Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-09

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Southern California Fruit Exchange,
puts it at 5000 car loads, or 2,7O0,00C
boxes. This is an increase OF about
1000 boxes over last season.
The editor of the News, Bristol
Va, has caught the sentimental spirit
of the season and gives expression tC
his feeling in the following paragraph
He who does not love music and
poetry has no soul, and he who does
not love-desperately love-a good
woman, has no sense"
John Johnson, colored, aged about
IS years, who brutally murdered
Charles Carter, a clerk, with an axe
on the 31st of March last, has been
sentenced by the court at Lancaster
G. H., Va, to be hanged on Friday
June 10. Johnson confessed the crime
and said that he alone committed it
DR.. J. L. NJ. Curry, agent of the
Peabody fund, who has been much
interested in the subject of manual
training in the public schools, has
written letter to Hon. John E.
Massey. suggesting that department
of manual training be added to the
course of instruction of the School OF
Methods. 1t is understood that Mr.
Massey favors the scheme.
Over a year ago a Pennsylvania
man proclaimed the theory that il
anybody gave up the use of liquor
and tobacco on April ID, he would
never desire to drink or use the weed
again. Several of his friends tried the
experiment on April 10, 1895, and,
curiously enough, not one of them
has returned to pipe or bottle. Sc
there may be good in the number Il
after all.
A we'll posted politician speaking OF
the report that the Republican ticket
in Virginia next year may be Walker,
for governor, Flanagan for lieutenant.
governor, and Lewis for attorney-gen-
eral says, there would certainly be
fusion between the Republicans and
Populists. In that event the pops
will have to be given place on the
ticket and Mr.. j. Haskins Hobson or
Judge James NJ. Gregory may be put
up for lieutenant governor.
About 1000 men have stopped work
and demanded salary at the shipyard
of the Newport News Shipbuildipg
and Dry Dock company. This action
on the part of employees was brought
about by the new time system. This
system is called the clock system, and
each man has key and registers his
own time. The men claim that much
time is lost in the morning and at
dinner hour on account of having to
wait in turn to register.
1t is stated in Norfolk that in
pursuance of an agreement signed
last week nearly all manufacturers
of North Carolina pine lumber have
shut down their mills for an indefi-
lite period. The mills thus suspend
ing operations produce about G00,-
900, 0C0 feet of lumber annually. The
new move is said to be preliminary
step toward the formation of strong
association to increase and maintain
the prices for lumber and to control
the output of North Carolina pine.
The diocese of Virginia will hold
it's hundred and first annual Episco-
pal Council on Wednesday the Goth
day of this month at st. Paul's church
at Alexandria. 1t will be in session
for two or three days, according to
the amount of business that is before
il. Bishop Francis NJ. Whittle. the
head of the diocese, will preside,
while the Assistant Bishop, Right
Rev. John B. Newton, will be on
hand to assist him if necessary. Rev.
Everrard Meade, the diocesan mis-
sionary, is secretary Of the Council.
The President by his signature
Thursday extended the provisions
of the civil service law to 10000
Government employees, increasing
the number of positions on the
classified list from 55, 1876 to 5,135, and
with few minor exceptions, between
the extremes of officials whose con
firmation by the Senate is constitu
tionally requisite, down to mere
laborers and workmen, governmental
appointments are withdrawn as far
as possible from political influence,
and protected in their tenure of office
by the merit system.
There are over thousand men in
New York and Brooklyn, according
to the latest returns, who are worth
between $1,000,000 and $1,500,00C
ca, h. and the most of them are en-
tirely unknown to the general pub
lie. Only two citizens of New York
John d. Rockefeller and w. w.
Astor-are supposed to be worth more
than $100,000,000 apiece, but there
100000 and over, as well as two
estates Of like amount. The total
number of millionaires in these two
cities is greater than in all the rest of
the country.
Rev Alberto Diaz, the Southern Bap.
fist missionary expelled from Cuba by
Weyler, in long interview, tells ap.
palling stories of atrocities being
committed by the Spanish. In the
last two weeks, in the rural districts
of San Miguel, Del Pardon, and
Minas, Mr.. Diaz says, Colonel
Fondeville has had more than 1OC
persons butchered, and then reported
them to the outside world as having
been killed in battle. Among those
killed were children 10 and Is years
of age. The victims were compelled
to dig their own graves before being
shot. Colonel Fondeville is one OF
Weyler's favorites, and is acting un-
der the Captain Generals orders.
Some of the most influential Demo.
Gratis in Virginia are opposed to the
Staunton convention taking any
action upon the question of calling a
constitutional convention, except to
answer the charges made against
the party in the platform adopted
by the Republicans. The idea
is that the Staunton convention
will probably have as much as it