Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-01-13
Virginia News.

Governor Tyler has issued procla
nation renewing the quarantine OF q
year ago relative to splenetic fever in
cattle.
The total exports from Newport
News for the month of December, 1879
amounted to $4,000, 1913.
A. P. Hill Camp, Confederate Vet
Grams, of Petersburg, has received an
invitation from Wilcox Post, 6. A. K
of Springfield, Mass, to visit the post
the latter part of this month.
Orange and Culpeper counties are
much alarmed over the appearance Of
diphtheria. Two children have died
within twentyefour hours at Madison
Court House, and number OF Others
are i'll.
The Virginia State Sunday school
Association, embracing all Protestant
denominations, will hold it's tenth an
nual convention in Roanoke March z,
8 and 8. Jucge K. II. w. Duke. jr, OF
Charlottesville. is president.
Keeber Saunders, the sleepy death
watch at the Portsmouth jail, whose
slumbers permitted the condemned
negro murderer, Walter Cotton, to saw
through the bars OF his cell and escape
last week. has been fined $3.50 for his
negligence.
Senator John w. Dsuiel has ac-
eepted an invitation of Gen Turner
Ashby Camp Confederate Veterans.
at Winchester, to attend a banquet
to be given on the evening of Janu-
airy 10 in honor OF Gen. Robert f.
Lees birthday.
Prof s. d. Davies, of Richmond
College was stricken Wednesday
with paralysis which affected his en-
tire right side except his foot. His
condition is critical, and. although
temporary relief may be given him,
it is thought that he will never per-
mRnently recover.
Norman W. Richardson, of Ports
mouth, aged years, died Saturday Of
lOckjaw in great agony. On Christ
mas, while playing with a small rifle,
it exploded, the ball striking the knee
and glancing The body showed no
signs of illness until Friday, when
lockjaw suddenly set in.
The memory of Father Ryan, poet
laureate of the Southern Confed
eracy, is to be honored by a monu-
ment to be erected in Norfolk, his
native city. The project is in the
hands of the Daughters of the Con.
federacy, who believe that all the
money needed will be readily Sc
cured.
The North Carolina Pine Associa
ton met in Norfolk last week and
ordered an advance of 81 per thous-
and feet in price of lumber handled
by members of the association.
Scarcity of stock is given as the rea-
son for the advance. Eighteen manu-
facturers of lumber from Virginia
and Eastern North Carolina were
present.
Colonel Thomas H. Carter, proctor
OF the University of Virginia, reports
that institution to be enjoying one
Of the most prosperous years in its
history. Six hundred and forty two
students are enrolled with applicants
sufficient to make total within the
month of $50 students. The best pre-
vious year was 1859, when CAT pupils
were in attendance.
There is now anchored in the New
port News harbor vessel tonnage ex
ceeding $4,000, and all of the ships
are waiting for coal cargoes. There
is a scarcity of coal on the seaboard,
and it is impossible for the railroads
engaged in the traffic to get sufficient
coal to supply the demand. 1t IS I'M
derstood that a general tie up is
threatened at the coal mines.
The Colored Reform League of
Lynchburg has entered a protest
against the Virginia Legislature pass
ing the Jim Crow car" measure,
which is now pending. They claim
that the passage of such an act would
subject the race to needless and un-
merited humiliation. They call on
white people of the city to join in OPP
position to the passage of the bill.