Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-08


MIR. r. NJ. Voolfolk, OF Madison
county, has sold his gold mine III
Louisa for $4,000.
The Board of Agriculture reports
that owing to the drought, there VIII
be a smaller acreage of wheat in Vlr'
ginia this year.
There are indications that the
Bowden Republicans in the Second
district will vote against DIR. Il. "A.
Wise for Congress.
Democratic State headquarters
have been opened in Richmond. Dem
ocratic clubs will be organized In
MANY election precincts in Virginia.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, commanding
the Eastern Department of Cuba, has
been granted leave of absence for
the purpose of visiting Virginia to
attend to private business.
Two men walked the seventy live
miles between Newport News and
Richmond on wager OF a dollar per
mile if they walked it in twenty con
secutive hours. The pedestrians cat
down the time one hour and forty
minutes.
The Democrats of Roanoke, Satur-
day, organized Bryan-Stevenson,,
Otey Club with 1000 members. joel
n. Cutchin was elected president ana
T. r. Tillet secretary. Major Peter j.
Otey. candidate for Congress, was
present and delivered rousing ad-
dress.
The national convention of negro
Raptists which convenes in Rlch-
mond September 1916, promises to
be the largest negro convention ever
held there. Representative negroes
from perhaps every State in the
Union will attends, 900 are estimated
to attend.
Nearly 500 vessels left Norfolk, Sat
urday for the oyster grounds, and the
season started with rush. The hl'
valves are of much better quahty
this year, and the yield will be large
Especially is this so in the York, Rap
pahannock, Nansemond and james
rivers.
The official figures from the Census
Bereau gives Richmond populatlol
of 81. $50 against 81, 1888 in 1890. Thl'
shows an increase Of $3.50, or 400 pei
cent. In 1880 the population was
go. 300. and the increase over TINS IL
tho 1890 population WAS 17,7SS OF
27.97 per cent.
According to semi-official v ash
ington report, Norfolk's population
| will be over $4,000, or an Increase o.
1875 per cent, a larger increase tnai
, any city in the country. In 1890 Tue
population was "a 900. Newport News
| it is stated, will also show an increase
of 125 per cent.
General Macarthur cables the Wa
Department from Manila thai
Captain George H. Bentley, Forty
seventh Volunteer Infantry, died a
0:55 a. IN. August 27th, from wounds
received near Camalig, Luzon, Au
oust 21st. Captain Bentley was
native of Pulaski county, Va, ant
entered the service as first lieutenant
| In the Second Virginia Volunteers
April %, 1898.
Preferring death to capture, Jo
Spadey, thirty eight years OF age
wanted in Berkeley for theft. Will
being pursued by several Norfoll
policemen Monday jumped into tn
river. His hat was found on a tui
living near the wharf. The body WA
recovered and carried to the morgue
Spadey was well known to the polio
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Great damage is being done to tn
ciops in the counties of South
side Virginia by the protracte'
, drought. In some localities there ha
not been a serviceable rain for NOR
than two months. 1t is estimated
that not half crop of corn, peanut
or tobacco will be made. In SOM
sections the corn has become worth
less and the farmers have turned
their cattle into the cornfields to feeC
upon the corn. Vegetation OF al
kinds is fast dying and many of thu
wells have gone dry. All Of the small
er streams are fast drying up.
The Virginia State Board of Health
has recently issued a circular entitled
precautions Against Typhoid
Fever This circular says thai
typhoid fever is a most prevalent
disease in our State, prevailing more
or less in every county in the State
1t is estimated that we have in the
State 10000 cases year. The Boarc
calls attention to the fact that where
a single case of small .pox is reported
in community there is great alarm
yet typhoid fever kills its thousands
where small pox kills one. They say
the disease of typhoid fever Is due to
neglect and tilth-generally from