Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-05-12

ty petitioned the Board OF Supervis'
ors to abolish fences, except Stone
wall district.
A special meeting of the ministers
of Norfolk was held Monday for the
purpose of setting on foot move
ment for better Sunday observance.
A cross to the memory of the late
Father Ryan will be unveiled in
Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, May %
by the Daughters of the Confederacy
of that city.
Mr.. Wulf Won Borcke, son OF Count
Heros Won Borcke, who served on the
staff OF Gen. j. K. B. Stuart during
the Civil War, is in Richmond and
will settle in Virginia.
The board of sinking fund commits
sioners has purchased for retirement
| l07, 900 State bonds, $4,000 centuries
and $4,000 Riddlebergers, the former
at 90 and the latter at 944.
The annual meeting of the Virgin
ia Press Association will convene at
Hygeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, on
Tuesday, July II, at noon, and will
continue for about three days.
Five State councils of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics
including that of Virginia, will short
ly agree upon concerted plan pro-
cedure with reference to the Nation
al Council.
A dispatch from Richmond states
that DR.. w. w. Smith, chancellor OF
the Randolph Macon Institutes, is i'll
with facial erysipelas in Philadel-
phia hospital. He was at the Ecume-
meal Conference in New York when
taken ill.
All the Virginia delegates to the
National Democratic Convention ex-
pect to go to Kansas City. 1t is said
that the hotels are already rejecting
applications for rooms. The party OF
Virginians in attendance will not
number more than thirty-fve or
forty.
Gov. Tyler has accepted an invita-
ton to be one of the guests OF the
State of Maryland at the dedication
of the Antietam battle field monu-
ment May 60 The monument is to
be in memory Of the sons of Mary
land of both armies who fell on An
tietam's field.
Crabs are now being shipped in
great quantities from the Rappahan-
mock to Baltimore and Northern mar
kets. On nearly every wharf there
are men buying crabs with view OF
speculation. Thursday there was a
man at Irvington Wharf paying Sol
cents per dozen. crabs being quoted
at only rs and 80 cents.
The Lexington Opera House, -lfrick
and frame, was DESTROYED ~ " fire early
Sunday morning. lhe cause is un-
known The building cost about so,
0OO and vas insured for $500. The
naEEes had gained such Roadway
When discovered that the fremen
could only direct their efforts to pro.
tecting neighboring property.
Plans, il is said, are being formed
for the establishment of new ship
building plant in Richmond to equal
IN size any shipyard i'll the United
States. Northern capitalists, 1t is.said,
are cooperating with local money
men. Chamberlin and Scott, owners
IF the Richmond Iron Works, ARE said
TO be taking an active part in the
An interesting relic of the Civil
War which has come to light is sever
II tons of the original armor- plate OF
he Confederate ram Virginia, or Mer
'imac, as she was generally called. 1t
las been lying on Belle Island, the
property of the Old Dominion Iron
ind Nail Works, who purchased it
IN the raising of the Virginia by the {
United States Government shortly {
Lfter the war.
Judge Blackstone, OF the Circuit
court, has announced that he will re-
use to grant writ of error in the I
ase of Frank Benjamin, under sem
ence of death for attempted crimi-
al assault in Elizabeth City county. {
'he case will now go to the Supreme c
,ourt of Appeals of Virginia. Last t
Teek Benjamin attempted to COM q
ait suicide by hanging himself in his a
ell. ?
An insect known as the pea flea has
ttacked the pea crop along the Rap
and is doing much dam a
ge. The insect is green and about v
be size of a flea, and resembles the {,
ricket in shape. They hide them a
slves under leaves near the bottom, o
nd before their presence is known t.
ley have eaten it into a honey comb.
he truckers are much troubled over
leir new enemy, and puzzled how
, get rid of it.
The assessors of Fredericksburg +,
.alty have completed their work. AS q,
with the assessment of 1895
le increase in the value of lots and
improvements amounts to 81, 900 for
hites and $1,000 for colored people.
he percentage of gain for the white *
roperty owners is about 8 per cent,
nd for the colored about 10 per cent II
ealty and improvements exempt
ON taxation amount to $273, 900, as
.ainst 1858, 600 in 1895.
The trial of Rev. J. E. r. Riddick, tt
larged with the murder of DR.. w. pl
. Temple, on the 18th of March last, K
rs been postponed till May 20. The
was made on account
the indisposition of Mr.. Riddick's
life, who is an important witness in
Ie case. According to the state g,
ents of Mr.. w. s. Poage, Of Wythe lie
lie, brother-in- law of Mr.. Riddick, 10
ere is no question of the sanity of re
10 accused. 1t is intimated that ar
hen the case comes to trial the evil
nee of Mrs. Riddlck will show that
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