Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-04-18
GENERAL NEWS.

4 party of Michigan capitalists
have about decided to locate a plan
ing mill at Lambert's Point, Norfolk.
Colonel G. A. Nash, of the Fourth
| Virginia Regiment, has been placed
on the retired list Of the State militia,
as per his request made some time
since. Lieutenant-Colone H. Hodges
is now in command of the Regiment.
The President Monday sent to the
Senate the following nominations:
Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, TO be
Consul General of the United States
at Havana, Cuba, vice Ramon O..
Williams, resigned; William II:
Fowle, of Virginia, to be Collector OF
Internal Revenue for the Sixth Dis
trict of Virginia.
Figures gathered by the Agricul-
tural Department show that the
number of horses in the United
States has declined within two years
from 16,206,S02 TO 1924, 057, while
their value per head has fallen from
SCI to S42. Since 1893 the loss on the
value of horses in this country
amounts to $492, 100000.
Eight lives were lost in the surf at
Virginia Beach Friday afternoon, of
last week, by the capSizing of a fishing
smack. The dead are: Captain John
Faunce and Percy Faunce, his son, Of
Washington city; John Bright, Moses
Whitehurst, Jim James, Nat Ballard.
Lewis James, Joe Stephens, all
colored.
The State Agricultural and Mechan
ical Society in Richmond has leased
the exposition grounds for five years,
with the privilege of ten, to Il. h.
Lorraine, who will fit them up as a
pleasure resort and bicycle clubhouse
as place for wheelmen to train and
race. The right to hold State fair
each autumn was reserved. The lessee
pays $4,000 year rent.
The Republicans of the First Dis
trict of Virginia met in convention at
Tappahannock Tuesday and elected
DR.. George L. Scarburgh, of Acco
mac county, Va, and Il. G. Walker
(colored), delegates, and John a.
Griffin, of Fredericksburg. and r. q.
Laws (colored), of Westmoreland
county, alternates, to the st. Louis
convention.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Philadelphia Tuesday says: "All
grades of refined sugars advanced to-
day 1cent. with the exception OF Nos
II and 10, which advanced IL cent:
The raise is caused by the general
decrease in raw material and the fact
that there is no Cuban sugar coming
to this country" The increase in
price is the third which has occurred
within a week.
A New Orleans paper reports that
while the South has gained Sd per
cent. in population during the last
twenty years, the enrolment of its
school attendance has increased 1870
per cent. The value Of Southern
school property in the same time has
increased from 100000 600 to SOL ,000,-
O00 1t is estimated that Of the 1920,
00O,0 expended for education in the
South in the last eighteen years one
fourth has been for colored pupils.
y settlers NOHNtulIOu 10 " NC Uciu
at Pine Bluff, n. c., May 5th, under
the auspices of the Southern Inter
state immigration Association. The
convention will be composed entirely
of men who have gone from the
North and West and made their
homes in the South, its object being
to enable leading men from other
sections now living in the South to
express through public convention
their opinion of the South and its
attractions to the immigrant and
investor. Over 100 newspaper men
fro1u the North will be present, and
what is said and done in the con-
vention will be widely advertised
throughout that section. The Gov
errors of the various States will
probably appoint delegates and every
commercial body in the South is en-
titled to and requested to send full
representation.