Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-09-06
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

Abingdon, Va is to have $4,000 hotel.
"A military company is to be organized IN
Stanton, Va.
Reports from all over the State OF Virginia
speak in glowing terms of the fine crops
The young mems Christian Association OF
Alexandria, Va will erect fine building.
For the first time in several years, the grape
crop of Fauquier county, Va, has been great
success.
Robert Warner of Washington county, Md,
pluckcd 10 peaches from one tree anu In
from another.
a mammoth scheme to erect grand sum,
mer resort town and palatial hotel al Naturai
Bridge, Va, i- on foot
Richmond, Va, is seeking some mcalls ny
which the flooding of her streets by the James
river can be prevented.
The First Virginia Regiment will celebrate
the nineteenth anniversary of its organization,
October ~, by parade and banquet.
"A party of English expert miners and engl.:.
necrs IRE expected TO visit the IRON req us u
Virginia during September and October
"A Tennessee syndicate has purchased for
$1,000 the Neil farm of 40 acres at Shcnan-
doah Junction, Jefferson county, W. Va.
The new Union Bridge at Wheeling, VIVA,
was completed last week, and Il party was
formed who made the first crossing by rail-.
-Four million bricks for the new hotel ut
Fortress Monroe, Va. were ordered from Alex
andria, part Of which were sent down at once.
1t is said the crops in Brunswick county,
Va, are the finest ever known. DR.. X Z.
Powell will make four hundred bales OF cot
ton.
Julian Manlcy, of Alexandria, VA, a brake
man on the Virginia Midland, fell undcracar
ind was so badly injured that he died i'll Il few
hours.
The cightecn.ycar-old daughter of Swaine
Kite, of Madison county, Va, died last week
from lockjaw, supcrinduccd by the pulling OF
q tooth.
The contract has been signed for the removal
of a car.,namutacturing plant which gives cm-
ployment TO 800 people, from Williamsport,
Pa, 10 Goshen, Va.
While prospecting for coal near Harrison
burg, Va, County Treasurer Rcheri struck
indications of focal oil, pronounced by experts
to be the genuine article
by the burning ola building at Edsewood,
Hartford county, Md, occupied by the EN-,
poycs of Fred. Guntlicr's canncry, Il child
was so badly injured that it died.
The census enumcrator in Norrisvillc, pre-
cinct of Howard county, Md, ound one
woman who was the mother OF IL children
and another who could boast of 10.
Mrs Susan Riddlcbcrgcr, mother of the late
ex-senator RddIcbcrgcr, died i'll Shenandoah
county, Va, last week. She was the sister OF
the late Henry Shryock, Of Baltimore.
Ed Pine a brakeman OH the kanawha and
Michigan Railroad, wasinstantly killed while
making running switch just above Point
Pleasant, W. Va. Pine was literally cut to
pieces
-Workmcn are busy exploring the green
granite fields near Prospect Depot, Ill Prince
Edward county, Va. The quality has been
pronounced most excellent, and the supply en-
ormouS.
Governor Fleming, of West Virginia, has
pardoncd from the penitentiary j. 5. Strupcs
who was sent up from Marion county last year
for bigaily. He is very i'll with heart dIsel c,
and was purdoned as I'M act Of mercy.
Al Lenhls, n fisherman of Petersburg, W.
Va, made the biggest haul of catfish known
for many years, six oil them weighing $40
pounds The iargest was over SIX feet in
length and weighed eighty pounds. They were
of the mud-cat variety.
During the electric storm near Norfolk, Va,
last week, while Mr.. Young Old was tying two
horses 10 a tree near the Tabernacle Church
at Blackwater, Princess Anne county, light.
ming struck the tree, Killing the horses anu
knocking Mr.. Old senseess.
-Some miscreants placed several railroad ties
on me {. d p. tracks, near West Wheeling, w.
Va, above the Whiskcy Run bridge. 4 pas.
senger train struck them, luckily knocking
them off, or serious wreck would have oc-
CURED. No clue has been found to the perpe-
traitors
-Workmen at the new stone bridge across the
creek at Wheeling, ". Va, struck an old
stone sewer which had been abandoned so long
ugo that its existence was forgotten. It was
right in the middle of the old bridge, and must
have been closed before the bridge was built
in 1855, but when it was abandoned cannot be
learned.
"A Northern and Western syndicate OF capt.
talists has purchased the celebrated Glade
mountain iron property, situated four miles
south of Rural Retreat, Wythe county, Va.
This property contains 900 acres. There is
on it three separate leads of good hcmetite ore,
and runs for four miles without break. Price
S35 0lll