Peninsula Enterprise, March 9, 1882

Accomac Court House Peninsula Enterprise, March 9, 1882

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Transportation -- Water - StrandingsInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving service

The sloop Memento, Capt. Mears, of Onancock, from Round Rock, Va., for Norfolk, with a cargo of corn and potatoes, went ashore at 8 p.m., during the gale of the 1st inst. She was immediately seen and boarded by Capt. John E. Johnson and crew of Life saving station No. 9 (Hog Island) who brought hawsers and tackles from station, floated her and took her in the inlet to a safe anchorage. Capt. Mears lost his deck-load of potatoes, valued at $300, which washed overboard after the vessel struck. But for the timely assistance of the Life Saving crew, the vessel and cargo must have been a total loss.

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving serviceTransportation -- Water - Wrecks

The three-masted schooner, Hannah M. Lollis, Capt. Coleman, of Wilmington, Del., from Savannah, Ga., for New York, went ashore from stress of weather on March 1st, at 4 a.m., one mile north of Life Saving station No. 6, Pope's Island, Md. The captain and crew were taken off the wreck and cared for by Keeper S. Bloxom and crew of that station, who deserve a great deal of credit for their promptness

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Moral -- Other violent crime

IN the case of Robt. S. Henderson, referred to in our last issue,, Justice Scarburg decided to send Mr. Henderson on for indictment to the grand jury, at March Court. He was held in bail of one hundred dollars, Messrs. A. T. Johnson, L. James Gunter, Orris A. Browne, and Dr. John J. Wise entering as sureties.

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Mental illness

Accomac C. H.

John H. Wise, our popular and energetic sheriff, left here on Tuesday, in charge of Joseph Parramore, colored, en route for the Central Lunatic Asylum.

The Accomac Steamboat Line.

Transportation -- Water - Steamboats

In consequence of the storm of the 1st. inst., the meeting of the Accomac Steamboat Company failed to be held. On Thursday, however, but too late for press, they met, and we give below the result of their labors:

President -- John M. Fosque, Jr.

Vice-President -- George W. Powell

Secretary and Treasurer -- John W. Gillet

Agent -- C. T. Taylor

Directors -- John M. Fosque, Jr., John W. Gillet, John E. Ames, Geo. W. Powell, C. T. Taylor, U. B. Quinby, J. C. Justice

On Tuesday they again met, but their deliberations were of such a business character they declined interview. One thing is certain, they mean business. And if we are not very much mistaken, we shall soon hear the whistle of other steamers in our waters. For all such we are duly thankful.

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Development -- Boosterism

For market men, truck men, vegetable gardeners, quick and sure transportation is essential. That at some future day -- and we believe in the next decade -- we of this Peninsula shall become the market men for Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, is as sure as the day dawns. If we do not ourselves recognise this fact others do, and it is time we were preparing for it. Our chief reason for not entering heretofore into all the work which makes market men, has been the want of this transportation. If we are wise -- if we dare move out of the sodden road "daddy" went -- if we have the will -- that transit is ours. Already the Peninsula Railroad is knocking at our doors begging to do the work; the Accomac Steamboat Company -- a purely home work -- is organizing; the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company stands ready, and then there is the rumored line from New York to Accomac and Northampton. Why stand Idle? We say plainly that if in a very few years this Peninsula is not the fruit and vegetable garden for these cities, the fault will be wholly with you. Now is the "tide that leads to fortune" on its turn for old Accomac and Northampton. See that you take it on its turn!

Peninsula Enterprise
Accomac Court House
March 9, 1882