Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-05-29

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located at Ashland, tho resignation
of DR.. w. w. Bennett as President
was accepted.
A bill has been reported favora-
bly, to Congress for the erection OF
a postoflice building at Fortress
Monroe. The amountapprOprated
by the bill is $4,000.
AS the greatest pain-cure, St.
Jacobs Oil is recommended bypub'
lie men of America and other coun-
tries. Hon. Billa Flint, Lile-Sena-.|
tor Of the Dominion Parliament,
Canada, found it to work like
charm.
Although the President still
gives forth no sound, certain or
uncertain, on the suhiectof marri-
age, society" has definitely settled
it that the marriage is positively
to take place, and the middle Of
June is set for the date.
The bill of sale for Aunt Dlnal
Clarke, an cx-slave now living in
Patrick county, Va, shows that she
was II former slave of Patrick Hen
ry and is now one hundred and five
years old. In the same county
there live Mrs. Patty Pack and
Mrs. Judith Nowlin, both over a
century old.
The special committee appointed
to raise money in Philadelphia for
a tower to the chapel at the UnIver-
Sity of Virginia have secured about
81, 600 Of the $4,000 needed. 1t is
intended that this tower shall be q
monument OF the motherly love of
Philadelphia for the SOutherners.
Baltic Sun.
Ex-Mayor Latrobe, Baltimore,
Md, Says the best cough medicine
is Red Star Cough Cure. DR.. Sam
uel X. Cox, ID. D., of Washington,
D. c., after a careful analysis, pro-
nounced 1t purely vegetable, and
most excellent for throat troubles.
Price, twenty-five cents bottle.
Mrs. Alice Pendleton, si1ty.one
years old, wife of ex-senator Pen
dleton, OF Ohio, and present Mill
lister to Berlin, was thrown from
her carriage, while driving in Cen
trail Park, New York OH Goth inst.
The result was compound fracture
of the skull and conclusion of the
brain, from which she died ten min
uteS after the accident.
The Norfolk county truckmen
never knew a greater cabbage sea-
son than the present. 1t is amaz-
ing to see the shipments now going
off daily. Mr.. Ii. D. Van Wyck
set out the largestarea Ill the coun-
ty. He put 100000 plants on his
four farms, and expects to market
over IL million and a quarter heads.
Norfolk Ledger.
Contrary to expectations of those
interested, but few coupons have ben
rendered in payment Of liquor Ii
censeS in the State for the ensuing
year. at the auditors Office they
report thatso far lbs they are inform
in that Office, except in FredrickS-
iercu III payment O.. CTrs CTsGss Or
cenSes is Insignificant.
Thomas j. Cluverlus, in Jail un-
der sentence Of death for the muir
der OF Lillian Madison, does not
sleep soundly now. The guard who
has been placed in his cell to watch
him say the prisoner wakes up ev
cry night about midnight and APP
pears restless flom that time OIL
He talks about his case to the
guard, aud expresses tho opinions
that the Court of Appeals will give
! his case a rehearing. His long
confinement is beginning to tell on
him.
At the recent conference of the
NJ. +. Church South at Richmond
the res olution thai no minister or
member OF the Methodist EpiSco-
pal Church South knowingly, upon
due inquiry, shall Solemnize tue
marriage OF any person who has a
divorced wife OF husband still liv.
ing, provided this inhibition shall
not apply to the innocent party to
Il divorce granted for u scriptnral
cause, OF to parties once divorced
seeking to be remarked, was con-
sidered and adopted, after striking
out tile words "memher."