Peninsula Enterprise, August 6, 1887
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reprinted from Eastern Shore HeraldInfrastructure -- Utilities - Telephone
A telephone line is being established between Birds Nest Station and Bridgetown, by some private individuals. The instruments and wire have already arrived, and the work of putting up the poles and stretching the wire will be commenced this week.
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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Pricesfields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : YieldTransportation -- Water - Freight
Our farmers stimulated by the good prices of sweet potatoes, are shipping goodly quantities of their staple product. The Eastern Shore carried to Baltimore, Tuesday, 1,000 barrels, and steamer Tangier on Thursday, took on board at Onancock 500 barrels for same market. The shipments this week from Eastern Shore will aggregate 5,000 or 6,000 barrels.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
Mr. Duffield Savage authorizes us to say, that Margie Douglas, 3 years old last fall, which formerly belonged to him, but is now owned by Mr. John T. Bull, Locustville, is ready to trot any mare or gelding in Accomac and Northampton counties, not more than 8 months older, mile heats, best 3 in 5, for a purse of $500 or $1,000 -- the race to come off on Locustville track, and the expenses of the horse to be paid that is matched against her.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionInfrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
Belle Haven.
Work was commenced this week on dwelling and storehouse at this place for our townsman, Mr. Isma W. Mears.
A trotting race, mile heats, best three in five for a purse of $100 will come off on track at this place, on Thursday, August 18th, between Maud, owned by Mr. Geo. W. Jacob and "Toodles, Jr.," Judson Ashby, owner.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - FishingMoral -- Murder
Greenbackville.
Fish are very abundant this season, in the waters of Chincoteague bay, and the "sporting" fraternity are having a fine time hauling them in with hook and line.
Dr. N. S. Smith, of Chincoteague Island was in town Tuesday. The Dr. reports Mr. George C. Lewis, who was so dangerously stabbed by one William Dryden on the island a few weeks ago, as very much improved in his condition, and hopes are now entertained by his physicians for his recovery.
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Moral -- Other violent crimeTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - BaseballInfrastructure -- Commercial - Rental housing
Onancock.
John Willet, who shot the colored man while at Parksley campmeeting, Sunday, left by steamer Tangier, Monday for parts unknown.
The Onancock nine left yesterday for Pocomoke City to participate in a game of base ball with the Pocomoke nine. Powell and Hundly will occupy the points for the Onancock club.
A tenant house near Onancock, owned by Upshur B. Quinby, Esq., was struck by lightning Friday of last week during a heavy thunder storm but no serious damage was done to the building.
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Fields -- Livestock - Diseases and pestsFields -- Livestock - PoultryInfrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionInfrastructure -- Commercial - Other storesInfrastructure -- Public : Churches
Sanford.
The chicken cholera prevails in this section, to the disgust of many good housewives.
The Parksley campmeeting was attended by many persons from this section, who speak of it in complimentary terms.
Among the accessions to our population of late, is a German named Simon, of excellent repute as a shoemaker. He has opened shop near Sanford.
The building boom in this section continues. Messrs. Horace Bundick, Riley Knight and Jeremiah Taylor have shown their enterprise in that direction of late.
The number of converts at the revival meeting in progress at Sanford church exceeds 100, most of whom have united with that church. The interest in the meeting continues and the penitents still are numerous.
A Big Railroad Deal.
reprinted from Norfolk Virginian, Aug. 2Transportation -- Railroad - Corporate
It is said that the big railroad deal made in Philadelphia, last Saturday, between the Pennsylvania Company and Southern corporations, will give the New York and Norfolk railroad, with its line down the Delaware peninsula, a recognition in the distribution of Southern freight traffic which it has for a long time desired. At Norfolk this line, which is operated by the Pennsylvania, has had to meet the opposition of the water lines and their Southern railroad allies, and not getting through rates from them it was dependent upon Norfolk business for its traffic. Negotiations for an adjustment of differences that would let the New York and Norfolk road in have been going on for a long while, and in the settlement the Atlantic coast the Seaboard and the Richmond and Danville have no doubt secured for themselves that recognition which they expected in the distribution of freight traffic between the North and the South. -- The promoters of the construction of the line down the Delaware peninsula proposed to make it the Pennsylvania's short cut to the South, but at Norfolk the water lines proved to be powerful competitors. With the costly ferriage of forty miles between Cape Charles and Norfolk this line was over-matched, and if the opposition had continued indefinitely, in the opinion of railroad men, the peninsula road would have continued to be only of local importance. In the agreement now reached it is understood the water lines will have the advantage that is claimed for water over railroad transportation. The old Bay Line to Norfolk and the York River line to Richmond are the important factors which will be looked for to command for Baltimore her share of Southern traffic by water.
