Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-08
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

"A 800, 900 cotton mill is to be started ia
Wythevlle, Va.
Twenty buildings were blown down in
Gainesville, Texas during hurricane.
"A bee raiser of Amherst county Va,
says that his bees have been making honey
ever since Christmas.
"A woman in Shelbyville, N. c., named
Mollie Corwin, has just been married to her
ninth husband. Six OF the old ones are Nv
ing.
Mrs. Julian Bradenburg, of Cotoctin,
Nd, is the owner of calf. about week old,
that was born without eyes. It is lively and
growing nicely.
w bile Miss Ellen Jerry WAS attempting
to cross creek in Allegheny. N. c.. on horse
back she was carried down The stream by the
current and was drowned.
Tho last of the six hundred thousand dol
lars of stock for the erection Of the double
Steel bridge across the Ohio at Wheeling, W.
Va, was subscribed last week.
-Thom:s Oates, while working in d saw
mill III RutherfordtOn, N. G., fell Oh the cir
cunr saw and was cut to pieces His stomach
was cut entirely open. using instant death.
Willie G org. Winters was qunrrying
stone near Cavetown. Washington county,
Nd, he unearthod two skeletons, supposed to
be the remains of In liGns or OF enrly settlers
Winston, N c., has determined to adopt
q system of electric street railway and track
laying will be commenced April 1st. 1t is
| expected that the cars will be running by
! juno LIST.
"A lady picked up q lump of gold on the
Green Run Beach, Md, worth live dblIars
This find so aroused the beachers that tho
spade and shovel nre being vigorously used
| Tor other discoveries.
Rich deposits of gold, silver, zinc anil
iron have been discovered in Patrick Va.
Some of the silver has boon assayed and
| yields SIT worth OF puro silver to the ton OF
ore just as ii comes from the mine.
-Thr4o Lou svile Ky, physicians and
their co.ored assistants were surprised in O
graveyard OF that place while stealing bodies.
One colored man was shot and killed and oil
but one o; the other ghouis captured.
Bob Pope, white man of bad character,
and his son. II years old, were shot dead
while riding from Cummings Mill to their
homo in Hampton county, S. c. The MUIR
derer is supposed TO DO white man.
Joe Johnson, an inoff-niivs old man,
whose timely Information prevented plot
OF the Hatfield gang to escape from the jill
at PIkesvilie, KY, was called out Of his home
near that place and shot to death.
-Cyclonc storms in Tennessee and Arkan-
sas caused great damage 10 property, and o
rumber OF people were seriously injured.
Mrs James Cooper was crushed TO death in
q falling house OF Brownsville, Tenn
Out of the 1905 criminal cases tried in
| North Carolina during the years 1SS9 there
were 400 whites, 3,270 negroes, and In
dians. There was only one Jew tried in the
state, and he was cleared, on the charge of
larceny.
"A petition is to be presented to the Gen
eral Assembfy-of Virginia in q few days to
CT, ate new county, to be formed from the
counties of Washington, Russell and Scott,
with the seat OF justice to be established at
! Mendoza
a syndicate has 1000 acres of land in
Prince George county, Va, and o town will
be built and colony founded. 1t is proposed
to build u church, factories, a hotel and
bank, and, also, a dummy road from Peters.
burg to City Point
The Confederats,monument to be erected
by the Ladies' Memorial Association in the
Blandford Cemetery at Petersburg Va. will
be raised in O few days. IL will be twenty
eig BIT feet in height and will cost 81, 500. The
monument will be surrounded by soldier
| in bro..z..
"A franchise has teen granted to j. L.
Ludlow aud associates, TO build water works
for the town OF Henderson, N. c. Work is
to be commenced in sixty days and completed
in nine months. There will be about eight
miles of pipe in the system.
The farmers in the vicinity OF Woodbine,
| Md. are becoming alarmed ut the Quantitie:
| of crows that inrest that section. aud many
devices are resorted to for their destruction,
but tho crow is SO sagacious that they are
| quite able to take core of themselves.
-ThoInns O'Brien, Jr., was banged at Lex.
! ington, KY, for the murder of his wife and
her unborn babe. The couple had been mar
! ried cIandestinely, and OBrien killed his
wife to keep from acknow lodging her, as be
was engaged to marry another woman.
Tho Norfolk and Western Railroad com.
pany has purchased thirty acres Of ground Oh
the suburbs OF Bristol, W., for which they
paid $4,000 A northern syndicate has
placed 5000 000 in cash in the hands OF an
agent at Bristol to purchase land on which to
erect improvements.
Mr.. Eben Meyer, employed ct saw mill
near Mercersburg. Md, had lis left eye
knocked completely out last week. He was
adjusting piece OF timber, when the rapidly
revolving saw tore piece of bark from il
and struck him directly in the eye, entirely
destroy ns the sight.
"A fatal shooting affray occurred ssven
miles from Hillsboro', N. G., during q raid
on distillery by revenue officers. Revenue
Agent S. Kirkpatrick, who was in charge OF
tie raiding party, was shot in the face anu
received dangerous wound. The shot was
fire by negro who was shot and killed oy
n member of the raiding party.
A landslide occurred on the farm of An
thony Toothman. oil out milo from Parkers
burg, W. Va a stream of Oil was foun9
pouring out of the rocks where the slice oao
taken place. There is considerable excite,
ment over the unusual occurrence here, ana
roothman's farm hos increased TO fabulous
,ums in the last few days
The contract for widening and deepening
The Dismal Swamp Canal was given out last
weak, and the work will commence in few
days. The present locks will be enlarged, and
the route will be made into ship canal TO
furnish continuous inlan waterway from
New York to Florida. The enterprise is
backed by New York and English capital.
! in Polk county, N. c., an old man by the
name OF Thompson was ploughing In new
ground, when the horse became frigntensu
and dashsd off with the plow The Old man,
however, held on to the plow-handle, ana was
jsrked violently against stump and almost
instantly killed. Just before ne died Thomp-
son said the reason be held on to the plow
| was that he did not want it broken.
Newton Cunningham house, at Mounds
t VILE, Va, was struck by lightning. during
thunder storm few days ago. and so badly
amaged as to render 1t uniuhabitable. IL
was struck on one corner, and, being franz.
was bursted and bulged i'll every direction.
\ young man boarding in the house was con-
s:derably stunned. but the rest of tbs family
were uniujured.
-Assassins killed one man an attempted
to kill two others in the town OF Spring field,
La. J. C. White, deputy sheriff, was KILLED,
! Harmon Kinchen dangerously wounded and
! William White shot ut several times, but
escaped by the fsetness of his horse. when
and had started home about midnight from
| The town.
"A horse belonging to Paige, Carey & Co.,
the contractors for building the Union bridge
At Wheeling. w. Va., became ef1 icted with
] a painful d ;fIicultY in breathing. VeterInarg