Peninsula Enterprise, January 25, 1896
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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Lighthouse service
The Hog Island lighthouse will be lighted on the 31st inst.
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Professionals -- Lawyers
The law firm of Quinby & Quinby has been dissolved; Mr. L. D. Teackle Quinby having formed a co-partnership with Robert Ware Grasty, of Atlanta, Ga., for which place he will leave about the last of the month. Mr. Thomas B. Quinby, the successor of the old firm will be assisted by his father, Mr. U. B. Quinby, who has nominally retired from practice.
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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesInfrastructure -- Public - Government : TownFields -- Livestock - Dog problemProfessionals -- BuildersTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders
Belle Haven.
The Presbyterian manse is nearing completion.
Arrangements are being made for the purchase of a lot and building for a Methodist parsonage here at a very early date.
The ordinances of the town will go into full effect on Saturday, February the 1st.
This section was relieved during the past week of quite a number of dogs, by Constable Wescott, on which the tax had not been paid.
Mr. Vincent H. Elmore, of Davis Wharf, has been engaged for the past two weeks beautifying the interior of Dr. Hyslop's residence on Main street.
The Wardtown Baptist Church is nearing completion, and will be when completed one of the [illegible] and prettiest [illegible] buildings on the [illegible] It would do credit to a large town.
There will be a public meeting of the Town Council and citizens of this town and vicinity in the Town Hall, on Thursday night, the 30th, at 7:30 o'clock. Speeches by the Mayor and other prominent speakers on local improvements and benefits derived therefrom. All are invited.
A conclave of the Improved Order of Heptasophs will be organized here next week. It is one of the best orders of its kind in existence and persons desiring insurance would do well to avail themselves of the opportunity to join as a charter member. Further information may be had by addressing Dr. S. B. Ward.
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Transportation -- Water - FreightSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Bayside
Chesconnessex.
The firm of Marsh Bros. & Co., are preparing their nets for the coming fishing season.
Capt. Ranford Marsh loaded his schooner, William S. Mason, this week with oysters for a Crisfield firm.
Schooner Susie Muir left for Pocomoke City on Wednesday for a load of corn.
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Transportation -- Water - Aids to navigationTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Waterfowl and shorebird
Chincoteague.
A petition now being circulated here is being signed by merchants, shipowners, masters, citizens -- everybody. Its prayer is for the establishment of an adjustable light at Fishing Point, Assateague Beach, for the convenience and safety of vessels seeking harbor at night, and place of anchorage in stormy weather in Tom's Cove.
A pair of black ducks, killed here by one of our sportsmen last week, weighed 9 pounds. The usual weight of a pair is about 6 pounds.
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Forests -- Forest products - Lumber
Onancock.
The steeple just completed for the Presbyterian Church is one of the handsomest on the Eastern Shore.
Mr. Collins, the pile lumber man, is again with friends at Onancock.
Constable Kellam, in his daily rounds, now takes a gun with him for the purpose of killing dogs in Lee district, on which taxes are unpaid. He has killed fifteen to date.
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Moral -- Property crime
Onley.
The horse and carriage of Mr. Al Tignal, of this neighborhood, were stolen from Onancock last Saturday and deserted several miles from that town.
To Vote on the Fence Question.
Infrastructure -- Public : Fences
The following bill has been introduced into the Legislature by Dr. Charles Smith, and will doubtless pass both branches and be approved by the Governor:
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, that it shall be lawful for the county courts of Northampton, or the judge thereof in vacation, to submit to the qualified voters of each magisterial district of said county the question as to whether there shall or shall not be a fence law in either or all of said magisterial districts in said county; said election to be held and conducted as such time and places and in such manner under the existing election law of the State, as said court or judge may prescribe.
2. If it shall appear from the returns of said election that a majority of voters in said election in either or all of the said magisterial districts is in favor of a no fence law, the it shall not be lawful after the first day of January, 1897, for the owner or manager of any horse, mule, swine, sheep, goats, or cattle of any description to permit the said animals to [illegible] at large beyond the limits or boundaries of their own lands; and if any of the animals enumerated herein shall thereafter be permitted or found going at large upon the lands of any person or persons other than the owner or manager, the owner or manager of said animal or animals shall be liable for all damages or injury done by said animals to the owner or owners of the crops or lands upon which they trespass, and shall be subject to the provisions of sections 2042, 2049 and 2050 of the code of Virginia, whether the said animal or animals wander from the premises of their owners in the district in which the trespass was committed, or from another district in said county.
