Peninsula Enterprise, September 7, 1882

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Mental illness

Mr. Frank Custis, a very worthy gentleman living in Slutkill Neck, in this county, was drowned on Tuesday last in a well on the premises of Mr. Chas. P. Finney. No one saw him fall in the well, and it is a question, therefore, whether it was accidental or not. The opinion prevails, however, that he committed suicide, but why he should take his life, no one can conjecture.

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Moral -- Murder

John James Taylor was shot and fatally wounded by some unknown person, on Monday night, 4th inst., on the premises of Dennis Hart, in Cattail Neck, in this County. No one witnessed the act so far as we are informed -- and he was in an insensible condition when found, and so has since remained. The presumption, however, is that he was shot by Hart, with whose wife for months he has been accused of having a criminal intimacy.

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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Quality control

Mr. G. S. Palmer, 154 Reade Street, N. Y., writes us, "I would like to say to the shippers of Accomack, through your columns, that they should take more care in putting up their sweets, by culling closer, as the small ones do not fill up much and depreciate the good -- by making their sweets of best grade, they can establish a demand for them, which will enable them to secure the highest prices." We have only to add, we hope our people will profit by the advice which is given by one of the best commission merchants in New York. The large experience of the gentleman in the potato trade, and the satisfaction he gives to his shippers, entitles him to be heard. Follow his advice, and favor him with your shipments, and we are very confident your returns will be satisfactory.

The Onancock Academy.

Infrastructure -- Public : Schools

The sixth session of the Onancock Academy begins next Monday, the 11th inst., and in calling the attention of the public to the fact, we cannot too highly commend it to their patronage. It is no unmerited praise to say of it, that everything, from the elements to the branches of a higher education, are taught there as thoroughly as at any institution of the kind in Virginia. The advantages thus offered of advanced education, taken in connection with the difference in expense, in educating your children at home, and abroad, cannot but commend the school to everyone who has given the matter proper consideration.

Another reason, and a very potent one, we think, why that institution should find favor with the people of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is that they retain their children under their care and protection, at the time in their lives when they are more likely to be led astray by the evil associations which surround them from home.

By all means, educate your children at home -- at least, do not send them abroad until they have availed themselves of the advantages provided for them under the corps of competent teachers in their own county.