Peninsula Enterprise, October 11, 1884

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Weather -- DroughtsInfrastructure -- Utilities - Water

The water on Hog Island, Northampton county, Va., has become so brackish during the long drouth there this year, and which still continues, that the inhabitants cannot drink it, and are getting a supply from the mainland.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

Our railroad has been completed to a point in a mile of Eastville. For several days the supply of rails has been exhausted and the operations of the track layers necessarily suspended.

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Mental illness

Mary Sample, a colored lunatic sent to the Central Lunatic Asylum, Richmond, from this county, in 1870, died there September 29th, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.

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Sea -- Finfish - Methods : SeineSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Seaside

Atlantic.

Seine-hauling, quite a business in this locality, has not paid this season.

Oysters are better this year than usual with us, and the oystermen are expecting good prices for them as soon as the weather becomes cooler.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : PricesTransportation -- Water - Channel and harbor dredging

Chincoteague.

Our shippers of oysters have commenced operations. They are paying seventy cents for them here.

The U.S. Engineer's Department is gathering the statistics of our commerce to embody in the report of the survey for the proposed canal from Delaware Bay to Chincoteague. The opening of the enterprise will give us inland navigation to Philadelphia. This will interest our people more than any proposed railroad.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Diseases and parasitesTransportation -- Railroad - Construction

Franklin City.

Oysters in Chincoteague bay are fatter now than they were at any time during last season. Their greatest enemy, the borer, seems to have disappeared to a great extent also.

Mr. James McConkey, president of the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk R.R., and Mr. Edward Taylor, of Horntown, visited Cockle Point and other points on Chincoteague Bay last Wednesday, for the purpose of selecting a site for the terminus of the branch road to be run from New Church to the bay. The site was not fixed upon, the matter being postponed until early next week, when the President will make another prospecting tour, accompanied by Mr. Schoolfield and others. From information received, the prospect seems to be good for the selection of Cockle Point as the terminus, though an effort is being made by the citizens of Stockton and vicinity to divert the road to Riley's Cove, a mile and a half above Franklin. A meeting having that object in view was held this week and a conference will be had with the President in regard to the matter on Monday or Tuesday next.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : TongingLaborers -- FisheriesLaborers -- WagesMoral -- Property crime

Marsh Market.

Messrs. Robert Hall, Jr., and Columbus Taylor, tongers, residing on Messongo creek, sold the oysters caught by them in a month for $240.15.

One night last week, the cornfield of Mr. J. A. Hall, on the premises recently occupied by Mr. J. A. Killman, was entered by thieves, and a considerable quantity of it was gathered and carried away.