Peninsula Enterprise, August 27, 1887
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
Mr. Joseph Davis, Richmond, Va., was the guest of Hon. J. W. G. Blackstone several days this week. He purchased while here Annie, the fine trotting mare of Mr. B. T. Melson, at the price of $300.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Churches
At a recent meeting of the vestry of Temperanceville P. E. Church, it was decided to remove said church from Temperanceville to Jenkins Bridge. -- To help defray expenses of removal a fair and supper was given at Flag Pond, on Thursday, and a moderate sum realized.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
The horses now in training on Locustville race course have shown fine exhibitions of speed of late. Clay, the four year old horse of Mr. Wm. E. Floyd, made a mile in 2.16, on last Tuesday, and on the previous day Margie, owned by Mr. J. T. Bull, trotted in 2.45, and Elliott's Morrill mare in 2.50. Another Morrill colt of Mr. Bull made a mile also in 2.50.
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Architecture -- Jails
Wm. T. Dryden, charged with cutting Lewis, of Chincoteague, with intent to kill, Robert Kellam, colored, held for burglary, and another colored man for theft, escaped from Accomac county jail last Saturday afternoon.
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Moral -- Property crime
Mrs. Boyce, wife of the agent at Tasley station, now on a visit to friends in Delaware, had a dream a few nights ago, that a colored woman had stolen a dress belonging to her and so communicated to her husband. An investigation showed that the dress was missing, and the aid of an officer being secured search was made for the lost garment and it was found in the possession of one Alphonsie Jones, colored. It was a bad dream for Alphonsie, as Justice Higgins committed her to jail for sixty days for the larceny.
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Transportation -- Railroad - SteamboatsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - ExcurionsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - ResortsSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideProfessionals -- Mariners
Chincoteague.
The rate of speed of steamer Widgeon has been increased since she was repaired. It took her formerly 45 minutes to make the trip from here to Franklin City -- now she makes it in 30 minutes.
The employees of A. Coulbourn & Co., manufacturers of mustards, spices &c., are now "tenting" on the island and recreating themselves in gunning, fishing, bathing &c.
A party of excursionists, one hundred or more from Girdletree and Whaleyville, Md., spent several days at the Atlantic hotel last week.
Our oystermen report, that the outlook for good oysters in our waters the coming season better than it has been for the last ten years.
The merits of some of our energetic and thrifty young men have been lately recognized by appointments to positions of "profit and trust." Capt. C. E. Babbitt, Jr., is now commander of the schooner Minna Emma, the largest on Pocomoke river; Capt. J. D. Whealton, now commands the schooner James C. Kelsey, the largest ever owned here, and another of our citizens, Capt. Fisher Bull, is in command of a still larger schooner, owned in Philadelphia.
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fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : YieldTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racingInfrastructure -- Commercial - Race tracksInfrastructure -- Public : Schools
Craddockville.
Our farmers report the average yield of sweets to be a barrel from 100 to 150 sprouts.
The sports of this section talk of building a race track here. They have some nags which they think with a little coaxing might be made to pass under the wire at a 2.40 gait.
We have sufficient material in our school district for a graded school, and it is a question with us why we should be neglected.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsAfrican-Americans -- ReligionFields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : MarketsFields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices
Onancock.
Large crowds of colored people are attending the colored camp now being held at Savageville.
Sweets are being rushed in pretty lively from this place to Baltimore, and only moderate prices are being realized.
Railroad Accident.
Transportation -- Railroad - Personal injury
On Friday of last week, a vehicle conveying four persons was struck by engine of N. Y., P. & N. R. R., at a crossing about two miles from Bloxom station, and two of the party Mr. Louis Byrd and Samuel Wessels, 12 years of age were seriously injured. Mr. Byrd had his shoulder blade broken and his hip crushed, and it is feared, received internal injuries too of a more serious nature. Wessels had his leg broken in two places. The wife of Mr. Byrd, another of the party, was badly bruised and disfigured but not seriously injured. Robert Taylor escaped from the vehicle a few seconds before it was struck by the engine. The horse attached to vehicle was cut in half. Reports are conflicting as to responsibility for the accident. It is positively asserted that the whistle of engine was blown and as positively denied. According to information received by us, we are of the opinion that the warning was given, but not at the distance it was required to be given, and therefore not in sufficient time to exonerate the engineer of railroad. Mr. Byrd according to our latest advises is in a precarious condition and several days will have to elapse before the extent of his injuries will be known.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - NewspapersInfrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsAfrican-Americans -- ReligionMoral -- Other violent crime
EDITOR PENINSULA ENTERPRISE: -- Sir -- The Eastern Virginian of last week contains the following in its editorial columns:
"We do most emphatically protest against the penny-a-liners writing from this county, to the Richmond and Baltimore papers, such 'exagerating' reports of the most trifling disturbances that takes place in our midst. Either they do not know or do not care what reputation they are giving our people abroad, so they can create a little sensation for the papers for which they write, and thereby increase their profits. We are not opposed to the full facts being known, and when they are known to challenge a comparison of Accomack with any other county in the State, and we will pit the morals of Onancock and vicinity against any other section anywhere."