Pioneer vs. Herald.
reprinted from Cape Charles PioneerInfrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers
The statement to which reference is made below as appearing in Herald of July 29th, having been copied by us, at the request of the editor of the Pioneer, we publish the following as an act of justice to him:
We, the undersigned stockholders of The Pioneer Stock Company, of Cape Charles City, Va., do hereby declare that the statement made in the Eastern Shore Herald on July 29th, that most of the members of The Pioneer Stock Company were desirous of selling out to Mr. Frank Hollis is utterly false, and without the slightest foundation. We have never had any conversation with Mr. Frank Hollis or any other person in reference to purchasing our share of the stock of The Pioneer Stock Company. Besides this, Mr. Wm. R. Fitz Hugh, the editor and proprietor of the Cape Charles Pioneer, is the largest stockholder in the said company and has leased the material and fixtures of the said stock company for the term of one year, with the privilege of purchasing at the expiration of that time. Signed,
C. H. WALDRIDGE, and others.
The above certificate contains the signatures of every member of The Pioneer Stock Company, except Mr. L. E. Mumford, who is out of the country, and A. J. Hauck. Whilst the latter declined to sign the certificate, assigning as his reason that he had held some conversation with Hollis in regard to starting a Republican paper here, he says he never offered or tried to sell his $10 share of the stock to the said Hollis.
Shot at Campmeeting.
Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsMoral -- Other violent crime
At Parksley camp ground on last Sunday, John Willet, a boy aged about 18 years engaged in a tussle with a negro named White, which resulted in a quarrel. The negro struck Willet with a club and Willet shot him in the thigh, inflicting a serious but not necessarily fatal wound. Willet took to the woods to elude the officers who went to arrest him and has since let for Baltimore.
New York Market.
Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : PricesFields -- Crops - Other fruit
Special telegraphic report of today's sales, of truck in New York market. Furnished by G. S. Palmer, wholesale produce merchant, 166 Reade street, shipping No. 155.
The receipt of sweet potatoes continues light and demand increasing. Good prices firmly sustained, and all choice marks today sold from $4.50 to $5 per barrel. Good fine cantaloupes worth $1.50 to $2.50. Peaches $1.50 to $2 per crate. G. S. Palmer & Co.
. New York, Aug. 4th.
Negro Equality.
Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesAfrican-Americans -- Race relations
MR. EDITOR -- In one of your recent issues, "a request" is made by some one, signing himself "Southern Methodist," as follows: "Will Bro. Davis give us the law of his church in negro equality?" We have no doubt our excellent brother referred to Rev. A. D. Davis, presiding elder of the Virginia district of the Wilmington conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church is fully able to answer this question but as he is like Nehemiah restoring the dilapidated temple, "doing a great work" and "cannot come down," we volunteer our services to relieve your correspondent's anxiety. "The law of his (Bro. Davis') church" is found in a little volume of 424 decimo pages, "The doctrines and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church," revised and published under the authority of the general conference of that church which held its last quadrennial session, in the city of Philadelphia, in May, 1884. In this book of church laws there is no reference whatever to "negro equality," hence we can honestly reply to our "Southern Methodist" brother, "His church" (Bro. Davis' church) has no law whatever on this subject. This might be a sufficient answer were it not the fact, that the M. E. Church occupies a position on the question of human rights, that is not only in harmony with the national constitution, which guarantees equal rights to all citizens irrespective of race, color or previous condition of servitude, but also in harmony with the Holy Scriptures, which declares that "God hath made of one blood, all nations for to dwell upon the earth," and which teach that Jesus Christ, his son is the common savior of all men -- "as in Adam all die, so as Christ shall all be made alive."
So far then as civil and, political rights are concerned, and so far as personal rights under the provisions of the Gospel are concerned, our brother, "Southern Methodist" must advocate "negro equality," if loyal to the constitution which guarantees his own rights and loyal to that Bible, which tells us "God is no respecter of persons." In no other sense is the Methodist Episcopal Church an advocate of "negro equality," any more than Chinese, or Indian "equality."
As did the fathers of our common Methodism, Wesley, Asbury, Cooke, Whatcoat, Freeborn Garrettson, and their compeers, the Methodist Episcopal Church
As to "negro equality" on this line, a distinguished divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rev. Dr. A. G. Haygood, has not only declined the honor of being a bishop of that church, that he might devote himself to the education of illiterate Southerners, white and black, but has written and spoken much in behalf of the negro, whom he has chosen to call, "our brother in black."
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Farmers -- Farm size and structureFarmers -- Tenancy
TENANT WANTED -- For one of the most desirable farms on the Eastern Shore of Virginia for year 1888 or a term of years. It is situated on water with wharf on premises, at which vessels of good draught can load, and is convenient also to railroad and steamboat landing. The land is well adapted to trucking, has abundant resources thereon and is highly improved, the average yield of corn per acre being from 6 to 8 barrels -- also grows finely wheat and oats. On it are large clover pastures and a large orchard of select fruit. Can be rented either for share of crop or money, and tenant will be furnished with everything necessary to carry on farm but labor, or can furnish everything if he wishes. Three or four good horses required cultivating the land. Has 3 tenant houses on it. For further particulars inquire at Enterprise Office.