Peninsula Enterprise, November 10, 1894
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sportsfield sports - Hunting : Personal injury
Mr. Julius C. Outen while rabbit hunting near the Maryland line with a Mr. Taylor on last Wednesday accidentally shot him in both legs. Dr. E. E. Kellam, Horntown, had picked out seventeen shots according to our latest report and was still looking for more of them. Mr. Taylor was not seriously injured.
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Watermen -- Personal injury
John Wessels, of Messongo, this county fell overboard from sloop Poulson, in Potomac river on Wednesday of last week and was drowned. The remains were brought home and interred at Bethel Church on the following Friday. He was a popular and estimable citizen, and his death has cast a gloom over the community in which he lived. His wife and two children survive him.
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Moral -- Other violent crimeInfrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsAfrican-Americans -- Religion
George E. West, tried at this term of the court on two indictments for malicious shooting at a camp meeting at Savageville, last September, was convicted on each and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
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Professionals -- Teachers
Dr. John E. Mapp has been called to the bedside of his son, Walter Mapp, professor in Academy at Danville, Kentucky. He has been sick for the last two weeks with typhoid fever, but "favorable indications for his recovery" were reported to us in a letter from Dr. Mapp on last Wednesday.
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Sea -- Fish factoriesFields -- Livestock - Cattle
Chincoteague.
The following boats were loaded here this week with oysters for ports designated below: Schooner Palestine for New Haven, Conn.; Sloop William Curtis for Morris River, N. J.; Schooner Medora Frances and Sloops Emma and Lulie Scott for Norfolk, Va.
J. W. Bunting & Sons closed their fish factory this week with fair results this season.
A long-felt want is being filled here by Burton Dennis. He has embarked in the dairy business, has fine stock, and delivers milk to customers daily.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Second homesInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionInfrastructure -- Public : Churches
Parksley.
The Chadbourne's are among us again for the winter. Parksley welcomes them.
Mr. Croswell, the section boss at this place, is having a dwelling erected on Adelaide street.
Dr. J. E. T. Ewell is holding a protracted meeting at Parksley, but so far, with but little success.
Two Mormon Elders have been doing some missionary work around here, but don't receive much encouragement in their work.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal ordersTransportation -- Water - Steamboats
Sanford.
The "Rechabites" contemplate building a hall here in the near future.
The Steamer Winant will make daily trips to Pocomoke City this season.
Serious Gunning Accident.
Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sportsfield sports - Hunting : Personal injury
Clarence Wise, son of George D. Wise, while out gunning last Wednesday, near Parksley, with several young men was shot in the right leg just above the knee by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of Barney McCready, causing a wound which , it is feared, will make the amputation of his leg necessary. He was in about six feet of McCready when the gun went of and the accident was due to an effort of breaking the gun, a breech loader, for the purpose of taking out a cartridge which was thought to be worthless. Mr. Wise was taken to hospital in Philadelphia for treatment on Thursday's noon train.
The Colored Teachers' Meeting.
Professionals -- TeachersAfrican-Americans -- Work - Business And professional
The Teachers' Meeting of Accomac will convene at Burton's, Saturday, November 17th, at 10 o'clock A. M. All teachers are requested to attend and produce paper for the occasion.
There is a debatable question of vital interest depending, and the presence of all teachers is absolutely necessary for a disposal.
The reason for having the meetings confined principally to Lee School district is due to the negligence and absence of teachers of other schools and districts who never meet, and to vote them a meeting, in their absence is an imposition that cannot be accorded and that courtesy does not demand. The place of meeting is determined by a majority of votes of women present at a regular meeting and as we would be pleased to have most every teacher favored with a meeting in routine, therefore, would ask them to meet at above named place at time herein specified.
Samuel L. Burton, Clerk.
Commonwealth vs. The Sanctified Band.
Moral -- OtherInfrastructure -- Public : Churches
The trial of the leaders of the Sanctified Band of Chincoteague, which began on Friday of last week was terminated on Monday, by a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment against Joseph Lynch, William J. Chandler and Sarah E. Collins, and of acquittal as to John E. Collins. The finding of jury as to Lynch was, eight months in jail and fine of $250; as to Chandler, six months in jail and fine of $150; as to Mrs. Collins, four months in jail and fine of $100. A motion made to set aside the verdict as being contrary to the law and evidence was promptly overruled by Judge Gillet, and the parties convicted were sent to jail, in default of bail, until their counsel can be heard upon a bill of exceptions to the order of the Court overruling the motion to quash the indictment. The latter motion is not likely to avail anything, and in the end the punishment fixed upon Lynch and the others for their sins, by the jury, will have to be met by them and ought to be, says the public generally.
