Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-05-20

The Board of Supervisors meet on
the 18th day of June next.
The first strawberries of the season
appeared on the local market last
Saturday.
Mr.. John Cropper, of Washington,
has been soiourning in Accomac dur
ing the past week.
Hon. John S. Wise, of New York,
was the guest of DIR. John j. Wise
at Accomac G. H., during the week.
Mrs. Thomas P. Mcconnell, Pun
roteague. an invalid for several
wears, died ut her home in that own
on Saturday last.
LII. Ames has been appointed
postmaster ut Pnngoteague, I. {.
Kelly at Hallwood and 0. NJ. Jones
on ChincoteaSue Island.
Mr.. J. H. johnson, editor of the
Farmer and Fisherman, was at Acco-
mac C. Fl. on "Wednesday and vel
come visitor to our Sanctum.
MIR Robert B. Handy, editor of the
Eastern Shore Herald. has been re-
appointed superintendent of public
schools for the county of North
ampton.
Mr.. John w. Belote, a prosperous
farmer and good citizen, died at his
home near Keller, last Saturday. of
spinal meningitis, supcrinduced by
erysipelas, due to small scratch on
his face.
Drer. the condemned murderer of
Mrs. Fadden. now in Northampton
iail, awaiting execution, is reported
TO have made written confession
duplicating person living ut Cape
Charles in the crime.
Mr.. JOS. R. Riggs, agent, offers for
sale in this issue, valuable real es-
tate. situated nj the head of Muddy
Creek. of which Zadoc Mock died
seized and possessed. See adver-
tisement for full particulars.
REV. Byron c. Clark. of Princeton
College, has accepted the call recent
~ extended him by the Presbyterian
churches III upper Accolnac and will
i'll the pulpit OF the Drunmondtown
church next Sunday morning.
Il large audience witnessed the
very excellent entertainment given
Ia The court house Tuesday night by !
Ralph and Ruth Bingham. The en-
terrainlnent was given under the aus
pi.es of the II. E. Church, South.
Comfy Treaurer E. T. Powell says
thatthe N.Y.P.& NJ r. Co. has paid
to him all taxes assessed against it for
the year 1892 by the authorities OF
Accolnack, to wit: the district and
county free school taxes and the
county levy.
The members Of Pungoteague
Peninsula Farmers Association are
earnestly requested to be present at
their hall on the 22nd inst, p. m,
by Mr. W L. Drummcnd, secretary.
Business OF Importance demands
their attention.
The following judges of election
compose the board to meet at the
clerks office on the 27th inst, and
open the poll books and declare the
result of the election: Joseph 7.
Kenney, Hiram Birmingham, Charles
G. Dix, Thomas w. Russell and Ed
ward S. Wise
Mr.. Geo. C. Marshall, special agent
of Mutual Life Insurance Co., of New
York, will be at Mappsville during
the ensuing week, and representing
as he does one of the best companies
III the world, he has the right to
claim the attention and patronage of
those needing insurance in that
section.
Changes will be made in passenger
schedule of the n. Y. P. 6 N. r. K.
to take effect Monday, May 22nd.
The steamers after that date will
leave Portsmouth 7 a. IN, Norfolk
7.15 a. III. Minor changes will be
made in the schedule time at some
of the stations on the line of the
road
Especial attention is invited to ad-
vertisenents in this issue of Walter
G.. Fentress, j. H. Seward & Co., and
G.. l.. Hurley u Co., commission mer.
chants, Baltimore. They are well
known to and literally patronized
by the shippers of the Eastern Shore
and we cheerfully commend them for
continued favors.
William Galloway, who with
Dennis Caull robbed Duffield
Savage, formerly OF this county
but now of Baltimore, of
large sum of money in Wilmington,
Del. last December, has been SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment in
the penitentiary He was to have
been given twenty lashes at the
whipping post also, but Governor
Reynolds RENTED this part of the
sentence at the very time the casti
cation was about to begin.
Robert L. Wharton and Severn
Nelson, the two Maryland prisoners
hold In, our inil FOR Gnac of sanA aaob