Peninsula Enterprise, April 26, 1883

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reprinted from Baltimore Sun, April 24.Transportation -- Water - WrecksTransportation -- Water - Freight

The signal corps stationed at Deal Beach, N. J., reports the two-masted schooner George Lemmon, from Onancock, Va., bound to Keyport, loaded with oysters, Captain Edward J. Russell, was dismasted at 7 o'clock on Sunday night, and anchored about a mile and a half off shore, but was beached by the captain at one P. M. yesterday. She now lies bow on, had not yet broken up, but seas wash over her and she labors heavily. All hands were saved by the life-saving crew.

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Forests -- SawmillsLumbermen -- Personal injury

Leslie McPherson accidentally fell on a saw while in motion at Fleming's mill near Hadlock, Northampton Co., last Saturday and had one leg cut off and the other so badly mangled that it is thought it will have to be amputated also.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Churches

The following extracts are from the report of Makemie Presbyterian Church, at this place, to East Hanover Presbytery for the year ending April 1st, 1883: Addition to communion of church 6; total membership 42; resident members 40. Sabbath-school was opened 47 Sundays during the year; scholars on roll 65; average attendance 45; contributions of Sabbath-school for all purposes about $43; contributions of church to home missions $75; to foreign missions $36; to education $22; to publication $11; to fund for relief of widows and orphans of deceased ministers, and aged and infirm ministers $12; contributions for all purposes $1231; or nearly $31 per resident member.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction

Bobtown.

Mr. Geo. W. Turlington is improving his premises by the addition to his dwelling of a two story building.

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Sea -- Market huntingInfrastructure -- Utilities - IceInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving serviceProfessionals -- MarinersSea -- Fish factoriesTransportation -- Water - FreightSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : PlantingInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsInfrastructure -- Public - Government : School administrationMoral -- Alcohol

Chincoteague.

Our young gunners are making sad havoc with the birds in this vicinity, and our crack shot, Oliver Logan Wimbrough, with his breech-loader, is astounding the sports by his marvelous execution of the feathered tribe. It is said that in one day's gunning he brought down more birds than Mr. Taylor could pick up, but now that a cargo of ice has arrived at this port, there is no danger of the game spoiling for the want of facilities to ship the same to the New York markets.

The steamer "Annie E. Gallup," Capt. Wilcox, from Connecticut, with 34 tons of ice for the Atlantic Hotel, arrived here on Friday, April 20th.

The sloop "Edith Fowle," Capt. Kim Porter, became disabled in a squall outside the bar on Thursday April 19th, and Capt. Tracy, with the crew of Life-Saving Station No. 7, succeeded in rendering such assistance that the vessel was brought into port.

The collector of the port informs us that in making out papers for the sloop "Kitty Clyde," of Girdle Tree Hill, Maryland, he found the youngest captain for a vessel on record. His name is William J. Holdzkom. He is only 13 years old, and actually commands the vessel.

Capt. John W. Bunting, one of our most energetic citizens, is adding improvements to his fish factory, amounting to over $3000.

The schooner "Mary Wood," Capt. Arthur, left Chincoteague Friday evening, April 13th, to load oysters at James River, and return, and she brought her load into our bay on the Monday following, which was considered quick work, but the schooner "Henrietta," Capt. Wm. J. Porter, left here on Friday, loaded at James River, and came up our channel the following Sunday, which is the quickest trip on record.

It is very evident that there is something wrong in the public school management on this Island, as elsewhere through our county. There are today three times as many children here as can be accommodated in the schools, with any justice to themselves or their parents, who pay their school taxes, and certainly have some rights in the premises. Whether it is the fault of the County Superintendent, or not, the writer is not prepared to say at present, but having had much experience in the public school system of our county for many years, we shall in the near future make it our business to give the subject an airing, probing the matter to the very core, and do all in our power to advance the cause of education in Accomac County. A private school, under the management of Mrs. Leftwitch, is some encouragement to those enabled to pay for the proper training of our youth, as we have reasons for knowing that Mrs. Leftwitch is a faithful and efficient teacher. Such blessings, however, can not reach the hundreds so deserving who are growing up around us in idleness and illiteracy, for the want of that remedy that we shall endeavor to procure for them, as a progressive citizen, and unfaltering friend of education.

There has been considerable talk of temperance reform and local option laws in our community of late, and it has greatly disturbed the "Wheelbarrow Club," whose pride and mission it is to look after the weary who have gazed on the "wine when it was red", and tasted of "the whisky that stingeth like an adder." This charitable organization have determined to fight it out on the wheelbarrow line if it takes all summer, and between local option and "wheelbarrowism" the latter is considerably ahead.

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Transportation -- Water - WrecksSea -- WreckingInfrastructure -- Public : ChurchesTransportation -- Water - Steamboats

Eastville.

The schooner Jane Emerson, loaded with railroad ties and sunk near Smith's Island, has been raised by the wreckers.

A conference of the African M. E. Church of Virginia, commences at the "Forks" near Eastville to-day.

The damage to the steamer Northampton, by collision with the Carolina, has been repaired at a cost of about $200, and she has resumed her trips to the Eastern Shore again.

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Fields -- Canneries Moral -- Property crimeInfrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsFields -- Crops - StrawberriesTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racingInfrastructure -- Commercial - Race tracks

Onancock.

Messrs. Northam & Joynes are making preparations to engage in the canning business on a larger scale this season than any previous year.

Thieves raided the pantry of Rev. Mr. Fosnocht one night last week, and helped themselves quite liberally to canned fruits and groceries.

The camp-meeting at Turlington's grounds, near Dunkirk, commences on the 2nd day of August.

The prospect for strawberries in this locality, was never better, and new crates are being received for early shipments.

The lovers of the turf in this locality have rented a portion of the farm of Mr. Hill Chandler, near town, and propose to lay off a track there at an early day. Members from other localities will be admitted into the fraternity and are requested to send in their names.

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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesInfrastructure -- Commercial - MillineriesWomen -- Work - Outside the home

Woodberry.

Mr. Bloxom, the contractor, commenced work, this week, on the new Methodist church at this place.

The handsome millinery shop, to be occupied by Mrs. M. S. Causey and Miss Maggie S. Wright, is among the improvements here of late. These ladies are now in the city making their purchases, and will open out their stock about the first of May.

HAD HIS FINGERS CUT.

Forests -- SawmillsLumbermen -- Personal injury

M. Thos. Mears, of Onancock, had three fingers badly cut on yesterday at the mill of R. H. Miles & Co., in the effort to tighten a screw on the saw while in motion. One of his fingers was so nearly amputated that it hung only by a thread.