Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-12
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

Occupancy ny august.
Within the ape Of fer miles % Greens
boro', n. c.. Their; are thirty large cotton lac
tories in full operat on.
The William and Mary College authorities
and students will celebrate the first settlements
at Jamestown, on May 18th.
There are ut present 1,721 ovens in the Flat
Top coke region of West Virginia, practically
all of which are in blast and SG4 are contract
cd for.
john Craig, a puddler Mt the Lynchburg,
Va, rolling mill, was run over by q train OH
the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad and
had both feet cut of.
John Rnc an old citizens Of Wheeling, w.
Va, committed suicide by jumping into the
river. He was demented, and thought he was
going 10 be murdered.
The Morotock Cotton Mills, Danvillc, Va,
have decided to work all employees, men,
women and children, on the tcn-hour system,
without reduction of wages.
brakeman Ephram Williams, of the Bati.
more and Ohio road, was run over at NO, ~
water station, near Martinsburg W. Va, his
body being greatly mutiatcd.
-One-half of the Lynchburg, Va, fair ground,
fifteen acres has been sold 10 syndicate Tor
$4,000. TO be laid of into building lots and
made IL portion of West Lynchburg.
-Lynchburg, Va, is TO havea large carworks
factory and blast furnace, the West Lynch
burg Land Company having subscribed $780,
600 10 the former, and 100000 to the latter.
"A negro boy fell through the hatchway of
the Lynchburg, Va, drug mills from the third
story 10 the ground floor. He struck on his
feet, however, and picked himself up I'M
harmed
1t is announced that the electric railway to
be built between Richmond and Petersburg,
a..and passing near Chesterfield Courthouse,
will be completed and in operation within the
next four months.
Three hundred acres of the old Gunston
Hall estate, near Mount Vernon, Va, has been
sold to Col Edward Daniels for $500. Gun
son Hall was the homc-place George Mason,
who wrote the Virginia Bill Of Rights there
john A. Womack, of Pitt bno, n. c, la:
determined TO es ablisi a GINNING facto Y at
that place. D III e the present y'a' The es:.
tahishncEt will only put no TO natoes. and
vii have capaci Y Of t.o tn usand MS "
day.
A fire last week destroyed the barn of Mr.
Starke, in Stafford county, together with its
contents and three horses. Mr.. Starkc mar
rowly escaped with his life while endeavoring
to save his stock. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
a gang of outlaws whose misdceds have
long been terror 10 the inhabitanls of the
mountain districts Of Frederick county, Md,
have commenced operations again, and quite
number of farmers have suffered i'll consi-
quencc.
A fourtecn-year-old son Of Melville Brown,
of Blue Ridge Summit, Nd, felled large tree,
and his seven ear-old brother, seated on u
horse nearby watching him, was caught under
the tree when it fell and one of his thighs
brolsen.
a portion of the dam on the Little Kama
wha river ut Palestine, W. Va, gave way;
making n brake from sixty to one hundred
feet wide and drawing the third pool for ten
miles. Navigation will be suspended because
of the break until the last OF June.
Walter R. Hinmon, M cmploye in the c.
A. Gambrill Manufacturing Company's -four
mill at Ellicott City, Md. was struck on the
head by falling shaft while regulating. the
gearing Of water-whee and was partially
scalpcd.
TIE county iail ut Wentworth, n. c., was
d stroyed by fir a few days since. Tee psis:.
4 ners, seven in Number, wers saf ~ removed
fc rid to the Guilfo jnil ut Gree sb ,ro. 1t
ist eNght the inmate: fir, d tle building.
The first National Bank of Parkersburg,
lie,
consolidated under. the name OF the former,
with capital stock of $250,000 (the largest
bank of West Virginia and the savings bank
features have been abandoned.
"A syndicate sarranging to build a cotton fac
tory in Norfolk, Va on the tract Of land OPP
positc 10 the Navy Yard. This property con-
tains two hundred acres, and the water front
and the price paid for it is $4,000, with the
understanding that the company will build a
q u natl fl,ur1
900.
-Obed T. Green, a prosperous farmer, Of
Brooke county, w; Va. was found dead IN
from heart disease. On the arrival of his team
at his house, his wife went out TO meet him
! and found him in the wagon dead. He was
spoken to about Q half mile from the hocse
"A magazine of giant blasting powder ex-
ploded in the mines Of the Sloss Steel and Iron
Company, at Coalburgh Ala, and fifteen men
mostly convict miners, were injured, SIN OF
| them fatally 4 boy went into the magazine
with lighted lamp and q spark ignited the
powder.
William Hannlett, who died in Waynesboro'
| Md, last week, at the age of eighty-six, was
formerly general superintendent of the Gale.
donia Iron Works, and afterwards assistant
ticket agent of. the Pennsylvania Railroad at
Pittsburg. While holding the latter position
Andrew Carnegie the millionaire iron manu-
facturcr, was one Of his Office boys.
There was lively collision on tie Atlantic
and Danville Railroad at Franklin, South
pton ,:ty, Va. An st-bound freight
train RULING ino the staiion struck the rear
of a tr in sian ing on the track u"loaling
completely smashing into. fragments aoou'
tw ca and .h-Uwin; the Iocomo i've into
ditch .rltct wreck. One of The train
ands was hurt, but not dang usly.
-Qu tie ns1tion has swept ov.r Tarboro
NC | is sal that DIV ling hcus IN the
toan i; sit l'y some mys,tr..ns Inielll'
gence tina aIswc questions CO.. city by rap
| ping Inside the walls bet, cen the p asterlne
ard wealth ri oardine. 1t has rnppe cor.
r,tl the number o persons III the family
both liyin and dead. Other tn ngs VIC
be learned through the s range mel UNI that
are equally startling.
When Leonidas Dodson diedin Easton, Md,
he left to the Historical Society of the Will
mington NJ. l.. Conference cane made from
part Of one of the logs used in the construc-
ton of the first Methodist meeting in
the United States. 1t was built by Robert
Strawbridge in 1863 or 1770 on Sans Creek,
Westinghouse. 1t was torn down in lS4i, and
several canes made from the logs.
AT Asneville, n. c., two burglars ent red
Ii &c house Of Will ali Terre !. One had Il
KIN fe, tie other revolver. Mrs: T,r ell ",
lying On a sofa Asshe heard the steps She
r Sc, thin, ng they were t!"se Ct her iuS-
band. Ire m.n wafne her on pain Of death
10 ma Re no OIL c.y, and q M lnent later she
was seized ami oh oroforlnc / The the house
was robbe II was III. hou bef-re Mrs.
Ter .ccover.d co.'s 10 ness IN found her
! self, found hand an foo lyifg in front If u
fireplace.
Jacob Rifner, an old man Of seventy, liv;
ing near Eaton's tunnel, on the Baltimore and
| Ohio Railroad, went to the house Of Widow
Ray, an aged lady, living at Dog Comfort intro
duced himself, and said he had heard that she
had said that she wanted TO get married. She
acknowledged that fact, and after twenty min
ules' talk, he went to Richie Courthouse
for the license, and before sunset they were
man and wife. While waiting for the train,