Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-21
DANGER NOT YET AvERTED
The City In Darkness Affairs with
the GovernOr-SOldIers Discharged
CANT Get a Carter Jury-United
States Circuit Court Damage TO
Schooners-St. Pnfrick's Celebrn.
tion-IIo Wants His VITO.


The great pack in the river for q dis
lance Of mile and a half above the
wharves Of the Old Dominion Company
IS Still in existence. 1t still threatens
the destruction of the bridges caught
in its grasp, and its sudden breaking
would probably do much damage TO
shipping and residents and manufact-
ares Immediately below the point where
the engagement begins.
The city has to-day had dynamite
used to blow out the gorge. The effort
was not successful. The pack seems
very solidly frozen. At the lower end
1T is in many places thrty-hve feet
high. 1t reaches at great height at
many points. 1t is believed 10 be frozen
almost to the bottom of the river. AT
the channel, which is now open at the
Richmond end of Mayos bridge for n
distance of Il half mile down the river.
areas of Ice frequently topple over and
1all into the current. In doing so they
sometimes turn bottom upwards, and
nearly always throw up sand from the
bottom OF the river. This leads TO tho
'Delief that the ice reaches to the bot
tom All the ice carried down through
the channels on either side is banking
up at a point not half II mile below
Mayos bridge. 1t WILL therefore, be
seen that they are affording relief only
TO the endangered bridges. This is only
oil a temporary nature, AS the ice must
eventually bank up until the channels
under the bridges is closed.
CITY IN DARKNESS.
The city was without gas from short
~ before O'clock Sunday morning I'M
I'll after O'Clock Sunday night. The
stoppaSc was caused by the water en-.
tering the submerged steering main on
Cary street.
ANOTHER FRESHET THREAT
ENlID.
There is going to be considerable
rise In the river The water ut Column
bia has risen about seven feet since
early Sunday morning and is still ris-
ing. a high tide in the river now
would cause disastrous results.
AFFAIRS WITH THE GOVERNOR
Yesterday the Governor received
letter from Thomas Bland. of Alisona,
Pulaski county, making complaint that
his wife had been stolen from him and
asking the power OF the Governor in
having her returned. Bland is II negro
He says Il man stole his wife and their
three-year-old child last August He
says the statement of facts can be
verified ~ many Pulaski citizens.
SOLDIERS DISCHARGED.
Formerly 1t was a rare thing for the
Governor of the State To have any COM
muncation with the War Department.
but nearly every day now Governor
Tyler receives various communications
from this source. The department yes
tcrday notified him of the honorable
discharge of the following members of
the Fourth Virginia: Privates BenJa
min drawer, Company y; Sherwood G.
Bowers, Company NJ. and Herbert l..
Nortleet, Company ]. Fourth Virginia
Regiment. The two first named are en-
titled TO travel pay.
CAN'T GET A CARTER JURY.
The Hcnrico County Court convened
at IL o'clock this morning for the third
trial OF James Penrose Carter, charged
with the murder of Charles Il. Moore in
September last
1t became evident from the start that
it would be impossible to secure Il jury
from among the sixteen. All but two
declared that they had read the evil
dence in the case and had formed opin-
ion which 1t would require evidence to
remove. One of these, however. Mr..
Charles Austin, thought that he might
possibly give the accused Il fair trial
and he was retained on probation. Mr.
Austin is dstantiy related TO Mr.. Car
Ter ny marriage.
UN1TER STATES CIRCUIT COURT
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals reconvened this morning at 10
O'Clock, with Judges Goff. Morris and
Brawley on the bench.
No. 29S. Southern Railway Company.
plaintiff in error, vs. Postal Telegraph
Gable Company, defendant in error. In
error to Circuit Court Western District
Of North Carolina. Continued from
Saturday, further argued by J. r. Nc
intosh for defendant IN error and Robt
Stiles for plaintiff in error and sub
united.
No. 800 II. A. Christy & Co. appel
liant. VS.. Hygcia Pneumatic Bicycl "
baddle Company. ct al, appellees. APP
peal from United States Circuit Court
OF Maryland. Argued by Julian c.
Dowell. OF Washington. d. c.. and Will
liam a. Redding. Of New York for ap-
pellant and by Arthur Stewart, Of
Stewart d Stewart. of Baltimore. Md.
and Horace Petit of Philadelphia. Pa,
for appellces and continued until to-
morrow morning.
DAMAGE TO SCHOONERS.
Mr.. John A. Curtis yesterday received
q telegram from Norfolk which gave in
brief some idea. of the damage TO two
Richmond schooners and the intense
suffering of their crews. The schooner
Mary Curtis, Captain Maker. left Char
lesion, S. c.. on February 4th. bound
for Richmond. with n cargo OF phos-
phate rock for the Virginia and Caro-
lima Chemical Company. She arrived in
Norfolk yesterday after experiencing
two weeks of exceedingly rough wealth
err. She drifted about in the blizzard,
and her crew suffered intensely from
the cold and the snow. There was at
/ times danger Of the schooner going to
g. 3isces .hlit By hard work. and essefWl