Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-22

proposition OF SUBSCRIBING TO inc
stock of the Virginia, Fredericls
burg and Western railroad. The vote
in both counties will be taken the
latter part of July.
Rev. E. P. Wilson died suddenly
at his home at Hampton Friday
morning, 18th, of heart trouble. He
was seventy years of age, and had
been actively in the Methodist minis
try for forty-siX years, and for the
past six years on the superannuated
list of the Virginia Conference.
Mr.. Hampden H. Dashiell, collector
of customs at Crisfield, Nd, died
suddenly Saturday morning of apo
plexy or heart disease He was sit
ting at his desk at the time. His
assistant, Mr.. Fontaine, had occasion
TO speak to him in regard to some
business and was shocked to find him
dead.
1t is understood that the total
amount of the cost TO the State OF
the strike at Pocahontas is about
100000, just what the Governor a
few weeks ago predicted it would be
There are still some troops at Poca'
hontas, but the expense now is quite
light compared with what it has
been.
DIR. Todd, of Abbeville, S. c., a
brother in law of the late President
Abraham Lincoln, now seventy-nine
years of age, has gone blind. He was
a division surgeon in the corps of
General Longstreet, and served all
through the war as Confederate,
while his brother-in law was the Pre-
sident of the United States.
The Virginia State Agricultural
and Mechanical Society is making
extensive preparations for its annual
exhibition this fall, and the indica-
lions are that it will be one of the
most successful entertainments ever
yet given by that organization. The
premium list is very attractive one
and will be out in few days. The
fair will be held October Sth to 18th
inclusive.
President Cleveland, accompanied
by his private secretary, Henry I.
Thurber, who has leased cottage
near the Presidents seaside residence
for himself and family, and by DR..
Robert NJ. O'Reilly, of the United
States Army, who has so frequently
acted as the confidential travelling
physician of the President, left
Washington Monday to pass the rest
OF the summer at Gray Gables, Buz-
yards Bay, Mass.
The labor element in Richmond
will try to capture all five of the city
members of the House of Delegates
They are now organizing and WORKING
to that end. The fight will not end
here. Next spring the workingmen
will try to get control of the city gov.
eminent and all its departments. AL
the different unions are compactly
organized into one central body and
are showing a bold front. The labor
people claim that their cause is sue
ceeding well.
Those persons in charge of the
movement to erect a monument TIC
the memory of Jefferson Davis are
very much encouraged. From all
accounts the veterans throughout
the South have gone to work since
the encampment at Houston and
money is steadily coming in. 1t is
hoped TO secure $780, 900 at The least.
but it is expected that the sum will
be much greater, probably 800, 900
The corner stone will be laid next
May.-Cor Norfolk Virginian.
The assessment returns from Buch-
anan county received at Richmond
show a great gain. The old assess
ment was $395,SS1 and the new is
STAG. 345; increase of $360,464 or 934
per cent. Thus far complete returns
have been received from Buchanan,
Cumberland, Greene Middlesex,
Orange, Prince William, Wise and
Warren. They aggregate $9,659;399.
The old assessment from these coun-
ties aggregated $9.927, 1G5, a decrease
OF $2G7, 766, or less than q per cent.
DR.. and Mrs. Abram NJ. Henkel, of
Staunton. have made a deed of gift
to the Confederate Memorial Asso-
citation of Page county, conveying a
plot of ground adjoining the town OF
Luray This lot is situated on the
New Market and Sparryville pike,
and on it the Confederate Veterans
of Page will raise a monument in
honor of the gallant boys in gray
The monument is to be handsome
marble effigy of q Confederate in
fantryman with gun in the position
of loading. 1t is to be made by
Herbert Barbee, the sculptor.
The Savannah News says: Georgia
will have the average crop of melons
this year-that is, SO far as the size of
the crop is concerned-while as to
oualitity is expected that they will
be ahead of the average. The re-
ports received show that there are
u GOO acres planted along the lines of
the Plant system in Georgia, all in
the southwestern section of the
State. The melons average about
Il car to two acres, which means that
Georgia will yield this year about
5000 cars. From 1000 to 1900 melons
are usually loaded in car, the num-
Der depending on the size of the
melons
The greatest gathering of Baptists
in the nations history will assemble
in Baltimore month hence. The
occasion will be the Young Peoples
annual convention, which meets
Thursday, July 18th, and will con-
tinue in session four days. All Young
Peoples Societies, of whatever name
or constitution, in the Baptist
Churches of Virginia, and churches
having no such organizations, are en-
titled to representation. There will
be one delegate for every twenty
members or fraction thereof in each