Peninsula Enterprise, March 11, 1893
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Transportation -- Railroad - Personal injury
Samuel Kellam, a well known colored man, whose home was near Eastville, was found dead under a railroad bridge, near that place, Monday morning, The verdict of the coroner's jury was that he came to his death by falling through the trestle.
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Moral -- Property crime
Horace Snead, colored, was sent to jail from Wachapreague, this week, to await the action of the grand jury, on the charge of forgery. He is an oysterman and presented checks for payment to Capt. N. B. Rich, marked by himself instead of by Mr. M. R. Bulman, as he alleged, who had been buying oysters from him.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateTransportation -- Water - FreightForests -- Shipping : Water
Chincoteague.
The storehouse of Isaac Coffin, deceased, sold at public auction last week, was bid off to his son Mallory, at $905.
Charles Collins has sold his store house and stock of goods to Kendall Jester, for the sum of $1,150.
The schooners P. J. Hart and John M. Price, caught in the storm between this place and the breakwater, have not been heard from and the fate of the crews on board of them, therefore, is a matter of great anxiety to our people. Some think they went down in the storm, others say, they may have been blown out to sea and the crews taken off and carried to some foreign port. The Hart, loaded with cord wood for New York, was worth about $1,000 and belonged to Capt. Joseph Pruitt. She had on board William K. Collins, of Greenbackville, master, John Block, of Stockton, Md., Mate, W. H. Fletcher, colored, cook and a passenger, Lewis Logan, Greenbackville. The Price, belonging to Capt. John W. Bunting and Mrs. William P. Burch, worth about $1,000, was loaded with oysters for Landcraft & Co., Fair Haven, Conn. She had aboard Alfred Lewis, captain, Sydney Mason, mate, Robert L. Smith and George Townsend, colored, all of this place.
The Price has been heard from through columns of the N. Y. Herald. Her crew was taken off the boat by a steamer bound from Norfolk to London, on the 23rd of February, 250 miles east of Chincoteague and landed safely at Liverpool, March 5th.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Finfish - Methods : Pound-netWeather -- FreezesFields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Seed and slipsfields -- Crops - White potatoes : Seed and slips
Nandua.
Our oystermen are shipping very fine oysters and receiving fair prices for same.
Fishermen will start their traps about the 20th of this month. Old fishermen say that fish will be very plentiful this season.
Sweet and Irish potato seed very scarce in this section. Farmers are arranging for bedding the first fair day.
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Fields -- Crops - Other vegetablesInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsFields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Seed and slips
Pungoteague.
The acreage in onions and peas in this section, this season, will be much larger than usual.
The number of pupils in our public schools is over on hundred and two private schools in our town also have a liberal patronage.
Our farmers are busily engaged in planting Irish potatoes and bedding sweets. The latter are more plentiful than was anticipated a few weeks ago and the price for same has dropped to $1 per bushel.
Eastern Shore Agricultural Fair -- Change of Time.
Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fairs
It is with much regret that force of circumstances compel us to change the time which we had selected for the opening of the 16th Annual Fair from August 15th, to Tuesday, August 8, 1893. But with due regard for the wishes of our Baptist friends, many of whom are zealous patrons of the exposition and regular attendants thereon, we don't feel willing that so many of our friends should be deprived of the pleasure they find in mingling with us to promote our agricultural and stock interests, by permitting our time to conflict with their association, which we have been informed, comes off 16th of August.
In endeavoring to adapt our time to the time of the county court and association, which are established by law, we trust due appreciation will be manifested, and an increased attendance will be the result.
The purpose of the committee, is to conform to the wishes of our people in all consistent respects, establishing the force of what we have previously asserted -- that it is the Fair of the people -- not of any particular section or sect. Therefore, as the date is unalterably fixed, subject to no other change, keep your energies steadily concentrated upon helping us to success.
Some will criticise our action no doubt, for changing to August 8th, saying its too soon, but remember its "never too late to do good, nor too soon" to commence, "it's never wrong to do right and it's never right to do wrong," so give us your help instead of harsh criticism, and we'll meet on the old Fair grounds on the appointed day with smiles of approbation -- each for the other, regardless of all past differences of opinion.
Respectfully, T. T. Wescott, Sec'y.
George H. Adair, President.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement
The depredations on the oyster beds of Virginia continue and according to the latest advices the Governor, who is so fond of telling what he knows about oysters, had taken no steps to protect them. He has not even ordered the steamer Chesapeake to the scene of operations, or if he has, his commands have not been obeyed. Two old hulks improperly equipped with either guns or ammunition alone keep guard over the untold treasures, which the Governor of Virginia on all occasions is ready to proclaim to the world in high sounding phrases, can be found in our waters. Those treasures which according to his last message to the Legislature are of such incalculable value practically are at the mercy of lawless citizens of Maryland and Virginia. They have indeed become so bold in their operations, that concealment of the names of the boats or crews seems to be considered no longer a necessary precaution and in one instance at least, the captain, (who is a fugitive from justice) and crew of the schooner Garrison, owned by citizens of Virginia, have defied the authorities of the State and not only successfully resisted the attempt made to arrest them but were victors, in a contest between them and the police boat of the State to stop their depredations upon our oyster beds. The information, if not in the possession of the Governor, can be had by asking for same and with it in his possession, the query is pertinent, can the Governor of the great state of Virginia, with folded hands calm view the situation without making any effort to have those arrested, who thus openly transgress her laws and successfully resist those whose duty it is to execute them? In this connection an erroneous impression created by dispatches to the Baltimore Sun, that the Marylanders who are plundering our oyster beds, are from Baltimore. Authentic information in our possession enables us to state, that the citizens of Maryland engaged in stealing our oysters are from Crisfield and Smith's Island, whose names will be given in later issues of this paper -- to the end that we nurse our wrath and refuse favors to citizens of those places, which have heretofore been acquiesced in by us.