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NORFOLK. BODY OF A WELL-DRESSED MAN WASHED ASHORE. Heavy Rain-Storm-New Line of Steamers-Practically AcquittedNavy-Yard Notes. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch] NORWOLK, May 13, 1886. The body of a man dressed in a suit of blue clothing came ashore at Cape Henry last night, and is in a good state of preservation. It is believed to be one of the ship's company of the steamer Acadia, of Baltimore, bound from the West Indies to Baltimore with fruit, and now supposed to have foundered off the coast of North Carolina during the late series of gales. The body will be interred where found and the grave marked. A tremendous rain- and thunderstorm, with some hail, passed over this section this morning, but no damage is reported from the country up to this time. The Franklin Savings Bank, one of the four banks that went under in the Exchange-National crash, is paying another dividend of 20 per cent. to-day, making 70 per cent. paid the depositors. The Virginia-Beach Railroad Company has determined to run its hotels this summer, instead of leasing out the property. The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company (Eastern Shore route) is preparing here to put a line of steamers in the North Carolina waters in opposition to the Baltimore lines. The United States training-ship Portsmouth arrived at the navy-yard last night from Hampton Roads to refit for the summer cruise of the apprentices to the Madeira Islands. A. W. Cassell, of Portsmouth, the young man who so desperately shot a dance-house keeper in Norfolk a month ago, was practically acquitted at a late hour last night in the Corporation Court. He was fined one cent and costs. The ferry company commenced today the erection of new docks and houses on their property in Norfolk, which, when completed, will be of great comfort and benefit to the travelling G. public.