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

VIRGINIA NEWS.
Norman Chance died at the home
of his father in Petersburg, Monday.
A month ago there were nine In the
family, and there are now only two
left, the father and youngest son,
who is i'll. The other members OF the
family died from pneumonia.
An alumnus of the University OF
Virginia, of New York, who has just
died, has donated to the University
of Virginia his estate, valued at $10,-
600. and it is now in shape to be real
lied. The object of the donation is to
create an alcove in the library de-
voted entirely to Virginia history.
Patsy Ward, beyond doubt the
Oldest person in the Valley of Vir-
ginia, possibly in the State. having
been born on February 25, 1909, on a
farm two miles east of Luray, cele-
brated her 10th birthday on the 25th
of last month at her home near Oak
Hill. that county. She lives with one
of her daughters.
Prof. R. G. Price,of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, has just re-
ceived notice of his election as a
Fellow of the Chemical Society OF
England. Such election is one OF the
greatest honors any American
chemist can receive and is an unmls-
taxable testimony to his high stand
ing in his profession.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
at Wytheville will erect q monument
there in honor of the Confederate
dead whose graves are in the city
cemetery. The contract has been let
and the monument will be completed
in four months. The unwilling will
take place about the first of June
with appropriate ceremonies.
The funeral of Hon. Michael
Glennan, late editor of the Virginia-
Pilot, of Norfolk, took place Sunday
from st. Mary's church. Despite the
hardest rain of the season, nearly two
thousand people attended. Delega-
tions, from the Business Mems Asso-
citation, Pickett Buchanan Camp,
CUCtoAci eoaN OoANA
carnations were present.
Two brass cannons taken from a
Spanish fort at Guantanamo have
been added to the collection OF
curiosities in the navy yard park in
Norfolk. The pieces are dated
'.Sevilla, 1907 are six inch calibre
and mounted on oak carriages. lie
comparison with the modern or
dnance they furnish II striking illus
tration of the march Of Improvement.
VIM. NJ. Hope, aged sc years. one OF
Portsmouth, most respected citizens,
died Monday morning. During the
civil war Mr.. Hope was naval con
structor in the Confederate service
and assisted in building the ironclad
Tennessee, at Selma, Ala. He leaves
a widow and three sons, one of whom
is the Rev. Herbert NJ. Hope, asso'
ciate editor of the Richmond Chris
tiap Advocate.
DR.. Paulus A. Irving, secretary OF
the State Board of Health, states that
there are about one thousand cases
of smallpox in Virginia, nearly all OF
them being between the seacoast and
east of a line that if drawn from the
North to the South would strike
somewhere near Richmond. The
State Board of Health has no money
to use in fighting the disease, but the
secretary is rendering good service IN
the direction of checking its progress
Senator Daniel last week, in the
name of Mr.. Henry S. Welcome, OF
London, formerly of Indiana, ten
dered to the Senate an oil picture oil
the Indian princess, Pocahontas. MIR.
Daniel reviewed the historical events
with which Pocahcntas was identified
and also paid tribute to Mr.. Wei
come, saying he was patron of art
ond science, president of the Ameri
Society in London, and one of the
most prominent Americans in Eng
land.
From Rockbridge county comes the
report that there are an enormous
number of crows and they are COM
hitting unheard of freaks. They
have been seen on the backs of the
sheep on several farms. A gentleman
stated that he saw three crows at the
same time on the back of one sheep,
and the animal did not seem to mind
them. The only reason assigned for
crows being there was that they had
frosted their feet during the cold
spell and were using the wool on the
free list as an antidote for their in
jured feet.