Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-03
VIRGINIA Me-. s.


One dealer shipped from Dublin,
Pulaski county, recently, 255 head OF
fat cattle. for which he. received an
average Of SLIPPER head.
Rev. Sam Jones will hold o series
of meetings at Bristol, beginning 10Th
of October, and !. tabernacle is to be
built there by that time.
In the 9th Va, Internal Revenue
District, compared with 1890, the
cigars made fell of in 1881 q, OM,
while The cigarettes increased loo, 0oo.
James c. Gentry, of Crozet, Abe,
marie. last week sold 600 barrels OF
Albemarle pippins at So. IS per barrel
1t only costs 81 q barrel to send :p-
piles from Crozet to Europe, VIA
Newport News.
The Rev. pr. Samuel D. Bnrcfarl,
suthor Of the famous alterations
"Puln. RoInanis1n and Rebellion. in
the Presidential campaign Of 1881.
died last Friday. ut Sars toga, \. y,
IN the &0th year OF his age.
Joseph Rumcardner, OF Page Co.
Vii. on the 9Th inst. celebrated ms
ninety fifth birth day at the hnnic OF
j. G. Eumgardner& his youngest son,
ared fifty-fnnr. Tie father can still
read without spectacles and walk
mile on a county road with ease.
James f. Goddin, siyty-two years
old. al one time a wealthy lawyer OF
Richmond. Va. died in poverty in
the work house on BlackwelTs Is
Hand. Now York. on Saturday night
Death resulted from fract, re OF
the skull sustained by Il fall while
intoxicated.
1t is said that the prevailing inn
preston in Abingdon is that Dr.
Baker, recently convicted nf poison
ing his wife, will he rranted n now
trial. and that if he shall he lie will
be acquitted Many ladies have
signed a position for giving him
second chance for his life.
The apple crop is II very heavy one,
and as a result of this there arc sever
weight brandy distillerics in Nadi
son county alone. The United Statss
deputy collector of internal revenue
of that district says Madison has
more 6istilleries than any other coun-
ty east Of the Blue Ridge.
The census shows the value of the
property held by colored people in
the Southern States to be as follows:
MARYLAND. S.. 500, 1875; Virginia, 4.gO0.-
coo; North Carolina. S1l .01Q, Coz; South
Carolina. S12. 500. 900; Georgia, S1o.
415. $50: Florida. $780, eco; West Vir-
cinia. So. COZ. Goa; District of Columbia,
$4,000, 600: Louisiana, SIS, 100, 900; Mis-
Sissippi, S13, 100000.
Second Auditor Frank Fuflin. of
Virginia, produces the figures TO
show that in the last nine years Vir-
giuia has only paid for legal services
to Fl light the coupons $50, ono, ana Try
that expenditure has keptout S6.00o,-
| coo of forfeited raX receivable coupons
which would have hankrrpted the
Treasury and compelled increased
taxation.
Last Friday Governor Mckinney
committed 10 Imprisonment for life
the sentence of Catherine Jackson,
who was to be executed ct Charlotte
Court House, Va, September 18th;
for murder. His reason for granting
this clelnencv is that the WOMAN is
of unsound mind The Executive
was also petitioned, but refused to
commute to imprisonment for life
the death sentence Of Martha Muir
riel. another colored woman, sem
fenced to be hanged at the same
place on the same day. Her crime
i was the murder of her child.
Rev. WIN. w. Page, D. D., The
highly respected pastor of the New
York Presbyterian Church, whose
elegant edifice stands ut 18th avenue
ard 12Sth street, that city, has de-
cided to leave the Presbyterian de-
nomination and enter the ministry
of the Protestant Episcopal Church
the religion Of his fathers and his
ratherss fathers for more than two
hundred years. He is II Viiginian by
! bflhH1rFheljfs. Randolphs, Nelson's, Car
! tiers, Harriscns and Byrds. He Was
a gallant soldier in the Confederate
army.
The county court of Loudoun coun-
~, Va, decided in a case before it
recently, that the fact that a tenn
pcrance meeting is interspersed with
religious worship, such as prayers
and hymns does not bring it under
the law protecting public worship
from being disturbed. Two defend
ants had been fined $40 by q Justice
under that law for selling water
melons near the grounds OF u tenn
perance meeting SO conducted, with
out the permission of those in con
troll of the ground. The jury acquit
ted the defendants under instructions
from the court that, If the cause of
temperance is subordinated to the
Worship Of God, then the meeting is
one for religious worship, if the wor-
ship Of God is incidental to and sub
ordinate to the advancement of tenn
perance doctrines, then the meeting
is not religious and the jury must &c