Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-12
INJUNCTION SUIT
TO RESTRAIN RAILROADS FROM RUN
MING IN PORTSMOUTH.
Four Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth
of Balm Brothers Property Already
soid-Post-once Building Sold.
,corrc.pondsuco Of tie Richmond Disp.tch.l

fCorrcspondeuco OF tho Richmond Dispstch.l
NORFOLK. July II, 1890.
Tho property-owners Of Crawford street,
in Portsmouth. have sued out an injunction
to restrain the Seaboard and Roanoke and
Atlantic and Danville railroads from run
ming tracks on SAID thQroughfare in con-
ncction with their proposed union depot.
The CITY Council granted the right Of way
and the matter will come before Judge
Hill in the Circuit Court tomorrow, and
will then 20 TO the Court oi' APP
pcals. in the mean time no union
depot will be commenced IN Portsmouth.
TIE Seaboard Airline must have this road
vey 10 reach their extensive docks now IN
course of construction north Of the city
for the business OF tho Atlanta division,
on which there is lar7e force OF work
men now employed. and which is expected
20 reach completion inside OF twelve
months.
EXTENSIVE SALE.
About four hundred thousand dollars
worth Of the Balm bank property has been
sold so far and the sale Will continue the
greater phrt Of next week. All sorts OF
houses. lots, farms, stocks. etc, IN Nor
folk. Portsmouth. Bcrkley, and three
counties are going Of under the ham
mer and is among the most extensive
sales that ever took place IN liGewaier;
Virginia. The failure OF the bank occurred
in 1885 and the GepOsitors nave received
nothing as yet. he receiver on tne de-
iunct Exchange National Bank get about
S12j, 600 from the proceeds OF tins sale.
Michael Casbin. q wcll-knCwn and popu-
Ia. +ifrfrr Irnn OF noe.
died yesterday and his funeral took place
to-day from st. Mary's church.
HA1L ~ yoGroLK COUNTY.
There was q fall of hail in the lower section
Of the county yesterday morning. Tho wea-
Their continucsp sautly cool. and outdoor
workmcn are enabled to get along very
comfortably The intense beat has been
very irving on men al work on the new
iron ships in the hayward.
The heavy rains in the county yesterday
morning cxilnguished the fires IN the Dis
nal swamp completely. Miles OF airy
reeds were burned over.
The Portsmouth Pythians. the only uni,
formed division from Virginia, are expected
home from Milwaukee on Monday.
All the Emerald Beneficial Association
delegates left for their homes to-day.
MORE CARRIERS NTEDED.
Postmaster Slade j. now in Washington
urging additional facilities for the post
Office here in order TO accommodate its
growing needs. More letter-carriers are
needed and the p0st-Ofiice rooms enlarged.
The post-oilioe building in Portsmouth
was sold ~ auction today Tor 81 800. II
was IN the Balm bank assets.
Licutenant-Gove }. Hoge Tyler and
two sons loft here for home last night in
Southwest Virginia.
The practice snip Constellation. with the
naval cadets on their annual summer
cruise, viii arrive IN Hampton Roads from
sea next week.
SWIFT UNDrR THE WHARF.
A negro boy named Walter Scott. belong
inc in Norfolk. in attempting 20 pass
aboard the New York. Philadelphia and
Norfolk steamer New York this morning
slipped from the gsng-bOard and fell over
board. lie was swept under the wharf 10y
the current and drowned before assistance
could reach him.
The hureye schooner W. W. Crosswell.
of Cape Charles CITY, arrived n port this
morning with several shot-h6les through
her sails. In coming across the BAY she
lad got within rance Of the artillery prac-
ticc-guns at Fort Monroe and fragments Of
shell tore through her canvas.
VARIOUS IrE,ls.
The streets are filed with people here
now from the Aberdeen section OF North
Carolina on an excursion.
The African United Methodist Protestant
Conference. which has been IN session here
for three DAYS. adjourned to-day sine die.
Rev. VI. II. Reid was elected president for
the next year.
The sam Jones tabernacle he's been nur-
chased by an association. and the building
will hereafter he used for union meetings
and other religious purposes.