Peninsula Enterprise, August 22, 1891
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Transportation -- Water - Wrecks
The schooner Seth and Ishmael, owned by Capt. Wm. J. Marshall, bound from New York to West Point, Va., and loaded with coal, was sunk off Chincoteague several days ago. No lives were lost.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Boat racing
In the race, Wednesday, at Metompkin inlet, between bateaux of Benjamin and George Parks, the former was the winner.
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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices
The following telegram received from G. S. Palmer, New York, under date August 19th: Sweet potatoes in light supply, selling from $3 to $3.50, outlook for choice stock fine.
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Sea -- Finfish - MarketsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - BoxingFields -- Livestock - HorsesInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Postal service
Chincoteague.
People fond of first class sport would be sure to find it this season of the year. Fish were never so plentiful. Some of our fishermen are catching from 500 to 600 a tide and selling them from $8 to $10. Birds are also plentiful and fat as butter.
A pugilistic contest at the Atlantic hotel, Monday night, was attended by a large and appreciative audience. The "bout" was intended, to show the beauties of the manly art and when time was called was declared "a draw."
The pony-penning was never so well attended as it was this year and by persons for the most part who had never visited the Island before. For the first time in the history of the Atlantic hotel all guests could not be accommodated, and enough were turned away to fill the other hotel and boarding houses too. The pen of ponies were unusually large and many were sold at both public and private sale at higher prices than usual.
Our mail arriving at Franklin City at night is not forwarded to us until the afternoon. A little enterprise and industry is only needed to convince the Government that, we deserve two mails a day, since it can be provided us at so little expense, and a petition to that effect is suggested by your correspondent.
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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesTransportation -- Water - Steamboats
Onancock.
The Baptist parsonage is receiving the finishing touches of the painter
The steamer Tangier, last Tuesday, collided with schooner R. J. Poulson and several small crafts, at Onancock wharf, damaging them some $300 or $400. The accident is due solely to the bell wire breaking and the engineer thereby failing to receive the command of the captain, in the effort to lay steamer at the wharf. No blame attaches to anyone for the mishap.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionTransportation -- Railroad - PersonnelInfrastructure -- Public : Towns
Parksley.
Mr. Wm. H. Rew is improving his property with a coat of paint.
Mr. W. A. Bowen is adding a handsome front porch to his house.
Mr. Will Davy, of Fairmount, Md., is the guest of Mrs. Jeannette Dix.
Miss Maud Rayfield, of Mappsville, and Miss Lucy Redden, of Annapolis, are visiting Miss Eula Johnson.
Miss Maggie Craig, of Baltimore, is the guest of Miss Willie Wright at Mrs. C. C. Dix's, on Chadbourne St.
Misses Manie and Dosia Watson, of Temperanceville, are the guests of the Misses Barnes on Dunne avenue.
Miss Rose Gillespie, of Mappsville, Mr. Tigner and wife, of Onley, and Miss Addie Whitehurst, of Norfolk, are visiting Mrs. Maurice L. Lewis and Mrs. E. T. Pate.
Supt. H. W. Dunne, of the N. Y., P. & N. R. R. made a visit to Parksley, on Wednesday, on a "special" in charge of Conductor Restein, with a party of railroad officials -- vice-President W. A. Patton, Messrs. Cariss, Hayward, DeRousse, Dunne, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., McKinney and T. H. B. Browne. The distinguished visitors were met at the station with teams and shown around the town. A pleasant halt was made at Miss Chadbourne's cottage on Wilson avenue, where the party was graciously entertained by the hostess, Miss Adelaide V. Cooke and her friends. Mr. Thomas R. Harper, of the Saturday Review and Republic, took snap shots of the group with his "Kodak." They expressed themselves as highly pleased with the growth of Parksley.
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Farmers -- Farmers' organizations
Personal.
A special from Erie, Pa., August 17th, is to the effect that Hon. Wm. L. Scott is gaining strength rapidly and is expected if he continues to improve, to go to Newport, next week, with the hope that the salt sea air will fully restore him to health.
The following notice of our countyman, in attendance as delegate at meeting of Farmers' Alliance in Richmond, appears in Dispatch of Tuesday:
"The Alliance is very strong in Accomac," Mr. D. F. White, of that county, said, "there being 872 members, about nine tenths or more of whom are Democrats. None of the Republican members are of any prominence politically. Although we are advocating certain measures we do not feel that our allegiance to the old parties is in the least impaired on that account."
