Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-03-04

Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, OF
New York. has given $1,000 toward
the poor of Winchester, who are in
need of relief and whose conditions
were made extremely critical during
the recent blizzard.
Mr.. Michael Glennan, for many
years owner of the Norfolk Virginian,
and one of the best known newspaper
men in the South, tainted Sunday at
the Church of the Sacred Heart in
Norfolk. His condition causes ap>
prehension.
Governor Tyler has received from
the secretary of the State board OF
fisheries application for two cases OF
solid shot for use in the rapld-tre
guns on the Virginia oyster boats:
No trouble, however, is anticipated
in the oyster district.
Norfolk will in short time have q
bonded warehouse, which has been
needed for long time. Capitalists
of Norfolk and Baltimore are in
terested in the movement. Recently
g charter was granted the organiza-
ton, which will purchase the present
warehouse, @ fine structure, and
thoroughly equip it.
The State board of fisheries was in
session in Richmond, last week. The
question of adopting some better sys
tenn of collecting the rental OF the
oyster grounds was discussed. The
board is under the impression that
the Baylor survey OF the oyster
grounds will have to be made over.
The board adjourned to meet the
first Wednesday after the 10th OF
March.
State Secretary Lacoulter, of the
Virginia Y. NJ. c. A, sent q telegram
to Hampton ordering that all prep
arations for the State convention,
to be held there beginning last
Thursday. be suspended. 1t is
thouht that the action has been taken
on account of the small pox scare in
Humpton, it being reported that
several cases of the disease have
broken out in that place.
The annual report of Commissioner
of Revenue Jones will show that the
taxable value of property in Newport
News approximates $4,000 900. This
by no means represents the real value
of the real estate within the city, but
it will require new assessment IN or
der to place property values upon
anything like their real basis. Well
informed persons claim that the real
figures would be nearer SIS. C0O,O 900.
There died in Rappahannock coun-
ty last week a young man named
Scott, 90 years old, who had never
spoken word. moved step nor
taken q mouthful of food unassisted
during his unfortunate life. There
was not a normal organ nor natural
function, so far as could be seen,
about this strange freak and yet he
lived to become man, constant
care and hourly solicitude to his de
voted mother. His case is regarded
one of the unexplained mysteries by
the medical profession.
a petition for the pardon of Simon
Bowie, an old Virginia ante bellum
negro, who is in Chesterfield county
jail for stealing barrel of flour, was
made to Governor Tyler. The old
prisoner has daughter living in the
North and doing well. She wants
her father to come to live with her,
and it was stipulated in the petition
that the prisoner would leave the
State if executive clemency was
granted. Uncle Simon, however,
said: Tell Governor Tyler am con
+op+ boro op6 do not want O. Dar0OD
under the circumstances. l had
rather stay in Jail in Virginia all my
life than live a year in the North"