Peninsula Enterprise, May 18, 1882

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Transportation -- Railroad - Corporate

A meeting of the stockholders of the Peninsula Railroad Company was held according to announcement in the Enterprise at Accomac Court House, on last Monday. Resolutions were adopted at said meeting for the consolidation of the Peninsula Railroad in Virginia and Maryland, in pursuance of acts of the Legislatures of the respective States looking to that object. Gen. Painter and Messrs. J. L. Bates and W. U. Schoolfield were present, representing themselves and the other stockholders of the company. The meeting was a formal one, but necessary to carry out the provisions of their charter.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

The following persons not heretofore reported by the ENTERPRISE have given the right of way over their lands to the Peninsula Railroad Company: Geo. A. Edmonds & Bro., Fred. O. Boone, Mrs. Ann E. Parnell, Mrs. Wm. Oliver, Wm. Oliver.

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Transportation -- Water - Steamboats

There will be a line of steamers from the Eastern Shore, on the seaside, direct to New York after the 10th of June. A communication in reference to the matter, in this issue of our paper, will be interesting, we think, to our readers.

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Transportation -- Water - Steamboats

The stockholders of the Accomac Steamboat Company had another meeting at Accomac C.H., on last Friday, but they were individually and collectively as non-committal as ever, and consequently we are in doubt as to the details of their proceedings. "It has leaked out," however, that the majority of them favor the purchase of the present line of steamers, and the opinion seems to prevail that negotiations looking to that object will result in the transfer of the property of the old line to the stockholders of the new. As at present advised, we are able to say with a tolerable degree of accuracy, we think, that the present status of their negotiations is an offer to sell by the old company to the new for the sum of $221,500, to be accepted or rejected at a meeting of the stockholders of the new company on next Friday. If rejected, we presume better terms will be demanded, and if not given, we may look for a lively competition at no distant date between the two rival companies in freight and passenger rates.

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Fields -- Livestock - Sheep

A Postal from Chincoteague authorizes the announcement of the "annual sheep penning" at that place on the 24th day of May -- or the next fair day, if the weather is not propitious at that time. Bargains, both in sheep and their wool, will be offered at public and private sale at the time and place designated.

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Laborers -- FisheriesMoral -- Murder

In our notice of the death of Captain Edward Melson, of this county, who was so foully murdered on the 4th inst., on his sloop lying in the Potomac river, the statement that his throat was cut was incorrect. He was killed by a bullet, passing through his head, and his death was almost instantaneous. A friend who arrived soon after reports that he turned him over, according to request, and the only word uttered by Capt. Melson was that "He did it," referring to the German employed by him, who had made his escape and whom, we regret to say, is still a fugitive from justice.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racingMoral -- Gambling

Starlight, owned by Messrs. West & Bro., and Golden Bird, the property of Mr. Duff. Savage, will regale the lovers of the turf on the Eastern Shore, with a trial of speed on the 24th of May, at Pungoteague, for a purse of $200. The horses are said to be well matched, and are being heavily backed by their respective friends with the "filthy lucre" that so many of us covet, the race is likely to be a very interesting one.

Seaside Steamboat Meeting.

Transportation -- Water - SteamboatsLaborers -- Farm

According to public notice, Captain A. B. Stony and Mr. George L. Huggins, capitalists of New York, met the farmers and citizens of Locustville, Powelton, Dunkirk and vicinity at Dunkirk on Saturday, the 13th, for the purpose of conferring with and ascertaining the views and wishes of the people of the localities designated in regard to a new line of steamers from New York to the seaside on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

The meeting was formally opened by electing Mr. T. T. Wescott chairman and J. E. Mapp secretary. Capt. Stony and Mr. Huggins submitted for the consideration of the meeting the following: That a steamer of a carrying capacity of 5,000 barrels be put on the proposed line about the 10th of June, to make a trip once a week, and that the number of steamers shall be increased to meet the wants of the shippers from the points named to New York, and with the following passenger and freight rates: Round trip tickets for passengers, $4; tickets to emigrant laborers from New York to the Eastern Shore, $1.50. Freight on all barrelled trucks from Powellton and Matchapungo to New York, 40 cents per barrel; on miscellaneous "stuffs," the same as on the Eastern Shore line of steamers to Baltimore. Freight from New York, such as lime, bacon, salt, flour, fertilizers, &c., at reduced rates.

Various questions were propounded to the agents and answered by them to the satisfaction of all present. The meeting was a harmonious one, and the spirit in which our people met the propositions of Capt. Stony and Mr. Huggins may be inferred from the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That we, the shippers in the vicinity of Powellton, Locustville and Dunkirk, offer our thanks and express gratitude to Capt. Stony and Mr. Huggins for the spirit of enterprise which they manifest in our behalf.

Resolved, That we do heartily acquiesce in the movement, and will further show our appreciation by patronizing their line in preference to other lines either by steam or sail boats to New York and all the Eastern ports.

Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings of this meeting be forwarded to the PENINSULA ENTERPRISE for publication.

T. T. WESCOTT, Chairman.

J. E. Mapp, Secretary.

Dunkirk, May 13.