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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-21
New Laws.
Enacted by the late General Assem-
bly,, of especial interest to the
people of the Eastern Shore.

An Act to prohibit horses, mules. and
colts from running at large upon
the public roads of the county OF
Accomac.
1. Be it enacted by the general as
scmbIy of Virginia, That it shall be
unlawful for any horse, or mare, or
mule, or for any colt ever the age OF
three months, to run at large upon
the public roads in the county of Ac
comac, and the owner, or owners, OF
such animals who shall Intentionally
permit such animals to run at large,
as above mentioned, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon the con-
viction thereof before any justice OF
the peace shall be fined not less than
one nor more than five dollars for
each offence.
3. Nothing in this act shall-be con
strued as applying to the island dis
tricts of Accomac county.
3. This act shall take effect from
apd after the first day OF May, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety six.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-21

An Act to amend and re enact sec
ton 3 of an act entitled an act to
protect wild waterfowl and other
game in the counties of Accomac
and Northampton, approved March
9TH, 1894.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-21

l. Be it enacted by the general
assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to
protect wild waterfowl and other
game in the counties of Accomac and
Northampton be amended and re
enacted so as to read as follows:
3. 1t shall not be lawful for any
person to shoot or kill rabbits, some
times known as hares. or partridges,
sometimes known as quail, in said
counties of Accomac and Northamp-
ton, between the fifteenth day of
January and the fifteenth day of
November of each year, or to take or
destroy the eggs of partridges or
quail at any time; or to shoot or in
any manner kill or destroy the bird
known as the marsh hen before the
fifteenth day of September in any
season, or take its eggs later in the
season than the first of June; or to
shoot or in any manner kill or des
troy the bird known as the willet
before the fifteenth day of August in
any season, or take its eggs at any
time; or to shoot or in any manner
kill or destroy the bird known as the
gull or striker at any time, or to take
its eggs later in the season than the
fourth day of July; or to Kill or cap
ture woodcock, between the first day
of November, and the first day of
April, or to kill or destroy the turkey
buzzard, or black buzzard; or to cap
ture for sale or transportation, or to
kill the mockinS bird; or to kill or
capture the brown thrush, or cardinal
or red bird or house martin or star
ling; or to destroy their nests. If
any person violate any of the pro
visions Of this section he shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be fined
ten dollars for each offence, and i'm
prisoned in jail until the fine is paid,
but not exceeding ten days.
Any person found violating any
section of this act, may be seized
without warrant by any sheriff or
constable or any citizen of this com
monwealth, and carried before Il
Justice of the county. in which the
offence was committed, and be by
him disposed of in any case. And in
the prosecution of any person for the
violation of any section of this act,
the proof any such wild fowl, game
or bird in his possession, shall be
prima facie of his guilt.
9. This act shall be in force from
its passage.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-03-21

ATURDAY, MARCH 81, 1896.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
THAT FIERY BLOCKADE.

Captain Johnston in his speech at Montgomery alluded to the charge made by the Advertiser that he had misrepre- sented at Thomasville the war record of MT. Clarke. He said
 "I looked. fe1low-citizens, upon lines of blue that bristled with muskets and can non every time I was in an assault upon those lines, and think I might possibly look into pair of blue eyes without be- ing greatly disturbed. Now no man questions the courage of my honorable competitor I don't. His organ here-I speak respectfully of 1t, of course-says that he is a man of courage and boldnesS and dash. and that ought to satisfy any reasonable man, but if there is any doubt about it. my honorable friend has inti- mated as much himSelf-and that no man will question. Now they say that I said speak of the Advertiser-the Advertiser says that I said in my Thomasville speech that my friend had never smelled gun powder. We'll they are not always en- trely accurate in quoting me. What I said was, that I had never heard of it if he had, and it was printed in that very issue of the paper, but it seems that I was mistaken, and I want to apologize to my honorable friend, and to all of his friends here, and to retract that re- mark. and to read from the Advertiser in order that I may set him entirely
 
 It speaks of another one of my 'blunders, and the most astonishing thing to me is, how much dissatisfied they are with my blunders, but it says. speaking of that, and I hope my friend will take the lan- guage just exactly like the Advertiser had it, because that makes it right He (meaning Mir. Clarke) left the State uni verslty to go into the Confederate ser vice. He was adjutant of the post at Fort Morgan and participated in many of the fiery attempts to run the blockade there hope that sets my distinguished friend entirely right"
 The speaker left it to the audience to ponder over the danger of fiery attempts to run the blockade, and the audience were convuIsed with shouts of laughter The laughter was, however at the ex- pense of the Advertiser, and not at the expense of Mir Clarke. We'll may Mir. Clarke pray to be delivered from the vn- dication of his Montgomery organ.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
SAVE ALABAMA.

