Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-09
NEW lOBOR SYSTEM.
Tho First Batch of workmen Commenced

on Monday.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK, September S.-The first work
men under the new Labor Board system
went TO work in the maynard yesterday.
The registration of laborers has ceased, a
vast number being registered and only
mechanics are now permitted to apply.
The colored element made rush when the
office of the board was opened and soon
filled up the labor lists. Mechanics, how
ever seem to be holding back. They dis
like the system, and when, about the 18th
instant, two hundred joiners are
called for to go to work on the new ships
there will not be half that number availa-
BILE In the two cities.
Yesterday afternoon the testimony for
the Government closed In the Gait court
martial, and to-day the witnesses tor the
defence were called Pay-Inspector Ed
ward Bellows arrived from Washington
and was on the stand yesterday afternoon.
SUBSTITUTES RESIGN.
The Police Commissioners of Portsmouth
having elected regular outside of the
substitute force, the substitutes In body
last night sent in their resignation TO the
Chief.
Sheriff Cromwell, of Norfolk county, is
sick with fever.
For some time thieves have been sys-
tematically robbing the naval-ordnance
yard at st. Helena Point. the large guns
stored there being stripped of their
brasses. A quantity of the stolen stuff
was found yesterday IN a junk-shop in
Portsmouth.
SCARCITY OF FISH.
The hucksters and catchers say that the
menhaden pounds cause the great scarcity
of fish. as the meshes are too small. Thou
sands of small fish are taken by them and
the market supply is thereby cut short.
An effort will be made before the next Lee
eislature to prevent 1t.
WELL KNOWN HERE.
DR.. Warren w. Wing. postmaster of
Norfolk during the war and for many
years citizen of Norfolk, died at Weaver
vile. N. c., on Sunday last at the age of
seventy-two years. DR.. Wing was from
the North, but settled early in life in Nor
falk. He was at one time member of the
City Council and was postmaster of the
city during the Lincoln administrations.
When General Butler was appointed to
the command OF the military district in
which Norfolk was situated he used his
influence to have DR.. Wing removed from
the postmastership for refusing TO permit
him to tamper with the mails. DIR. Wing
was, however, reappointed to the post
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Lincoln, and served in the same capacity
until the incoming Grant administration.
During the interim between his BUSTING
by Butler and his reappointment by Presi-
dent Lincoln DR.. Wing was State Treasu-
Ter and member ofsthe Board of Public
Works :during the Pierpont regime. Du-
ring the war DIR. Wing owned and edited
the Norfolk and Portsmouth Union,
paper devoted to the Federal cause. He
was at one time clerk of Legislative CON-
mittee at the State Capitol.
General Manager l.. 4. Myers, of the
Seaboard Air Line. left to-day for an in
spection trip over the entire line running
to Atlanta.
The Board Of Supervisors of Norfolk
county are In session to-day for the first
time in two months.
In the Circuit Court of the city Of Ports
mouth yesterday two cases were decided
against the Commonwealth in the matter
OF coupons rendered for taxes.