Peninsula Enterprise, May 14, 1892
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement
Upon application of William Marsh, convicted of felonious dredging at the last term of our county court and sentenced to a term in our jail, Judge Bond, of the U. S. Circuit Court, awarded him a writ of habeas corpus, and had him taken before him by Sheriff Wise, at Norfolk, Va., on yesterday. By virtue of compact of 1785 between the States of Maryland and Virginia, Marsh insists that our court had no right to try him, and that is the question now to be passed upon by Judge Bond.
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Fields -- Crops - Strawberries
Twenty-two quarts of strawberries shipped from Onley station, by T. J. Savage, last Tuesday, consigned to J. P. Wilson, commission merchant, Philadelphia, were sold at 35 cents per quart.
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Farmers -- Farmers' organizations
A special meeting of Onancock Alliance will be held in their hall, 3 p.m. to-day, Saturday. Business of importance demands the attention of the members and a full attendance is requested.
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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - ResortsSea -- Fish factoriesTransportation -- Water - SteamboatsInfrastructure -- Public : ChurchesAfrican-Americans -- Religion
Chincoteague.
Quite a number of Wallop's Island club men passed through here Saturday. Their premises have been improved of late by cook houses, outbuildings, etc.
Capt. John W. Bunting & Sons have opened their fish factory and are doing a good business.
Capt. R. E. Swift is in New England looking for a small steamboat, to run from this place to mainland for the accommodation of the traveling public. A "long felt want will be met," if he can find a boat to suit him, and he will have the best wishes of everyone for the success of his enterprise.
The "Sanctified people" of the Island, eighty members or more, will erect a church up the Island soon.
The colored members of Methodist Church are tearing down their old church and will build another one on larger scale.
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Fields -- Crops - StrawberriesInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction
Parksley.
Our people have bought largely of strawberry plants this season, and do not propose to rely upon the sweet potato altogether in the future, as a means of revenue.
Some of the trustees of Margaret Academy visited Parksley, Wednesday, and were favorably impressed with our town.
Mr. Chadbourne and family have gone to Boston to spend the summer.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Tennis
Temperanceville.
Mr. W. L. Nock has improved his dwelling by the erection of a handsome porch.
Temperanceville Tennis Club, has elected officers for the season as follows: O. F. Byrd. president; W. H. Pruitt, Jr., secretary and vice president; Misses Carrie Brodwater, Mattie Pruitt and May Matthews, executive committee.
Horsemen, Take Notice!
Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
Futurity stake races for 1893, '94 -- First stake for trotting foals of 1891 to be trotted at Cape Charles, Va., during Fair of 1893. To this stake the Chesapeake Agricultural Association will add $200.
To nominate a colt. First payment $5, July 1, 1892, when nomination must be made; $5 January 1, 1893; $5 July 1, 1893, when colt must be named, and $10 more to start.
Second stake -- for foals of 1892 -- to be trotted in 1894. To this stake the Association will add $300.
To nominate a mare, $5 July 1,1892, when nominations must be made. First payment on foal, $5, January 1, 1893; second payment on foal, $5 July 1, 1893; third payment on foal, $5 January 1, 1894; fourth on foal, $10, July 1, 1894, when colt must be named, and $20 more to start.
National rules to govern.
Open to Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
Address all nominations and inquiries to
A. T. LEATHERBURY, Secretary.
Machipungo, Va.
To the Farmers of the Eastern Shore.
Professionals -- Commission merchants
To meet the necessity of the farmers, I have made arrangements with Potter & Williams, of Buffalo, N. Y.; W. B. Bigalow & Co., of Cleveland, Ohio; John Wallace, Pittsburg, Pa.; W. J. Schaaf, Erie, Pa., and Pulsifer, Savage & Co., Boston, Mass., to handle shipments from Norfolk and the Eastern Shore. I was engaged in the produce business last year at Erie, Pa., and was in daily communication with all of the western markets, which gave me a practical knowledge of the business West -- and the most efficient and reliable dealers there. At this day there are but few farmers who do not understand that the larger parts of their shipments finally go West for consumption. If so, they must either ship direct to those markets, or to some intermediate market to be reshipped, by what is now known as middle-men; incurring thereby, an extra expense. The firms heretofore named are among the most reliable in their locations -- for proof of which I refer you to the Mercantile Agencies. They understand that they are to make prompt returns. Thirty years ago New York and Boston seemed almost beyond the reach of the Eastern Shore farmers. In a few years these western markets will be as familiar as those old markets now are. A few shipments will satisfy the most doubtful that it is to their interest to ship to markets that consume and do not re-ship. The freight to Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburg and Erie is 35 cents per barrel in car lots, and 40 cents in less than car lots. For further information, stencils & c., apply to
GEORGE H. LECATO, Cape Charles, Va.
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Sea -- Finfish - Catch : MenhadenNatural resources -- Conservation - Resources
Mr. Lapham's bill to regulate menhaden and mackerel fisheries in the navigable waters over which the United States has jurisdiction, is dead. An adverse report made to the House of Representatives last Tuesday, from the committee, disposes of the measure for the present Congress at least. The bill was too an obnoxious one even to have been seriously considered by the committee and now that its iniquities have been exposed, it is reasonable to conclude that it is dead beyond hope of resurrection. A great calamity certainly has been averted by its defeat to Tidewater Virginia, and the people of the 1st district should be slow to forget the manly fight made by our representative, Mr. Jones, against the measure and their lasting obligation to him for the part he took in the matter.
FOR SALE AT PRIVATE CONTRACT!
Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateFarmers -- Farm size and structure
Farm in 1 1/2 miles of Concord steamboat wharf, Northampton, and in 6 miles of Exmore Station.
It contains about 50 acres of arable and 100 acres of woodland, well timbered and with abundant resources, of woods mould and pine shats for manuring purposes. It is improved by a brick dwelling of four rooms and all necessary outbuildings in fair repair, and is located immediately on a cove, in which oysters grow finely. With a small expenditure of money its value could be doubled in a very short time. Price $1,750 -- a small part of which only is required in cash, the balance on time to suit purchaser. For further information call on the owner.
F. M. STURGIS, Onley Station.
Walker's Morrill.
Fields -- Livestock - HorsesTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing
For the season 1892 Walker's Morrill will stand at Combination Stock Farm, Jamesville, Va., at $50 with privilege of return, should mare not prove in foal and he is living, or note for $75 payable when the mare is known to be safe in foal.
Walker's Morrill has proven himself to be the greatest sire that has ever been brought to the Shore or likely to be brought, and his family is on-breeding as proven by John Daniel, the sire of Little Betz, who in her three year old form at Pimlico track beat a field of aged horses and made a record of 2:27.
For further information apply to
H. P. JAMES, Jamesville, Va