Our esteemed neighbor, the News, had yesterday very handsome article call ing for an outpouring of the people of Birmingham for yesterday evening to do honor to our distinguished fellow citizen, Capt. Joseph F. Johnston. The call was responded to, as appears by our reports in another column. The News said:
 "The paramount issue with Alabama democrats is to save Alabama. Other states will save sound money in the national convention Captain Johnston can poll thousands of votes more than MT. Clarke. The democratic ticket next August must be elected, If 1t shall held office throughout its term. Alabama democrats should not overlook the prob- ability of a republican president and con- gress coming into power next March a year. Captain Johnston can be elected by larger majority than can MT. Clarke and democrats in advocating his nbmna- tion are serving their party and their state more than they are serving any single man.
 E "Go out to the opera house tonight and hear Captain Johnston" a
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
TT WAS REAuTTFTTT,.

That was a grand ovation rendered Captain Johnston last night at O'Brien's opera house. Not only should private citizen feel proud of such demonstra- tion of the confidence and esteem in which he is held by his neighbors and friends, but any man, in any station in life, could have no greater honor done him than was done the gallant gentle man of this town by his home people last night.
 The opera house. was packed from bottom to top with loyal citizens and active democrats of our great and grow ing city.
 On the stage was large number of gentlemen, showing by their presence their indorsement of their home man, their neighbor and friend. Among them were judges of our courts, the sheriff of the county and other county officials city officials, representative professional, business and laboring men.
 If the people of Alabama, who have been informed by poisinous newspaper and the one lone Jefferson county orator who is going over the state speaking for principle" that there was a possibility of Jefferson county sending Clarke dele SdliDn lO OIlltIy, COull nave lOOhCu into the opera house last night they would exclaim this morning to the speaker and newspaper referred to: Be careful in your statements about Bir- mingham and Jefferson county" Bear in mind the tocsin, false in one thing, false in all things"
 Jefferson county, Birmingham, every beat in Jefferson county, is for Johnston by an overwhelming majority. It was clearly evident last night that MT. Clarke's coming to Jefferson had only operated to put the supporters of John- ston on their metal. It only made him stronger in his home county. It made his home people delight in the opportu- nifty to show the love for.and confidence in their home man, their neighbor their friend
 The evidences of the warm place he holds in the minds and hearts of the peo- pie among whom he has lived during the past ten or twelve years, as demonstrated at the opera house last night, must cer- tainly have given Captain Johnston more real, unalloyed pleasure than the induction into any office within the gift of any people could bring to him. It was grand. It was encouraging. It was beau- tiful
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.

It was Bob Ingersoll who said with so much wit and good deal of truth that the democratic party usually camped upon the ground from which the republi- can party had the day before made an advanced movement. It looks at pres ent as if the republican party were about to take the wind out of the sails of the democracy on the money question. They will nominate Mckinley and give him a free silver coinage platform, or they will straddIe the question and take Mckinley upon his record His record is so very pronounced in favor of free coinage of both gold and silver without discrimina- ton that it would not be necessary to have an explanatory platform.
 The republican press is largely for Me- Kinley. It looks upon free silver as es- sentially aiding high tariff. Of course it would be an incidental aid only upon the assumption that silver coinage would debase the currency and that payment of duties in debased currency would add to the duties the premium upon gold. The democrats who favor free silver deny that the result would be premium upon gold, and hence deny that it would so affect du- ties as to raise them to the protective or prohibitive point.
 The views of the republican senators who recently signed the paper which ap- peared in the American" are clearly fa- vorable to a coalition between free silver and tariff for protection. Their reason ing is unsound, but the fact remains that such a coalition is intended within the lines of the republican party, and that Mckinley is their candidate.
 The record of Mckinley in this connec- tion becomes of great interest as indicat- ing the popularity of his signing free silver coinage bill if he should become president. In the event of his election next November both houses would repre- sent the cause of free silver. All of the money and influence of the eastern states could not prevent it. |, In the national republican convention of 1888, at the close of MT. Cleveland's first term, the republican party adopted the following resolution:
 ''The republican party is in favor of the
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
THE MONTGOMERY MEETING.

