Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-02-20


issue. See advertisement.
Premiums offered in this issue for
subscribers to the Real Estate and
Farm Journal, published by DIR. S.
X. Marshall, Snow Hill, Md.
F. H. Dryden, real estate agent at
Pocomoke city, has sold a very valu-
able truck farm in Somerset county,
Md, to James G.. Littleton, of Modes
town.
DR.. Oscar F. Byrd, dentist, will be
at the Atlantic Hotel. Chincoteague
Island, February Goth, March 1st,
End and Srd., for the practice of his
profession.
The Mutual Stock Insurance Asso-
citation of Accomac parish, will meet
at Mappsville, on the first Saturday
in March. at O'Clock p H., for the
election Of officers.
An advertisement of c. @. Dryden
& Co., Baltimore, commission mer-
chants and jobbers in hay, grain &C.,
in this issue, is commended to the at
tention of our readers.
Anonymous communications re-
ceive no attention at this Office and
still they continue to come despite
our frequent assertions to that effect
and find place in the waste basket.
Accomac Nurseries. advertised in
this issue. merit the attention Of our
readers. The stock is first class, the
proprietor reliable and most of you
need some of it-g;ve him your or
ders.
Rev. John w. Hundley, formerly
of this county. now of Luray, Va,
our exchanges say, has accepted a
call to the passionate of the Baptist
Church, at Martinsburg, West Vir-
ginia.
Ten acres OF land with house there
on, situated near Pastoral. will be
sold at public auction at Accomac
C. H., February goth, court day, by
John t. Budd, for the heirs. See
advertisement.
Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson. of Will
sonia Neck, and mother of Capt E.
Richards n commander of the steam
er Old Point Comfort, died of typhoid
fever on Thursday last, after pro-
tracted illness.-Headlight.
The reputation Of the Maltby
House, Baltimore, for first class ac-
commodations and low rates is fully
sustained under the present manage
ment. This fact with its central To-
cation should recommend it to all
travellers.
The gross earnings of the New
York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Rail I
road, for the year ending December
S1st. 1891 were $7sS.43H; decrease
s14, 767. Expenses 1862, SOL; decrease
$4,000. Net a155,7s9; decrease s9,sOG.
Berkeley Graphic.
Capt. 4. F. Chase and Capt. L. W.
Chase, charged with violating our
oyster laws, had a hearing before
Justice Nelson, at Accomac G. H,
last Tuesday. The Justice was of
the opinion that the charge was not
sustained by the evidence and dis
charged them.
Mr.. R. B. Cooke, General Freight
and Passenger Agent of the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Rail !
road, has been appointed General
Agent of the Petersburg and Norfolk
Steamboat Company, and will be in
full control of all their Norfolk bust
ness.-Norfolk Ledger.
The Onancock Cornet Band will
give an entertainment, Tuesday eve
ming, February Esd, 1892, in the
Town Hall of that place. The pro-
gram will consist of choice vocal and
Instrumental selections by the best
talent of the town, and will conclude
with a rousing negro minstrel.
The stock farm at Westover, Nd, |
of which Mr.. Fred Waddy has been
engaged as manager, is one of the
hest and best stocked on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. The race course
ON it is the finest south OF Delaware.
We congratulate the owner in secur-
ing the services of our countyman.
He will find him thoroughly CONVEX
SAINT with every department OF the
business and ready to discharge eff
GENTLY all the duties pertaining
thereto.
The hotel property at Drummond-
town has been sold, we are advised,
but at presen. we are not at liberty
to give the name Of the purchaser
It suffices for the present, to state,
that the work of clearing away the i
old buildinf for new one to be erect,
ed on the old site with all the modern
improvements will be begun in few
DAYS, and that the proprietor of the
same will be acceptable not only to
the people of the town, but to the
public generally.
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The supreme court Of appeals has
issued a writ of error and supeTsedeas
in the case of A. j, Morse and others