Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-10
THE CHARITY BALL.
BRILLIANT SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL
SUCCESS IN NORFOLK.
Benefit of the Retreat for the sick-Rogi-
mental Bami Mastered Is-Bniy Yeusg
Matched Against Bonner.
Especial telegram to the Dispasch.I

tRBtNs,-s 1870 -
NoRroLx, Va, April 9.--The fsncy-dress
charity ball for the benefit Of the Retreat
for the Sick came Oh at the Academy Of
Music tonight and was brilliant affair,
and undoubtedly the most elaborate aud
elegant ball ever given in Norfolk. II was
also great financial success. All the peo-
pie OF prominence and social position here
took part or attended as spectators. and
there was fairly crush. Many ladies came
from other cities. A large force Of work.
men were engaged for several days in ar
ranging the decorations, which We're OF q
most elaborate character. and the Academy
never looked prettier. A floor was laid
over the entire parquet circle AMI arail
placed around it.
MUSIC AND YEAsIISo.
The full naval post band rendered the
music and q sumptuous supper was served
in the armory OF the Norfolk Light Artil-
lery Blues, in the third story OF the
Academy building:
The elegant toilets and costumes were
looked down upon by throng from the
balcony. AT the stage end OF the Moor vas vas
occasion. The band was located in the
gallery.
Several ladies and gentlemen were pres
cnt from Richmond.
INcESDIARY ARRESTED.
Since the burning of Richard p. Howe's
residence in Princess Anne county, the
work of an incendisry, the authorities have
been eagerly on the lookout. A negro
named Tom Wood, suspected to be the in
cendlary. has been committed to jail here
to await Princess Anne authorities.
NEW SCHOONER.
In the shipyards of this harbor vessels
of good size are occasionally constructed.
In Portmouth the second schooner OF five
hundred tons built since the fall will be
launched this week. These vessels are
built for the coasting trade by Boston
ship-owners, who say they find it much
cheaper 10 build vessels here than at the
North. and il is believed that with proper
effort the business can be made as i'm
portant as it was here 6fty years ago. The
most skilled ship-builders in the country
can be found in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Norfolk received over fifteen hundred
bales of cotton yesterday against ninety
six the same time last year.
THE FoURTH's BAND,
The Norfolk City Band, twenty pieces,
was regularly mustered into service last
night at the armory of Company b rs the
band of the Fourth Virginia regiment.
The harbor commissioners yesterday
granted permission to Commodore Weaver
10 construct launching ways tor the battle
ship Texas beyond the port-warden's line,
to be marked by lights at night.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
President Warren G.. Elliott, of the Will
mington and Weldon railroad, is stopping
in the city. Colonel X. q. Taylor. OF Bal
timore. is spending week IN portsmouth.
DIR. Junius II. Anderson. of Charlottesville.
Is here on visit. Paymaster ii. Clay
Goodloe, of the United States marine
corps. was at the yard this morning from
Washington and paid off the barracks for
The Norfolk City Guard celebrate their
twentieth anniversary tonight with ban
quet.
AGAINST A RICHMOND BOY.
II is stated that Billy Young, the light
weight who whipped Manahsn near Ocean
View recently, will be matched against
Bonner, of Richmond, very shortly.
The Rev. }. M. G.. Scott, late acting pas
tor az Freemsson-S Street Baptist church,
has declined the call to the Third Baptist
church. this city. He will remain here for
few weeks and then go elsewhere to
labor.
DIED SUDDENLY.
Mr.. George Thomson, q well-known
boiler-maksr OF the hayward, died sud
denly at his home in Portsmouth last night
lust after rising from the supper-table.
The United States life-saving cutter
Alert is distributing among the stations on
the Virginia and North Carolina coasts a
large number of boxes of clothing sent by
the Ladies' Aid Society of New York to be
given shipwrecked seamen.