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

The value of the exports from New
port News to foreign countries dur
ing the month of July, 1891, amount
ed to $4,000.
Rev. +. B. Laurens (Uncle Larry,
of Ashland, has so far improved from
n long and painful illness az to he
able to visit relatives in Rappahan-
mock county.
Robert Gordon, the colore.l man
who was held in the Norfolk jail for
while for safe keeping and who was
carried to Hampton for trial for an
assault committed on lady of that
section, has been sentenced to be
hung.
The story going the rounds of Stone.
wall Jackson having dismounted and
loaned his horse to q tired-ot infan-
TRUMAN to ride awhile on the Valley
pike near Winchester is true one.
The infantrvnan was James Swlnk.
of Greenville, in this county. and he
will never forget it.-Staunton Vim
dicator.
The Senate and House Committees
on Criminal Expenses will meet in.
Richmond in joint session on August
5th. They have held several separate
meetings, but this will be the first
time they have met together. The
object is to agree, if possible, on
uniform report to their respective
bodies. Senator Blackstone is chair.
man of the former committee and
Delegate Hay the latter.
We cannot believe that there is any
serious opposition among the farmers
of Virginia to Senator Daniels re-
election, or that Mr.. Beverly-if he
entcrtains purpose Of standing for
tho place as reported-has been en-
couraged therein by the farmers.
Major Daniel throughout his term
of service in the Senate has inyari-
ABLY stood up for the agricultural i'll
tercsts of his State and the country.
-Lynchburg Virginian.
Hon. Thomas Whitehead, Virgin
ia's Commissioner of Agriculture, has
issued circular interrogatlng the
farmers of the State as to the most
valuable crops raised in their respec-
five districts. Mr.. Whitehead says:
Accurate answers from the best and
most reliable farmers i'll the different
sections of every county III the State
will he of great value TO the farmers
and of much Importance in securing
immigration of actual farmers, truck,
ers, and fruit-growers.
The impression which got abroad
that the Virginia debt commission
would shortly hold at the White Sui
phur Springs, West Virginia, another
meeting was incorrect. A prominent
member of the commission is au-
tboritv for the statement. No meet
ing is likely to be called until the
Olcott committee express the desire
to present some new proposition.
Whenever the commission meets it
will be in Richmond, certainly with
in the limits of Virginia.
STAUNToN, VA, August Last
night when the east bound Chesa-
Deake and Ohio train was between
Waynesboro and Basic City man
entered the sleeper and going to the
berth occupied by Mr.. Cornell, of
Portsmouth, Ohio, demanded his
money. Cornell refused to give it to
him and started to make n defence,
when the robber shot him, inflicting
dangerous wound. The assailant
escaped. Cornell died at Charlottes-
vile, last Wednesday.
The election in Virginia in Novem-
Der will be for members of the House
of Delegates and one-half of the
State Senators. The indications are
that the members of the Farmers
Alliance in Virginia are generally in
accord with the Democratic party,
and that any movement they make
will be within the party organization.
The Republican party in the State
seems to be without organization,
and it is probable but few Republi-
can legislative candidates will be put
forward. This assures an overwhelm-
ing Democratic majority in the next
Legislature, which will eject base
I, ment officers. A United States SEN
ator will also be chosen, and there is
no doubt Senator John w. Daniel
will be his own successor without the
slightest Democratic opposition.