Peninsula Enterprise, December 7, 1882
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Fields -- Livestock - Horses
MR. LEVIN T. PARKER, living near Locustmount, has recently sold a three year old colt, to a gentleman in Washington, for the sum of $350. He purchased the same colt from M. Oldham, Jr., of our town, less than one year ago for $125. A few months ago he sold to Mr. Fred. Waddy, of Northampton, a five year old colt for $1,000.
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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : School administration
THE following extract from the report of the County Superintendent of Schools, Mr. James C. Weaver, for November, 1882, has been handed us for publication. Schools in operation, 65; pupils enrolled, 1,711; average daily attendance 1288.64. The Auditor's warrant for $8,369.58 was received Dec. 1st, and distributed as follows: Pungoteague district, $1,670.66; Lee district, $2,592.92; Metompkin district, $1,678.35; Atlantic district, $1,767.80; the Islands, $659.85. On November 10th, a State apportionment amounting to $870.20 was received, making a total of $9,239.78 thus far received from the State treasury for this scholastic year.
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Transportation -- Railroad - ConstructionTransportation -- Railroad - Litigation
The railroad cases which engaged the attention of our County Court during the most of last week and Monday of this week, were decided favorably to the landowners on last Tuesday. The damages, therefore, awarded by the Commissioners will be confirmed, unless the decision is reversed in a higher court. To date no appeal has been taken.
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Transportation -- Water - SteamboatsInfrastructure -- Public : TownsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction
THE improvement at Willis' Wharf, in Northampton county, of late, gives promise of sufficient development to entitle it to be dignified by the name of a town at no distant day. Capt. E. L. Willis has recently completed at that place one of the largest and handsomest dwellings on the Shore, and other buildings will doubtless be erected there if a line of steamers from that point to New York should be established, and present indications suggest its establishment as one of the possibilities in the near future.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Clamming : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Clamming : Prices
Mr. Ben U. Doughty of Willis Wharf, Northampton county, during the summer months bought 120,000 clams, from which at present prices he can realize a net profit of $300 or more.
Housebreakers at Work.
MigrationLaborers -- FarmMoral -- Property crime
Several cases of housebreaking have been reported to us from the lower part of our county, and the methods by which the offenses are committed, seem to indicate that a band has been organized for that purpose. On Sunday the 25th ult., they broke open the dwelling of Mr. A. J. Mears, near Pungoteague, while he and his family were at church, and robbed the house of money -- some $10 or more -- articles of clothing &c., and damaged their property very much by breaking locks on drawers and other like acts of lawlessness. On the Sunday previous they entered the dwelling of Mr. Solomon Byrd, in the same neighborhood, while he and his family were from home, destroying their property in like manner and carried away such property as struck their fancy. A similar visit has also been made to the dwelling of Mr. Geo. E. Drummond, near Garrison Chapel, and a raid of like character was evidently intended also upon the dwelling Mr. Robt. Bonnewell, and would have been accomplished, but for the presence of a German farm hand who was left home to keep house. The suspicious characters seen by the German were two men and a woman, and the inference is that they are the persons guilty of the offenses related above. The German, unfortunately, is a stranger in that section, and unable to give a description of the parties which might have lead to their identification
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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction
BIDS WANTED -- The Peninsula R. R. Co. will receive bids fro the clearing and grubbing of the wooded portions of their land; also for the grading of the roadbed in sections of one or more miles. For further information, specifications, etc., address, E. W. GOERKE, Accomac C. H., Va.