Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-06

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of four cents per mile for the round
trip for those who desire to attend
the May Conference.
Nearly seventy candidates are in
the field for the county and district
Offices of Shenandoah county, which
are to be filled at the election on May
20. The canvass is one OF the hottest
for many years.
The University of Virginia cata-
logue for 1S9S'99 is out and shows
the attendance to be 5SS, Virginia OF
course leads with 342 students and
Kentucky follows with 80. Thirty
five states and three foreign countries
are represented.
Ex-Congressman Harry Tucker
prefers senatorial nomination made
| by State convention of our party.
Attorney General Montague thinks
county aud city primary elections
would be the best method that we
could adopt.-Dispatch.
The Newport News shipyard ex>
poets to get the contract for repairing
the battered steamship Norseman,
| now in dry dock at Boston. It's bid
was $97, 200, including transportation
to Newport News, and agreeing to
complete the work in forty eight
days.
The trial of George E. Davis, charg
ed with having shot Gen. Jas.
Walker on the 18th of last March
over a dispute arising from the take
ing of dispositions in the Walker,
Rhea contested election case, began
for hearing in the Hastings Court of
Bristol Monday.
Two factories will be built in Berk-
lev, near the point where the Nor
folk and Western Railway enters
Norfolk. The mills will each be 45X200
| feet and will be of brick They will
be built by the Fidelity International
Company of Philadelphia, a concern
capitalized at 100000 The cotton
yarns used in the manufacture of
carpets. antiseptic mattresses. felt
materials and cottonseed oil products
will be manufactured.
A very large and enthusiastic mass
meeting of democrats of Richmond
county was held at Warsaw on Mon
day, the object being to send dele
gates 10 the democratic conference III
Richmond on the 10th inst. The
meeting was presided over by Hon.
Carter Wexford, county chairman.
Hon. ". A. Jones and Joseph w.
Chinn, Jr., in brief speeches earnest
ly advocated the primary plan. The
county is solid for the movement.
Miss Mary Tucker Magill, second
daughter of DR.. Alfred and Ann
Tucker Magill, and grand daughter
of Judge Henry St. g. Tucker, OF
Winchester, Va, died last Saturday
morning at Laburnum, the residence
of Mr.. Joseph Bryan, where she came
some weeks ago for a visit, and was
taken i'll soon after her arrival. Miss
Magill has been we'll known in Vir
GINA for many years as an authoress
and especially for her school history
and stories of Virginia.
Rev. DR.. j. S. Dill, at the close O
services at the Baptist church, Fred
ericksburg, sunday, asked for al
offering of $500 to equip and estab
lish room in the dormitory Of Rich
mond College to be known as the
Thomas S. Dunaway ROOM" il
honor of the former pastor of The
Baptist church there, who served the
charge thirty-two years. Four hun
dred and twenty five dollars was i'm
mediately subscribed for the purpose
and the balance will be donated
privately this week, which insurei
the success Of the undertaking.
Democrats of Rockbridge county
favoring the nomination of United
| States Senators by the people held {
mass meeting in the courthouse Mon
day over which State Senator Charles
E. McCorkle presided. Ringing
speeches were made by ex Congress
man H. ST. George Tucker, Hon
VIM. A. Anderson and Frank II
Glasgow. Resolutions were adopted
approving the nomination OF United
States Senators by the direct vote O.
the people. Forty.four delegates
from the six magisterial districts o.
the county were elected as represen
tatives to the convention to be helC
in Richmond, May IUtD.
Col. Frederic Funston, of the TWEEN
tieth Kansas Regiment, who has wor
so much fame by his daring and he
roic deeds in the Philippines, it has
| transpired is cousin of Governor
j. Hoge Tyler, of this State. "Funs-
tons grandmother and my grand
father were brother and sister, says
Governor Tyler. "She was Sarah
Hoge, a sister of Gen. James Hoge
my grandfather. She married Col,
Edward Stafford, of Giles county,, at
my place, Bell Hampton, in Pulaski.
They went to Missouri to reside aud
later to Kansas" Governor Tyler
feels proud of his klnsman and says
his gallantry in the Philippines does
credit to his Virginia blood.