Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-12-18

|stlfce arrests in this case nil negroes
enc of,swho,n was hanged at Warwick
Courthouse. and the other two were
sent 20 the penitentiary. After killing
their man. the negroes looted the store
Of everything in it of any value Tn
those days there were regularly or
sanized bands of negroes who went
about the country rohbing stores. and
private houses. too, for that matter
ana incidents are related now how
otten-tine the We're permitted to go
through house and take what they
Liked. the owner being up stairs, per-
maps. afraid to Interfere While all his
earthly possessions were being toted
away by desperate thieves who would
nave murdered him With little COM
junction had he shown himself.
The county is divided into three
masis erial districts. Stanley. Danbign,
and Newport. in which this city is
situated Both of the first TWO We're
original grants from the crown. Stan
ley representing in great parts lands
granted tn The original Stanley family
when it came over to this country from
England ana settled herc: While Den
high wus a grant to the Dgss and
Carey families
Many OF the elder people here have
attended worship in an old frame
church which stood III STANLEY District.
and was called the Mulberry Island
church. Originally. of course. it was
used by all denominations. though.
as a matter of fact. there was
Very little variety in the ear!y days OF
Warwick in the matter of religion.
everything being Baptist. This church
was useG for public worship as late dis
| 1886. but in spite of all the repairing and
| patching that could be done to it. decay
at last set its seal upon the structure
and now scarcely Il trace of the old
church remains Indeed it is doubtful
| il the place where it stood could be
| located. E
| The Mulberry Island church had a
grant of several acres of land, and this
| still belongs to it. or would il it exist
ed still. AS it is. 1t belongs to the OLD
Free State. and the county has built
| apon it Il public school and uses it for
a voting place also. 1t Is: probably the
most hallowed voting precinct in this
section Of the country
| There was another of these old frame
| churches built about the same time.
This stood at Denbigh ana is still used
by the Baptists. 1t has been repaired,
weathcrboardcd and shinsled so often
| that scarcely any of the original tim
bcrs remain except. perhaps, the beams
and skeleton
| The old homestead of the Diggs fam
lily built in times colonial, was burned
something over u score Of years ago,
and has never been rebuilt. 1t was II
| beautiful old residence and made an
ideal conflagration. The fire was acct
dental and the building was in ashes in
an incredibly short time. burning like
| finder. Nearly all of these old colonial
| houses had their Kitchens in soldly
| built brick buildings detached from the
house. This was the case With the
! Diggs home at Denbigh. That ancient
| kitchen has been renovated and nicely
fitted out and is now the home OF DR.
Young.
Just across the county line, in James
City county, lives Mrs, Curtis in anoth-
err old colonial residence that was used
for hospital during the Revolution
and the war Of 1872. 1t was again used
| for a hospital in the Civil War and i:
| now standing and is occupied as &
home, being in almost q perfect state
| Of repair.
Warwick county always has been {