Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-01-25
GENERAL NEWS.
The Democratic National Couven-
tion will be held in Chicago July 18th.

GENEkAL ENSe
The Democratic National Couven
5 tion will be held in Chicago July 18th
, President Cleveland has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address al
the 150th anniversary of the founding
Of Princeton College.
The foreign immigration to United
States for the last year was the
smallest since 1879. The total mum
Der of arrivals was 25S, $50.
|; John w. Griggs, of Paterson, the
first Republican elected to the office
in New Jersey in thirty years, was
inaugurated Governor Tuesday at
noon.
The republican presidential cam
paign has been opened in Virginia,
and there is promise of bitter fight
between the Lamb and anti Lamb
factions.
The sound money men in Virginia
will make al determined and sys-
tematic fight to convert the demo-
cratic State convention to their
financial policy.
Ex-President Harrison has an
nounced that he and Mrs. Mary Lord
Dimmock are engaged to be married.
The marriage will not take place
until after Lent.
From many sections of the State
| comes the intelligence that, owing to
the preceding long dry spell, wells
| have dried up and farmers wara not
able to get ice from their ponds.
A statue of Frederick Douglass, to
cost $1,000, will be unveiled i'll Il pub
lie park in Rochester, n. Y, August
5, 1896. The money to pay for it is
being raised by public subscription.
The Danville Register thinks that
''the exposition, or State fair or
county fair that depends upon horse
racing, wheels of fortune and other
gambling affairs for success have no
right to success
A meeting of silver men from all
parts of the country will be held in
Washington to consider the
ACCESSIBILITY of holding a national
convention and putting national
silver ticket in the field.
AT the banquet of the A. P. Hill
Camp. Monday in Petersburg, Gen.
G.. A. Battle said that a court of
INQUIRY called after the battle of
GETTYSBURG censured Generals Stuart
and Longstreet, but that General
Lee suppressed the report and took
all the blame himself for the failure.
The new and handsome home of
Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans, on
Broad street, Richmond, was formally
opened Friday night, of last week.
The structure cost $4,000. Cover
nor O'Ferrall and his staff were pres
ent. Col. w. Gordon McCabe
delivered an address on the occasion.
The great evangelist, Mr.. Moody,
ridicules the idea expressed by
skeptics that the Bible is passing out
of use, and asserts that more Bibles
are read now than ever before, The
Bible Societies of New York and
London, he says, are printing Bibles
so fast that their combined output is
Il, 0G0 Bibles an hour.
The new Epworth N. E. Church,
South, Norfolk, was dedicated Sun.
day. 1t is situated at the corner of
Freemason and Boush streets, and
was erected by the congregation of
CRANKY Street Church at cost of
1922 900. 1t is a beautiful edifice, of
cap stone, and is said to be the finest
structure of the kind within the
bounds of Southern Methodism.
The failure of the Virginia Legisla-
ture to adjourn in respect to the
birthday of General Robert E. Lee
has been much commented upon
here, and is without any explanation.
1t is about as bad as that North
Carolina Legislature, which last year
refused to adjourn on Washington S
birthday, but adjourned a few days
later on upon the death Of Fred.
Douglas 1t is not difficult to see
that the race track measure was at
the bottom Of the action at Rich
mond, and there is one thing certain,
if the Virginia people do not quickly
and effectually settle that ce-track
question, they will soon become in
different to her own history, unmind-
full of the birthdays of Washington
and Lee, and most likely forgetful of
the 25th of December.-Wash
special in Norfolk Virginian.