Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-07-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The oyster inspection steamer
Chesapeake is still tied mp in Nor
folk, undergoing repairs and i'm
provement in her deck house, &c.
You will never succeed in finding
permanent relief from rheumatism
until you have used st. Jacobs Oil.
the great pain,cure. Price fifty
cents.
Tho board OF visitors of the Uni
versity OF Virginia meet next week
to fill the chair of medicine, obstet
RIGS and Jurisprudence, made va
cant by the resignation OF Prof.
James +. Harrison. DR.. Trist and
DR.. Dabney, tits said, will he urged
by their friends for the position,
and there are probably other call
didateS.
An Albany q. " dispatch
says: sit has been asccrtained
from reliable sources that President
Cleveland, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs.
Folsom and a very select party,
consisting of three or four others,
will leave Albany on tho 18th or
Goth OF August for the Adirondack..
Plattsburg will be the point of APP
proach and departure, and the trip
will cover from four to six Weeks"
Several cases ofeggs were tipped
off truck by accident on fremont
street, Boston, Monday. On pick
ing up the eggs they were found to
be made of porcelain, and instead
of containing the legitimate pro
ducts Of the barnyard fowl they
were filed with whiskey, each egg
holding a "good square drink. p
The driver of the team said be was
taking them from "a liquor dealer
at the north end TO the Providence
depot. The cases were marked to
hotels Ill Newport aud Narragan-
sett Pier, II. l. There were six
cases of 40 dozen each.
DR.. Rose, the veterinary surgeon
from the United States agricultural
bureau at Washington, who is now
in Virginia looking for Texas
fever among the cattle Of Tidewat.
er Virginia, has discovered several
cases, and will make q iull report
Of them 10 the bureau. eyisited
herd of forty native cattle on the
farm Of Mr.. Henry Wilson, in Nor
folk county. lie found one Of the
animals sick with pleuro pneumo-
MA, and by request of Mr.. Wilson
killed it, and by dissection proved
to the owner that it was 4 genuine
case. DR.. Rose says it is the first
case of pleuro- pneumonia he ever
found among Virginia cattle, and
that in any other State but this he
would have to order the herd kill
ed, but there Is no law touching
the matter in this State. None OF
the other animals in the herd ap
peared the least affected, but he
thought they ought to be inocula-
ted at once.
The following bills of general i'm
portance have during the present
session passed both houses of Con
gress and received the approval Of
the President: All act to provide
for the performance of the duties
of the office OF President in case of
the removal, death, resignation, or
inability both of the President and
Vice. President; an act to- increase
the pensions 81 s WIDOWS and depend.
ent relatives of deceased soldiers
and sailors; all act authorizing the
construction Of - building for the
accommodation of the congressional
library; an act to establish a light
ship Oft the entrance to Chesapeake
bay. An act to provide for the
study Of the nature of alcoholic
drinks and narcotics, and of their
effects upon the human system, in
connection with the several diyis,
ions of the subject of physiology
and hygiene, by the pupils in the
public schools ofthe Territories and
of the District Of Columbia and in
the military and naval academies,
and Indian and colored schools i'll
the Territories ofthe United States;
an act to provide for taxation Of
railroad grant lands, aud for other
purposes.