The reception of Captain Johnston at Montgomery night before last must have been very gratifying to him. The the- ater was filled with an audience which represented the business interests of the city and the agricultural interests of the county. It was noticed and general ly commented upon that the county pre- cincts had fall representations. In this respect the assemblage differed from that which welcomed MT. Clarke. That gentleman had but few hearers from the farming interests. Captain Johnston's speech was applauded from beginning to end. It was an admirable speech, replete with humor and common sense. He abat- ed not one jot of his views as to curren- cy, and had no apology to make for any thing he had said or done. He claimed the right of every democrat to enter tain his views upon any question not settled definitely by the party platform, and protested against being ostracised for having opinions which were held not long ago by all the party. Any one who will carefully read that speech cannot but honor the manliness, the sincerity and the conservatism of the speaker. From personal intercourse with the leading citizens of Montgomery county we feel satisfied that Captain Johnston will carry that county, notwithstanding the frantic efforts of certain ones of the old ring to use their machine pratices against him.
 When we see gold standard men like Roquemore, Lawson and scores of oth- CTS prominent in the politics of Montgom- cry rallying to the support of Johnston as the most available candidate with whom to meet and defeat the common enemy we may be sure that the result is certain. The gold people of Mont gomery intend to revolutionize things and no longer be dictated to by a self constituted oligarchy, who imagine that they control the destinies of the state.
 The enthusiasm manifested at Mont gomery for Captain Johnston by the immense audience of Thursday even ing means that he has captured the cita- del. He Is the next governor of Alabama, not an accidental governor but the first choice of the peo- pie by virtue of life of devotion to his people and his party.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22

use of both gold and silver as money, and condemns thepolicy of the democratic administration in it's efforts to demone- tiZe silver" sg Et
 This resolution had reference to the letter of MT. Cleveland in the early part of his administra ton asking congress to stop the coinage of silver dollars. That letter was written in 1884, twelve years ago. Had congress complied with this advice our currency would be less today by over $200, 900, 900 of silver and silver certificates. It was the policy an- nounced by that letter that the repub- lican convention denounced as an effort to demonetize silver.
 When the republicans came into power in 1888 they proceeded to carry out their promises They passed in 1890 the sil- yer purchase act, which was styled by the Indiana republicans that Hong yet prudent step towards free coinage"
 The republicans of McKinley's state adopted a platform declaring that i've fully approve the wise action of the re- publican members of both houses of con- gress in fulfilling the pledges of the party in legislation upon the coinage of silver" etc.
 Mckinley grew more unrestrained in his championship of the free-coinage cause as time passed. In February, 1891, he delivered a speech at Toledo, In which he severely condemned MT. Cleveland, saying:
 During all of his years at the head of the government he was dishonorng one of our precious metals, one of our own great products, discrediting silver and enhancing the price of gold He endeav- hi ipoI Ion In stop the coinage of silver dollars, and afterwards and to the end of his admin istration, perSistently used his power to that end. He was determined to con- tract the circulating medium and de- monetize one of the coins of commerce, limit the volume of money among the people, make money scarce and there fore dear. He would have increased the value of money and diminished the value of everything else-money the master, everything else the, servant"
 Two years later, in another speech de- Hvered in September 1893, Mckinley made still another bid for the silver vote, talking in this strain: "The silver pro- duct of the country, one of the most inn portant we have, should not be discrimi mated against, but some plan should be devised for it's utilization as a money, which will insure, not the displacement of gold. but the safe and full use of both as exchanges among the people,"
 Here then we have clearly defined the platform and the man of the next repub- lcan convention. It remains for the de- mocracy to determine whether they will go over to the sole gold standard and let the republicans capture the popular sen timent. There is no question how the democratic convention will speak, unless their voice is throttled by the delegates from states which never cast 8 democrat ic vote
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
YOU MUST ANSWER.

We insist that the Montgomery Adver- tiser make answer to the following ques- tions, which we propound to it in behalf of the sound money men who it is now trying to horsewhip into line:
 Is it not a fact that the Montgomery Advertiser and Maj. w. w. Screws and Frank P. Glass, as it's editors, favored Hon. Jesse Stallings for congress in 1894 against Capt. A. A. Wyly?
 Is it not a fact that MT. Stal1ings was known as an anti-administration, free silver democrat, and that Captain Wy ly was known to be an administration sound money man, indorsing MT. Cleve- lands construction of the Chicago plat form?
 Is it not a fact, and did not Messrs Screws and Glass know that MT. Stall- ings voted against the repeal of the pur- chasing clause of the Sherman act, and for every amendment offered by MT. Bland looking to the free coinage of sil- yer?
 With this knowledge of MT. Stallings' record did they not favor his renomna- tion over Captain Wyly, a pronounced Cleveland man? Was there any prin- ciple in that?
 Did not Captain Wyly in the discussion with Mr. Stalllngs at Troy charge that Mir. Stallings in. December, 1893, had de- nounced Mir. Cleveland both personally and officially, charging that his whole financial policy had been dictated by Tom Reed and John Sherman, asserting that it would be good thing for the country if the president was dead and buried?
 Did not the Advertiser and it's editors have full knowledge of Mir. Stallings denunciations of MT. Cleveland as above and did they not support MT. Stallngs after that discussion? Where were it's principles" then?
 Will the Advertiser please answer the foregoing questions and explain to the sound money men who are supporting Captain Johnston why it Is denouncing Captain Johnston, who, while differing with MT. Cleveland, never abuses him personally or officially?
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
THE COTTON TRADE.

