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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24
HalIwood, Va, Dec. 20, 1893.
Elkton, Md.

The Scott Fertilizer Co,
Elkton, Md.
Dear Sirs:-I was induced to take
the agency for the sale of your fertil-
izers for Mappsville and vicinity last
spring. l reluctantly accepted until
l should have trial upon our prin-
cipal crops, Irish and sweet potatoes
corn, etc.
| sold to over thirty-six different
farmers using from one bag up to five
tons. All of my customers were in
different about trying the goods, now
they all, without exception, endorse
and recommend the goods strongly
The Sure Growth Compound for
Irish potatoes was used. from four
hundred to eight hundred pounds to
the barrel of seed, giving a return
from thirty to sixty barrels of mar
ketable potatoes of the best qnality.
The Sweet Potato Fertilizer gave ex
celIent results, but from the general
experience ] advise the use of Sure
Growth Super-Phosphate as the best
sweet potato fertilizer we have aver
used.
The Standard Phosphate is well
spoken of for corn, as well as the
Sure Growth Super Phosphate for
the same crop.
l estimate from present reports
that my sales this season will more
than double tho Sc of last year. All
who used the goods last season will
largely increase their orders and
their neighbors will buy with them.
Yours very truly.
John r. Ewell.
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I)lfllillsl,la 1l:Nerpr5e,
Entered at the Postoffice at Accolnac
G. H., Va, as second-class matter.

The special message of Governor
O'Ferrall to the General Assembly,
on the oyster question, published in
this issue. strengthens the good opin-
ion which our people always enter
tanned of him and which made them
practically unanimous for him when
he was candidate for the high office
now filled by him. 1t is an interest
ing paper and worthy the man, whose
whole life has demonstrated how sa
credly he has always regarded Nir-
ginia's honor and which has
always shown the jealous care
with which he. has watched
for. and defended her from,
any encroachments upon her rights.
But pleasing as the message is to
every Eastern Shereman, it can
hardly fail to attract the attention
of every Virginian and inspire them
with the lofty sentiments it contains.
Appealing as it does to the patriot
ism of every son of Virginia and
pointing out as it does, so clearly the
path in which duty Should lead them,
all her people must and do APP
prove the manly, patriotic and
sensible message of the Gov
ernor, who would defend the
Commonwealth from those who in
wade her territory and would despoil
her of her rights. The Governor in
using the means at his command TO
protect the oyster beds Of the State
and in Offering suggestions practical
and sensible for their better protec
ton has done his whole duty, the
people approve his course and con-
cur in his recommendations and it
now remains for our legislators to &C
cept one of the alternatives present
ed by him in the following:
We should either determine to pro-
tect our waters absolutely, or
abandon all police surveillance over
them and cease our efforts TO raise
revenue from their products and al
low them to become the common
ground of the citizens of the COM
monwealth without restrictions and
the preying ground of every PIE
datory craft that may please to enter
them.
That the members of the Legisla-
ture, now that the matter has been
brought so forcibly to their atten-
ton, will have no difficulty in deter
mining which alternative they will
accept, the latest advices received
indicate. The Legislature will make,
it is stated, an appropriation for the
enlargement of the Virginia oyster
navy, in line with the suggestions
made by our Chief Magistrate.
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The Governor of Virginia, in send
inc CONGRATULATIONS 70 Cent VVn U

The Governor of Virginia, in send
ing congratulations to Capt VIM. E.
- %
'hfindgins, Of steamer Chesapeake. for
the victory gained by him over the
oyster pirates in Tangier Sound,
last Monday, did a graceful act,
He merited, certainly, not only the
congratulations and kind words of
the Governor on the occasion which
called them forth, but will ever be
found deserving of them, we believe,
in any emergency. 1t detracts not,
however, from the praise due to
Capt. Hudgins to say that congratu-
lations to Capt A. J. Reed for the
part taken by him in the oyster
fights of late, too, would have been
eninently proper. He not only par.
tlcipated in the fight last Monday
with Capt. Hudgins, but for weeks,
in danger daily OF losing his life has
kept an oyster piratical fleet from
Maryland at bay and never hesitated
to attempt to protect the oyster
grounds in Tangier Sound until his
ammunition gave out last Saturday.
The congratulations Of the Governor
were due to Capt. Hudgins, but none
the less merited by Capt Reed.
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Legislative Notes.

