Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-07-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Virginia. NEW =.
Wheat is selling in Leesburg for
rs cents per bushel. about 81 cents
less than the farmers can afford to
raise it.
The Yeocomico Alliance, of North
umhcrland county, have surrendered
their charter on the ground that
when they joined the organization it
was with tho understanding that it
was non-political.
The Richmond Christian Advocate
is to be moved to Albenarle. DR.. j.
j. Lafrerty, editor of the Advocate,
has recently bought the Powell Mil
property near Crozet and expects to
publish his paper there until Jan
uary 1st, 1894.
Chairman Basil Gordon will open
Democratic headquarters ct Char
louisville on or about August LIST,
when the campaign will open. He
will announce the members of his
executive committee in time to have
q meeting about that date.
The Virginia State Farmers Ali
ance will meet at Richmond in the
hall of tho House of Delegates on the
18th of next month. Each county is
entitled to one delegate, and it is ex
pected that between seventy five and
Il hundred delegates will be present.
1t is said that more persons we're
killed by lightning in Virginia dur
ing June than ever before during one
month. A gentleman who has kept
an account of the deaths as publish
ed says the total number is not less
than twenty, and probably twenty
five.
The original portrait of Pocahon-
tas, painted in 1912, says the Boston
Woman's Journal. has been secured
for exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
1t is owned by Eustace Neville Rolfe,
of Norfolk, England, n descendent of
John Rolfe, whom Pocahontas mar
ried.
Mr.. James r. Fisher has resigned
the secretaryship of tie Virginia
Democratic State Committee after
several years of faithful and efficient
service. He will be succeeded by
Capt. Ham. Shepard, a former secre
tary of the committee and one of the
best organizers in the State.
The Lee memorial windows which
are to be placed in ST. Paul's Church.
in Richmond, in honor of Gen. Robt.
f. Lee, have been opened and found
uninjured by theirlong voyage. They
were made in Munich, and are given
by the Misses Stewart, of Brook Hill.
They will be placed opposite Gen.
Lees pew in ST. Pauls Church.
There are two lights.
The Virginia State Bar Association
convened at the Hygeia. Fort Non
roe, Tuesday. The president, Hon.
}. Randolph Tucker, delivered the
opening address. his subject being
The Reform in the Civil Procedure
Of the State" At the evening ses-
sion Mr.. Robert L. Parrish, of Gov
ington, Va, read q paper entitled
Master and Servant"
William Early. of Madison county,
has a gold watch that away back in
1850, Extra Billy Smith" (who was
running stages from Washington
city, but afterwards became Govern
or OF Virginia, Congressman and
Major General in the Confederate
army, handed to a creditor, saying:
Take this, it is the only property
have in the world" The watch has
been running siXty-two years and
still keeps good time.
A few days ago Mr.. PoindeXter,
State librarian, found among the
State papers in the Capitol at Rich
mol,d the ORIGINAL draft Of the rltifi
cation by Virginia of the federal con-
stitution, which document was
adopted by the convention of 1856.
BE also found at the same time a
draft of the form OF government for
Virginia submitted to the convention
of 1776. All the papers are in @ good
state of preservation and will be
bound.
Three Of the Virginia Representa-
tives in Congress will rot he candi-
dates for denomination this year.
They are Messrs Lawson, of the
second district, Lester of the fifth,
and Buchanan, of the ninth. The
two first named will retire to private
life on account of poor health and
Mr.. Buchanan after serving two
terms finds that the practice of law
is more in accord with his tastes and
he will give his entire time to his
profession. In the ninth district the
indications are that Mr.. James w.
Marshall, of Craig county, will be
the Democratic nominee to succeed
Mr.. Buchanan.