Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-06-01
GENERAL NEWS.

DR.. S. X. Jackson, on trial on the
charge of malpractice, in Norfolk,
this week, was acquitted.
Henry Disston & Co., the large
Philadelphia saw-inaking firm, have
advanced the wages of their LOO
employees.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of
the Interior Department, has decided
that no claims for pensions will be
entertained for service rendered af-
ter July, 1860.
Thomas H. Carter of Montana,
late chairman of the Republican
National Campaign Committee, says
his party must nominate a silver man
for the Presidency or suffer defeat.
Hon. Isidor Rayner has withdrawn
from the contest for the Democratic
nomination for the Governorship OF
MARYLAND. He says the people are
for him, but the politicians are
against him.
The distinguished Virginia sculp-
statue of Thomas Jefferson which is
TO stand in the entrance 10 the
Jefferson Hotel under construction
in Richmond.
Saturday in Norfolk Judge Prem
tiss decided against the Pilot in the
libel suit of Massey VS.. the Pilot.
This in effect was against the Pilots
averment that the utterances were
made fairly, honestly and without
malice.
Several years ago Michigan abol-
ished capital capital punishment, but
the increase of crime in the State
since then has caused n reaction in
public sentiment, and there is now
before the Michigan Legislature a
bill to restore the death penalty in
certain cases.
The assessors report for the city
of Danville shows that the total real
estate assessment in that city for
1880 was $5,174, 22S, and improvements
added since that time amount to
$567, 2H, making a total OF 50, 741 1863.
The new assessment foots up 81
979, 114G, decrease of about l3 per
cent.
Mount Vernon regents are holding
long and interesting sessions at
| Mount Vernon. at which the financial
condition of the association and
other matters are being considered.
The reports are satisfactory. The
receipts for the past year have eX
ceeded the expenditures. Gov.
O'Ferrall, accompanied by his wife,
visited the lady regents last week and
was handsomely entertained.
The Chamber OF Commerce CT the
city of New York will start Il
crusade against free silver coinage.
Their announced intention is to make
at once definite issue between sill
yer money and sound money, laying
all other questions aside, and calling
on every friend of sound currency to
enlist at once in the campaign
against cheap money. The crusade
is to cover every section of the coun
try.
The Supreme Court of the United
States mas denied the appllcauion OF
the State of Virginia for a decree to
have the boundary line between that
State and Tennessee re-run for the
purpose of restoring the marking.
The denial is not based upon any
indisposition to grant the request, as
both States unite in making it, but
because the bill was filed during the
term of 1893, and the Court finds that
it cannot act at the present term on
the bill filed on a previous term.
There has been more or less dispute
between the States as to this line,
but the Court in 1893 confirmed the
liue as established by the compact of
1903. 1t will not be possible to Go
anything to secure the restoration of
the marks until the next term.