In the House Monday Mr.. New
berne introduced bill to amend sec
ton 3719 of the Code of Virginia SO
as to read as follows: If any person
obtains from another an advance OF
money. merchandise or other thing,
upon promise in writing, that he
will send or deliver to such other
person his crop or other property,
and fraudulently fail or refuse to
perform such promise, or that he Will
render personal service to such other
person in payment thereof and
fraudulently fail or refuse to perform
such personal service, he shal De
deemed guilty of larceny OF such
money, merchandise or other thing.
Mr.. Boykin, of Isle of Wight, Of
fered in the House Tuesday a JolnE
resolution to so amend section 0, OF
article 10 of the Constitution OF VIZ
ginia, as to provide that the Legs
lature may require every male IN
habitant of the State between the
ages of 1G and GO years, to work on
the public roads and highways there
in. not to exceed four days in any
one year, subject to such exemptions
as the Legislature may from time to
time prescribe. 1t was placed on the
calender.
Mr.. Washington Tuesday offered
in the Senate bill to create the
State Shell Fish Commission. Two
Commissioners are to be elected by
the Legislature. The Governor is to
be the third member as ex-oflicio
chairman of the board. The com
mission is to exercise a general SUI
pervision over the oyster industry,
collect revenues, etc.
Mr.. Washington has introduced in
the Senate bill which provides that
only uniform size and shaped metallic
measures shall be used to measure
oysters in the shell and that the
Board of the Chesapeake and its
Tributaries shall have the measures
made and distribute them at cost to
persons handling shell oysters.
In the House of Delegates Mon
day the resolution to take the sense
of the voters on calling a constitu.
tional convention was defeated by a
vote of 81 yeas to 40 nays.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24

The case of Virginia and Maryland,
as to their respective rights in POGO
moke and Tangier Sounds, will come
up in the Supreme Court of the
United States on Monday, March
9Th. and in few weeks it is likely
therefore that the long and bitter
controversy of the oystermen of the
two States will be judicially and for
ever settled. Judges Hughes and
Golf, of the United States Circuit
Court, recently decided, it will be
remembered, that the claim of Mary
land to the right of common fishery
under the Compact of 1875, in the
disputed waters, was not a just one
and that their decision will be sus-
tanned by the highest tribunal in the
land and therefore final, seems to be
assured beyond any reasonable
doubt.
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Fort MONROE. Feb. 10.

