Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-07-22

Mr. James A. Gentry. news editor
of the Richmond State, and formerly
Mayor OF Manchester, died suddenly
Monday morning.
The State Farmers Alliance will
hold it's annual session in Richmond,
August 18th, just twelve days after
the Populist Convention at Lynch
burg.
A dispatch form Charlottesville
states that DR.. J NJ. McBryde presi-
dent of the Virginia Agricultural
College, was offered, but declined,
the position of Assistant Secretary OF
Agriculture.
Ephraim W. Bull, the originator of
the Concord grape, is 81 years old.
He is still living at Concord, Mass,
where he exhibits to visitors the old
mother vine of the Concord grape,
which he planted fifty years ago.
During the first four months of the
present Administration 434 Presi.
Dental postmasters and 1926 fourth
class postmasters were appointed.
The postmasters appointed under
Mr.. Harrison's Administration for
the same period were 57S Presidential
and 7,460 fourth class.
The Tyler Club at Radford claim
that the delegates so far elected to
the Democratic State Convention
stand as follows: For Tyler, 1913; for
O,Ferrall, 242; for Buford, Is, and
doubtful 35. This does not tally
with the claims of the O'Ferrall lead
ers, whose summary places the Con-
gresham far in the lead of both his
competitors.
At q mass meeting of the demo
cratic party of fredericksburg, last
Wednesday. resolutions were unani-
mously adopted indorsing Colonel
| O'Ferrall for Governor and Hon. w.
A. Little, of that city, for Attorney
General-and that the pledges of the
democratic platform at Chicago
should be carried out by the uncon-
ditional repeal of that 'cowardly
makeshift,' called the Sherman law.
A California melon grower raises
seedless melons, and here is the way
he does it: He plants in the usual
way. When the vines are two or
three feet long he covers them at the
Joints, where the leaves come out,
with earth. In week or so they
take root at these joints. He then
cuts off the vine between the first
joint and the parent stem and the
new rooted vines do the rest, ana
seedless melons are the result.
The Appletons have engaged Gov
ernor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, to
write the life of General R. E. Lee
for their Great Commander" series
of works, now in course of prepare
ton. 1t is understood that Governor
Lee will have full use of General X.
E. Lees private papers, now IN posses,
sion of General G. w. G. Lee, and
will explain some of the unwritten
features Of the war of great historical
interest.
Capt. T. c. Morton, Secretary of
the Virginia Board OF Worlds Fair
managers has returned from an ex-
tended visit to the great Exposition:
He says the show is grand beyond
any description he could give OF it.
The Virginia building, he states, at
tracts much attention. 1t is daily
visited by FROM 5000 to 5000, among
whom are many citizens of the Old
Dominion. Nearly every body who
goes to the Mt. Vernon says Virginia
has made grand showing with the
money at its disposal.
Postmaster General Bissell has
decided to abandon the three sizes
of postal cards now in use, and. to
Substitute one size for both single
and reply cards. With that purpose
in view, the specifications which have
been sent to prospective bidders for
the contract for furnishing: the Pos
tai Service with cards during the
next four years call for single cards
of the uniform size of 81 by 81 inches.
This is what is known as the inter
national size, it being used generally
by the countries comprising the In
ternational Postal Union.