Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-11-18
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

| United States court yesterday OF steal
| Ing $3.O5 from tie Clarmont postofflce.
In consideration Of his tender age SEN
! tence was suspended. and he was re-
manded to the custody of his parents.
Charleston. Nov 9.-Dr. Maxey G.
Lee. of we'll known family of OAR
lington. this state. who killed his
father. DR. Lee. several months ago.
was yesterday found guilty. with q
recommendation TO mercy" which
probably means life Imprisonment in
the state penitentiary. The plea OF
the defense was accidental homicide.
Birmingham. Ala. Nov 11.-Judge
Feagin. of the interior criminal court.
yesterday pronounced the act of the
general assembly Of 1896, which for
bids the sale of pools at horse races.
/ tc be unconstitutional. The pool SELL
ers. who had been arrested on the
charge Of violating the law. were re-
leased
Louisville, KY. Nov IA special
to The Courier-Journal from Middle
boro gives report of the killing IN
Letcher county OF three regulators.
whose names are not given. The reg
ulators. according to the story. were
engaged in maltreating two old women,
Mrs. Holbrook and Mrs. Click. when
they had a clash with crowd Of Of
fcers and citizens, with fatal results.
Macon. Ga. Nov 10.-Congressman
Bartlett and Senator Bacon received
Yesterday a petition signed by about
100 negroes asking them to use their
best efforts to secure the passage of 4
law whereby the negroes might be de-
ported TO Africa. They say that con-
ditions under which they live are not
satisfactory They see no prospects OF
change, and say it would be better
for the two races to separate.
Covington, KY, Nov. 10.-On cleo
ton day Mayor j. l.. Rhinock conduct
ed body of policemen to each polling
place and hustled out the Republican
inspectors In some cases the doors were
broken open. An appeal to the courts
restored the elected inspectors. Yester-
day warrants were sworn out for the
mayor and several of his chief officers.
and today $50 more warrants were
sworn out against the policemen.
Richmond. Va. Nov 9.-The cleo
ton returns show that the state senate
will be entirely Democratic. the only
member outside of the regular party
nominees being w. B. Stands. indie
pendent Democrat from Isle of Wight.
The house will be composed of IS regu-
lar Democrats, three independents and
4 MONTH, will thu
nomination in the party caucus for
United States senator by safe ma
jority.
Raleigh. Nov. Thames Joyner,
the Dongola murderer, was hanged at
Greenville. N. c.. yesterday in the
presence of 5000 people. The execu-
ton was without a mishap. The con-
demned man made statement on the
gallows that he alone was guilty OF
the crime. and that if others were pun
ished for it the punishment would fall
on innocent parties. Notwithstanding
the immense crowd the best of order
prevailed
Jackson. Miss, Nov. 9.-There was a
light vote in the Mississippi election.
uG eIbllC DCIIONl lSiS otAeSe-StS-hSs 49,
elected by majority conservatively es'
timated at 10000. The official count will
not vary greatly from these figures.
The popular vote shows decided fall
ing off, which probably will amount to
so per cent. Not over $4,000 votes were
polled during the day. The Noel
amendment, providing for an elective
judiciary, is defeated. In senatorial
caucuses McLaurin received the long
term instruction and Sullivan the short
term.
Meridian, Miss, Nov Ito. c. King.
of this city, commissioner from the
state of Mississippi to the Paris ex-
position in 1900. has arranged with q
party who has secured at the right
season 100000 selected full grown cot
ton bolls, which will be sold at the
Paris exposition by original cotton
field darkeys as souvenirs of the
American cotton exhibit. These will
be the first cotton bolls ever shipped
abroad, and they will doubtless be
eagerly sought after by people who
have used quantities of American cot
ton, but who never have seen it in its
natural form.
Richmond, Nov 11.-Yesterday Hon.
J. Taylor Ellyson, president of the
Jefferson Davis Monument association.
appeared before the convention of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and presented the resolution adopted
by the United Confederate Veterans
asking the United Daughters to as
sumo the responsibility or raising a
monument to the memory Of President
Davis. The Daughters accepted the
charge by an overwhelming majority.
The corner stone of the proposed mon
ument was laid in Monroe Park. in
this city, in 1885, and it is designed
that it shall be a memorial not only
of Mr.. Davis, but of the lost cause. .
The fund now amounts to $4,000.
Richmond, Nov 1O.-Yesterday was
another great Confederate day in
Richmond, the occasion being the un-
yelling in Hollywood cemetery, under
the auspices OF the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, now in convention
here, of the memorials in Hollywood
to President Jefferson Davis and Miss
| Winnie Davis. The Daughters, in car
riages, were escorted to Hollywood
by an imposing procession, consisting
of Confederate camps and military
The services were very impressive and
were witnessed by vast crowds. Gov
ernor Tyler presided, and the speakers
were Hon. b. B. Munford. John Rea-
gan, Confederate postmaster general
and the only survivor of Davis cabi-
net, and General Fitzhugh Lee
Atlanta, Nov. 11-Merd was re-
ceived in Atlanta last night Of the
marriage in Washington on Saturday
last of Lieutenant F. e. Bamford
Fifth infantry, u S. A. and Mrs. Mac
Kendall O'Brien. This is a sequel 10
the Romeyn court martial at Fort Nc
| Pherson in 1897. Lieutenant Bamford
at that time was engaged to marry
Captain Romeyn's daughter, at the
same time paying marked attention to
Mrs. O'Brien. Captain Romeyn ex-
pressed himself freely in the matter