided Tor
the wants of the farming community.
Now that the rush of cotton TO market mas
set In the clerks and employees of the
TRANSPORTATION lines lind little rest as the
work of loading and unloading and rum
ming trains and steamers goes on day ana
night and Sunday, too, with but little or
no interruption.
LARGE COTTON RECEIPTS.
Norfolk received Goa bales OF new cotton
Yesterday. ma king about a thousand so far
es compared with one bale last season.
LARGE quantity of the staple will reach
here to-day.
The negro prisoners Ballard and
Wright. held on suspicion OF connection
with the throat-cutting and drowning
murder at the Westorn-B Branch draw
! bridge, were carried before Judge A. ;.
| Watts on O writ Of hdbeds corpus yesterday
| afternoon and bailed in the penalty OF
! 81, 900 each.
sHARK-TIsHING.
Sharks swimming around the harbor
| Afforded considerable sport yesterday TO
| those anxious to take big fish with hook
/ and line.
Nearly 10000 tons Of Pocahontas coal
were shipped from the Lambert's Point
| piers this week.
The Norfolk City Guard, Captain Harry
| Hodges, will carry forty-tiye men on their
/ trip to Lynchburg.
The delegates from this city to the ma
tional bicycle meet at Niagara Falls nave
returned.
Rev. Francis f. McManus, of st, Louis,
| Mo-, will preach at Christ Episcopal church
| tomorrow. He is on visit to TINS sec
| ton.
The flagship Richmond having finished
! discharging powder at Fort Norfolk went
! up 10 the yard to-day. She Will be placed
| in the dry-dock on Monday.
| Captaln G. S. Norton. executive officer OF
the yard, has gone North with his family
| for month.
Ocean View closed to-day for the season
! to boarders.
| III is estimated IuhJ curing INC CoihihE
wear there will be at least one thousand
| dwellings and stores erected in this vicin-
! itv. together with substantial improve
ments by companies and corporations.
TRACKS ON THE STREETS.
The fall term of the Circuit Court OF the
| city of Portsmouth will commence next
week, when Judge @. W. Hill will render
| his decision on the motion to dissolve the
! injunction granted by Judge Lacy in re-
gard to the Seaboard and Roanoke Rail
road COMPANY running trains through the
! streets of Portsmouth.
WE'LL QUALIFIED FOR 1T.
Northumberland Lynch
| burg man is here chaperoning party OF
seven ladies from the HILL CITY among
| the watering places Of this vicinity.
The handsome improvement of tho
! United States Naval Hospital grounds con-
/ tinueS.
Rev. DR.. r. N. Sledd will conduct the
services at the Sam Jones tabernacle to-
morrow.