Peninsula Enterprise, September 9, 1893

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Moral -- Other violent crime

Deputy Sheriff Melson carried Jas. White of F., to the State penitentiary Monday, to serve a two years' sentence for malicious cutting.

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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders

Corner stone of M. E. Church, South, Cape Charles, will be laid, Wednesday, 13th inst., by Masonic lodges of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Rev. G. H. Ray will deliver an address on the occasion and lecture at night on the subject "Matrimony." Admission to lecture 25 cents.

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Transportation -- Water - Sailboats

Capt. Benjamin Sharpley, Schooner Eleanora, picked up three miles at sea, off Pope's Island, on the morning of 3rd inst., bug-eye "Petrel," in good condition.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement

The Board of the Chesapeake and its Tributaries met in Richmond last Tuesday, to appoint a new commander for steamer Chesapeake of Virginia Oyster Police Force. Two candidates from the Eastern Shore were on hand to present their claims for the position -- Capt. A. J. Read, of Hoffman's Wharf, and Capt. E. R. Thomas, of Messongo. The Board adjourned on Tuesday without making an appointment, but will do so, it is stated, in a few days.

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Transportation -- Water - Freight

Chincoteague.

Schooner Kelsey arrived here last week from Philadelphia with 80 tons of coal for Whealton & Co. and schooner B. F. Hastings from same place with 50 tons of coal for S. E. Matthews. Schooners Morning Light and Emma Robbins arrived this week from New York with cargoes of coal for parties here and Franklin City.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : PlantingSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : PricesInfrastructure -- Public : Churches

Marsh Market.

Planted oysters are being sold in Messongo channel, for shipment to Baltimore, at 55 cents per bushel.

Many boats have left Messongo, for Rappahannock river, to be used in the oyster business there.

Mr. O. B. Miles will not move to a farm rented by him in Maryland, another year, as he expected, but will occupy the Witham farm.

Fifty persons or more have been converted at the protracted meeting at Shiloh, many of whom will be baptized at an early date and join that church.

Rev. R. B. Scott, aided by other ministers, is conducting a very successful protracted meeting on Sykes Island. Many persons have been converted, among them some of the oldest citizens of the Island.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - BaseballInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsFields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : PricesInfrastructure -- Public : CollegesInfrastructure -- Public : Churches

Onancock.

The Onancock nine was defeated Tuesday, on the Pocomoke grounds by nine of that place -- score 8 to 11.

The Pocomoke City base ball club was defeated by the Onancock club, at Onancock, on Thursday, 31st ult.

The indications are that Margaret Academy will begin its first session with an exceptionally large number of pupils on the roll.

Potato trade from here to Baltimore very lively. Prices this week ranged from $2 to $2.75 according to quality.

Mr. S. U. Hopkins leaves soon for Harvard University, where he will take a course in civil engineering, and Mr. John W. Kelly, for the University of Virginia.

Several candidates will be baptized at foot of Broadway, near Broadway Church, next Sunday, 1 p.m. Thirteen have already been received, and more will be.

The meeting at Broadway Baptist Church is a grand success. Rev. A. J. Reamy, who has charge, says, there have been during the past two weeks 25 or 30 converts and there are many more deeply interested in the subject of religion.

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Forests -- Timber rights

Pungoteague.

Mr. J. T. Auld is in North Carolina, purchasing timber to meet the demands of increasing trade.

The people of the town are improving the appearance of their dwellings very much by painting them, and for the most part are using "Town and Country" paint.

The returns for sweets in this section have been fairly satisfactory all the season and our farmers generally are doing well.

Pocomoke Sound Dredging Cases.

reprinted from Baltimore Sun.Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement

It is understood that the opinion of United States Judges Goff and Hughes, in the Pocomoke Sound oyster dredging case has been written, and that arrangements have been made with Attorney-General Poe, of Maryland, and Attorney-General Scott, of Virginia, to have it delivered in Baltimore. The case was heard at Richmond on habeas corpus. Robert L. Wharton and Severn H. Nelson were fined $500 each in the Circuit Court of Accomac county, Va., for dredging in Pocomoke sound. It was claimed in their behalf that they were citizens of Somerset county, Md., and that by virtue of the compact of 1785 between Maryland and Virginia citizens of Maryland have the right to dredge in the sound. It is said the case will probably result in settling the dispute between Maryland and Virginia over the compact of 1785, and it may reach the Supreme Court of the United States.

Suit Dismissed.

reprinted from Norfolk Virginian, September 2.Transportation -- Railroad - LitigationTransportation -- Railroad - Rates and fares

In the United States Court here to day an order was entered dismissing the suit of the United States Inter-State Commerce Commission against the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad and others, the plaintiffs not having made out their case. It was a suit brought at the instance of farmers on the line of the defendants' railroads, the complaint being that the railroads discriminated against them in the matter of freight rates. An appeal by the plaintiffs has been noted by the court.