Feeling assured that this article was intended mainly, if not exclusively for me, I beg leave to say a few words in reply through your widely circulated journal. In the first place I most emphatically deny that I ever wrote an "exagerating" report of any disturbance that took place "in our midst" or in any body else's midst. In reporting the disgraceful row that occurred two Sundays ago at the colored camp-meeting near this town, I was made by the printer to say 10,000 people were present, when I wrote 6,000; and the types also made me say Lew Costin though I wrote Sev Costin as plainly as I could. I am yet a boy and do not write a good hand, but I do know how to spell "exaggerate," which the learned editor of the Virginian insists on spelling with one "g." He would do well to study Webster's Unabridged a little more before he undertakes to criticise the poor "penny-a-liners" as he contemptuously calls us. -- Well, I suppose he is not a "penny-a-liner" for the simple reason that he does not begin to get a penny for every line that he writes. Some people around here think the learned editor is hard on the "penny-a-liners" because they get ahead of him so often in reporting news, thus making it stale when his account comes out in the Virginian. Several weeks ago a joint committee of the Democratic party held a meeting at the Turlington Camp Ground to arrange for nominating a "Floater." The penny-a-liner got the news and sent it off at once to the city papers but the editor of the Virginian said nothing about the meeting till nearly two weeks later when he copied it bodily from the ENTERPRISE. The main difference between the "penny-a-liners" and the editor of the Virginian is that they always report the facts promptly, while he sometimes suppressed them. I don't know how the penny-a-liners" got ahead of him in reporting this meeting, for I know he was on the ground and passed right by the place where the meeting was going on; but report says Brother Weaver has got a very sore toe, and that the wicked "penny-a-liners" gobbled up the meeting and ran off with it while he was nursing his big toe.
Two Sundays ago there was an unusual amount of fighting throughout the day at the colored camp-meeting that was then going on near this town. -- Many were drunk, and the preachers had to suspend services several times to quell the disturbance. At night John Bailey, alias Rat Tail, a turbulent negro, well known in these parts, kicked up a rumpus, cursed the preacher in the stand and threatened to cut him up into mincemeat, and did dangerously cut a peaceable colored man who tried to make him behave himself, and then left his country for his country's good. The "penny-a-liners" again got ahead of Brother Weaver who now tries to make it appear that the "penny-a-liners" sent "exagerative" reports about the riotous proceedings. In reporting this affair I did not say a word against the morals of Onancock and its vicinity, and I did not know before I read the article in the Virginian that John Bailey and his gang were fair representatives of "our people."
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS P. BAGWELL, JR.
Onancock, Aug. 24th.
Proposals Wanted.
Architecture -- Other public buildings
By order of the Board of Supervisors of Accomack county, Va., I will receive at my office at Accomack C. H., Va. at any time prior to the 5th of September next sealed proposals for the construction of a two-story brick building for a clerk's office for the said county to be erected on the courthouse lot at Drummondtown in said county, in accordance with the plans, drawings and specifications proposed for the purpose by W. F. Weber, architect, No. 20 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md., except that the outer doors and shutters for said building are to be of solid iron or steel lieu of those mentioned in the said specifications.
The following are the terms prescribed by the said Board for the erection of said building: No proposal or bid will be accepted in excess of six thousand dollars ($6,000); the building to be completed by the 15th day of December, 1887 and to be paid for as follows: One thousand dollars ($1,000) when the windows are set; $1,000 when the building is ready for the roof; $1,500 when the building is shut in; and the balance the contract price when the building is completed and accepted by the said Board. The said Board reserves the right to reject any or all the bids or proposals sent in; and will meet at Accomack C. H., Va., on the 5th day of September next, to open the bids or proposals received by me, and decide which one, if either, it will accept. The contractor will be required to execute bond in double the amount of his bid for the faithful performance of his contract with sureties therein to be approved by the said Board. The said plans, drawings and specifications can be seen at the clerk's office at Accomack C. H., Va., or at the office of the said W. F. Weber, architect.
Given under my hand this 8th day of August. A. D. 1887.
JAMES H. FLETCHER, JR., Committee.
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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 a 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 to cultivate the land. Has 3 tenant houses on it. For further particulars inquire at
ENTERPRISE OFFICE.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.
Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateFarmers -- Farm size and structure
By virtue of a deed of trust, dated September 14th 1885, and recorded in the clerk's office of Northampton county court, from Joseph J. Robbins to me, as trustee, I shall at the request of the creditors in said deed or their assigns, sell at public auction, to the highest bidder on Monday, September 12, 1887, at 2 o'clock p. m., in front of J. A. Jarvis' hotel in Eastville in said county, all that tract of land whereon the said Robbins at present resides, containing by recent survey 135 acres and bounded by the main sea side county road, and the lands of Wolfe & Horsey, the heirs of Geo. L. J. Thomas, dec'd., and others.
This farm has a new two-story dwelling and outbuildings on it, a great abundance of pine shatters and woods-mould and is well adapted to trucks, is convenient to schools, churches and to Exmore and Nassawadox stations, is in a very healthy locality and thrifty community. Terms of sale will be 5 per cent. of the purchase money in cash and the residue in three equal instalments, payable at the expiration of 1, 2 and 3 years, respectively, from the day of sale, with approved personal security thereto. For further particulars, see posters or address
F. FLOYD NOCK, Trustee.
Accomack C. H., Aug.2, '87.
Valuable Farm For Sale at Private Contract.
Farmers -- Farm size and structureInfrastructure -- Commercial - Real estate
The undersigned offers for sale at private contract his farm situated on Occohannock Creek, containing 434 acres. It is beautifully located, well adapted to trucking purposes, has abundant resources and is convenient to churches, schools and steamboat wharves -- being one mile from Davis' wharf. Upon it there is a fine orchard and on its shore there is planting ground for an unlimited quantity of oysters. It is so situated that it can be conveniently subdivided into four farms, with ample resources for each. It will be sold on reasonable terms. For further particulars either call on or address by letter.
S. B. BULL,
Craddockville, Va.