Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-06-08
Virginia News.

Grayson county elected its 10 dele
gates for Swanson. This Is the last
county In the Fifth district to elect.
The Travellers Protective Associa-
ton convened at Old Point Monday
night with 700 delegates and 2oV
ladies present.
In the Coleman Sanders breach-of-
promise suit, in Lancaster county,
| neither party appealed, and the YER
dict for 1000 stands as the ludg-
ment OF the court.
An invitation has been extended to
| the four candidates for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor OF
| Virginia to attend the Fourth OF
July celebration at Woodstock.
Peter G. Warwick, the newly
chosen surveyor for the Virginia
Board of Fisheries, reports nnmper
| of cases where immense quantities
of oyster lands have been Improperly
taken up.
Governor Tyler has refused to par
don Wiley Johns, of Rockbridge. who
was convicted of forging certificate
giving the wrong age of young lady
for whom a marriage certificate was
obtained.
Gen. James A. Walker has an
nounced himself candidate for the
Republican nomination for Governor
of Virginia, but says he will not enter
into an aggressive canvass 1or the
nomination.
The Virginia Department of Agri-
culture is advised that, possibly in
anticipation of short crop, apple
BUYERS from large cities are securing
options on the fruit in many sections
of the State.
Gen. Thomas l.. Rosser is very
favorably mentioned for the Repub-
lican nomination for Governor OF
Virginia, The nominating conven-
ton will meet in Charlottesville,
where General Rosser resides.
A blight has appeared in some of
the orchards near TImberville, Shen-
andoah county, which is playing
havoc with some OF the fruit trees In
that section. The result OF it will be
but little fruit where it appears.
Ed PAYNE, the negro who attempt
ed to assault Miss Duncan, OF Dublin
on Saturday, was tried Monday, the
result of which was hung jury I'M
til morning when they brought in a
verdict of guilty and fixed the penal
ty at death.
An arrangement has been effected
in Fauquier county by which the 20
delegates of that county are to vote
for Marshall on the first ballot and to
divide equally between Montague
and Swanson on the second and sue
ceeding ballots.
The Virginia Sinking Fund Com
missioners will not purchase any
more bonds this month on account
of the expense incident to the meet
ing of the Constitutional Convention.
The price of bonds has nothing to do
with this determination.
At Norfolk, Saturday Norman
Rhodes, a saloonkeeper, was con-
victed of exhibiting pictures in
places calculated to corrupt the
morals of youth and sentenced to
three months in jail and to pay a
fine Of 800. Rhodes took an appeal.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fight at
Roanoke is waxing warmer each hour
as the primary approaches. The COM
bined Swanson and Echols forces are
working desperately to wrest the
Roanoke delegation from Montague,
while his adherents appear confident
of the result.
The State Female Normal School,
at Farmville, closed Wednesday
There are % graduates. The school
had q larger attendance this session
than 1t has had since it was founded
by the Legislature, there being over
400 students on the rolls.
at largely attended meeting of
the Democrats of Richmond county,
held Monday,its seven delegates were
unanimously instructed to cast the
vote of the county as a unit for At
torney- General Montague for Gov
ernor and for Il. w. LeCato for
Northumberland.
Rev. w. q. Starr, D. D., president
of Randolph Macon College, who for
the past eight months has been can
wasting Virginia In the interest OF
the Twentieth Century Thank Offer
ing Fund, says $4,000 of the 800, 600
of this fund, which was to be raised
by the Virginia Conference, has been
subscribed.
There were So delegates to the
Democratic State convention elected
Monday. Of this number Montague
received 20 and Swanson "a. The
counties electing were: Franklin,l0
for Swanson; Pulaski,4 At for Swanson,
II for Echols and for Montague;
Richmond 7, Charlotte 10 and spot
sylvania for Montague.
Confederate Memorial Day was OBJ
served at Leesburg Wednesday with
more than usual interest. Miss Mary
Lee, daughter of General r. E. Lee,
pinned crosses of honor upon the
breasts of the old veterans. This was
a most affecting and impressive cere-
mony. The crosses had been procured
by the Daugh tiers of the Confederacy.
They are in the shape of st. An
drew's cross, and are of bronze got
ten from the melting of some old
Confederate cannon.