Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-23
WATER FRONT SITES.
MANUFACTURE ARTICLES HANDLED
BY SOUTHERN MERCHANTS
oesr. In Remove Plants Decisned-The
Kersarge Almost Ready for Sea-
Green Peas Up.
,rro.Oond.nce Of tho Richmond Di,pn,ch.i

NORFOLK, January %, 1891.
More extensive waterfront opposite th'
nayy.yard has recently been purchased bS
northern capitalists TO locate manufaetu
ring enterprise TO employ several hundred
operatives, and a number of moneyed men
of Portsmouth are about to organize .
company to manufacture variety OF arti'
eles handled extensively by southern mer'
chants. In Norfolk county all such pro-
nerty n exempt from taxation, and the
numerous water courses intersecting the
county from the harbOr offer inviting SITES
Several of our large manufacturing euteI-
prises have been offered great lnauce.iiTyJl ,. -
70 remove their plants to Southwest VIZ
o,nia. Int the offers have all been declined.
WORK At THE NAyY-YARD.
Within the past year more ships have come
TO Gosport nayy-yard for repairs and SUP
niles than has been known for many years
aud the officers do not hesitate TO speak IN
bi%h terms of the quality Of work done
here and the dispatch they receive. The
steam engineering department IS rushing
the work on the machinery OF the ker-
sarge and she will be ready TO sail the hrst
of next week. The flagship Chicago yes
terdav brought draft of sixty long-tern
seamcn from New York for the Atlanta ana
DOLPHIN. All the short-term men were
placed on the receiving-ship Franklin; and
are loud in their expressions OF dlsnke at
being cheated out of pleasant winter
cruise in the West Indies and Spansn
main.
SPRING TRUCKING.
The truckers of the county have green
peas up and are very busy getting ready
for their spring crops and shipping kaIe
and spinach, for which there Is isr de-
mand in the northern markets.
Numerous suits have been instituted In
the conrts against the Atlantic and Dan
VILE railroad, and the road-bed and other
property in Portsmouth has been attacped
on a claim for 81 coo. and as the company
never put any deed of mortgage on record
in Portsmouth the latter Is doubtless
secure. Other judgments Will hasdly
amount to much.
Nancy Churchville. an old colOred scr
want well known TO everybody IN Forts-
mouth, died yesterday at the advanced age
of one hundred and two years,
FOR TIN YEARS.
James Singleton, for burglary. was sent
TO the penitentiary for ten years YESTERDAY.
Rev. DIR. II. NJ. Wharton, ID. d., of Balti-
more. the celebrated Baptist evangelist,
will be in Portsmouth tomorrow. =,
The Italian boy ROsettl, who stole MT.
Clopton's gold watch. will be sent 70 the
Reformatory at Richmond. as he IL too
young to GO to jail. p,
DR.. l.. Landlord. Of this city, has sailed
from Berlin for home with supply OF
Koch's lymph, which he Will share with
the profession in Norfolk.
Grand Master Larrabce and other OH
GERS of the Grand Lodge, Independent
Order Odd Fellows, will be here tonight
TO take part in the tenth anniversary cele-
bration of Atlantic Lodge.
The proprietor of the st. Elmo Hotel IN
Portsmouth made an assignment to-day.
DAMAGING GALE.
There was a heavy gallo and rain-storm
from the south here all the morning, which
damaged property to some extent.
President r. NJ. Stuart Wortley. OF the
Atlantic and Danville railroad, was mar
RED in Baltimore at l O'Clock today TO
Miss Virginia Sehley, daughter OF Captain
W. s. Schley, commanding the United states
steamer Baltimore. The bridal couple Will
90 20 Florida from New York to spend q
month, and will then take up their resi-
dence in Portsmouth. the home OF MIR.
Wortley for the last year.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN MOORE.
Captain John w. Moore, the business
manager of the Norfolk VVginlGia, died to-
day. Captain Moore has been sufferer
for long time with a cancer, and few
DAYS ago he went TO New York for treat
ment and his friends thought he was i'm
proving, but when the news was telegraph
ed here to-day that he had passed away
many were shocked
Captain Moore was for six years deputy
city collector and for four years under the
Cleveland Administration was assistant
postmaster of this city. He was member
of the Pickett-Buchanan Camp, Confede-
rate Veterans, and was about hfty-nlne
years of age. Before the war he was en-
gagged in the dry-goods business, which he
continued until the breaking out of the
war, when he entered the Confederate SER
vice as captain and az assistant quarter
master under Major George W. Grice, and
was stationed at Columbia, 5. c., and at
Greensboro, N. G.
George w. Howe, a well-known druggist
of Portsmouth, died this afternoon from
consumption.
The United States ship Yorktown left
the yard and dropped down to Hampton
Roads this afternoon.
THE STORM AT CAPE HENRY.
People residing in the vicinity Of Cape
Henry were terrified last night from
effects of the storm. Houses swayed and
trees bent to the ground. Many inhabi-
tants gathered their valuables together
ready to leave at every moment. They
expected 10 see their dwellings blown ont
TO sea. Thevelocity of the wind there reach
ed sixty five miles an hourand was cyclonic
i'll character.
The Newark More Than Meets Demands.
tBy telegraph TO the Dispatchl
WASHINGTON, ID. c., January 22.-The re-
port of the engineer officers detailed to