Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-19
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

Flt INl NlAN oOOANOt|'''
New Ma.tinsvillc, w. Va, has voted against
license to sell liquor.
The Potomac and Allentown cement mills
below Shcpherdstown, Nd, have been started
The courthouse of Warrcnton, Va, is being
reconstructed, and will be ready for occupancy
by August.
Mrs Frances S. Snyder died in Augusta
county. Va. last week, az ID nincty-.Our years.
She was Il pcns;oncr of the war OF 1872.
ID. C. Jeremy, of Willlcsbarrc, Pa, has pur-
chased 9 090acres of land in Charlotte county,
W., which he proposes to cut up into small
farms.
Contracts lave been signed to build a silk
mill 4 Salem, Va, to employ three hundred
hands S +. Spindle, of Hagerstown, Md, IS
president.
Major Lewis Gintcr, of Richmond, Va, is
sud to lie one Of the richest men in the South.
His wealth is estimated nj S7,O00O0J, The re-
/ suit of c;gart tic sales.
The $25, 600 cap tai stock for the establish
mcnt of Il file inctory u. Vinton, Va, has been
subscribed, and the work OF erecting sultub
buildings will he begun in u few days
"A Kent Island, Md, farmcr placed twin or
phnn lambs in the care of female Ncwfound-
land whose pups he had sold. She took kindly
TO the lamps, and treated them with moth
crly car..
The new assessments in Fredericksburg, Va.
shows n totaI of 81 800 I7I.which is oil increase
over last wear of more than 1900, and does
moi include a number of new buildings in
course of erection.
"A company has been formed to develop the
fine b ack marble discovered OH Back Creek,
Bolctourt county, Va. The capital stock is
placed at$l O,00J, $1,000 loi which has already
been taken in Roanoke.
The IIousc If pcprescpt tiycs committee on
military affairs ha> ordered Il favorable report
FRO, id ng for the construction of ouds from
Alexandria and Culpcper Va, to tic military
ccntr,s near those pOin s.
--Tbo cit;yons of nod1ridoc.eounty. w. Va,
hold y meeting and appointed secretaries to
arrange with different capitalists i'll segard to
luiidinr :; railroad from Smilhton, on the b.
4 O.. t. Charleston, w. Va.
r. Harm # Rccvcr Creek. Md. has an
T..,ar a',', RI That has reached the advanced
nee a.', nf thiIfy.sjx wears. The egg was marked
by Mr. Lcggett ior Miss Anna L. Doub who
has since become Mrs. Harp.
Tho Prison Avsoci,tion of Virginia. char.
toraJ I,,. tbn last legislature organized in
T;,.,',;',d and clectrI Major Robert Stiles
,'ros;Jomt Tho object of The association is
ic rrtormution of Youthful criminals.
1...:..,., vail lro,rn citizcn NJ
w HI 1i.'"n',"' !" had been nlowiuo
otgcl.s. Inv .T' remt fn, lrinj, IF wafer
H Ht fl"M ;, rr,n IN. min, hr had fit
~, ~ Nh lo"1 F.lI into ibc water. ard he was
1 lIr
1T. ra,,,o,. ,,1o r,s;,los nm Davis crec,
LEWIS ;.uieS ,, IT, " ". was b;tten
i've III W lio., MD Ga 49,, and i nov tied
Dy nia" "lE t ha,, I,;n5, davelon d violent
suvuut1s - f Srhrohohio within the past two
~. p'o1 W. !: No honr of his recovery.
'uss ~ o,,..;do lol,, two of
.c aSs'S,,','ec y, W Va J,i doina
NE i',',,.eS '" 'm ,,do thor cscanc Tersha
Short Ssi',ci's's L:s tr;.i FAR mur,lcr
ICE, WIZ was NIL. or tr opnortunity 10
i'.",es' ~ 9 '''
eSe'''e- I'D .;n,;,or 1ord
I'll o W ,.s,'mate in West Virginia. has
;',1,i,aor consmn,otcd Inv which Jed Hotkiss
JUS. otc, 9 4rnmsf,rs 70 law Ssn;nwnl &
S c, ,o mo ahau, i'm fC acres of land in
-; ;n,.oi, and Wvnn,;nr counties.
linz. " r,,:.,. ,rJ ,,.,,;1o
MI d. II. LeWis "a 49,
clearing ne ru95,s roi;i LII az Rover
NJ nscr; Rod thnrnon This nfr was lost
ohn,,t nina vcars AGO and is now in a good
State Of nrescryation.
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-Rcycnue oicefS from NoFth Ii'oiin. ulu
Franklin county have been on inc ram p,
IL l,a rick county, VA, ana me nppsr Por'11 a
~ diems om. % u Ills and made inst That
80, n,osnchinnrs unhnnnv
-Tho ovstcr season now drawing % a close has
bccn NJ Very SATISFACTORY one TO the oystermcn
~ tho Eastern shore section of Virginia, cs.
p n, those living on Chincotcague Island
Il is e.t;matc,lth.t inDmObarrcls were shipped
froo, Th;cotc..,nc ,calz no nj le st $3.50 iOO.
i nh" f. S ta simmer from CIincotear,lc last
,.a mn ,, "r nmii, Go9 nrrcI
seT M VIZ ~, VII. 49, ra.a r,r,r,,s of Hume
Inc i..c 10y VI y.'om s'u ri",,in1 with h;s
fauIn.er tou"ay va M's pti,s .s " ,,ra;n Of
nroahcrs W;,e ont o. .J I' noJ ia ;s wind.
corn INTO his mouth, when 10 yea II MS WIN,
pipe Two doctors were Smn9neu ,nul no. III
time to save MS lie, us nc uleu III TWO houis'
Nicolas Meade, II coal miner, made a mar
row escape from drowning in the Wheeling
creek, i'll West Virginia. lie was standing ON