Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-03-19
A NEW INDUSTRY.
UNITED STATES WAR vsssELs-LI-
OuOR-DEALERS AND COUPONS.
Failure of a Lumber Firm-Reiigious-
Vessels Asaorc-rwo Men Drowned
PoliticaI--The sunken Schooner.
Correspondence Of tho Richmond DispatchI

tcorrospondence Of tho Richmond Dispatch-l
NORFOLK, March IL, 1890.
The Transportation lines are bringing
here large quantities of reeds for ship
ment TO Washington, ID. Z. The reeds
come principally from Hyde county, \. u,
and the superstition is that these reeds are
renuced to pulp and made into paper tor
Government stationery, which demon-
strates that even in the useless swamps
ana waste places of this section OK the
county there is wealth for those VINO nave
the energy and enterprise TO apply tne
means and develop il. In fact in the Sec
ton Of country where the crops have
failed the people are getting everything
out OF the woods and swamps that can be
made marketable.
The now United States steamer Petrol.
which has been at the hayward Tor some
time, to-day dropped down to Fort norfolk
TO take on her powder and await a Visit
from the Board of Naval Inspectors, pre-
paratory to joining the North Atlantic
squadron.
Several more guns for the battery of the
big cruiser Baltimore have arrived az the
yard. II seems TO be slow work, and yet
the construction of the Baltimore COM
menced four years ago.
1t Is stated that only two liquor-dealers
IN Norfolk pay their lcense-taxes IN
money. Several dealers in Portsmouth. pay
their taxes in currency and one & them
has been named for the Excise Board Inc
boards will doubtless I" do the State some
service" in this section.
Trant d Brother. lumber dealers on
Portsmouth, have failed, owing TO the a.
signment of lumber firm in Baltimore.
These gentlemen were formerly OF Rich
mond.
A firm in Joliet. H., has presented a
handsome set of pulpit furniture 10 the
new Fourth-Street Baptist church IN
| Portsmouth.
Rev. DR.. William f. Edwards. at Monu-
mental Methodist Episcopal church in
Portsmouth. is blessed with q most gra-
cious revival, and large number of con-
| versions have taken place. Several
| churches in the two cities have interesting
| reyivals IN progress.
A supper was given in Portsmouth last
night by the b. y. o. Elks in honor of the
| visit of Deputy Exalted Ruler J. w. Laube,
| of Richmond who made his official call on
! the lodge ia Portsmouth.
Congressman Bowdcn is in the city
fixing" it ssad, the appointments inthe
| custom-hOuse and navy-yard.
| There are nearly 200 guests NJ virginia
Beach. and Princess Anne fox-hunt is ar
ranged for tomorrow on an extensive
! scale. Dir. Cyrus ". Field will be III the
| hunt.
The guano-laden schooner William APP
plegarth. which went ashore in the bay IN
the Sunday gale, hes been hauled OIL and
arrived in port.
Over fifty white and colored Republicans
| called on Congressman Bowden yesterday
10 get his influence in having them ap-
pointed census-takers in the Second dis
! tr1ct.
The threo-masted schooner st. Johns,
| of Belfast. Me-. from Jacksonville 10 Baltl-
more with cargo Of lumber. ia reported
ashore four miles above the life-saying sta
J ton at Hatteras Inlet. Seven of the crew
were saved. but one, Henry Saunders. was
drowned The vessel is full Of water and
is 4 total loss.
The schooner Henry T. Wood, Captain
| Davis. from New York TO the. Mattaponi
river. was towcd into port to-day having
! been ashore e. We miles south of Cape Henry.
| She lost both anchors IN the gale last Sun
! day.
This morning colored farmland
| named Crowley was drowned of CoXs
! Wharf, on the Western Branch, by the up
setting Of boat.
| The only additional information about
| the schooner ashore and sunk on York Spit
| and five men drowned IS that the schooner
| is named the Dart, and she was bound to
! Newport News. The captain was white
| and the crew of four all colored men. u.