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


Two old fashioned parlor rocking
chairs, once the property OF Mary
Washington, have been presented to
the Masonic Lodge at Fredericksburg.
Gold lands are looking up in vir-
ginia. 1t is understood that DIR.
Cooke refused $25, 900 for q tract of
land below Morrisville with gold on
it.
The monument recently erected to
the memory of Alexander H. Stephens,
e-President of the Confederate
States, at Liberty Hall, will be un-
yelled May 81.
On and after May 81 the Worlds
Fair grounds will be open every
Sunday. This decision was reached
at meeting of the directors of the
exposition on 18th inst.
Virginia's new oyster law has been
in operation seven months. The
receipts from October to May were
&27, SIS. ST and the disbursements $780,
96S.O5, leaving net balance of Sl6,-
401.S2.
Col. A. S. Buford, president of Vir-
sinia Worlds Fair Board and widely
known throughout the State for many
wears as railroad president, has
announced himself rs a candidate for
the gubernatorial nomination.
The Governor of New York has
signed the bill making it a misde-
meanor for publishers or proprietors
of newspapers to misrepresent their
circulation for the purpose of securing
advertising or other patronage.
\ new medical college, to be called
the College of Physicians and Sur
geons of Richmond, is to be estab-
lished there, and will open its doors
next fall to students. DR.. Hunter
Mcclure is at the head of the move
ment.
Every road leading out of Raleigh
North Carolina. with one exceptions
has been graded and nicely macada-
mixed for several miles. \ business
gentleman estimates the gain to the
city from truck alone at from $4,000
to $15, 1000, per annum.
Last week seven banks in Indiana
suspended business. three in Ohio
failed, and five in Michigan and one
in Illinois closed doors. Their disas
ter is due to connection with the Co
lumbia National Bank of Chicago
which suspended Thursday.
The Southern Baptist Convention
Monday adopted Il resolution in favor
of closing the Worlds Fair on Sunday
and the committee on time and place
OF holding the next meeting reported
in favor of Dallas, Tex, the Friday
before the second Sunday in next
May.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Convention at Indianapolis, adj
iourned on Saturday after passing
resolutions condemning the opening
of the Worlds Fair gates OH Sunday
Elk President Harrison and John
Wanamaker addressed the conven
ton.
Gen. S. C. Armstrong, founder and
superintendent of the Normal lnsti-
tute at Hampton, died last week
aged fifty. six years. Ever since the
war he has devoted his life to the
manual training of young colored
people and Indians of both sexes.
He often had rs many as 1000 under
his care.
Col. J. Hampton Hoge, of Mont
gomery county, Va, has been APP
pointed consul at Annoy, China. This
position was rendered him by Mr..
Quincy, in lieu of the Hong Kong
consulate, for which he was an
applicant. The position pays $4,000
O wear, to which are added fees pro-
badly reaching $4,000 per annum.
Governor Mckinney has returned
from Washington, where he went to
make an arrangement to secure a
steamer for prosecuting the work OF
surveying the oyster grounds. The
steamer Petrol, of the fish commits
sioners' department., has been placed
at the disposal of the Virginia
authorities. Captain Baylor will
resume operations on June 1. and
expects to complete survey OF the
grounds during the summer.
A handsome monument over the
remains of Confederate soldiers bur-
led in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago,
is to be unveiled on the 25th of July
next. Starting with a nucleus OF
$500, raised by the Monument AS
ISOLATION through q lecture delivered
by Gen. John b Gordon, of Georgia,
a sufficient sum has been secured, and
the monument is rapidly approaching
completion. A generous response
from the citizens OF Chicago was a
subscription of $4,000.
President Cleveland was recently
written to and asked to become Il
member of the Virginia Historical
Society. A few days ago Private
Secretary Thurber responded to this
letter. He said there were SO many
appeals to connect himself with SINH
lar organizations that Mr.. Cleveland
had concluded not to join any of
them. Elk President Harrison was
recently elected a member of the
Virginia Historical Society.
The remains of President Davis will
be brought to Richmond in an obser-
walton car, which will be specially
draped and painted for the purpose.
The sides Of the coach are practically
made OF glass, and when the casket
is placed on an elevation in the cen
tire of the car it will be visible as the
train moves along. The detailed in.
structions for the arrangement of the
car have not yet been given to the
Richmond and Danville officials, but
as soon as they are decided upon the
work will be commenced and rapidly
pushed to completion.
The hand book which the State
commissioner of agriculture will issue
shortly will contain information for
those desiring to settle permanent
ly III Virginia. This work will have
succinct statement of the claims Of
l.. - Il.