"While the Committee on Resolutions will probably shape the work of the convention, everybody will have something to do. We do not propose that the committee shall have to shoulder all the work. We shall compare notes and try to do what is best for the people. The third party movement has no friends in Accomac. The people there are taking no stock in it. I hardly think the debt question will be considered by the State Alliance. I cannot say much about the railroad bill, but the present arrangement is not by any means satisfactory."
Chesapeake Agricultural Fair.
Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - FairsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
The Chesapeake Agricultural Fair which opened last Tuesday, was well attended every day, especially Thursday, and beyond doubt was a success financially. The exhibits in the ladies departments very fine, particularly the paintings, but very few of them. The poultry department had some fine coops of geese, ducks and chickens. The horse department very full and the races the principal feature of the Fair would compare favorably doubtless with the best in the country. Martha Jane, owned by Mr. Wm. T. Fletcher, Miss Finney, owned by Dr. O B. Finney, and Ike, owned by Turlington Bros., from Accomac were winners in classes in which they were respectively entered.
Storehouse Robbed -- $50 Reward.
Moral -- Property crime
I will pay fifty dollars for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the thieves who broke in and robbed my store on Monday night, the 3rd of August. The work was evidently done by a gang who have entered other stores in the upper part of the county, and I hope all good citizens -- especially the merchants who may be interested for obvious reasons -- will do what they can toward the arrest and conviction of this gang.
William Walsh, Mappsville, Va.
August 18th, 1891.
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Farmers -- Farmers' organizations
The Virginia Alliance men are now in session in the city of Richmond, but at the time we go to press the developments are not such as to justify us in predicting what will be the result of their deliberations. The body is composed of representative farmers of Virginia, with Democratic antecedents and Democratic proclivities, and can be trusted not to drift so far from their political moorings as to imperil greater interests in the effort to correct evils to which the farmers have been too long subjected in the disposal, therefore, of the political question which to some extent seems to be agitating the body, we have no fear as to the result. In one respect harmony seems to prevail in the body viz: that checks must be put upon the evils to which they are subjected in some way by the railroads, bu the means by which they hope to accomplish that object has not yet been disclosed. Everyone at all interested in the welfare of Virginia will hope that the remedy will be found.
The debt question, which to some extent, seems to be engaging the attention of the body will be doubtless left where they found it, in an unsettled state, with no brighter prospect of an adjustment of the intricate matter than heretofore. The following resolution unanimously adopted, indicates that the members are too level headed for us to have any fear that they will go far out of the way in other matters:
Resolved, that we deem it both patriotic and judicious to pay our taxes in money and not in coupons, and we hereby earnestly beseech the tax payers in the larger cities not to sacrifice our State upon the altar of commercial cupidity.
Enough has not come to light on the sub treasury scheme to speculate as to the views of the body in the matter, nor indeed as to the resolutions, 100 or more which, it is stated, are being considered by them. We shall hope to enlighten our readers as to the proceedings in the next issue of this paper.
Grapeland.
Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateFarmers -- Farm size and structure
Valuable Farm For Sale on Occahonnock creek.
By virtue of the power vested in me by Mr. George Holtgreve, of St. Louis, Missouri, I offer for sale at private contract, the valuable farm known as Grapeland [farm], and if not disposed of privately before the 14th of September, next, the same will be sold at public auction, in front of the Taylor House, at Eastville, on Monday, court-day, the said 14th of September, next.
The farm contains 190 acres, more or less, is well adapted to the growth of all kinds of trucks, and has an abundance and variety of all kinds of choicest fruit thereon, and is improved by a large, two-story brick dwelling and all necessary outbuildings. Its situation is a beautiful one, being on Occahonnock creek, Northampton county, near Wardtown, 3 1/2 miles from Exmore station on N. Y. P. & N. R. R., and in five minutes walk of Reads wharf, at which point the splendid steamer Eastern Shore stops on her trips to and from Baltimore, twice each week.
Terms, 1/3 cash, balance on easy and accommodating terms.
SYDNEY S. WHITE, Agent for George Holtgreve.