Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-29
GENERAL NEWS.

W ENElt-th NGNps
An appeal has been issued to the |
women of the South for funds with |
which to build a monument to the
mother of General Robert E. Lee.
ESQ plentiful are peaches in Alabama
this year that the branches of many
of the trees have to be propped up to
prevent them from breaking under
their burden of luscious fruit.
Mr.. John II. Inman, the great rail
road magnate, of New York, who If
now travelling in the South, writes
that cotton mills in all parts of the
| South are working full time an
making money. "Some OF the large
mills in which l personally own
stock, says Mr. Inman, ARE not only
working full time, but night and day,
using double force OF hands, and
although they have advanced the
price of their production, the demand
is greater than they can supply.
The preliminary survey for the
Virginia, Fredericksburg and West
ern Railroad has been completed
from Fredericksburg to the Chesa-
peake bay by the two corps OF sur
veyors under w. A. Hawkins, CHIEF
engineer. The line of the road, If
completed as projected, will enteno
from the coal fields OF West Virginia,
passing through the city of Fred
ericksburg and the counties of King
George, Westmoreland, Richmond.
Lancaster, to the mouth of the Great
Wicomico river, in Northumberland
county.
General Green Clay Smith, des-
cendant of the famous Kentucky
statesman Henry Clay, is dying az
his home in Washington of blood
poisoning occasioned by malignant
carbuncle. General Clay Smith was
candidate for vice president against
! Andrew Johnston, at the Baltimore
convention of 1864, and came within
! half q vote of receiving the nomlna-
ton on the ticket with Lincoln. He
was the nominee of the Prohibition
party for President in 1876. He ser
we'd two terms in congress from
Kentucky.
Ii is said that in all the Senatorial
districts where elections are to be
made this fall Daniels friends will
be quite active, and will try TO secure
the nomination of persons who will
support the Major for the United
States Senate. The State Senators
10 be chosen will vote for Daniels
successor. If Gov. O'Ferrall proposes
to be candidate he will also proba-
blv get in little work. State Sena'
tor George A. Mushback, of the
Alexandria District, has announced
himself a candidate for reelection
and states that he is for Daniel.
Some twenty or twenty one Senators
are to be elected.-Cor. Norfolk Nir
ginian.
1t is understood that General
Malone. eX-Congressman Edmund
Waddill and other prominent repub'
lican leaders of this State will take
no part in the election reform con
vention which Mr.. Hoskins Hobson,
the chairman of the populist commit
, tee, has called. General Malone and
Judge Waddill hope that the demo
Gratis of this State may divide on the
silver issue and so weaken themselves
as to be comparatively an easy prey
: for the republicans in the presiden-
. tial contest of next year. AT any
rate these two leaders say they have
little idea of entering upon the fight
for fair elections unless they see bet
ter prospects Of success than the
present indications offer.
At Norfolk, Va, Saturday evening
the proposition of President Samuel
Spencer for the entrance of the
Southern Railway into that city was
submitted to special committee OF
the councils appointed to confer with
Mr.. Spencer on the subject. There
will be called meeting of the coun-
ellis to act on the proposition. The
concessions asked were unanimously
ipdorsed by representatives from all
; the leading business organizations
: and industries in Norfolk, who regard
the entrance of the Southern Railway
into that city as promising much for
It's prosperity and development. In
: the meantime Newport News is also
bidder, and the Chesapeake and
Ohio authorities have made a liberal
proposition to the Southern to make
that city its deep water terminus.