Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-22
VIRGINIA TROOPS
WITH CANNON, SHOT, AND SHELL
GONE TO THE OYSTER WAR
To Fight The battle Of North Carolina
Against the bred asrs--rhs Coo
BON Jurors summopsd.
rcorr..pondone. Of IN. Richmond Dispatch,

Correspondents Of the Richmond pispatch.l
NonyoLx, January II. 1891.
This morning at $50 the Norfolk Light
Artillery Blues detachment left in high
spirits and good trim for the seat OF the
oyster war in North Carolina. The troops
went by rail to Elizabeth City and there
take steamer for Pamlico sound. The de-
tachment is under command of Captain M.
G. Keeling and supplied with one gun and
sixty rounds of ammunition. the shell
reaching here last night from Richmond.
The officers Of the infantry command that
left Elizabeth City last night on the
steamer Vesper are instructed TO commu-
nicate with the dredgers and acquaint
them with the act Of the Legislature. and
then drive them from the beds II they re-
fuse to obey the law. II the oystermen
abandon dredging and adopt the slow pro-
cess of working on the beds with tongs
they win be allowed to remain.
ORDERED BACK.
Ldter.-The detachment of the Norfolk
Light Artillery Blues returned from North
Carolina tonight, their orders having been
countermanded at Elizabeth City.
HIs Foor CRUSHED OFF.
Mr.. James Higgins, fagman of the Nor
folk and Carolina railroad, was caught I'M
der the wheels of a freight train at Pin
ner's Point yard last night and had his left
foot crushed of. He was carried to his
home in Portsmouth, and this morning
Drs. Hope and Culpeper amputated the
limb near the knee.
Divers were sent down to Newport News
Yesterday to examine the bottom OF the
British steamship Acuba, ashore near Cape
Henry on Monday.
TWO THOUSAND JURORS.
The work Of summoning two thousand
iurymen, required to try the coupon cases
in the Circuit Court, has commenced. The
trials begin on Monday.
The Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty
to Animals had their first case before the
courts yesterday and the offending party
was fined and admonIshed.
Thomas p. Godward, cotton weigher
of this city. died suddenly at his home in
Berkeley yesterday of hemorrhage of the
lungs. He was forty years OF age and
leaves a wife and one child.
Mr.. e. p. Taob, q former well known
businessman of this city, died in New
York yesterday.
Captain E. w. Warren. Of the Old Do
minion Guard, Portsmouth, has sent in his
resignation to the Governor to take effect
Immediately.
ONE HUNDRED FREIGHT-OARs.
Orders have been received at the Sea-
board and Roanoke railroad-shops to build
one hundred freight cars for the Airline.
Rev. Father Murphy, of Washington.
who is stopping here. is in Norfolk for the
purpose of establishing a league of the
Sacred Heart, q society to promote the bet
ter observance of the Sabbath.
YOUTHFUL THIEVES.
Two twelye-year-old news-boys were
| committed to jail last night for stealing q
| gold watch and chain valued at $50 from
MIR. Z. ID. Clopton.
At the annual meeting of the Tunis
Lumber Company yesterday-the largest
and wealthiest in this section-Mr. The
opholus Tunis, Of Baltimore, was reelected
president, and dividend of per cent.
was declared.
The United States flagship Chi.
cago and the gunboat Yorktown arrived
at the hayward this morning from New
York for supplies. Four of the white
squadron are now at the yard.
WILL PBoBATED.
The will of the late Mrs. Fl. ID. Var
| WICK was admitted TO probate to-day.
She leaves the bulk of her property to the
New Jerusalem Swedenbergen church, II
New York.
| sUICIDED.
| An unknown well-dressed white mar
committed suicide at Boykln's Depot
Southampton county tonight by shoot
| ing himself through the head.