Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-08-15

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There are ten murder cases on the,
docket of Scott Circuit Court.
Rev. Sam p. Jones will again visit
Staunton on the 18th instant i'll the
interest of the local optionists.
The Farmers Alliance are consii-
ering the operation of - ce operative
tobacco warehouse in Petersburg.
DIR. Il. a. Drewry, who was physi-
elan to the Virginia penitentiary ull-
der Gov. Cameron's administration,
is dead.
The Hotel Bedford at Bedford City,
is the fifth new Virginia hotel to
adopt white waiter girls for the din
ing room.
Robert +. Lee, when in the United
States Army, over fifty years ago,
prepared river Improvement charts
which are still in use III ST. Louis.
Gen. Harry Heth, of Va. aud Ma
ior j. G. Stearns, of VT, have been
appointed by Secretary Proctor to
mark the lincs of battle of the two
armies ut Antictam.
Capt. w. w. Brand of Roanoke
CO., Va, invested $40 i'll so ewes and
one buck September, 1880, and the
investment has. up to this time, yield
Cd him clear profit of $l99.5o.
Judge Claiborne. OF st. Louis. says
that when lie first SAW Gen. j. F.. Is.
Stuart, who WAS ut that time lien-
tenant fresh from West Point, he re-
@ariled him Us the liandsomest Young
man in America. 1t may have been
This extraordinary personal beauty
that later in life made Stuart the
idol of the Confederate Army.
BELL. REF, VA. via WEST POINT,
VA. August S.-There WAS an oyster
mems meeting here to-day, and it
was resolved to organize branch OF
the Ovstermen's Protective Cnlon.
A meeting will be held August 22l.
to perfect the organization. 1t is
hoped that by bringingall classes OF
ovstermen together in an association
the warning elements may be recon-
ciled.
The gang of tramps and burglars
recently operating in Virginia is said
TO have numbered as many as TWEEN.
". The Richmond police arc still
looking for those who have elud"d
arrest. John D. Rogers, alias Mis-
souri, Rcdd. was paving attention TO
a Chesterfield widow and is said TO
have made good immersion. He
had represented himself as detective
from Texas.
At meeting OF the colorcd secret
society of Trne Reformers, held at
Mossingford Church, near brakes
Branch. Saturday night, a noise WAS
heard outside. and it WAS thought
that some ore was irving to ovcrhearI
what was going on The guard James
Brooks, went out and fired a pistol
several times. One of their OWN mem
bers, Henry Logan. received the last
bullet and died from the wound.
NORFOLK. Aug. "a desirable lot
in Portsmouth on the water front.
next to the navy-yard, has been pur-
chased by the government for $4,000
for IN addition to the lighthouse
huoy-vard in that city. An eligible
lot of land for the establishment of a
new lighthouse at Cape Charles has
also been purchased by the govern
ment recently. ard a building will be
erected with all the modern improve
ments and facilities, and the Smiths
Island light Cape Charles) will be
abandoned.
The death of child near Glade
Springs under most horrible circum-
stances is reported. \ physician WAS
called in to prescribe for the child.
which was unwell. and administered
what was thought to be calolnel
The doses were too large and soon
the child was salivatcd. Then fol-
lowed, until death kindly put an end
tn its suffcrings. horror Of horrors.
The little ones teeth came out one
by one or were plucked out by its
own hands, the whole side of its face
was eaten away. its flesh sloughed
rrom the bones, and its body became.
a mass of putrefaction. The matter
is to be investigated
Staunton has what perhaps no Vir-
Cinia city, large or small, has ever
had, the heads OF five grand secret
orders residing within her limits at
the same time. Taking them in the
order of election. they are John G.
Fretwell, Grand Worthy Patriarch
of Sons of Temperance of Virginia:
John Howard Wayt, Most Worship
ful Grand Master of Masons of Viz
einia: w. l.. Olivier Grand Chancel
lor of Knights of Pythjas of Virginia;
G. C. Wheat. Grand Master of Odd
Fellows of Virginia, and I. G. Nor
ion, Grand Commander of the Amer
lean Legion of Honor of Virginia.
This is very remarkable showing
and, we believe, unprecedented in
the history of secret orders in this
State or. possibly, in any other State
in the Union.-Staunton indicator.
RICHMOND, Aug. 10.-The State AL
lance Convention. which meets here
in the hall of the House of Delegates
on August IS. will be composed of
one hundred delegates. The sessions
of the body will be secret, but a press
committee will no doubt be appoint
ed. through which will percolate such
information as the public is to know.
Some of the leading members of tine
order in the State say that it is the
desire of the best informed that only
the most moderate measures shall be
adopted. TO do otherwise. it is
thought, might cause some friction,
which would be troublesome in fu-
turc contests. 1.-The great struggle,
said a well-known alliance leader,