Some idea of the importance, of the cot ton trade may be gained from the follow ing editorial in the New York World
 According to the treasury estimate the American cotton crop ofelast year amounted to 3,769.3S1 900 pounds. ofqwhich amount 2,62S 900 pounds was exported to Europe Of the total European ex- ports England took 1 ,4S5, ,451 ,00O pounds, or more, than half. According to the English estimates, the value of the total English consumption of raw cotton was f33, 900, 900, or over S150,00O.000 represent ing a<least the average earnings of 500,- 900 laborers for a year of 300 working days and the support of about 2.500,000 people, including the de- pendents of these laborers, but not merchants. factors, railroad employees or others whose livelihood de- bends on handling the trade and feeding and clothing the labor engaged in it.
 Tn it's textile industries England has invested the enormous sum of $1. 900. .0O0.- 900. and Mr. Thomas Ellison estimates
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
PARTY LAW
Adopted by the Executive Committee on
 Tuesday, January 21.

Adopted by the Executive Committee on
 Tuesday, January 21.
 1. Whereas The democratic committee of the United States, in it's call of the na- tional convention, adopted wise and conservative policy in Inviting all con- servative citizens, irrespective of past po- ltical associations or differences, to join in sending delegations to the said con vention; therefore, be it
 Resolved by the state democratic ex- ecutive committee of Alabama, That we hereby invite all conservative voters, ir- respective of past political associations or differences, who can unite with us in the effort for pure, economical and con- stitutional government and who will SUD- port the nominees and principles of the democratic party, to join with us in send ing delegates to the approaching state convention, to be held at the state capi- tol in the city of Montgomery upon a day to be fixed by this committee. The fore going shall also apply to the conventions called to nominate county and beat can didates.
 2. Each county shall be entitled to the same number of delegates in said conven- tion as it had in the last state conven- tion.
 3. Each county executive committee shall decide for its county whether the delegates to the state convention shall be selected by primary election, beat meetings, county conventions or mass meetings.
 A. No delegate to the congressional con- vention shall be elected at the same time that delegates are selected to the state convention.
 5. That the executive committee of each county shall have the right to deter mine whether to admit any but white voters to the primaries of their respec- tive counties.
 Delegates to the congressional conven- ton shall be elected in such a manner as the respective county executive commit tees shall determine. on Saturday, the 22d day of August 1896, and the congress sional conventions of the several districts in the state shall be held on Tuesday. September 1, 1896, at such places as the respective congressional executive com mittees may determine. Each county shall be entitled to the same number of delegates in the congressional convention that 1t is allowed under the foregoing apportionment in the state convention.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22

It's annual production of cottons at $50O,- 900 900, or about double that of wool. Nearly, if not quite, 750,000 people are employed in producing this output. Many of them are minors, but it is not likely to do violence to the facts to suppose that at least 100000 people are directly de- pendent on the industry for their daily supply of food. Out of total British ex- ports of $1, ,OS0, 00o,000 for 1894. exports of cotton amounted to $332 900, 900, or full third of the whole. Such an output stands for the labor of 100000 men for aI year of 332 working days. and, counting five in the family of each laborer, it would stand for the support of at least 5,O0O, ,OOO people. exclusive of those indi- rectly interested"
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22

paper, if present, to correct him if he was not correctly informed as to the course of the Advertiser in that campaign. There were present those who were au- thorized to speak for the sheet, but no correction was forthcoming. The truth is, the Advertiser did oppose it's home man, a sound money man, and favored the nomination of free coinage man. There is no doubt about the course of the Advertiser, and we again demand that the Advertiser tell the sound money men what 1t did with it's principles" while thus engaged.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-22
To Stop Feuds and Vendettas

Fl Paso, Tex,- Feb 21-Meetings are being held here today between Governor Thornton and United States Marshal Hall of Santa Fe, Sheriff Ascarate. Judge Fall of Las Cruces and other prominent citizens of south New Mexico rel ative to stopping the political feuds and vendettas, which have made life and property unsafe in Lincoln and Dona Ana counties, New Mexico, for so long, The plan is to have the New Mexican, sheriff, Guadaloupe ,Ascarte, of Dona Ana county. resign and place in his stead Pat Garrett, one of the best known frontiersmen, and the man who killed Billy, the Kid" The recent Fountain murder has led up to this action