Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-03-25

hold It's next annual 1ueeGlllS tb oAO
White Sulphur Springs,
/.
The State board OF pharmacy will
hold u meeting in Richmond on Tues
day, the 2Sth. to examine persons who
wish to become licentiates to phar-
macy.
The friends of Major Holmes Conrad !
are now pushing him for the position
of Solicitor General us they think
that Mr.. Goode is practically out OF
the race
President Cleveland has announced
his intention Of being present in Chi
cago at the opening of the exposition,
May Mrs. Cleveland will accom-
pnny him.
The Naval Rendezvous in Hampton
Roads begins April 18th. On April
"a the fleet will sail for New York,
where the review will be held on'
April 9th.
At Quincy, ILL.,, March 18th. Hen
derson Smith, aged 119, died. lie
was born in 1774, and at one time,
it is said, was in the employ of Wash
ington. He was u confirmed Demo-
crat.
A delegation of Grand Army men
from Washington visited Richmond
last week and formally presented
complete outfit of furniture for one
of the wards of the Confederate
Soldiers Home.
Dollie Johnson, who is to cook at
the White House, was born and reared
in Georgetown, Ky. She was IL slave,
the property OF the late Mrs. Jane
Miller. She will get $50 q month.
She cooked for President Harrison
the first seven months Of his term ut
$75 Il month.
There arc three Hog Islands-one
in the Potomac where the oyster
trouble occurred; one on the Atlantic
coast. where Mr. Cleveland went duck
shooting, and one ut the mouth OF
the PatuXent River in the Chesapeake
BAY. 1t is on the latter island that
the quarantine station will be placed.
Hon. 7. Taylor Ellyson, the presi-
dent of the Jefferson Davis Monu-
ment Association. will leave in Il few
DAYS for New Orleans to make ar
rancenents for the removal OF Mr..
Dayiss remains to Richmond. The
disinternent will take place the
latter part of April and the body be
reinterred in Hollywood May So
Memorial Day.
President Cleveland was Sc years
old last Saturday and he celebrated
the occasion in the way he has passed
nearly every day since his induction
into Office. For three hours he was
: busy receiving a seemingly interlnin
able line of officeseekers and then
, Congressional friends. These visitors
, were in greater number than on any
previous day this year.
: Estherville, Iowa, young womer
} are down on hoop-skirts and any one
, who tries to wear one in the towr
+ will be given the coolest of shoulders
: SO decided meeting, which adopted
formal resolutions, declaring the
S hoop-skirt a snare and a delusion, g
relic OF barbarisn and an unworthy
: garment. After the meeting the dry
goods merchants agreed not TO order
any Of the denounced garments.
Governor Mckinney has addressed
a letter to each of the Southern Gov.
ernors inviting them and the heads
of their Agricultural Departments To
attend the convention to be held IN
Richmond on April 18th. The COY,
ernor expects that this gathering VIII
foreign immigration, but to induce a
desirable class of Northern and West.
ern settlers to locate in the South.
Mr.. Teenie Rucker, of Georgia,
who lost his hat while interviewing
the President at the White House on
Wednesday, was received message
from President Cleveland saying
that the lost hat had been found and
inviting him to call at the White
House to receive it. In reply to this
message Mr. Rucker replied: "l'll
be-if l 90 back to the White
House for any hat. | have received
too much notoriety already. What |
want is not my hat, but Il situation. F"
A man and Woman are travelling
about Oklahoma Territory working
novel swindle on the ministers.
They call upon a minister and ask
him to perform a marriage ceremony.
After it is over and the bride has been
kissed twenty dollar bill is rendered
the minister with the request that he
take out So for q fee. He hands back
SIS change with alacrity, and is very
happy until later, when he discovers
the bill to be counterfeit. Several
ministers have been victimized in one
county, but the swindlers have es-
capped arrest.
Ex-senator James L. Gordon is an
applicant for the consulship at Liv-
erpool. His petition has been for
warded to President Cleveland. 1t
is signed by every member of the
electoral college for Virginia, and his
candidacy is Endorsed by many dis
tinquished Senators and Representa-
tiyes from Virginia and other States
Delaware returns with interest the
services rendered the democracy of
that State last October, for the Gov
ernor and all the State officers of
Commonwealth, the judges Of the
Supreme Court. the chancellor Of the
State and others join in the petition
for his petition.
For the first time in many years
the Sunday laws were enforced in
Norfolk last Sunday. Steamers ar
irving at their wharves were not al
lowed to discharge their cargoes, and
when the stevedores at the Clyde
Line wharf attempted to unload they
were promptly arrested. Several
telegraph linemen were also arrested
for working on broken wires. Every
saloon was closed. and nothing in