Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-30
J. LYNCH RELEASED.
FOUR MEMBERS OF THE "sANcTIrIEr
BAND" OUT ON. BAIL.
A Prayer and Song Service Held IN Acco-
mac coust-House Yard-Oyster Sur
vcy Nearly Completed.

ONANCOCK. VA, September 29.-(spe-
ciaI. )--Joseph d. Lynch and three other
members Of the Sanctifed Band, from
committed to Jail on the charge OF being
public reprobates. have been released
on bail. On coming out OF jail they
proceeded TO the courthouse yard, where
they held prayer and song service. In
which Sadie Collins. Lynch.s fellow
watcher" played a conspicuous part.
She is by far the most intelligent men,
Der OF the band. and her prayers and
speeches showed her TO be woman OF
more than ordinary ability. Lynch and
his followers say when the trial comes
off they are going to make 1t warm
for their accusers. They evidently look
forward TO the trial as a great opportu-
nifty for them to explain and defend their
strange and questionable doctrines and
practices.
ACQUITTED.
Some months ago Mason and Somers.
oyster planters on Guilford creek. shot
and dangerously wounded Burwell Glad
ding and Floyd Trader. whom they claim
ed to have found dredging oysters from
their private reservation in the night
Mason and Somers were tried In Acco-
mac County Court for shooting these men
without Just cause, and were acquitted.
Trader has Just been tried in the same
court for stealing oysters. and has been
found guilty and sentenced TO thirty days
in the county jail, and to pay me OF
$50 with costs OF the prosecution. Wneh
Gladding gets well enough to get out ne
will be tried on the same charge.
POSTPONED.
The memorial meeting OF the Hartman
son-West Confederate Vsterans.e- whlch
was to have been held at Parksley In the
interests OF the proposed monument 10
the Eastern Shore soldiers who died In
the Confederate service, has been post
poned to November 22d. owing to illness
In the family. of Colonel X. I. W. DUKE
OF Albemarle,. who had been selected as
the orator of the occasion. 1t Is hoped
that Colonel Duke and other distinguished
orators will be present at the November
meeting. Many OF the Eastern Shore sol
diers served In Colonel Dukes regiment,
and hold him in the warmest esteem.
SURVEY COMPLETED.
Lieutenant Baylor and party. Of the
State Oyster Survey have completed their
work in Chincoteague bay and the other
seaside waters In Northern Accomac.
They are now at Wachapreague. from
which place as basis OF operations they
will complete the survey of all the sea-
side waters IN this county. 1t Is said that
the survey has demonstrated the fact
that many OF the best natural oyster
rocks on the seaside had been taken up
by private parties and appropriated TO
their own use.
FEW FOLLOWERS.
The Prohibitionists OF the First Con-
gressional District will hold their conven-
ton here next Wednesday TO nominate
n candidate for Congress. This party
does not seem to have any followers In
this district, except in Accomac. II is
promised that State-Chairman Wayt
Gibbs and Rev. Sam Small will relieve
the monotony of the occasion by stirring
addresses.
Rev. Il. +. Garner pastor Of the
Southern Methodist church at louisville
has just completed a series of revival
meetings at that church. in which nearly
fifty persons professed conversion
HORSES DYING.
Horses are dying In large numbers in
the northern part OF Accomac from a
disease supposed to be cerebro-splnal
meningitis. The disease is said TO be
prevailing also in the neighborhood or
Westover, In the adjoining county Of
Somerset. Md, where twenty horses are
said to have died in a few days. Medical
treatment has thus far done no good.
For the past three days the regular
September storm has been raging here
from the northeast. Rain has been fall
ing in torrents. and the tides are I'M
usually high. on the seaside the islands
and low-lying coast lands are said to
have been flooded.