Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-11-14


/ history of that institution. Up 10
this date 1893 students have matricu-
lated.
James Bell, of Pulaski county, re-
Gently sold 500 head of fat cattle for
export averaging 400 pounds each
in weight The sale amounted to
$50, COO.
The Farmers Alliance of Nelson
county, Va, has added-to it u Mutual
Aid Association feature, with death
assessment for the families OF those
who die.
The Tooth annual session of the
Virginia Conference of the NJ. d.
Church. South, was opened in Peters
burg, Wednesday morning, Bishop
keener presiding.
NORFOLK, VA, Nov. 1O.-Henry
Custis, the negro murderer of L. Ii.
Waller. the aged storekeeper, robbed
and killed on the night of September
rs, 1859, in Farmers Creek district OF
Norfolk county. was hanged to-day.
1t is announced that Virginia will
be represented at the Worlds Fair,
and that its building will be one of
the old colonial type, measuring 33NI6
feet, two stories high and surround
ed by piazza fifteen feet wide. Its
cost will be twenty thousand dollars.
Jordan Woodrum, of Roanoke
county, sold from his orchards to
New York firms 1000 barrels of APP
pies for $4,000, the purchasers pick.
Ing the fruit. The apple crop of
Roanoke will be 81 greater source OF
revenue this year than any other
crop raised.
For the first time since the war
Westmoreland county went Demo-
cratic Tuesday, Sd inst. Hon. Ben
ianlin Chambers having u majority
of 90 over his Republican opponent
for the House of Delegates Mr.
Chambers majority i'll Northumber-
land county was s12.
The arm of Gen. Stonewall Jack
son, which was amputated just after
the battle of the Wilderness, is still
buried in the garden of Maj. J. Hor-
ace Lacy. The monument marking
the spot where Jackson fell is in
closed by iron pailings ten feet high,
to prevent relic hunters despoiling it.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has expressed
the desire that the remains OF Hon.
Jefferson Davis Ee buried in Holly
wood and that the monument be
erected at some other point in the
city. She prefers not to select the
site for the monument, but is willing
to leave that to the association that
has the matter in charge.
Governor Mckinney has authorized
the payment of $3.50 to Sheriff Fish,
of Lincoln county. Washington, for
the capture and delivery of Wayman
Sutton, the Wvthe county murderer.
This was the amount fixed upon as q
compromise for the $1,000 reward Of
fered by Governor Lee for the cap
lure and delivery of the Wythe coun-
ty murderer.
The Virginia State Board of Agri-
culture, at its late meeting, resolved
bv a vote OF to 3 to recommend to
the legislature the passage of laws
prohibiting the sale of liquor on, or
within quarter of q mile of, any
fair ground while fair is being held,
and prohibiting any game of chance
whatever on such fair grounds, or
within half mile of them.
According to the report of the
superintendent of Public IDstruc-
ton, there were 1859 schools in OPP
Grafton in Virginia at the close OF the
school year, $500 of them being white
ard 2,1S3 colored. There were 542,-
72O pupils enrolled-21S. 141 white and
123,57g colored The total number of
teachers was: White males 2,c97;
white females 3,613; colored males
G2S; colored females 1,CSO,
Gov. Mckinney has daughter,
frankie, who, althoughsa fodder.
has a pretty we'll developed sense of
humor. Recently she was dismissed
from the table and as she reached
the door of the dining-room she turn
ed around, looked firmly at Gov. Nc
Kinney and the assembled company,
and waving her hand defantly over
her head, said: "Hurrah for Mahonel"
Then she walked off satisfied that
she had gotten even with the whole
crowd.
The Virginia State Debt Commits
sion and the Oicott Committee repre-
sentipg the foreign bondholders will
hold another conference in Richmond.
on Tuesday, November 18th, when
the committee will submit another
proposition looking to settlement
of the debt. The details OF the pro-
position are not known, but its gem
eral features are understood to be
much more favorable to the Com
monwealth than was the plan pre-
sented at the first conference. If the
commission think we'll of the propo-
sition they will report it to the Gen
eral Assembly.
1t is proposed to erect a $4,000 Me-
mortal Hail Of Stonewall Jackson at
tie V. NJ. 1. One relic in it will be
the following, which now hangs
framed in Washington & Lee Univer-
sity, and is a receipt jackson gave
when he, at seventeen years of age,
was riding Constable in West Virginia:
dec. end. 1S41.
"Rec'd of Isaac Mitchell twelve dol
lars and u cts in full of two eXecu-
tions against said Mitchell one in IA
YOUR of James Blare assignee of S. p.
Jackson; &c, the other in favour of
John p. Reed s. Co.
THO. JACKSON, Const.'
The Governor has issued a writ for
tbn election of Congressman in the
Sth district December Gth. The Con-
gresham elected, whoever he is, will
find the House of Representatives