Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-09-07
GENERAL NEWS.
il Surry county farmer has planted
$50 worth of onion seed.


il SurrY county farmer has planted
$50 worth of onion seed.
Every mineral and metal of value
in the arts or industries if found
within the limits of the United
The number of miles of railroad
operated in the United States in 1894
was Ia, IA, an increase of ., 074 over
1928.
Westmoreiand and King William
Democrats have endorsed Senator
Daniels position on the silver ques
ton.
There is movement for the ac-
euiremeut by the United States of
the south bank of the Potomac river
opposite Washington.
The Tidewater Agricultural and
Stock Association will hold its annual
fair on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, October l, . and 5, at Tap
pahannock, Va.
The Board of the Williamsburg,
Va, Hospital has appropriated $13,-
600 for a special hospital building, to
be erected at once. 1t is to be III
charge Of trained nurse.
Senator Martin cannot be induced
to give his views on free silver, but it
is quite well known that he is ener-
seJically at work for Senator Daniels
re-election-Norfolk Virginian.
The colored Baptist of Lexington
are pushing to completion one of the
finest church edifices in the State, at
a cost OF about $4,000, and will have
it ready for dedication sometime in
the early fall.
Robert ]. won the great pacing
race at Fleetwood on Thursday, OF
last week, in straight heats. He
covered the second mile III 2:04l,
defeating Joe Patchen, John +.
Gentry and Mascot.
The Southern papers are giving
hearty support to the proposition of
Millionaire Charles b. Rouss, of New
York, for the formation of Il National
Confederate Memorial Association
and the erection of a memorial hall
for the preservation OF Confederate
relics,
All the legislative Democratic NOM
mating conventions yet held in Vir-
ginia that have expressed any pref
erence at ali have declared for John
w. Daniel for Senator. Most of these
same bodies have also declared for
free coinage of silver at the ratio OF
Is to !.
Mr.. Eugene Withers, of Danyille,
who made such an efficient represen-
tative in the Legislature during the
last session of that body, has been
nominated for the State Senate in
the district composed of DanVille and
and the counties of Pittsylvania and
Henry.
The trial trip of the battleship
Texas, the first vessel of the new
navy built by the Government, will
take place from Hampton Roads
about September 18th. The trials
will be for the purpose of testing the
machinery, which was furnished by
private contract.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. John 2 Lewis, dur
| inc Gilbert G. Walkers incunbency
OF the Gubernatorial Office and again
elected to the position OF Lieutenant
Governor in 1881 and United States
| Senator in 1870, died at his home
near Harrisonburg, Rockingham
comfy. last Monday.
The Medical Society. of Virginia,
Mt its session in Wytheville Tuesday
night, ranged itself on the side of e1-
tending the usefulness OF women by
electing Mrs. Emily j. Runyon as a
member. Hereafter it will be less
difficult to secure the services OF
female physicians for the insane
women of the State.
The Democrats of the Fourth
Senatorial District met Tuesday ut
Salem and nominated j. Allen Watts
for the Senate and Andrew Mccarthy,
OF Craig, and ". w. Berkeley, Of
Roanoke. for the House. The silver
question was passed over. John W.
| Daniel was endorsed and q constitu-
tional convention was recommended.
The Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany's fine new steamer Isle of
Wight was found on fire at a. ~.
Saturday at her wharf at Smithfield.
Isle of Wight county. She burned
to the waters edge and sunk. No
lives were lost. She was side-wheel
boa+ IN faa& lone, % feet beam ard
3 feet hold, electric lighted, and with
a capacity for SOC passengers. The
loss is $4,000, insured. 1t is not
known how the fire originated.
Fish Commissioner Marshall Nc
! Donald died Sunday morning in his
! home, in Washington. Death was
due to pulmonary trouble, the first
symptoms of which appeared last
! November. Commissioner Mcdonald
was born in Virginia flfty-eight years
ago, and was ali his life a student OF
Disciculture. He was appointed Fish
Commissioner in 1888 by Mr. Cleye-
land, and remained at the head Of the
commission constantly until his
death.
The city democratic committee OF
Richmond Tuesday changed the plan
OF the party primary to be held on
October s. The change provides for
voting directly upon each Office to be
filed by popular vote instead of by
council, as at present. The working
men asked for the change. Some Of
| the labor leaders here say tonight