Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-05-24
Virginia News.

Virginia News.
Twenty-Five railway, electric light,
gas, ferry and ice companies OF Nor
folk and neighborhood have been
consolidated under the direction OF
Baltimore capitalists.
Rev. Carter Helm Jones, OF Louis
vile, Ky, has been selected TO
preach the baccalaureate sermon at
the coming commencement at the
University of Virginia.
The Department of Agriculture of
Virginia has issued its spring bulle-
tin containing analysis of fertilizers.
The bulletin is sent free to farmers
on application to the Department at
Richmond.
The time for filing of names OF
candidates for the Democratic nomi
nation for Congress in the Ninth Vir-
ginia district, has expired. The
name of Congressman W. +. Rhea
was the only one filed.
Right Rev. Francis M. Whittle,
the venerable bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese OF Virginia,
is in a serious condition at his home
in Richmond as the result OF fall in
which he broke one OF his thighs.
The oyster commission has decided
upon a new Gull law, dropped the
month of September from the legal
longing season and appointed sub
committees to consider boundary
disputes. The commission is to re-
port later to the entire commission.
While experimenting the hiving
of swarm of angry bees at bis home
at Milldale, Mr. w. r. Conrad, one
of the leading men of the commun-
itv. was attacked by the bees and
stung to death. He lived only ten
minutes after receiving his injuries.
The State Board of Fisheries will
take a cruise from Old Point to Ur-
hanna on June 3rd to settle some dis
puted oyster lands at the latter place
The members will then go over some
of the territory where the scheme OF
deep water planting is being inaugu-
rated.
Rev. DR.. J. B Hawthorne, of
Richmond, is out in statement in
which he says that the appointment
of DR.. ]. L. NJ. Curry as special Am
bassador to Spain will be an issue in
the next Presidential campaign. DR..
Hawthorne is, he says, utterly dis
gusted with adultation for monarchs.
After twenty.four years of inces-
sant labor, Richmond College has at
last been successful in its claim
against the government for $4,000.
This claim was for damages done to
the buildings, apparatus and scienti-
fic equipment of the college by the
soldiers of negro regiment, quar-
ter there for six months immediate
ly after the civil war.
Rev. J. T. Mastin, Financial Agent
OF the Virginia Conference Orphan
age, now being erected at Richmond,
Va, expects to open the institution
about the middle of July. He has
already a number of homeless and
destitute children to be placed under
it's fostering care. He will shortly
begin canvass among the churches
in the Virginia Conference for the
purpose of organizing societies in
every congregation.
About 40 ladies of New York, ar
rived at Charlottesville Sunday
morning on their pilgrimage to
j jamestown Island and the colonial
homes of Virginia. In the afternoon
they were received at Monticello by
Hon. Jefferson Nj. Levy and his sis
ter, assisted by Miss Anna Lee,
daughter of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and
others. The reception was informal,
owing to its being Sunday. The pill
grims visited the University of Vir-
ginia Monday.
The Rev. G. H. Crawford, president
of the Anti Saloon League, of Vir-
ginia, appeared in the Amherst
county court Tuesday with his copn'
sci, Judge w. II. Mann, to answer
the charge of contempt. Judge Mann
made a brief statement, reading the
bill of rights and presenting the de-
cisions of courts to prove that Mr..
Crawford had not been guilty Of the
charge brought against him. Judge
Campbell discussed the case at
length, reading the article in which
Mr.. Crawford had asked (Which had
been doctored the most, the whiskey
DR. the courts?" Judge Campbell said
hat he had no unkind feeling to-
" ard Mr.. Crawford and knew that
no publication of the minister's re-
lecting on him would ipjure him in
Amherst county, but that Mr.. Craw-
lords paper had wide circulation
and he regarded it his duty to up
lold the dignity Of the law and the
Judge Cambell de-
,ided that as Mr.. Crawford ques-
Toned the accuracy of reports in the
papers he would postpone
he case until June "a.