Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-05-26

BRISTOL, Tenn, MIy &2.-SllOW HES |
been falling here and the mountains
are crowned with it. On White Top,
east of here, the snow is five inches
deep.
The republican obstructionists in
the Senate continue to taunt the
democrats on their surrender of tariff
principles to the conservatives
who shaped the compromise amend
ments.
Senator Kyle, who went to Indian
agencies in South Dakota to investi-
gate claims for Indian Expectations,
is satisfied that of the claims he in
vestigated 30 per cent. are fraud
ulent.
Mr.. Breckenridge is undergoing a
new and untried. experience. Here
Tofore he had only one women OPP
posed TO him. Now he's got whole
district full, and they're all talking
at once.
The COMMITTEE to investigate the
charges of bribery in the Senate
heard the testimony of Senators
Hunton, of Virginia, and Kyle, of
South Dakota, as TO the attempt to
buy their votes against the tariff
bill.
The democratic majority of the
Senate committee on finance revised
the cotton schedule of the pending
tariff bill, and through Mr.. Jones
introduced in the Senate amend
ments making a number of reduc
tons.
WASHINGTON, May 91.-Judge Mil
Ter has sentenced the convicted Com
monwealers on the first count
carrying a banner into the Capitol
grounds, they were sentenced to
twenty days in the work house; on
the second count (walking on the
grass, fine of So was imposed.
A convention composed of the
Governors of all the Southern States,
together with the Commissioners of
Agriculture, the Commissioners of
immigration and three delegatesat
large and one from each Congress
sional district, has been called to
meet at Augusta, Ga, during the
coming Summer for the purpose of
inviting the proper class OF immi-
grants IN that direction.
President Cleveland and party az
rived at the United States buoy
wharf in Gosport on Wednesday, from
their cunning and fishing trip to the
North Carolina sounds. The party
was not expected, and though the
steamer remained at the buoy dock
for an hour no one called. After
leaving empty oil cans at the yard
the Violet, with the presidential par
ty on board, steamed away for Wash
ington. They were gone eleven days
and reported having splendid sport
and plenty of birds and bluefish. All
the members OF the party are well.
There has just been erected at
Hawkinvile, Ga, a monument which
has caused considerable talk. IT.
marks the grave of T. g. Voolfolk,
who after many trials and convic-
tons was executed for the murder of
his father, steplnother, grand
mother, four sisters and two brothers
The graves of his victims are I'M
marked, but his two living sisters
and an aunt, always expressed the
belief that he was not the murderer,
and stood by him in all his trials and
in every possible way aided him in
his defense, have caused the marble
shaft to be erected to his memory.
The latest is a romantic marriage
among the clouds which occurred
recently. &. w. Mcclure was married
to Miss Lizzie Evan on the summit
of the Unaka mountain. the highest
in the county. which divides North
Carolina and Tennessee. Just as
the solemn words that made them
one were being pronounced fleecy
cloud crept over the mountain side,
enveloping the scene in phantasmag-
orical beauty. 1t was scene long to
be rememb ered by those present and
is the first marriage on record as oc
curing among the clouds.