FORT MONROE, Feb. 10. 1894.
Gov. Charles T O'Ferrall:
Capt. Hudgins is here. Have Just
secured from Col. Frank 200 fuses tor
him. He will proceed at once.
ISigned. GEORGE BOOKER.
/ have no further information eX-
cept that | have read in the Estate"
that the police schooner Tangier, af-
ter a stubborn defence, was driven
off by feet of Maryland dredgers,
who swept her decks with their Win
chester rifles.
To be frank, this statement, if true,
and | do not doubt it, is very humi-
liatlng to me, and | am sure it is to
YOUR honorable bodies, and it is
enough to arouse the pride of any
Virginian, and lead Virginia's rep
resentatives to determination to
protect her territory against marau-
ders on land or water, let it cost
what it may.
Our oyster interests, in my opin-
ion, are worthy OF more considera-
ton than they have had at our
hands Our oyster beds, and our
citizens engaged in the trade. are
entitled TO more protection than is
now extended to them. Our men
who compose our oyster police force
deserve better treatment than they
now receive, and should not be re-
uuired to risk their lives on such YES
sells and with such ornaments as
they now have.
We should either determine to
protect orr waters absolutely, or
abandon all police surveillance over
them and cease our efforts to raise
revenue from their products ard al
low them to become the common
ground OF the citizens of the com
nonwealth without restrictions and
the preying ground of every pre-
datory craft that may please to enter
them.
But l most earnestly insist that
not only do our material interests
and Justice to our own citizens de-
mand prompt and vigorous legisla-
tive action on our parts in the di-
rection of protection, but the honor
and dignity Of the Commonwealth
demand it.
1t has been demonstrated that
with proper managementa considera
BILE revenue can be raised from our
oyster beds, provided they are pre-
served, and those who engage in
planting can be made to feel that
their capital and labor will not be
taken from them by thieves. So
that from a revenue standpoint, we
should have more effective legis-
lation, and the more effective the
protection the more persons will en-
gage in the business, and consequent
thy the revenue will be raised.
Again, under the present system
of renting the renter has the right
to look to the power that requires
him to pay rent for greater security
His privileges, like the tongers,
should be carefully guarded
But above all other considerations
is the honor and dignity OF the Com
monwealth. These waters belong to
Virginia absolutely and unquali-
fiedly. Every foot of them is within
the ancient boundary of Virginia.
She has declared that they shall be
preserved for the exclusive benefit of
her citizens; that non-residents shall
not enter them. This is her solemn
declaration, and her past history is
resplendent with her firmness of
purpose and fidelity to resolution.
Will she now depart from the
course which she has thus so long
illumined? Will she, by inaction.
allow her rights to be trampled
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24
10 O'CLOCK.
On Tuesday, February 27,
McCIeary g. Mcclellan.
Charter of the First National Bank
OF OnancOck.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY,
WASHINGTON, February 9th, 1894.
Whereas by satisfactory evidence
presented to the undersigned it has
been made to appear that THE First
National Bank of Onancock, y in the
town of Onancock, in the county of
Accomack, and State of Virginia, has
complied with all the provisions of
the Statutes of the United States.re
quired to be complied with before an
association shall be authorized to
commence the business of Banking;
Now therefore l, James H. Eckels,
Comptroller of the Currency, do
hereby certify that 1.-THE First Ma
tional Bank of Onancock," in the
town of Onancock, in the county Of
Accomack, and State of Virginia, is
authorized to commence the business
of Banking as provided in section
fifty-one hundred and sixty-nine OF
the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
In testimony whereof witness my
hand and seal of office this 9TH day
of February, 1894
(>-- JAMES H. ECKEi.s,
Seal. Comptroller of the Currency
- No 1910.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24

Gen. Jubal A. Early, while ascend
ing the stairs of the postof1ice at
Lynchburg, recently, fell receiving
wounds which rendered him at the
time unconscious, but from which he
rallied later, and for several days
was so much improved, that it was
thought, that the injury sustained
was not serious one. Latest adj
vices, however, are to the effect, that
the chances now are against his re
covery and the belief now seems to
be that the old hero has not many
days to live.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24

President Cleveland has found a
way out of his difficulty in securing
an Associate Justice for the Supreme
Court Of the United States by nomi
mating Senator Edward D. White, of
Louisiana. for the position. His
eminent qualifications for the place
seemed to be satisfactory to everyone
and the Senate promptly confirmed
his nomination. The experience of
the President in this matter may be,
perhaps. beneficial to him.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24
Mappsville, Va, Dec. 90, 1893.

Mappsville, Va, Dec. 20, 1893.
Mr.. John II. Ewell,
Dear Sir:-I used The Scott Fer
tilizer Company's Sure Growth Com
pound on Irish potatoes last season.
The goods were equal to the best |
ever used, and produced the finest
crop / ever raised. | will use the
same goods the coming season.
| think the Sure Growth Super
Phosphate just the thing we need
for sweet potatoes, and | will use it
on that crop this year.
David ID. Abbott.
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Teagle H. Taylor.
Mappsville. Va, Dec. 20, 1898.

Mappsville, Va, Dec. ~, To7'
John r. Ewell, Esq,
Dear Sir:-In reference to the Sure
Growth Compound, which | used on
my Irish potatoes last season. am
very much pleased with the goods
which gave me the greatest satisfac-
ton. had fine crop, and shipped
fifty barrels to the one barrel planted,
all being of the finest quality. The
Sure Growth Phosphate think best
adapted to sweet potatoes, and will
use it in connection with your Stand
ard Fertilizer. The Sure Growth
and Standard made me some fine
corn considering the dry season, and
| shall use both goods next Spring.
George NJ. Fisher.
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Mappsyille. Va, Dec. 20, 1893.

