Dispatch, February 12, 1889

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Quarantine, federalMoral -- Property crimeMoral -- Murder

Onancock.

The United States government has purchased Fisherman's Island .... for $5,000. The island belonged to the heirs of the late Henry A. Wise, William H. Parker, and Benjamin Thomas, all of whom it is learned, have authorized Hon. John S. Wise to sell the island for the price named. The Government will use the island as a quarantine station and will erect a large hospital there.

Judge Garrison having refused to grant a new trial to Eugene Barnes, twice convicted of embezzlement in Accomack County Court, the counsel for Barnes are preparing a bill of exceptions, on which they will appeal to the Circuit Court for a new trial.

State Chemist Taylor has completed the analysis of the stomach of the late William Taylor, whose wife is confined in Accomack county jail on the charge of killing her husband with strychnine, but it cannot be ascertained what the report of the Chemist is until the trial, which will begin at the February term of the County Court. It is known, however, that evidence of strychnine was discovered in the analysis, but in what quantity cannot be ascertained. Mrs. Taylor says if there was poison in her husband's stomach she did not put it there. She is in good spirits and confidently expects to be acquitted.