Peninsula Enterprise, March 23, 1882
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MigrationLaborers -- Farm
Mr. A. J. Mears returned from New York on last Saturday with nineteen more emigrant laborers for the farmers of Locustville and vicinity. Others will soon follow them, we are informed, those received having made such a good impression among our farmers by their steady habits, willingness and capacity for work, as to create almost universal demand for them in the lower part of our county. Mr. Mears has made arrangements with the agent in New York to furnish as many laborers as may be needed for our county.
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Disease
Very many cases of pneumonia are reported from the lower section of our county at this time. So far, however none of them have been attended with serious results.
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Moral -- Murder
On Friday night last about eight o'clock a most shocking murder occurred near Newstown. Gilley Bundick, a negro, was shot in the bowels and died a few minutes after. The supposed murderer, Ben Young, also a negro, was lodged in jail last Sunday, on a warrant from Justice Parkes, which was executed by Constable Baker on Saturday night. The origin of the trouble was a woman, Gilley taking from Ben one Mag Downing. Both Mag and Gilley were shot at last year -- as supposed -- by Ben. They had had difficulties, and Ben had been heard to threaten Gilley. The gun used, burst, and for several yards a track was found of blood, which was lost at the woods. The prisoner has a broken nose, and a contusion on the forehead, which he accounts for by saying a piece of wood he was cutting flew up and struck him. The negroes are very much excited in the neighborhood of the murder -- and if Ben Young were turned over to them, he would speedily be hung. All the circumstantial evidence points to the guilt of Ben Young, but as he is now in the hands of the law we decline any comment. We earnestly hope that whoever the murderer of Gilley may be he will get the full swing of the law.
Gilley Bundick, the murdered man, was a son of the notorious Gilley Bundick who was shot to death by the Federal troops here in 1864, and THEN HUNG. He was a desperado in its fullest meaning, and fought heavy odds with unflinching courage, killing one soldier and wounding another before his capture. The relief of the whole community at his death was very great. Scoundrel though he was, he evinced great courage.
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Transportation -- Road - Personal injury
Jack Satchel, a colored man, was thrown from a wagon near Craddockville, a few days since, receiving injuries from which he died next day.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetings
CAMP-MEETING in the Pungoteague circuit "goes by default" this year. At the last quarterly meeting, when action could have been taken in the matter, held at Hack's Neck Church, on last Saturday, it was briefly discussed, and passed by without further notice.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Other stores
Accomac C. H.
A KNIGHT of the Shears, Isaiah J. Stevens by name, has just opened an artistic tonsorial palace in the Parker Block, a few doors from Court Place, in this city. Mr. Stevens is a first-class artist, and the soothing effect of a shave by him, or the click, click of his shears while trimming hair are delights to be envied by all who have not enjoyed a seat in his downy barber chair. Pedestrians wending their way up Gunter avenue will know the palace by its tri-colored sign.
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Moral -- Murder
Murder is becoming with us a fine art. Nine murders within eight years! Of these, three in one year! Save two, all escaped arrest. Another brutal murder, the 9th, is announced, and the suspected man in the hands of the law. Let the full penalty be exacted, and human life have more safety. Our criminal record is most shocking in this respect. The only remedy is swift justice -- and free use of hemp. LET US HAVE IT.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement
The jury in the oyster cases at Matthews C. H. found the prisoners guilty, and they -- fifty-eight of them -- have been sentenced to one years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. This is sad news to many of the friends of the parties. Now, will Gov. Cameron 'go for' the foreign dredgers?
Agitation of the Labor Question
Laborers -- FarmAfrican-Americans -- Work - AgricultureAfrican-Americans -- Race relations
It is rumored that our colored friends are being aroused from their lethargy by the importation of farm hands to our county, and are taking steps to counteract the movement. If we are correctly informed, however, we advise them to retrace their steps. They cannot defeat the movement, by resolving, as we are informed they have done, to hire themselves to no one who employs the emigrant laborers. The better plan, we would suggest to them, is to hire themselves out for prices our farmers can afford to pay, and by the year, instead of by the month. There is no class of laborers our farmers prefer to the colored man, if they can be given any assurance that they can get them the year round -- but they cannot afford to take the risk of being left without hands at certain seasons of the year because larger wages are given them at the fish factories and in the oyster business than they can afford to pay.
A Dennis Kearney Among Us.
Laborers -- FarmMigration
A few weeks ago some of our enterprising citizens near Locustville and Dunkirk, sent North and engaged a lot of Hungarians as laborers. All went smoothly until one of those peripatetic pests of brassy impudence went among them. He at once aroused discord. "You people," he urged them, "get no suitable wages: go West," he advised. Of course, they at once became restive. Let it be considered that they do not know our language, our methods of work, and must be taught. After this they can expect wages equal to any paid for first-class laborers anywhere. But, also, shall the community allow an incendiary to go about and destroy their chances for labor, and then buy his wares? (We mean him the tinware peddler.) Labor we need, and for it are willing to pay its full and just value. But we cannot allow this attempt to destroy our means of having it without protest, and without bitter condemnation.
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Fields -- Livestock - HorsesMoral -- Other
A general law, so carefully enacted as to reach all violators of it, would be a great boon to the animals maltreated by their owners, or agents. In this community gross cruelty to horses is an every day affair, and the law imposing a fine does not, nay cannot, easily reach them. Will not some one take the lead in getting a law strict enough to prevent the wanton cruelty so common?
A First-class Hotel.
Infrastructure -- Commercial - HotelsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Resorts
Mr. A. S. Kellam has opened a first class hotel at the thriving town of Powellton. Those in pursuit of pleasure can find there that solid enjoyment which drives away the conflicting cares of too much leisure, and the wearied traveller that rest often so essential after the days' labor has ended. The "commercial tourist" will find the hotel, on account of its central location, especially convenient as a stopping place at night or for meals during the day. Passengers conveyed to any part of the Peninsula at fair rates.