Mr. John K. Ewell,
Dear Sir'-You asked me how l
like the Scott Fertilizers; they are
thelbest / have ever used, and from
thu Snge Growth Compound | had a
fine cropsaf smooth dry Irish ,potal
toes, and, will use the same Eo ,so.. TINS
season. TIE sweet fotStc6t and STAND
ard Fertilizers | did not use enough
of to give a decided opinion as TO
their merits, but will use them the
coming season. -
Teagle II. Taylor.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24
Hallwood, Va, Dec. 10, 1898.

Mr.. John K. Ewell,
Dear Sir:-I used Scott's Sure
Growth Super Phosphate on sweet
potatoes and corn, and have never
used anything that gave Inc more
satisfaction. / also used the Sure
Growth Compound on round pota
toes with the same good effect. !
also used some of the Sweet Potato
Fertilizer, but could see little advan-
tage from it over the Sure Growth
Super-Phosphate.
NyilE;-,,,4a u IN q y f.
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NIappsville. Va. Dec. 90, 1893.

Mappsville, Va, Dec. 20, 1913.
Mr. John r. Ewell,
Dear Sir:-I used Scott's Sure
Growth Compound bought of you on
Irish potatoes, and also some 10 per
cent of ammonia goods. found that
the Compound gave me better re-
suits than the higher prices goods,
and | will use it the coming season.
William II. Baker.
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side of two other standard brands of
fertilizers of the same analysis. l
found the results from yonr goods so
satisfactory, that expect to use
them again this year.
Yours respectfully,
J. Amber Jarvis.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24

Accomac c. H Va, Dec. &c, 1893.
The Scott Fertilizer Co.,
Elkton, Nd
Myself and Wesley Bull used your
Sure Growth Compound on Irish po-
tatoes and peas last summer along
side Peruvian Guano; the results
were surprisingly in advance for the
Sure Growth Compound. We will
use itagain this coming season, and
many of our neighbors and friends
express the same intention.
E. II. Coleburn,
Wesley w. Bull.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24

Taylor House, Eastville, Va,
January LIST, 1894
The Scott Fertilizer Co.,
Elkton, Md.
Gentlemen:-I used your per cent
Sure Growth Compound on early
round potatoes last Spring by the
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24
Mappsville, Va, Dec. 90, 1898.

John r. Ewell, Esq,
Dear Sir:-It gives me pleasure to
bear testimony in regard to Scott
Sure Growth Compound, which l
used on my Irish potatoes last sea
son. | planted one barrel and mar
keted fifty-live barrels Of as fine pc
tatoes as were ever raised in Acco-
mack county. | will use no other
fertilizer on my Irish pOtatoe crop
next Spring. | also had good results
from Sure Growth Super Phosphate
on corn, having fine prospect for a
large crop until the drought set in.
For the season it was a satisfactory
Weld, S. E. BloXom.
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FORT MONROE, Feb. 10, 1894.
Gov. Charles I. O'Ferrall:
Have just received your telegram
to MIR. Booker. Will proceed to Tan
gier Sound immediately.
rSicned. w. Z. HUDGINS.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24

Available Phosphoric Acid to II per cent.
Ammonia to 3 per cent.
Potash (actuaD to 3 per cent.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-02-24

For potatoes recommend Sure Growth Superphosp
is guaranteed to test:
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In the House of Delegates Mon
dav the resolution to take the sense
of the voters on calling constltu'
tional convention was defeated by a
vote of 81 yeas to 40 nays.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-04-18
stopped his paper aud began blowing
around about our n ahilities as an editor

stopped his paper aud began blowing
around about our abilities as an editor.
AS stated above, we shall ride over TO
the ranch Thursday afternoon, reaching 1t
about 3:30 o'clock. We shall expect to find
the captain at home. We have been in
formed that he has dug a rifle pit at the
east end of his house. and that when he
was in town the other day he purchased a
large supply OF cartridges, but these things
will make no difference to us. Our errand
will be to talk metropolitan journalism,
and as there are seven different hills which
command that rifle pit we haven't much
doubt OF securing close interview with
the captain before darkness sets in. We
are also fully satisfied that we shall sue
Hceed In convincing him of the soundness Of
our position, and that he will come to look
upon us as father Of western journalism
before we get headed back to town. Some
metropolitan editors don't seem to care a
continental copper when subscriber
drops of and abuses them behind their
backs, but such things touch us on the
raw, and we feel obliged to oil up our guns
and demand explanations.
p. S.-We have just been informed by a
reliable party that the captain has dug
two rife pits and barricaded the trail. but
we shall stand or fall on the lines of met
ropolitan journalism.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-04-18
Taking Chances.

