Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

a new tribe of Red Men has been insti'
,utei ut Suffolk, Va.
The Presbyterian churches in Richmond
Va, have organized union.
-Danville, Va, il to have new Methodist
church, which will cost $4,000.
Charlottesville, Va, is to have belt
line railroad four miles in length.
The Governor OF Ken. uclIy hls signed
y Big Stone Gap syndicate has purchased
2UO acres of land at Graham, Va, at SasoO per
acre.
The truckers around Norfolk, Va, re-
port great destruction TO crops by the re cent
(reez,.
The tobacco plants in Southsde Virginia
freeze.
Fire Mt Point of Rocks, Frederick county
Nd, destroyed Eve build. ngs, entailing loss
of :G4 O.
AN old can containing $500 In gold and
Greenyllle, KY.
Tho postofIce at Homer, Lewis county,
w. Va, has been discontinued. Mail will
be sent TO Castor.
a financial exhibit of the state CT North
capital OF s., 900.
A seven foot vein of magnetic ore has
been discovered on the mountain farm or
Johu Bowyer, near Bufordsyilie, Va.
-Rev. Sam Jones will begin his meetings
In Richmond, Va, Sunday, June s, aud con-
tinue them till Friday, june ~, Inclusive.
Last week th, guests at Virginia Beach
Ct j)yeI the novelty OF Seeing school OF
wnul-s close in STORE and as playful as Kit
tins.
-Bluck marble of very sup.rior quill
ty lis been found on Back Greek. Botetoart
county, Va, aud the owners have been of.
fred largo prices.
Mr.. S. D;ener, of Culpeper, W., killed
chicken u few days since, aud GA opening the
giZzard, it was found to contain twenty-tour
white china buttons.
"A freight train on the Georgia Pacific
railro ID went through trestle near Birm-
inghsm, Ala. A conductor was killed and
four m N were hurt.
ONE thousand iogmsn in Baldwin county,
Ala. have stiu * for an increase in wages.
The strike may extend to docGmen and
stevedores at Pensacola.
The maintenance and expenses of the
Virginia oyster fact according to the report,
is nearly hve thousand dollars more than the
revenue for the oyster tax last year.
M j. Cheatham (vhite) was hanged at
Grenada Miss, for the murder OF James Til
man (colored,) aud WIS the first white man
10 be banged in the State for the killing OF
colored man.
The annual statement OF the state br rd
OF health of North Caro- ina, gives the nor
tality statistics for the gear just cosed.
Whites, II So, and negroes, 2l.GS per cent.
or poi uation.
a three-year old son of Mr.. VIM. H.
I.c,helberger, of Frederick, Nd, while play
ing near stove, overturned kettle of toll
ing water, and was so severely scaldsd that
death resulted.
The Shenandoah and Kanawha Iron and
, Coal Company has mad, arrangements to
/ begin at once the erection of two lOO,ton
capacity blast furnaces, pipe foundery and
rolling mill at Waynesboro, Va.
An electrical railway is to b, built be-
tween Richmond and Petersburg, Va, pass
ing near Chesterfield G. H. IL is anuouac d
that the road will be completed and in opera
ton within the next four months.
A company of Northern capitalists have
purchased the land around Apponattox
Court house, Va, the site OF The surrender or
Cen Lee, which they propose to lay off into
parks and otherwise improve The property.
The name OF Buchanan, Bot=tourt county,
Va will 10 changed to C-ntral City, anil a
company has been formed which has pur-
chased three THOUSAND acres Of land, to b.
divided into fifteen thousand shares of the
par vulue of one hundred dollars.
"A picturesque character, who recently
died in Washington county, Ca, was hoted
for trading jack On tue bundle Of
every knIie lie ever owne.l ne made IL little
private mark by which he could recoariZ,
it il it ever came into his bends again.
The Randi. man Manufacturing company
ut Ashtoro. H. C., proposes to odd SOU uUO
moro brici 10 its improvements this year.
Tue increas, in its business and the grown,
demands for its goods neccssitats more buld-
ing AMI more mac rnery.
Mr. n. Hocxm1n, of Slem Va, sol 26
ar of land unj ming his planning mill and
the Nor ok and Western Railroad. The price
10 b. paid is S6J,UUU 1t was decided to or.
gauizs company. with SlOJ,O00 to develop
it, and in just three hours every dollar Of III,
stock was secured.
An English syndicate has conc.u lie ne.
coti .tions Tor the leading distIleres o: Ken.
lucky Among the establishments to be pur-
chased arc A5herton, Sherleys & Patterson,
of Louisville; StagE, of Frankfort; Tarr g.
Co.'S, OF Lexington; Whites, of Paris, and
! Peppers, Of Lexington.
Tho o:ler in E. Wheeler's grst mill, at
st. Ahans, W. Va, explo led che otner morn.
ing. Five men were scalded. or STRUCK w
Ting fragments OF timber. the poiier oe-
scended through the roof of dwelling mouse
occupied by .Coptsin N. Porter. Inc rea.
norton of tho building was demolished, ouS
|, Nc ie was hurt
1T is rumored that one of the Biggest ae-
tennis ut frauI, in which over million DO
lars is involved, is soon to be brought to light
| in Stafford county, Va, by the arrest OF
wea thy Northern man, who has for the past
two weeks been Swallowed by detectives: IL
il further alleged that wealthy Northern
corporation is also involved.
-Robprt Moseley, colored, was banged near
| Huntsville, Ala, for attempte1 assam on
Hiss Ellen Austin. He met his death within
! a few feet of pit in which be mao iaih ~
wait for the lady, and was buried tnereln.
About 500 men were in the mop, among eHen
H. ty colored men who approved the hanging
] The operatives of the Ettrick cotton tac,
! tory. near Petersburg, Va, who have been
! nm a strike for the past two weeks because
| of q reduction of ten per cent. in their wages,
| made to correspond With the reduction OF
! the hours of labor under the new law, re.
turned to work on a compromise OASIS Oh
| five per cent. reduction.
-Adyicss from various parts OF the rice
belt ia the Carolinas indicate lhatthe plant
prs are further ahead with their crops than
ever bs.ore. Ths fair weather which has
prevailed during almost the entire winter
has given them ample opportunity Tor ges-
ting the crop planted, and they nave taken
advantage Of it everywhere.
The movement on foot at Winston, N. G.,
10 cure 5O.UUU joint stock tobacco fac
tory has met with gratifying success. Al
ready proposals for much more than the
amount of stock first proposed for the fac.
tory have been received, and now some OF
those most interested in the enterprise are
cndeavoring to increase the stock to S?Oo. COO,