Peninsula Enterprise, June 1, 1882

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Sea -- Finfish - Catch : BluefishTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - FishingAfrican-Americans -- Other

The largest bluefish ever caught in this section was captured on last Thursday, 25th inst., by Wm. Bayley, colored, in the waters of Folly Creek, and measured twenty-nine inches from nose to tip of tail.

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Infrastructure -- Public : SchoolsArchitecture -- SchoolsProfessionals -- Builders

THE contract for building a schoolhouse at Guilford has been awarded to Mr. Stanley J. Lewis, of Leemont, for the sum of $630: and Mr. T. Eslie Coard, a first-class carpenter, has been engaged to build the same. The house is to be a two-story one, 20x30 feet, and a graded school is to be established there by the public school authorities by the 1st of October next.

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Fields -- Crops - Strawberries

OUR thanks are due Messrs. James H. Belote and Major T. Wise, for baskets of elegant strawberries. The variety presented us by Mr. Belote, the "Hoover Seedling," will compare favorably with any we have seen this season. The berries of Mr. Wise are very fine, also, and we imagine are very prolific, as he has already shipped 2000 quarts this year.

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Fields -- Crops - White potatoes : Diseases and pests

THE potato-growers of Accomac will learn with pleasure, we are sure, that the guinea bird is an effective destroyer of that pest, the potato bug. Our information in this respect is received from Mr. John E. Bundick, of Modestown, a gentleman worthy of credit for any statement he may make in the matter. He informs us that early in the season he was greatly annoyed by the potato bug, but was entirely rid of the nuisance in a few days by a flock of guinea birds, six in number, which frequented his patch. They will take a row of potatoes in the morning he tells us, and "bug it" as systematically and much more effectively than any hands he could employ.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Cemeteries

MR. EDWARD LANG, near Atlantic, dug up on his premises during last week the skull of a human being. It was found only about 8 inches below the surface, and was in a field that had been cultivated yearly for half century or more. The oldest inhabitant in that locality can not remember when there was a burying ground where the skull was found, and no one would have sought a field, we presume, cultivated for years, to conceal their crime. Why, then, and when was the singular locality selected for the last resting place of the unknown individual. Ere the "pale faces" peopled these shores, might not this have been where some Indian warrior was laid?

EASTERN SHORE STEAMBOAT NEGOTIATIONS.

Transportation -- Water - Steamboats

Messrs. Quinby, Taylor and Powell have had a conference at Wilmington, Del., with Mr. J. T. Gause, vice president of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company, relative to the purchase of the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company. The committee submitted a proposition for the purchase of the steamboat company, the gist of it being, it is thought, an offer less than the price asked. A meeting of the directors of the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company will be held for the purpose of considering the offer. The directors are Mr. J. Gause and Mr. Benson, of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company; Mr. Philip R. Clark, agent of the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company; ex-United States Senator Dennis, Hon. John W. Crisfield and Mr. Wm. Clark, of Pocomoke City, Worcester county, Md. -- (Balt. Sun)

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Laborers -- Farm

I HAVE made arrangements in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to supply farmers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland with all the labor needed. For further particulars, address

A. J. MEARS,

Pungoteague, Accomac co., Va.

May 4, '82.