The evidence, as given at the trial in its details, was too filthy for publication and fully sustained the charge in the indictment against them, as being nuisances. It was fully developed during the trial, that the doctrine of two and two as taught by the Sanctificationists, viz: the putting away of their own wives and taking the wives of others for the studying of the Scriptures -- had resulted in breaking up of happy households, in estranging members of the same family, in breaches of the peace, in acts of lewdness -- in indecencies, in fact, totally at variance with the moral law and in acts entirely repugnant to the laws of the land. The band had, it was stated at the trial, at one time 120 members, but at this time has only about 60 members, the most of whom were in attendance at the court. They were represented at the trial by Messrs. Spady & Russell, and were ably defended by them, Mr. Fletcher appeared for the Commonwealth and added new laurels to his reputation as an able, faithful and efficient prosecutor. The verdict of the jury is generally approved.
Since the above was put in print, Chandler and Mrs. Collins have been released on bail.
Public Roads.
Transportation -- Road - MaintenanceTransportation -- Road - Shell surfacing
MR EDITOR:
I wish, as a delegate from Accomac, to reply to the questions that have been asked by the Convention, suggested by Capt. Browne,
First, -- Under what system are the roads worked in your county? Is it effective?
Ans. Overseers have been appointed, who are authorized to hire hands, and with spades, axes, hoes and other implements, to make and repair roads. It is not effective.
Second. -- Is it better than enforced labor?
Ans. Perhaps it is; but neither make good roads.
Third. -- What amount of money (including all sums) was spent on roads in your County prior to the decision of the Courts which abolished enforced labor, and how many pounds was considered a load for a pair of horses to pull ten miles; good horses weighing 1100 pounds?
Ans. The amount of money was about $5,000, the condition of them was very poor: a load under the circumstances was ten barrels of potatoes weighing 1600 pounds.
Fourth. -- What is the cost of the roads since the decision? What is the condition of the roads now, and what is a load now?
Ans. The cost now is about $8,000. The condition is but slightly improved. The load for a pair of horses is what it was before.
Fifth. How many miles of public road are there in your County?
Ans. About three hundred and fifty.
Sixth. Do the officers in your County appreciate the necessity of keeping water off the roads, or in short do they keep the road so shaped that it will shed the rain?
Ans. The roads are not shaped to shed the rain.
Seventh, eighth and ninth questions.
The County owns a road-scraper, but has never had it worked, it owns no team.
Tenth. Can roads be made smooth and graded with hand implements?
Ans. I have never seen it done.
Eleventh. Has your County employed convict labor from the State penitentiary or criminals in jail to work on the roads, if so what was the cost per mile?
Ans. No convicts from the penitentiary have been employed: but those in jail have. I have not the cost of them -- it was not satisfactory and has been discontinued for some time, and will not be revived.
Twelfth. What work has been done in your county working Tilford, Macadom or shell roads?
Ans. Some short pieces of shell roads have been made: but so little as to make no impression. No Tilford or Macadom roads.
I will add that good roads can be made in my county with road grades, plows, etc., such as I have seen working in Northampton county -- and at a very much reduced cost over the present system.
I was in that county a short while since, and saw the working of it. I am confident that a road machine with 10 mules, will do more work in one day than sixty men will do under our present system in Accomac. It will only be a question of time when our roads will be made by machinery -- and it will be a great improvement. Our roads can be made cheaply, as the soil is well suited to it.
Yours respectfully,
Joseph S. Bull,
Delegate from Accomac Co.
Davis Wharf, Va., Nov. 3, 1894.
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Moral -- OtherInfrastructure -- Public : Churches
Four of the Sanctified Band only, in attendance upon our court, we are advised, were natives of Chincoteague, and the Statement is submitted in justice to the good people of that place. The people there not only do not approve the strange doc-[illegible] but are in no way responsible for the introduction and promulgation of them in their midst. The doctrine, of two and two, not only did not originate there but so repulsive is it to its citizens that it cannot survive there longer. The fiat has gone forth from them, that the doctrine, of two and two, in their midst must go, if the penalties imposed by law do not suppress it. Heralded to the country as they have been as the upholders of the strange doctrines, brought into their midst by people who came from Delaware and Maryland, because they were not permitted to disseminate their false notions there, naturally, forbearance has ceased to be a virtue with the people of Chincoteague and they openly declare they will no longer submit to the false charges to which they have already been too long subjected to.