On branch of the Niobrara river, al
most on the state line between Kansas and
Nebraska, came to a claim where a man
was building u stable Of cottonwood poles
and limbs. After we had passed the time
of day he pulled out an old brier root pipe,
scratched match on his leg and lighted
it, and then looked up at me between the
puffs and said:
stranger, yer leetle OF about my bein
a man. I've got on the old mans clothes,
boots and all, but I'm the Widder Webster
when I'm in the house,
"And where is Mr.. Webster" asked.
dead, of course, or | couldn't be his
widder. Yes, he gin up the turmoils of
this life six months ago, jest as we took up
this claim. He lies on that knoll over
thar and I'm runnin bizness alone"
"You've done good bit of work for q
woman"
''Yes, purity fair. but I can't put tho
spirit into IL used to-"
"Health giving outi"
"Oh, no. Health Is all right. A wom-
an who kin lift that yaller mule out thar
can't complain about health"
"It Is only natural that you should feel
lonely, so far from neighbors.
ut isn't nayburs altogether. she said
as she yanked open my horse's jaws to look
at his teeth and judge his age. "Stran-
ger, might ye be lookin fur anythin In per
tickler out this wayf"
"Well, yes, am"
''Sunthin purity pertickler."
"Yes, quite particular.
"Stranger, is that purity pertickler thing
ye ar lookin fur out in this kentry a
healthy, hefty widder, not a day over 40
"a widder with the best claim on this
river and an ambishun to make the grass
nyr"
We'll, you see-you know, Il"-
"Spit 1t right out, strangeri' she ex-
claimed as she removed the old straw hat
to reveal her face.
swell, the fact is I'm already linked"
81 thought you might be, but decided
to take the chances. Any body else comm
this way you know Off"
"Yes, met a man in Greenwood yester-
day who said he should take this trail to
go over into Myer county"
married or singlei"
~ think he's single, and he's a good
looking man too"
~ don't keer fur looks, as everything
goes out In this kentry. That's all,
stranger. Cross the creek to the right of
the tree to avoid the quicksands, and I'll
wash my hands, grease my sunburned
nose and git ready to make good impress
sion on the next critter that heaves in
sight" M. QUAD.
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THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Contemporaries Neglect to Pay a Laun-
dry Bill Gets Him Into Trouble.

A Contemporaries Neglect to Pay a Laun-
dry Bill Gets Him Into Trouble,
SHAMEFUL SPEcTACLE.--Tuesday last
we received a friendly call from Mr..
Thomas, editor of the Buckhorn Journal.
The lively little town of Buckhorn was
in want of lively weekly at the time Mr..
Thomas went there and established his
paper. At that time we understood he
was from the cowboy districts of Montana
and had no doubt that he would be equal
to any editorial emergency. He hadn't
been there four weeks when we heard that
the boys had sized him up as dangerous
Duzzsaw to monkey with and were conse-i
quently subscribing to The Journal in o
liberal manner. A little later on IL was
understood that Mr.. Thomas had killed
two men in New Mexico in the years zone
by, and we had it straight that he bought
an acre of ground in Buckhorn and gave
out that he intended to establish private
graveyard, with a hospital for cripples
close at hand. Residents of his town told
us not over two weeks ago that Mr.. Thorn
as was popularity supposed to have sand
enough to go out to Bill Williams noun
tain ct night scare up a grizzly bear Of
the largest sort and poke him in the eye
with the lighted end Of cigar. We were
pleased to see our esteemed contemporary
OF The Journal, and as soon as we could
get away from the press Of business we
took him out to show him the town. We
noticed that he had two guns and bowie
knife with him. and his demeanor went
to prove that any one walking on his coat
tails would get hurt. While proceeding
down Apache avenue to let him see the
wonderful progress CT civilization we ran
up against Hang Ling, the heather laun-