Norfolk Virginian, January 29, 1889

Affairs in Accomac.

Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving serviceInfrastructure -- Commercial - House movingInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsInfrastructure -- Public : TownsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Grist millsMoral -- AlcoholMoral -- Murder

Capt. C. E. Babbitt & Son, wreckers on the Chincoteague Island, have moved Hog Island life-saving station two miles from its former site, where it had recently been undermined by the surf and carried out into the breakers.

The village of Parksley, on the line of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk railroad, is entering upon a big building boom. Contracts have been let for thirty new buildings, among which is a public school house to cost $1500.

The embankment around the mill-pond belonging to Mrs. Catherine Poulson, on Deep Creek, broke away several days ago, flooding the adjacent fields and doing such considerable damage to the grist mill that it is said the mill will be abandoned by its owners, who had just spent a large amount for repairs on the property.

The liquor dealers residing in Lee district, where the local option law was repealed by a popular election on the 5th day of January, will apply to Judge Garrison for license tomorrow. Certain members of the Good Templars here are still making a determined opposition to the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town.

The case of Mrs. Virginia Taylor, charged with murdering her husband by administering poison, will not be tried at the January term of the court, as State Chemist Taylor has not yet completed the work of analyzing the dead man's stomach.