Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-06-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

About one hundred vessels are
awaiting cargoes of coal at Lambert's
Point.
Mr. c. r. Hardesty, stock dealer
of Clarke county, has shipped this
season 5000 lambs for which the
raisers of this kind of stock received
about $4,000. The Clark Courier
suggests that there is probably more
profit in this kind of husbandry than
in producing wheat at 30 cents a
bushel.
The board of trustees of Roanoke
College. OF Salem, Va, has adopted
the following resolution: That the
faculty are authorized TO admit to
the college classes young women not
under sixteen years old, as special
students, but not as candidates for
degrees, under such careful regula-
tons and supervision as the faculty
may deem best.
The parochial reports of the
Southern p. Z. diocese of Virginia,
read at the Annual Council AT
Roanoke showed 210 parishes with
S,954 communicates, 5,7S7 Sunday
School pupils, and the contributions
for the year $l76,274. a residence for
Bishop Randolph has been purchas-
ed in Norfolk at 5000, with $1,000
more,to be expended on alterations,
The total value OF exports from
Newport News, Va, for the month
of MAY was $1.O22, TAO against $685.,
$50 for the corresponding month OF
last year, very handsome showing
in view of the general business de.
preston. An idea OF the increased
export trade of Newport News is
given by the fact that the value of
the shipments for the first five
months of the present year were ST.
314, sQ7 against $3,496, 764 for same
month last year. The first five
mouths in 1884 the value of foreign
shipments was 81, ,-t43, or only a
little more than one-seventh OF the
value OF the shipments this year.
The Joint legislative committee APP
pointed TO act with a similar commit
tee from the Legislature of Maryland
in investigating the Tangier sound
fight of last Feburary have submit
ted their report TO Governor O'Fer
rail- The Governor says that the
report is an able one. but he does
not deem it proper TO make its con-
tents public until Il copy of it had
been sent to the Maryland commit
tee and their report had been re
ceived in return. 1t is understood
that the Virginia committee had to
look into some very nice points of
law in preparing their report.
GOV. Charles T. .o'Ferrall and par
ty, with Collector Shields, Judge
East and others, formally inspected
the new oyster gunboat Accomac
Yesterday and made trial trip on
her to Hampton Roads and were
lunched The State officials return
ed to Richmond in the afternoon.
The Governor was saluted by the
battery at Fort Monroe. The Acco-
mac is TO be furnished with the
Huntington electric search-light, so
as TO facilitate her cruising in Eastern
Shore waters. Governor O'Ferrall
expressed himself as greatly pleased
with the boat. The Hotchkiss gun,
which will constitute the armament
Of the new steamer, has not yet
reached Norfolk, but the ammuni-
ton for the little one-pounder has
arrived. 1t will be some days be-
fore the machinery Of the Accomac
gets to to running smoothly, but the
trip yesterday clearly eyinced the
fact that the vessel is a speedy one.
The Governor has given the com
mander of the oyster fleet instruc-
tions 70 make it very interesting for
any poachers he finds in the oyster
territory OF Virginia, and has in
structed him also in reference TO the
menhaden fishermen and their alleg-
ed violations of the law. Unless
Captain Hudgins finds the waters OF
Virginia clear OF poachers it is very
probably that the nav etoanAar will
be heard from very soon when she
gets into the water where depreda-
tions have CONGRATULATIONS Sun
18th.