Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-08-03
GENERAL NEWS.

u ones SAID he, VIII dlIuOSt ceIutinly
be in the race. There is already
much talk in the Northern Neck of
his candidacy and the Democrats
there will support him with much
enthusiasm. About year ago the
announcement that Mr.. Jones might
be put up for the nomination was
made in this correspondence.-Nor-
folk Virginian August 1.
Since the last report was made
Auditor Marye has received assess
ment returns from. eighteen addi-
tional counties, as follows: Pittsyl-
vania, Culpeper, AppomattoX, Eliza
beth City, Botetourt, Bland, Augusta,
Bath, Dinwiddle, Fluyanna, Frank
lin, Henry, Mecklenburg, Princess
Anne, Pulaski, Rockingham, Russell
and Smyth This makes 81 counties
heard from, and the returns aggre-
gate $15S, ,S04, against $165, 179, 456
for the old assessment, a decrease OF
$6,2G6.642.
Monday afternoon deed of assign-
ment was filed by the Pilot Publish;
ing Company, signed by Luther
Sheldon, president, conveying to
James E. Heath, Jr., trustee, all the
company's goods and chattels in
trust to secure the payment of their
debts. The liabilities are divided
into three classes, A. B. and G, and
amount to $14,531. The deed
stipulates that the classes of debts
shall be paid in their alphabetical
order. The assets are unknown.
President Cleveland gave the ma
tives of Buzzard's Bay an agreeable
shock a few days ago by entering the
shop of the negro barber in the vii
lage and calmly awaiting his turn
for hair cut. Everybody wanted
to waive his right to being next,
but the President declined to permit
them to do so, and awaited his turn
just like any plain American citizen.
The barber was so agitated that he
came within an ace of cutting mans
beard off instead of his hair.
a carload of iron beams intended
for use in the Encouragement of the
jefferson Davis mansion in Rich
mond, which is being prepared for
use as a museum of Confederate
relics, has arrived in that city. The
house has been almost Quilted of its
interior work. The old walls and
roof alone being left standing, the
object Of this is to make the floors
and staircases fire proof and to secure
the building and its contents from all
danger from fire.
A nine year-old negro girl, without
education, has developed wonderful
powers of preaching at Society Hill,
S. G. At first she only preached to
negroes, but now the whites are
tlocking to hear her. She quotes
Scripture by the whole chapter, uses
good language, and shows amazing
insight into the frailties of humanity.
Her strange power only developed
about ten days ago.
As result of an election held in
the five lower counties of Northern
Neck Monday to decide whether they
should subscribe to the capital stock
of the Virginia and Western Railroad
Company, the corporation organized
to build a railroad through that
section, it is almost certain that all
of the counties have voted favorably
upon the proposition.
At the Baptist Young Peoples
Union in Baltimore was exhibited
the old fashioned lock and key of the
Culpeper, Va, jail where in colonial
and established church times three
Baptist preachers were confined for
preaching. A handsome Baptist
church now occupies the site of the
old jail.
The seed division of the Depart
ment of Agriculture will be abolished
on October /. Secretary Morton has
issued an order stating that the
practice of distributing seed broad
cast at Government expense will be
discontinued during the fiscal year
1895 and 1896.
1t is stated that Virginia free silver
men have determined to attack the
sound money advocates and start the
cry that they intend to retire the
greenbacks and silver dollars, thus
placing the power to contract and ex-
pand the currency in the hands of
the holders of gold and the national
banks.
Theodore A. Havemeyer, the New
York sugar refiner, has confirmed the
report that he is financially inter
ested in the erection of a large hotel
at Old Point Comfort, which will be
run under the management of John
Chamberlain, the well-known Wash
ingtel hotel man.
Mr.. B. F. Cockrille, of Fauquier
county, raised on his farm on the
Spring road 1,202 bushels of winter
oats on q acres of land. This is over
fifty seven bushels to the acre. At
the prices of winter oats last year
this would have paid $3.50 an acre
for the land.
The annual session of the Virginia
Bar Association will be held at
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
on August 9th. Judge Roger a.
Prior, a son of Virginia, but now on
the bench in New York, will be the
orator of the day.
1t is estimated that the annual con-
sumption of oats in the United States
has been reduced about one hundred
million bushels, owing to the displace
ment of horse power by electricity
and bicycles.
The canned horse meat industry
has assumed such proportions at
Portland, Oregon, that special rate
to the East has been made by the
railroads for handling the product.
The most beautiful, or, at all
events, the most valuable cat in the
world belongs to Mrs. Vanderbilt,
who paid no less than $1,000 to obtain