3. Should it appear from the returns of said election that a majority of the voters thereof in either or all of the magisterial districts of the said county is opposed to such a no-fence law, then thirty days after said election all fences within any or all of the said magisterial districts so voting, whether constructed of posts and boards or boards and wire measuring 44 inches high, or of mauled rails measuring four feet high and through which stock cannot pass without breaking or destroying a rail or wire, shall be, and are, hereby declared to be a lawful fence or fences in and for said magisterial district or districts of said county.
4. Before any election as aforesaid shall be held the judge of the county courts aforesaid shall cause the same to be published at least thirty days previous to the holdings of such election by causing to be posted handbills at each voting precinct of said county.
5. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
6. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Death of William T. Gardner.
Moral -- Murder
William T. Gardner died at his home, near Savageville, last Sunday. Information being received by Justice George F. Parker that his death was not due altogether to natural causes, a jury of inquest was ordered by him on Monday, and evidence submitted substantially as follows: That on Saturday, 11th inst., while William Gardner and Edward Guy were playing dominoes at John Gardner's bar-room, near Savageville, a dispute arose about the stakes for which they were playing, to wit, a dollar; that Gardner charged Guy with cheating him and claimed the dollar; that Guy refused to give up his part of the stakes, and during the altercation Guy either pushed or knocked Gardner over a spit box, breaking several of his ribs that pneumonia was developed by the injuries received by Gardner which resulted in his death.
The jury, after hearing the evidence, rendered the following verdict: "that William T. Gardner came to his death by pneumonia, which was caused and brought on by his ribs being broken by Edward Guy, who threw the said William T. Gardner across the spit box in the bar-room of one John Gardner on the 11th day of January, A.D., 1896; and the said ribs of the said William T. Gardner which produced this pneumonia were broken by said Edward Guy."
Mr. Guy, committed to jail on Tuesday to answer the charge, was bailed by Judge Gillet on Thursday in a bond under the penalty of $5,000.
Result of the "Local Option" Election on Chincoteague.
Moral -- Alcohol
The following certificate of the commissioners of election to the county court shows the result of the "local option" election on Chincoteague on Saturday 18th instant:
To the Honorable, the court of the county of Accomack.
We, Nathaniel P. Kilmon, William T. Wright, Thomas P. Evans and George W. Kilmon, four of the commissioners designated according to law for the purpose, do hereby certify that we this day met in the clerk's office of said county court and canvassed the returns (of, which there are two sets) of the special election purported to have been held on the 18th day of January, 1896, in the magisterial district of the Islands in said county, upon the subject of granting license for the sale of intoxicating liquors or not granting license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in said magisterial district; and after mature consideration of said returns, we conclude that neither of the said returns show, that an election was held on the day and year aforesaid in said district upon the subject aforesaid, in the manner prescribed by law.
Given under our hands this 21st day of January, 1896.
T. P. EVANS, G. W. KILMON, WILLIAM T. WRIGHT, N. P. KILMON, Commissioners.
Atteste: M. OLDHAM, Jr., C. A. C.
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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Military
A bill was introduced in Congress on Tuesday by Representative Tyler authorizing an appropriation of a million dollars to construct fortifications at Cape Henry and Cape Charles. Forts are necessary, in the opinion of Mr. Tyler, at these two points of land which guard the entrance to the Chesapeake bay, if we would protect the cities in Tidewater Virginia and Maryland, including the National Capital from the flying squadrons or any other kind of squadron which might be sent by hostile nations to destroy them. Fortress Monroe and Fort McHenry, in the opinion of Mr. Tyler, would do very well to protect their respective neighborhoods, in the days of cannons which used 32 pound balls, but not now when cannon are used which can protect missiles from eight to fourteen miles. Mr. Tyler believes in times of peace in preparing for war, and the opinion seems to prevail, that Congress should make the appropriation asked for, however, remote the prospect of war at this time.
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Transportation -- Railroad - Legislation
Dr. Charles Smith, of Northampton introduced a bill in the Legislature, on Wednesday: To amend section 3858 of the Code in relation to railroad companies obstructing free passage on street or road, or any one standing a vehicle on tracks of a railroad. The bill permits railroad companies to obstruct a crossing for five minutes unless some one demands that it shall be cleared, when an opening shall at once be made.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Trespass
NOTICE
All persons are hereby notified to remove all stock from Cedar Island without further notice. All persons are permitted to gun, fish and use said Island for pleasure purposes if they so desire. E. J. Foote, agent.