Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-04-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The movement in Norfolk to Sc
cure good men for the City Council
is meeting with great success.
Gooch, Rinehart & Co., contrac-
tors, Staunton, have been awarded
contract amounting to 100000, on
Chicago's great canal sewer.
Mr. Frank Norment, the first man
to be killed in the Darlington Is. C)
trouble, was son of DIR. Benjamin
Norment, of Hanover county, Va.
Mr.. A. c. Gordon, of Staunton, has
accepted an invitation to read poem
at the unwilling of the Confederate
soldiers and sailors monument in
Richmond, May 30.
The Glamorgan Iron Works and
Pipe Foundry, in Lynchburg, were
destroyed by fire Monday night.
Loss about 100000. Over n hundred
men were employed at the works.
Nearly all Of the merchants of AL
eXandria have signed paper not to
patronize the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in the matter of freights
until it provides a suitable passenger
depot in that city.
The Danville Times states that Mr..
John Staples, Henry county farm
err, never bought pound of meat
nor bushel of flour, never keeps
store account, and. therefore, does
not feel the hard times.
Judge A. M. Lybrook. one of the
best known citizens of Patrick coun-
ty, and who was member of the
famous Big Four" Of the Virginia
Senate Of 1882, is dangerously i'll at
his home in that county.
An explosion in the fireworks fac
tory of Romano Brothers. in Peters
burg, Va, last Saturday, caused the
death of fourteen persons, the severe
injury of a number of others and the
destruction of property estimated at
$4,000.
The suit of the Berryville Land
Company versus d. b. Strouse, of
Salem, was decided in the Roanoke
County Circuit Court last week in
favor of the defendant, relieving him
of $4,000 worth of stock subscribed
for. This company, like many
others, had failed to make good its
prospectus in certain particulars.
The work of constructing the
government wharf at Wakefield, the
birthplace of Washington. will be
Gin on the 18th instant, and by the
contract, must be finished on the
first of August. Representative
Jones, of that district, is trying to
have the plans and arrangements for
the monument TO be erected there
completed by the timesthe wharf is
built, so that work on it may then
be commenced.
The Chesapeake and Ohio steamer
Greenbrier which cleared this morn
ing for London carried one of the
largest and most valuable cargos
that ever left this port. The cargo
is valued a. 100000 and is as fol. |
lows: 81, 093 sacks of flour, 1921 pig
leads, 100 bags of grass, GO hogs
heads tobacco, 2S2 tierces lard, 400
barrels glucose l, 156 bales hay, 2.443
pine lumber, 1850 bags peanuts, 125
bags shelled peanuts and 800 head |
cattle.-Register 9th, Newport News.
The value of exports from New
ports News during March were ST.
271 ,219, against SG2S,741 during the
same month last year. During the
first three months of the present
year the exports of that port amour
ted to S4,37S, 2GG, against $2,O10,226
for the same period in 1S93-an in
crease of 1T per cent. The corn ex
ported in March reached about a
million bushels, a gain of S1O.934
bushels ever the same month in 1893.
This is an excellent exhibit for Vir-
ginia' S new town at the mouth of the
James j, .slllowing:A---als it does: what |!
=. 'cestern railroad connections are do
ing in the direction of building up
the trade of this section of the. State.
Norfolk Ledger.