Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-11-21
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Three will be only four co'ored
men in thu next General Assem-
bly,. as follows: ID. M. Norton, a
hold.over SENATOR and Harris OF
Dinwiddie, Boiling OF Cumberland
and Buckingham, and Jordan OF
Petersburg, i'll the House.
A darkey in Prince Edward coun.
ty ascrhes Gen. Lees election to
the fact that he carried charms.
He says he ''seed 'em." When
asked what the charms were, he
said. the left hind foot Of a grave
yard rabbit. a vial of stump water
and coon bone tooth pick.
Governor elect Lee and Major
CORTLAND IT. Smith have been in
vited to meet Governor Hill, of
New York. at a dinner to be given
at the Union Clnb. The invitation
has been accepted, and the Cover
norS will meet the last week in this
month or first week in December.
Hon. Samuel S. Weisigor, for the
past sixteen years Judge of the
Second Judicial Circuit, died at Pc
terSburg last Monday after an i'll
ness of about six weeks. He was
appointed Judge by the military
authorities in 1869 on the death OF
Judge Chambers, and made aiaith
full, conscientious Judge.
The Association Of the Army OF
Northern Virginia at IFS last annn
al meeting made Mrs. I. J. Jack
son and her daughter, Mrs. j. E..
B. Stuart and her daughter, and
Misses Mildred and Mary Lee,
daughters of Gen. r. q. Lee, hon.
orary members of the association,
and instructed the secretary to
send certificates and a badge OF
the ASSOCIATION to each.
The record in the case of Gu
verinS VS.. The Commonwealth is
now in the hands Of the printer,
who is making good progress with
1t, but it will not be needed before
January lSt. " hen it is finished.
one copy will go into the hands of
Attorney-Genel Ayres, and he
will have TO make study OF the
case before he will be ready to go
into the Supreme Court and argue
it. So u decision need not be look
ed for much before March.
In the United States District
Court Friday of last week the grand
Jury indicted the officers Of the
bankrupt Exchange National BanF,
as follows: John b. Whitehead and
and George NJ. Balm, the president
and cashier, for misapplylng the
funds ofthe bank; Thomas a. Balm,
james G. Balm and Il. 7. X. Balm,
directors, on the same charge; Geo.
NJ. Balm, cashier, perjury, six i'll
dictments; james II. Toomer, assis-
tant cashier, perjury. six indlct-
ments; Geo. NJ. Balm, Jr., r. L. K.
Balm, Orlando Windsor and G. L.
jenkins, directors. false entry; Geo
NJ. Balm, Ji., Jno. B. Whitehead,
Orlando Windsor and G. E. Jen-
liinS, false entry, five indictments.
In a letter received here today
by the Democratic city committee.
Governor elect Fitzhugh Lee says
he desires to be inaugurated with
as little ceremony and as nnosten-
taticuSly as possible. In difference
to this wish, the Inauguration OF
Gen. Lee will consist only of the
usual ceremony Of taking the oath
.s4 ri ays q on7JIt..was the desire of
our many of the admlfaai~~es',l--G Gen.
to that his installation into the eN
, to tive mansion on January l sh
+bo he made an eventiul affair.
WV deed, a programme had alrt
o''i' been mapped out for fol
Sla Inauguration ceremonies, W
I'M were 70 close with a ball at nj
me. 1t is probable that this latter
of the programme will still be