Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
NO. 4.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS CourILIn.
E,Ons rIANY SOURCES.

INTERESTING NEWS CO3IFILGr,
FHOsI EIANY SOURCES.
"A rich deposit of iire.clay has been discoy-
cred in Campbell county, Va.
The population of Huntington, ". Va, by
The new census is 10,0ol, making 1T the secoho
city in the State.
.-Lecsburg, w., is haviag a mild building
toom. Several private residences ere Deing
erected and others are projected.
1t has been decided to hold no fair in Rich;
mond, Va, this fall, but it is proposed to hold
big Southern exposition there IN 1891.
-oxford, n. c., has ordered an election on the
question of voting $4,000 of bonds for the
construction of full system of water works.
| Clifford B. Allen, of Richmond, Va, an
employee of the Norfolk and Western Rail
road, was gun over by an engine at Roanoke
and had both legs broken.
THE Glenwood Furnace Company, Of Gias.
gov, Va. has just broken ground for tie
| foundation of twin iron blast furnace of tie
latest improved pattern, 200 ton capacity.
The revenue officers in. Summer and RAN
| dolph counties, WA, were out on raid
and captured two illicit stills, where noon
shine whiskey was being manufactured by
Wholesale.
"A young child ten years of age, named
| Pollen. while visiting near Charleston W. Va,
had her ears pierced. They became infamed
and finally rottcd off, Blood poisoning set in
and caused the child's death.
An unknown man was found dead on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near the out
skirts of Wheeling w. Va. His skull was
crushed and one foot was cut off. There is no
clue to his identity or the manner of his death.
The town of Chase City, Va, with nearly
seven hundred people. has not a brick house
| in il. and since its existence not q house has
| been DESTROYED by fire. Almost every house
is insured, as we'll as the lives Of most Of the
people.
Tho d.foct;re Columns in the Tee monu-
mont 81 Richmond w "ore to he removed
and renIocoJ hy nnrfect INES and the worl, ON
the Granite monument to the private soldiers
and sailors at Chimborazo Park is progressing
rapidly.
-Sammor Ros6citcher. nm Austrian peder
about twenty.six years of are. died at the
o1mchonse in Henr;co county Va Under cir.
cumstonces that noint tn the doubie crime of
robbery and murder and an Investigation is
to follow. Several parties are suspected.
-Dnr;po terrific thunder Storm in Prince
George county We. short distance from
Petersbure. two children of Joseph F. Par
ham Of that county. AGED ten and twelve years.
were Killed by LIGHTNING which struck q tree
under which they SOUGHT shelter from the
rain-storm.
Calvin Tones vonno man about twenty
one years If ace assistaSt vardmaster nj Lam.
bert;s Point 70 vas Instantly killed of that
niacs hv o ba;no 90 cs,ueht between the bnmpers
IF pf1 two cars psiAe e1'eN'
M W.~c-,,- - Wi. c,.,;.a ca,o1
inc N9floiA anu No I t.'t ~ ato HI
company mas niaue " ee.l W ooo non W .J
he nscd in imnrovine and deepeninr the old
n;sn,oI Sromn canal
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line WORK OF extending tne Mheeling anu
Lake Enc Kaiiroao from ror.lana 10 Mara,is
ferry, ". va, mas commenced, Tue ghsineeits
now pelng engaged III iayiIie out ti y. MN t
Ira1ck,laying between ror'iai'u anu oseuDen-
w 0ee".. -u'' 49, .,oa
IA gsnI,einah WIG mas rceensS ltt So..oli
tnrou$n fatrlck, rIoyd, HlaySoI al'u Ga.t W
counues w. repGrIs inc in.llers as ueln e
Inusiastlc over tnls year crop plospaeo es
Inc corn crop IN THESE cou1siGs has iot o..
Us large since the wal, ana the @hea., Jus
anu rye crops nave SIMPLY been immense.
"A little boy named Willie Medlin, living at
foungsvllle n. Z, Killed
ing whiskey. lie was out Win nsning parry
and was lett by the elder persons 70 Jake care
OF the demponn. During their. absence ~ he
drank ABOUT quart OF tne SPIRITS, rom ene
e1tects OF which nc d:ed IN an hour OF 30.
Tho proposition to hold another exposition
in North Carolina i'll 1881. is meeting WIN
much favor from prominent eentleilsll In ~
secuohS OIL the STATE ano an earliest eo.. WI.
be MADE TO enlist ilDeral support ~ li i,;
hands OF the next legislature. lhag thls WI
be successful can well be assumed, as IL Is
reasonably certain that majority OF inc poo
pies representatives Will DC farmers.
Sydney Nixon. of Mt, Holly, n. G., has a
razor one hundred ana fifteen years oH: i.
was manufactured ny tiloett i'rotnets, H Srg.
neid, Engand anu mas lnls insc1Ip.1on. Inc
Celebrated Ol1 Army ra zH ~, ohuel 'ne ill.
scription Is tne uate, Hf2' NE NE Ia:o. Sa'
carried through Tue war OF loi@ " aiuJoi LUZ
ner, OF Beattes orr.
At meeting of the Trapp branch of the
Farmers Alliance Broad Run Station, Eau:
quier county, Va, resolutions were adopted
declaring the force phi 10 De lhtenoeo 10 arouse
sectional anlmosltles ana ealing upon ,nG
people OF the North ana w est TO JOIN those "
the south IN more strenuous eoius tho 10 nuy
all such animositles ana 70 MAINTAIN INC cause
of the masses against their oppressors.
At Burnside, KY, there was fight between
the police Judge and town marshal on one
side and Ben Chestnut and his sons John and
Hiram on the other. here WAS an old teud
between P. T. Smith, the police Judge, ana
Ben Cassiday. Cassidy and Judge smith
were fatally wounded. the other three partlci-
pants seriously.
ID. g.. Courtney who purchased from J. L.
Mclean. of Putnam county, w. Va, the white
oak timber on thirty-fve thousand acre tract