Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-06-13

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bloom being an Indication of q
good corn crop, has anything in
it., this ought to be fine year
for corn.
The geographical centre of
population in the United States
is now ten miles South of Greens
burg, Ind. Seventy years ago,
in 1920. it was sixteen miles
North of Woodstock, Shenan-
doah county, Va.
The Richmond Chamber of
Commerce has elected Mayor
Ellyson and Col. A. S. Buford
delegates to the convention to
be held at Pulaski City, July 10,
to take steps to have Virginia
represented at the Worlds Fair.
Jefferson Hall, of Alexandria.
has a cow which he claims to
have purchased in Gordonsville
on the day of General Lees sur
render at Appomattox, and
which is still in good condition
and yields from four to five gal
Ions of milk daily.
The Board of Visitors of the
Blacksburg College has declared
all the chairs in the college va
cant after September next. 1t
has determined on an entire re-
organization of the faculty I'M
der the newly elected President,
DR.. Dabney, for the next ses-
sion.
One of the most interesting
law addresses that has been
heard in Virginia will probably
be that of A. M. Kelley, the
American Judge of the Inter
national Court at Cairo. Egypt,
to be delivered before the Vir-
GINA Bar Associations at the
White Sulphur Springs. July
2Sth. It's title is "Judicial Sys-
tenn of the Pharaohs.
Truckers around Norfolk are
beginning to send forward their
crop of Irish potatoes, although
they will not be shipped in large
quantities before next week.
The crop is estimated about a
60 per cent. yield, there having
been a loss of % per cent. from
rotting caused by the wet period,
which was succeeded by dry
spell that cut off about Is per
cent. more, it is thought.
The Executive Committee of
the State Board of Agriculture
met last Thursday at the home
of Maj. W. T. Sutherlin, in Dan
vile. The object of this meet
ing is to perfect arrangements
for holding farmers Institutes
at Pulaski and Bedford cities.
The one at the first-named place
will be held July 18th, and that
at Bedford about August 9Th.
The State Board will also meet
at Pulaski on July 18th.
The Alliance Farmer and Ru-
raj Messenger, of Petersburg,
the organ of the Virginia ALI
ance, vigorously opposes the
'Third-party movement recent
ly inaugurated at Cincinnati as
ill-advised and premature. 1t
says, and it reflects the views of
the Virginia farmers, that "the
Alliance as an organization has
no part in the Cincinnati con-
vention, and no member of the
Alliance is bound or committed
in any way by it's action. y
At Williamsburg, Va, Mon
day, Judge Farthing, in the
county court, rendered his de-
cision in favor of the petitioner
in the case of Mrs. Caroline H.
Kearns, whe recently instituted
habeas corpus proceedings to
secure her release from the
Eastern Lunatic Asylum, where
she claimed to be illegally de-
tanned. The court held that
Mrs. Kearns is not insane and
should be discharged. The case
has attracted considerable at
tention.
A few years ago Roanoke coun-
tv was one of the strongest Re
publican counties in Virginia.
But matters have been reversed,
and at the recent election the
Democratic nominees for the
county offices were elected by
majorities ranging from 200 to
500. The political revolution
has been brought about by the
large numbers of white men
from the North who have found
employment in the shops and
factories at Roanoke, Salem and
Vinton. These newcomers, with
out reference to past party af-
fliations, with but few excep-
tions vote with the Democrats.