Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-01-30
AcCoMAc COURTHOUSE, VA.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 80, 1892.
John W.Edmonds. Editor and Owner
LOCAL NEWS.

Mrs. Alfred J. Lilliston, Accoma'
c. H, is critically ill at the time W.
go to press.
A bill has been introduced in oul
Legislature to allow Capt. Henri!
Crockett to build a wharf at Oman
cock.
Orders by mail will receive the
prompt attention of Mr.. ". L. Mock
agent for Humphreys s. Tilghman'l
fertilizers.
The Board of Supervisors will meet
at Accomac c. H., Monday, February
18th, 10a M, and all the members
thereof are reques ed to be present
Mr.. R. B. Handy, OF E. S. Herald
and Mr.. Samuel Crockett, of Oman
cock Democrat, were visitors to Ac
comac c. H., and our sanctum, or
court-day.
The ladies of Modestown Baptist
Church will have an oyster supper in
schoolhouse at Modestown, Friday
February 5th, 4 p. m, to raise funds
to pay for church repairs. Public in
vited.
The first quarterly meeting of the
South Accomac charge, of this year,
will be held at Drummondtown,
January Both and 31st. The Pre-
siding Elder, Rev. J. D. Hank, will
preach on Saturday, 5Oth, II a. w.,
and on Sunday, 51st, 8 p. m.
Rev. Henry L. Derby, of Suffolk,
Va, who has been invited to become
rector of the Episcopal Churches in
Accomac, will preach at Onancock,
in Holy Trinity, on Sunday, the 31st
inst, at II a. ~, and at Drummond-
town, in st. James, at 7:3O p. M,
same day.
Mr.. J. Brad Beverly, vice-president
of the State Farmers Alliance, will
address the citizens of Accomac and
Northampton at Belle Haven, Satur-
day. February 9th; Onancock, Mon
day, February Sth; Hallwood, Tues
day, February 9th. The addressswill
be to the public and everybody is in
vited to be in attendance.
Our county Jail was without an oc
cupant last Wednesday-the last of
the ten prisoners confined there at
the beginning of the week being re-
leased OH Tuesday. A colored brother,
charged with stealing watch last
Thursday, uo,r-a1rse- -ee-pfsrvv-aoel-i--d
the bars.
Delegates to the road meeting at
Accomac C. H., next Wednesday,
have been reported as follows: n.
w. Mock, DR.. John W. Bowdoin,
James A. Hall, John D. Parsons,
John T. White, a. J. Rev, VIM. B..
Pitts. DR.. John E. Mapp, Levin J..
Nelson, VIM. NJ. Taylor, Benz. F.
Bull and Geo. W. Elmore.
Mr.. John. Guthrie, the obliging and
courteous representative of the we'll
known commission house of J. H.
Seward s Co., Baltimore, for several
years, will continue to serve his old
firm and the public another year,
and is now prepared to furnish his
patrons with strawberry crates for
the present year.
The books of Mr.. A. T. Leather
bury, secretary of the Chesapeake
Agricultural Association, will be
closed, Monday, February Sth, at
p. M, and all entries must be made
before that time accompanied by five
dollars. All colts with no better
record than minutes can be entered
in the year old race-name of own
er, horse, color and sex to be given
at time of entry.
Our townsman, Mr.. n Oldham, Jr.,
one of the victims, is in receipt of a
letter from the clerk of the circuit
court of the city of Baltimore, stating.
that the auditors account in the Pro,
gressive Endowment suit has been
finally ratified; that the members
will obtain a dividend of eighty pei
cent, and that the receivers would
begin to pay off at an early day.
Bills have passed the House Of
Delegates of Virginia, to authorize
the Board or Trustees of Margaret
Academy, to make sale of the proper
: ty. held by them in trust-and to au
thorize the Board of Supervisors o.
Accomac, to increase the pay fol
county and district school purpose:
and to define the line between the
magisterial districts OF Atlantic ant
MeCOmDkln.
Mr.. Kennard Nottingham, died a
the home of his father, Mr.. John E
Nottingham, near Eastville, last Sun
day. He was county surveyor at the
time of his death and for a shor
while was editor of the E. S. Herald
Earlier in life he was student a
West Point and had taken a higl
stand at that famous institution
when he was compelled to leave OF
account of failing health. The un
timely death of SO promising young
man is greatly to be regretted.
The English steamer "Sir William
Armstrong" from New Orleans t.
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