Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-09-22

The SUFFOLK bar AssOcldIlOh mas III
dorsed Judge Robert r. Prentiss, OF
the First Judiciary Circuit, for the
Virginia Court of Appeals.
Col. h. f. Peyton, gallant Con
federate, who served on the stan OF
General Robert f Lee, died last week
in st. Louis. He was native OF Lou
doun county.
The Rev. DR.. j j. LafTerty will
issue q Notwithstanding book OF
Sketches of the preachers of the Vir
giDia Conference this fall which bids
fair to eclipse any former book.
Forest fires which have been burn
ing for some days in Dinwiddle coun-
~. have destroyed fully $4,000 OF
property, principally timber ana
lumber Two or three churches nave
been burned.
Quite a stir has been caused IN Re-
publican circles by the removal from
office of Major r. +. Walker as snip
keeper in the Norfolk Navy Yard and
the appointment of a negro named
Conner in his place.
The twelfth century census turns
the population of Norfolk in 1900 as
4G 1914 against 34,S71 in 1870, showing
an increase of II, 753 or 30 40 per cent.
From 1880 to 1890 the increase was
70 .905 or 5S IS per cent.
Two farmers of Stafford county sold
the products of their pickle patches
this season for $16l and $171, respect
iyelv. Each farmer had about an acre
and a half in cultivation and their eX-
pepses we're not over $50 each.
REPORTS from all sections of the
| State indicate that the Democrats
are in excellent trim. There is every
reason to believe that the Democrats
will carry all 10 of the Congressional
| districts. The most doubtful of these
are the Ninth and the Tenth.
Railroad Commissioner Hill,o Viz
ginia, has decided that penltentlary
I; guards in the custody of prisoners are
exemJt from the restriction OF the
Jim Grow" car law, aud that they
can keep their prisoners with them
in whichever car it is most convenient.
The fredericksburg Star, daily and
semi. weekly. has been sold by A. L.
Embrey to the Star Printing and
Publishing Company, just organized
with Judge r. H. l.. Chichester
PRESIDENT. G. O'Conor GoolTick secre-
tary and j. Conway Chichester treas
urer and business manager.
The State Board has decided tc
f adopt b. F. Johnson's series oil
r readers and Lees History of the
limited States in the public schools
of the State for the next five years
] This is considered another victory
} for the b. F. johnson Publishing
D Company, Of this city, over northern
: publishers. Richmond Times.
D At the close of registration for thu
e day at the University OF Virginia
y Monday there was lead OF 81 owe
the same time of the past session. Tn
= day was also notable as recording Tn
t largest single days registration In tn
g history of the institution. Inc prom
, Use for an increased attendance owe
last year is very bright.
Thomas J. Mackay, a Baptist min
lister who has figured in several sensa
tional episodes at Newport News an
J who has served as a member OF TN
:. Board Of Police Commissioners, ha
. rendered his resignation as memoe
. of that body and has left the city
He goes to Camden, n. j., to supp
S the pulpit of the Calvert Street Bap
. tjst Church for while during tn
cf 4ha TaaCfOr
e Richmond is to have q State fal
. this fall. The feature of the exhibl
zion will be the horse racing, while
is to take place from October % 20
o inclusive. The name Of the associa
:. tion is the Virginia Agriculture
=, state Fair, which was chartered .
the last session of the Legislature
Mr. Henry Tyler, a brother to 90
Tyler, is the President. The otht
incorporators include many prom
II nent men in the State
Col. Randolph Harrison, who Ole
10 AT his home, in Cumberland count
D last week. was son of the late WI
Y liam Byrd Harrison, of Brandon, an
was connected with most of TT
prominent families of the State. h
IL was a gallant Confederate soldier, al
D. led a regiment in General wise
,r brigade. Colonel Harrison was wild
IL known and exceedingly popula
and filled with credit the positions
q Register of Land and Commission
le of Agriculture.
The oyster inspectors along IL
II Rappahannock are exceedingly Wig
l. liant and many arrests are being mad
h The recent Gull law, which makes
unlawful to catch oysters under thrt
inches, instead of two and One-hal
Ii as was formerly the law, is giving I'll
e. oystermen q good deal OF trouole,si
a. some are being caught who have !
20 intention of doing wrong The partl
&c arrested are promptly fined the spe
s, flied amount, which is $40, and q
D. lowed to continue Clustering the IL
DR. lowing day.
N The oystermen state that the b
"a valves are not so plentiful as In yea
:, gone by, but that they are better
handle and will bring better prlc
Or The absence of the great quantity
=" spat, or smaller oysters, is especial
al noticeable, and this augurs no GOO
- to the oystermen foryears to come.
~ is becoming more patent as time pas
~ es that this industry is nearing
te end. and that the time is not far di
o. tant when the only oysters to be pr
. cured will have to come from Il
beds of private planters.
C. For sponsor at the Grand Camp
40 Confederate Veterans, at Staunto
''0 next month-Miss Kate Payne, of CT
n pepper, and Miss Kate Williams,
he Orange county, for maid of homo
ar The recommendations for sponso
=; and maids of honor from the first sc
81 ond, and seventh districts have II
10 yet been received. A recommendatiC
81 is equal to an appointment. The
or are also a sponsor and maid Of hon
!: for the State at large to be appoin
III ed by Commander Boiling, who sa
10 l. ha1 lo% Cd vi