Peninsula Enterprise, November 16, 1882
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Disease
THREE cases of small-pox are reported in less than four miles of the Court House. In the vicinity of Wagram there have recently been ten deaths from the same disease. A man who has just been released from the Marine Hospital at Baltimore, having passed safely through the disease, came down on the Tangier yesterday.
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Fields -- Crops - Strawberries
YOU can now buy 100 plants of the Hyslop strawberry for $1; 1,000 for $8, and surely every one who raises strawberries for market, will avail themselves of the reduced price and purchase a goodly number of the plants, which bear berries, ripe for market ahead of any other by several weeks. They beat the Wilson by two weeks, and were sold in Baltimore last spring earlier than berries from North Carolina. These facts can be proved by responsible parties, and you are requested to confer with the persons whose names are given in the advertisement for proof of the facts as stated.
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Transportation -- Railroad - ConstructionTransportation -- Railroad - Litigation
Dr. E. W. GOERKE, Chief Engineer of the Peninsula Railroad Company, has paid over to the clerk of Northampton County Court ample funds to meet the damages assessed to the landowners, who accept the award of the commissioners, for lands condemned for railroad purposes in that county.
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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction
MR. LYS SCHOOLFIELD, of Worcester county, Md., has made a contract with the stockholders of the Peninsula Railroad, to clear and grub a section of the road in this county.
Mr. Arthur Jacob's Death Confirmed.
Transportation -- Water - WrecksWatermen -- Personal injury
WE REGRET to have to confirm the report of the drowning of Mr. Arthur Jacob, made in our last issue. The hope entertained by his friends, that he might have been rescued by a schooner which was seen to approach the wreck on the morning after the disaster, proves a groundless one. The most that his friends can now expect will be the recovery of his remains. His father, Mr. Wm. E. Jacob, left for Baltimore on Tuesday last, however, hoping to hear something of his son from the crew of the boat referred to, and which by this time are supposed to have arrived in that city.
This Looks Like Business.
Transportation -- Railroad - Construction
A GANG of hands, under the supervision of Mr. Henry C. White, yesterday commenced clearing the lands along the route of the Peninsula Railroad, on the premises of Mr. Parker W. Parks. The section of the land to be cleared and grubbed by the hands under the control of Mr. White, according to present arrangement with him, will extend from the point indicated for two miles in the direction of the Court House that section being worked, arrangements will be made as soon as sufficient labor can be secured, for clearing the road further; in fact through the whole Peninsula. In the upper part of the county the road is being opened by other gangs of hands, and the prospect at present, at least, is that at an early date the road will be cleared of undergrowth, and grubbed from the Maryland line to a point opposite the Court House.
Maryland Oyster Commission.
Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Bayside
The Maryland Oyster commissioners, Messrs. Brooks, Waddell and Legg, who are to report to the next General Assembly of that State on the oyster resources, spent this week in Tangier Sound. The commissioners came down on Wednesday, the 8th inst., and confined their investigations for the following two days to what is known as Great Rock, in Tangier Sound. This week they have examined the beds on other rocks. It is understood that the gentlemen were impressed with the scarcity of oysters in this formerly productive locality. They will spend about a month in the investigation, and we will endeavor to keep our readers posted as to the result of their labors. In this connection we should like to hear from our experienced oystermen on the growth and propagation of the oyster, and invite communications on the subject -- short, practical and common-sense arguments. That the oyster is becoming scarcer in our waters, year by year, cannot be gain-said, and it behooves every good citizen to do what he can to prevent their final disappearance.
ONANCOCK CIRCUIT,
Infrastructure -- Public : Churches
Virginia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Editor of THE ENTERPRISE:
I close my fourth and last year on this circuit to-day, and leave for Conference this afternoon. I promised you the following summary of my work on this charge from November, 1878, to November, 1882:
I found the names of 479 members on the rolls of the four churches at Onancock, Andrew Chapel, Locustville and Drummondtown. I leave 563 members -- a net gain of 84, as follows: Gains. -- Received on profession of faith, 153; by certificate and otherwise, 29; total, 182, Losses. -- Deaths, 18; removals, 49; withdrawals, 27; expulsions, 4; total, 98. Baptisms -- Adults, 61; infants, 234. Sunday Schools. -- Number, 4; officers and teachers, 65; scholars, 518; volumes in library, 800; conversions, 87. Churches. -- Number, 4; value, $8,500. One parsonage, valued at $1,850, with other church property valued at $950.
FINANCIAL. -- Raised for Conference Collection, $296; for Bishops' Fund, $64; for Educational Fund, $110.50; for Sunday Schools; $612.14; for building and repairing Churches, $2,374.56; for Missions -- Domestic, in churches, $349; in Sunday Schools, $88.60; Foreign, in Churches, $414; in Sunday Schools, $92.90. For all other purposes, $688.88. Whole amount raised for all purposes, $9,894.54 -- an average of $4.61 cents per member.
During my pastorate here, I have preached 463 sermons of which 34 were funeral discourses; and married 38 couples.
I have passed four years very pleasantly with this dear people. Happy the man who shall take my place! I leave the charge in a very healthy and growing state, both spiritually and financially, prepared for increased efficiency.
I expect to return from Conference on the 22nd inst., and will preach at Onancock at 11 A. M., and Andrew Chapel, at 2 P. M., Sunday, 26th.
J. CARSON WATSON.
Onancock, Va., Nov. 14, 1882.
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Transportation -- Railroad - Other
Ten ($10) Dollars Reward will be paid for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of any person or persons, who shall unlawfully remove, or cause to be removed any timber from the property of the Peninsula Railroad Company, or who shall otherwise trespass upon the premises. PENINSULA R. R. CO., per E. W. GOERKE, Chief Engineer.
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Transportation -- Railroad - Corporate
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad Co. -- A general meeting of the stockholders of this company will be held at Adair's Hotel in Drummondtown, Accomac County Va., on the 11th day of December, 1882, at 10 o'clock A. M. By order of the Board of Directors, M. H. TAYLOR, Secretary.