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

to five years.
GENERAL NEWS.
Greater New York will begin her
lustrous career with a population OF
only Il little less than 100000.
The war in Cuba, according to the
New York Herald, is costing Spain
Sc. 900, 0C0 a month, and nearly $780,
600, 600 has been spent since the be-
ginning.
The City Democratic Committee of
Richmond has decided that only
white Democrats will be allowed to
vote in the primaries for the coming
spring elections.
Rhode Island has 1900 factories,
employing $4,000 men, % 900 women
and 4,4OO children. The combined
capital of the mills is sac, 900 and
the annual output $1O4, 600.
Michigan produces one-fifth of the
iron in the country, mining 5000 900
tons year. The copper mines are
the richest in the world, having pro-
duced over $200,O00,000 worth of
metal.
Thirty thousand barrels OF whisky
were burned in two warehouses OF
the Pleasure Ridge Park Distillery
Company at Louisville, Ky, Satur-
day. The total loss is estimated at
| $425. 900.
Park Agnew, formerly Republican
postmaster of Alexandria, Va, is re-
ported as saying that his party will
IGNORE the negro, and fight on the
white citizenship line of the State,
and insist on fair count"
King William county, Va, has ap.
pointed q woman on the School
Board, the first lady so honored in
Virginia The opponents of the in
novatiou are vigorously quoting con
stitutional provisions forbiddinS such
appointment.
The truckers of Norfolk county, Va,
complain of the recent cold weather
as having damaged everything in the
early vegetable line, to say nothing
whatever in the way of the expected
profits. The truck season in North
Carolina is at similar disadvantage.
The Presbytery of Norfolk will
hold its stated spring meeting on
Tuesday, April 18th, at Hampton, Va
! This body embraces in its jurlsdic-
ton the Presbyterian ministers and
churches within nineteen counties
| lying in the eastern part OF Virginia.
Elk State Senator William E. Bib,
of Louisa Court House, who is a
candidate for Congress in the eighth
congressional district of Virginia,
was badly bitten by rabid dog last
Tuesday. He shot the dog and then
took the next train for New York, to
be treated at the Pasteur Institute.
The Society of the Daughters of the
Confederacy of Baltimore have Sc
cured General Fitzhugh Lee to
| lecture in that city on Nay 9th.
General Fitzhugh Lee telegraphed
his acceptance of the invitation, and
will be the guest of the society while
there.
Senator Daniel has introduced a
bill in the Senate for the erection Of
a monument to George Washington
at Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Va The bill provides for
the appropriation of $4,000 for the
purpose, and that the University
trustees shall give a suitable site and
preserve the monument.
The New York Herald has made q
canvass in every State and Territory
to ascertain the presidential prefer
ences of the delegates to the Repub
lican National Convention, to be held
in st. Souls, June 10th. and it says
that on the first ballot Mckinley will
poll more than double the vote of
any other candidate, and will fall
only sixty-two votes short of the
nomination.
Secretary Morton has let the con
tract for the 10, $4,000 nackets of
vegetable seeds to be distributed to
the public under the recent act of
Congress to d. Landretb & Sons, of
Philadelphia. The price fixed is
$4,000, the seeds to be delivered sub
iect to germinative test under a very
carefully drawn contract, free Of
cost, at the department in Washing
ton, ready for mailing. The contract
for million packets of flower seeds
was let to l.. L. May & Co., of ST.
Paul. Mimi, at one half cent per
packet.
The seventh annual convention of
the United Confederate Veterans,
which begins at Richmond, June
both, will probably be one of the most
Interesting sessions this organization
has had during it's existence. The
body will meet in the Auditorium
Building on the exposition grounds,
in the western suburbs of the city.
This structure, which will be COM
pleted in good time for use, will seat
| 10000 persons. rhis capacity is eX-
pected to be fully tested daily. Be
sides the regular animal work of the
convention the question of a school
history for Southern children, which
was discussed at the Houston meet
| IL