Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-10-06
GENERAL NEWS.

Middling cotton sold in Norfolk
Tuesday at 81 cents pound, the
lowest price since 1874.
The prospects are regarded as good
for the building of railroad through
the Northern Neck of Virginia.
The matriculates at the University
OF Virginia exceed those of last year
already. 1t is now thought that the
number will reach 500.
His colleagues and former pupils
have presented Professor Schele de
We're. of the University, with solid
silver bowl, as atoken of their re-
gard and esteem.
There is much rejoicing in Newport
News, Va, over the fact that one OF
the three new gunboats for the Uni
ted States navy is to be built at the
ship-yards at that place.
Extraordinary demands for Demo-
cratic campaign literature are being
received by the national Democratic
congressional campaign committee in
Washington from all sections of the
country.
Colonel Breckinridge's friends in
Kentucky have given up the idea of
contesting the vote by which VIM.
c. Owens was chosen as the Demo-
cratic nominee to succeed Colonel
Breckenridge in Congress.
A terrible cyclone struck Little
Rock, Ark, at 1880 o'clock Tuesday
evening and almost devastated the
business quarter. Several people are
known TO have been killed and in
jured. The total loss will probably
approximate 100000.
Among former Republicans now
canvassing in the Ninth District for
Judge H. S. X. Morrison, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress, are
Colonel w. Q. Pendleton, Mort. T.
Browning, r. Aaden Penn, and
Colonel R. B. Berkeley.
The campaign in the 9th district is
getting the old Democrats out. AT
Hillsville, Carroll county, when
Daniel aud Swanson spoke, there
were present five old Democrats,
every one over eighty years old, and
who had been voting the ticket over
fifty years.
The campaign in Richmond will be
formally opened on Saturday night
by Hon. John w. Daniel, who will
speak at the theatre or Academy of
Music under the auspices of the City
Democratic Committee. 1t will be Q
rousing rally. All the clerks are ex-
pected to turn out in bodies.
The silver dinner service which
Mrs. J. w. Mackay has with her In
Europe is worth $4,000. Her hus-
band furnished $4,000 in weight OF
pure silver, and then paid another
1921 900 for the work done on it. The
above is reckoned as being the most
costly silver set now in use in the
world.
The Synod of Virginia of the Pres
byterian church, composed of all the
churches in Virginia, West Virgins
and Maryland connected with the
Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly, will hold its session il
Danville, beginning October %
About 20 or more delegates vii
attend.
The religious event in Richmond
this fall will be the National Con
vention of the Christians or Disci
pies of Christ. The body will meet
there on October 14th and be in ses
sion week. There will be 600 dele
gates in attendance, representing
every State and Territory and sew
eral foreign countries.
In a sermon at Aisquith-Stree
Presbyterian church, Baltimore, OF
Sunday morning, the Rev. u. Addi
Buchanan, Van Buren,, Polk, Pierce
Jackson, Harrison, and Cleveland
Thus, added Mr.. Smith, we fee
that "the old historic church is tn,
mother of Presidents
The damage done by the late storm
in Florida will amount to more thar
a million of dollars. The destruction
of property in st. Augustine ant
Tampa is enormous. The wind blew
with terrific force reaching at some
points 70 to 100 miles per hour. The
damage to the orange growers is in
calulable. In the large groves the
ground is completely covered will
green oranges. The loss will be fully
20 per cent.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood has qualified
before Judge Wexford, of the Cir
cult Court to practice law before hi!
tribunal. Last spring Mrs. Lockwood
presented herself before the Judge
but was refused admission to the bar
The case was appealed to the Su
preme Court of Appeals and an evenly
divided court decided against her
On rehearing she scored a victory
and in the meantime the Supreme
Court Of the United States declared
that she had q right to practice hel
profession in Virginia.
The Chattanooga Tradesman, il
its quarterly report for the three
months ending September 30, 1894, Of
the new industries established in the
Southern States, reports $50 indus
tries Incorporated ana organized IN
the South in the period named
against 454 in the third quarter OF
1898; 597 in the third quarter of 1892,
and 759 in the third quarter of 1891.
1t shows, says the Tradesman. that
the worst period of the depression
occurred in the summer of 1898, and
that there has been q distinct re-
covery, which is daily becoming
more marked.
A Knoxville (Tenn.) special says:
Mrs. Loola Small Jackson, daughter
of Rev. Sam. W. Small the Georgia
evangelist, has filed bill here ask
ing absolute divorce from her hus-
band, James Jackson, who comes
from one of the oldest families in
Tennessee; They were secretly
married while at the springs two
years ago, having only known each
other two Weeks. Iackson,s fathar