Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-10-10
NEWS IN ERyEP.


NE,is IN ERIEF.
Middlesex supervisors last week. de-
cided to put in force the. mo feiice
laws after six months notice.
During their visit to Richmond the
latter part Of October, AIRS. Jefferson
Davis anu Miss Winnie Davis will be
guests of Gen. Jos. Il. Anderson.
An important meeting of the Dem
ocratic State Executive Committee
will be held in Richmond, Tuesday.
October IL. to consider matters con-
nccted with the present campaign.
a Veteran Confederate cavalry
mems association is to be organized
in Richmond, one Object of which
will be to erect n monument to the
memory of General ]. L. B. Stuart.
Nearly ell the space at the State
Fair, to be held October oT7. eS ard
30, has been taken by exhibitors. 1t
is said that the exhibit will be the
Vest ever seen at q Virginia State
Fair.
Major f. M. Braxton, q well-known
citizen OF Fredericksburg, and of the
State, and formerly member of
Congress-. died Friday evening, Oct. :
Der sd. about $50 O'clock in the 9th
Year of his age.
The Knitting mills which have just
been erected at Newport News Will
he in full operation in 4 few weeks.
Arrangements are being made to
start several other important indus
tries ct that point.
it is reported that census statistics
will soon be published showing tF.t
there arc 1900, 900 red headed people
in the United States. This docs not
include golGen.haired, auburn or
persons whose hair is of reddish tint.
Eorlv Sunday morning the post
office at Berkeley. We, was robbed
of everything Of value that il con-
,tained. Eight hundred dollars in
stamps ard change was secured, be-
sides a number of registered letters.
Mrs. Mary I. Prentiss, widow Of
the great Mississippi oratorand states
man, Sergeant S. Prentiss. died in
New Orleans, Thursday. aged sixty
seven wears. Mr.. Prentiss died on
July 1. 1850, at Longwood, near
NatchcZ.
Chief Justice Green, of Oklahoma.
hes decided in a. Gcn:agc suit that
when n saloon is run contrary to law
CIV person, either al officer or pri-
vatc citizen, can destroy the business
and no damage can be collected by
the saloon-keeper.
The Viewpoints News Land ard De
velopment Company. Friday, 2d,inst.,
sold ore hundred lois in the eastern
section of Tie city. The. purchasers
are Virginia and Ohio men, who
agree TO erect $40, coo worth Of houses
on the property within the next
eight months.
The colored people in Petersburg
are taking much interest in the In
dustrial Fair to be held by their race
in Richmond. They will. no doubt,
send many articles for exhibition and
will attend the fair in large numbers.
Tie several colored military COM
panies will compete for tie Prize for
the best drilling.
The London Tid-Bits recently of
fcred g prize to the one giving the
lest definition Of money Henry
E. Bangs. of Sheffield, obtained the
prize His definition was: IAN or
ticle which may be used as a univcr-
sal passport to everywhere except
Heaven, and as Il universal provider
CT everything except happiness
Elevator "a which was the first
of the three elevators built by tie
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at 10
Gust Point, is now a mass of ruins,
representing about SS00,0C0 in losses.
1t was DESTROYED by fire Sunday
morning, with all its machinery and
between 1876, OcO and $50, 900 bushels of
wheat. 80 cause could be assigned
for the Ere.
General James c. Hill, our State
railroad commissioner, has been on
a travelling insrectiorship through
Alabama and other Southern States,
and, from his observations, has be-
come satisfied that separate railroad
cars for the two races are decidedly
practicable and arc conducted with
much success in Alabama. under the
law of that State.-Lynchburg News.
The Hon. Harvey Watterson, the
venerable father of Mr.. Henry Wat
terson, editor of the Courier Journal.
died on Thursday night. in Louisville,
ky. He vas the sole survivor of the
sixth Congress, ard during
the wears Of his active life, was n dis
tinguished figure in national politics.
Gen. jackson was his godfather. Dur
ing the civil WAL he was u strong ad-
vccate Of The Union.
The Alabama cyster-law fest case
WAS decided by Judge Selnlnes in
habeas corpus proceedings at Mont
gomery on Saturday. The test was
us to whether the new law forbidding
shipment of oysters in the shell out
of the State at certain seasons and
by rail Only would stand. The Judge
decides that Il prohibition of this
character is unconstitutional as VIC
1,tiye of the freedom of interstate