Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-03-11
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

Winchester, Va, March 3.-The Rock
Enon Springs hotel, situated in the west
ern section of this county, at one time a
famous watering place, belonging to A..
S. Pratt & Sons, of Washington, was
sold ut public auction yesterday. Mr..
John W. Rice was the highest bidder,
the price being less than $4,000.
Lexington, Va, March 2.-Wheat in
the county is looking remarkably well
and the heavy snow has greatly benefited
1t, whereas before the wheat was in n
very poor condition. There is large
quantity Of corn yet unshucked in the
fields throughout the county, and the
ground is SO wet that wagons cannot be
used to haul it from the field.
Warrenton, Va, March 3.-For injur-
les sustained in an accident near War
renton on Oct. 81, 1896, Miss Virginia
Wood, Mrs. Anna Il. Wood and Miss
Eliza 7. Wood yesterday, through their
attorney, Daniel Harmon, of Charlottes-
vile, entered suit in the circuit court Of
Fauquier county against the Southern
railway for damages, the first for $25,
600 and the others for $1,000 each.
Fredericksburg, Va, March 2.-Thc
large quantity Of snow in February and
the length OF time it remained on the
ground proved OF great benefit to the
wheat crop. Obscrvant farmers state
that the earth now contains more moist
ure than for some years, and that the
prospects are excellent for good crop
year. 1t is not thought that the fruit
crop has been injured to any extent in
this section.
Savannah, Ga, March 3.-A dealer in
this city has just shipped 1000 dozen
eggs tc Havana, for which he will re-
ceive SLIGO per dozen. The order came
before the blizzard and the egg famine.
At that time eggs in Havana were worth
five cents each. The freeze cut off the
supply, and the dealer cabled that he
could not fill the order lower than SLIGO
a dozen. The reply came back to ship
them anyway. 1t is said he paid 30 and
10 cents n dozen for them.
Charleston, S. c.. March 3.-In the
United States district court here Clerk
C. j. Hutson made out and Judge Braw-
ley signed 295 checks to the officers and
men of the cruiser Yale for their share
of the money accruing from the sale OF
the Spanish prize Rita, bought by the
government for $125,000. The prize
money to be divided amounted to $50 900.
Captain Wise; of the Yale, was sent
check for $S,09l, and the smallest
amount received by seaman was SIG.
Alexandria, Va, March 3.-Thc new
law in relation to obtaining charters in
Virginia, which made the fees higher and
the conditions more rigid, had at first the
effect Of almost entirely cutting off the
applications for charters at the clerks
Office in Alexandria from incorporators
outside the state. or late, however, APP
plications for charters have been re-
newed, and this week four charters have
been granted in the corporation court,
one of them for cleaning oil wells i'll
Ohio.
Danyille, Va, March Edward
Brown, a young white man, wanted for
the shooting Of Mrs. Mollc Kempton on
last Saturday night, was arrested in
North Carolina near Leaksville this
morning by member OF the Danville
police force, sent into that state to hunt
for him. Brown gave himself up after
the house in which he had been staying
had been surrounded by officers. He re-
turned to Danville without rcquistion
papers and was committed to the city
Jail Brown claims that the shooting
was done in self defense.
Weston, w. Va, March 2.-The Rev.
J. C. Rexroad, Baptist minister of
Lewis county, and wealthy landowner,
will lost his life, and his neighbors,
Clark Simlnon and James Bennett, also
wealthy farmers, will be tried for MUIR
der as the result of quarrel over rails
from line fence. The wind blew the
rails on the RexrOad land. Simmons
and Bennett went to recover them. Rex
road met them and n fist fight ensued, in
which Simmons was worsted. All par
ties armed themselves and returned to
the rails, when they all fired stimuli
taneously. ReXrond was mortally wound
I'd, the others escaping.