Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-01-04

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70 erect a monument to the mem
ory of Henry W. Grady. A mees-
lug of young men resolved on tnls
and raised $4,000 within one hour.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN, Dec. o5-
William Graham, of Centervllle,
Ga, stenographer of the Cherokee
Judiciary Circuit, and Anna Jones
were married tonight. Fhe bride
is l7years old. and is a daughter
of Rev. Sam Jones. The parensS
opposed! the match.
RICHMOND. IA. Dec. 90 May
Or. r TAYLOR Ellyson has received
letter from Mrs. Jefferson DAVIS n
she says.she shall not decide which
. upon the final resting place OF mel
husbands remains for a year. Sh'
Saws she will carefully consider thf
different States asking for thl'
honor.
The Roanoke Evening Worl'
saws: "vlrgiuia has one of th'
t very hest highways in the Unite'
! States. This. isl m ls * aaaia fact. 1t is
the turnpike from Winchester to
Stanton, which lnacadamize,l
about thirty years ago, stood the
wear and tear of the war, and from
that time to the present, with bu'
little repair. has been kept in ex-
cellent condition."
Henry w. Grady. the brilliant
Journalist and distinguished South
crnpr was laid to rest in his home
in Georgia on Christmas day
There Was no ostentation. no dis
play, nc glittering pageant-all
was simpicity-hut the funeral
procession was the largest that the.
State has ever seen, and IN the
hearts of Georgia's people was sor
row deeper than human minds can
measure.
MINNEAPOLIS MISS, Dec. "a
A conference upon foreign mis-
sions is to I've held in the First
Baptist church of Minneapolis.
January 1st to 3rd. Ahont IS 600
BapristS in the five States Of Min
neSota. Iowa. Wisconsin and the
Dakotas will he represented. This
is The first meeting of the kind in
the West. The conference will in
c|nde laymen. DR.. Tolman, OF
Chicago. and DR.. Mckenzie, of
Boston. are TO be present.
MONTGOMERY. ALA, Dec. 90
Mrs. Robert Tyler died in this CITY
this morning at s o'clock, in the
74tll year of her age. Mrs. Tyler
was a daughter of the tragedian
Thomas Cooper and Mary Fairlie
celebrated belle of New York. In
1910 she married Robert Tyler.
eldest son of President Tyler, and
upon The special request of the
President and his wife, who was an
invalid, she presided as GLADLY Of
the White House" during the first
three years of President Tyler's
administration.
RICHMOND. Va, Dec. 3O.-Gov.
Lee today at the request Of Judge
Henry w. Flournoy, secretary OF
the Commonwealth, presented to
the State OF Virginia his headquar-
terS flag when he commanded il di-
vision Of calvary in the army Of
Northern Virginia. This flag was
presented to him by Virginia la
dies. 1t is silk, white field, with a
blue cross and golden gilt stars, a
heavy gold fringe around it's Dor
der. The flag shows marks of ser
vice in rents and tatterS. and is a
relic of patriotic service.
BLTIMoIE. Md, Dec. 30-The
Maryland Jockey Club held a
meeting today for the purpose of
deciding whether or not running
races in the future shall he given
at Pilmlco. The opinion was al
most unanimous that the club
should disband, and resolution to
that effect was adopted. A com
mttee of three-ex-Gov. Oden
Bowie. R G. Hall and John S. Git
tings-were appointed to dispose
of the clnb'> property, which is
valued at 100000, divide the pro-
ceeds among the members, and
wind up all the affairs OF the con-
Germ.
Christmas day, 1889, will stand
as one Of the most remarkable in
the beauty and balminess of it's
weather throughout the country.
AT Chicago and in the West and
Northwest the thermometer stood
all day above sixty degrees. Oars
men appeared on Lake Michigan
stripped to the waist. croquet par
ties enjoyed the day in the parks,
while the ever popular game of
base ball was INDUCED in AS near
as Pittsburg, where Christmas din.
ners were eaten with open win
dows. The populationof New York
city swarmed out OF doors.
The census will be taken this
year. The work must begin on OF
before the first day Of june. In
1880 at the last census Virginia
had two supervisors of census.
Each had q district and each dis