Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-09
HIS RUNAWAY TEAM.
A NEono's FATAL DRIVE ON THE
PRINCESS ANNE ROAD.
Great Damage 60 Cotton on che Low
6rounds-rrosres OF new Railroad
0eae To uss New Ffsld of Duty.

tcorrespcndence Of the Richmond Dispasoh.l
Nosrorx. June "A colored man named
Alexander Bright, while driving on the
Princess Anne road yesterday afternoon.
was thrown from runaway team and so
badly injured that he died from the effects
within about two hours.
The freshet in the rivers along the Sea-
board road caused great damage to the
cotton and corn crops On the Roanoke,
In the vicinity OF Lewiston. the water was
particularly disastrous, the whole OF the
cotton on the bottoms being destroyed.
and will have 60 be replanted In corn, as
the season is too far advanced TO plant
cotton over again. On some of tho fields
the water stood ten feet deep. The farm
ers are very much depressed.
WILL SOON BE GRADED.
Tho construction of the railroad to
Murfreesboro', N. c., from Pendleton sta
non, on tho Roanoke and Tar River di-
vision of the Seaboard and Roanoke rail-
road, is progressing rapidly, and the whole
line will soon be graded. The line is eight
miles long. and is the enterprise Of the
Seaboard Railroad Company, and will de-
velop o rich section OF country heretofore
reached only by water.
CHANGE or PAYuAsrERs.
Pay-Tnspector Bellows, in charge of the
provisions and clothing department Of the
yard, is az the North on o months leave
and Paymaster David A. Smith. Of the
receiving-ship Franklin, is in charge of the
department.
mouth. detached from the navy-yard, left
to-day for Yorktown 10 join the United
States steamer Boston.
Rev. w. r.. Savage. formerly of Lynn
haven parish, has gone TO his new field OF
duty in Tazewell county.
Norfolk has received 6S3, 31S bales of cot
ton since September, an increase OF 23l,-
703 bales over last year.
The battalion OF the Fourth regiment 70
visit Petersburg forms on Market square
ut 7:15 tomorrow morning.
10 BE ORGANIZED.
A branch of the Virginia Ramabai So
ciety will be organized in Portsmouth to-
night. The branch in Norfolk Is quite
large and considerable interest Is mani
tested in the work in this section.
In the counties below Norfolk county
In North Carolina, ii is thought. the cotton
crop Will be total failure. In many in
stances farmers have ploughed up their cot
ton end put in corn and in other instances
after replsnting several times stand has
not yet been secured.
DEATH OF MR.. NEWTON.
Information has been received from
Philadelphia of the death in that city last
evening of Dir. George III. Newton, of Nor
folk, who for the last two years has been
sojourning in various parts of the country
with the hope that he would be restored
10 health. The deceased was about forty
years of age and the youngest son of the
late Cincinnatus Newton. and up to the
time of his failing health was the junior
member of the banking house of Burruss,
Son 4 Co.. of this city, and was at one
time q member of the Select Council of
Norfolk. The most of the time since he left
, Norfolk was spent in Colorado and South
ern California. The body will arrive here
tomorrow morning.
The case of Kelly for shooting Otto
Kahler was called to-day in the Police
Coart. Kelly waived examination and was
sent on to the September term of the Cor
poration Court.
A PENDING SUIT.
In the Corporation Court to-day a suit is
pending against the Suburban and City
Railroad aud Improvement Company to re-
cover $4,000 damages, on account of the
death of the little boy Harry Hicks at the
corner of Bank and Queen streets about