Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-20

Mr.. w. Is. CluyeriuS, father ot
T. j. Cluverius, whose trial and
conviction for the murder OF Fam
ME Lillian Madison was so famous,
died at his homein King andQneen
county recent y.
A we'll inioiit,ed Democratic pol
itician of Virginia, here today,says
lie is pretty we'll assur. d til II the
Democrats will carry eight o. her
ten Congressional Districts next
month, and that the Democratic
gains in those districts will moro
than off set the profitable Republi
can maiorities in the Nn:tolk an /
Petersburg NtiStricts.-Wasb. Cor.
Alexandria Gazette, 18th.
The managers of the Virginia
Exposition at#Riclfmond are graft,
fed at the results 40 far. The esti-
mated average Attendance for tho
first fen dais was 1860. Friday
of last week the nhmher of paiI
admissions was 10000, besides
about 5000 lite members Of the Ex
position Association. Nearly threa
hundred prizes were awarded az
the bench slow.
Governor Lee is in receipt OF q
| letter from Sculptor. Mercle, dated
in Paris the Ord inst, in which he
says the alterations will be made
in the large model Of Gen. r. Il.
Lee monument, az nag gested by
the Governor, and that 40 far IA
1.-THE Sculptors work on the monu
ment goes 1t will he completed in
time 10 be erected before the Gov.
ernor's term of Office expires. This
site of the proposed monu,nent is
near the Richmond College on the
way to the Exposition Grounds.
The chairman OF the virgini.
Democratic executive committee
has made the Official announces
lnent that the State committee will
provide the election tickets for the
State, including the legislative dis
tricts in which special elections
will be held. 1t will not furnish
the tickets for the special vote on
the question OF calling u constiJu.
tional convention, for which a sep.
arate ballot-box is directed by
theact of Assembly providing for
such vote.
DR.. Dickinson returned to the
city yeste rday from brief North.
ern trip. TO u Dispatch reporter
who asked if lie had any good news
to communicate he replied: Not
much, l went to Philadelphia to
address John B. Stetson's Sunday
school, composed OF 1,5C0 opera.
tives 10 his iactor.r, and then
went with him out to his magniii
cent country home, seven miles
froui the city. When. I left him he
said: Tell the Treasurer Of Rich.
mond College when he gets S45,.
for his library fund 1 Will make it
S5O,OO0.' Another good brother
told lie that he would send the
college $1,000 in a few days.
Richmond dispatch, 18th.
RICHMOND, Oct. 15.-The public
school forcolored children at Halls.
boro', Chesterfield county, has been
boycotted BY. MANY parents OF the
pupils who Are Republicans be
Cause, tits alleged, the father OF
Emma Watkins, the colored teach
er, is a Democrat. James Medley,
a cololed man, with whom Miss
Watkins boarded, also came in for
a share of he deAnnciation of the
Incensed colored Republicans. lie
not only refused to: take his child.
rem from the school, but announced
his sympathy with the teacher,anl
what still more irritated the boy
cotters, declared that he intended
to vote for Cleveland and Thur
man. This caused boycott .
against Medley. They threatened
slll-who dared associate with tire
teacher or her protector. A party
ofcolored persons went to Med.
ley's house few nights ago and
burned it to the ground, the in.
mates narrowly escaping with their
lives.