Peninsula Enterprise, September 24, 1892
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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Markets
A shipment of twenty barrels of sweet potatoes was made by Mr. L. James Gunter for the farmers of this vicinity, last week, to Liverpool, England, and the returns, if satisfactory, will open up another market for our staple product.
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Transportation -- Water - Steamboats
The steamer Tangier, while on her way to Onancock, on Wednesday, was disabled by breaking a part of her machinery at Hunting Creek and was taken from latter place to Crisfield for repairs.
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Moral -- Vandalism
Ben Young, colored, charged with burning three fodder stacks near Pastoria, of James Seymore, colored, last Saturday night, was sent to jail. To await the grand jury.
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Moral -- Property crime
Two men calling themselves Miller and making this place their headquarters, succeeded for three weeks in working one of the boldest swindles that has ever been practiced in this country. They claimed to be agents for a Baltimore firm of photography enlargers. They required the people to pay an instalment on the order and in this way, it is estimated, they collected eight hundred or a thousand dollars. One of the men had a wife and child with him. It has been learned that they have worked the same from New Jersey down to this place.
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Fields -- Livestock - HorsesInfrastructure -- Commercial - Banks
Chincoteague.
W. J. Matthews has sold his handsome Morrill colt to horsemen in Wilmington at fancy figures -- the handsomest ever owned on Chincoteague.
I. T. Matthews, cashier of Snow Hill National Bank, spent several days with us last week looking after the interests of the bank, and added the names of several of our citizens to the list of depositors. He has the confidence of our people and they all speak in flattering terms of their business relations with him.
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Forests -- Barrel factories Transportation -- Water - Freight
Onancock.
The factories at Onancock, viz: Walter, Merrill & Doughty, and Thomas West, have been running heavy this season.
The sail packets of Powell & Waples, Boggs & Groton, Crockett & Winder are making trips twice per week from here to Baltimore, Sundays and Tuesdays.
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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesTransportation -- Railroad - Stations and sidings
Parksley.
The cornerstone laying of the Parksley M. P. Church was a very enjoyable occasion and attracted quite a large crowd. Rev. H. L. Elderdice, of Pocomoke City, Md., delivered a very eloquent and appropriate address, and was master of ceremonies. Mappsville cornet band delighted all by their playing. A bounteous supper was served by the ladies, and all the delicacies of the season daintily served by them. The ice cream and confectionary stand was liberally patronized. Miss Emma Lewis won the handsome afghan knitted by Mrs. A. D. F. Ewell, and offered to the young lady who made the largest collection for the church. Miss Lewis collected $58.62, Miss Ethel Lewis $56, Miss Mamie Parks $51.09, Miss M. Jones $15, Miss A. Russell $10.15. The collections for the church were liberal and will be announced later. The church is a handsome one and will be furnished with the best polished hard wood pews and fittings, and is credit to the builders. The location is desirable, facing on the park.
The N. Y., P. & N. R. R. Co., has built a neat tool house, and improved the waiting room at the station.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Residential construction
Temperanceville.
Capt. W. T. Mister is preparing to erect a dwelling on his lot on Railroad avenue.
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Sea -- Finfish - Catch : MenhadenSea -- Finfish - LegislationSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : LegislationSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Planting
As we before stated Capt. Orris A. Browne did favor the Lapham fishery bill. Mr. Jones in a discussion at Mathews Court House, last Monday charged him with being closeted in Washington with a number of Eastern gentlemen who were there in the interest of this bill, and Capt. Browne admitted at Mathews Court House, we are informed, that he favored that measure. The only point he denied that we charged him with was that he did not lobby for the bill. But, Capt. Browne, you were at a meeting of Eastern men who were in Washington, lobbying for the bill, your sympathies were with that measure, and you cannot disabuse the minds of the fishermen and fish factory men in this district of your ardent desire for the passage of this disastrous measure to their interests. -- Fredericksburg Star.
It will be equally hard for Capt. Browne to disabuse the minds of the oystermen of the fact that his and their views are not entirely at variance on the oyster question. Our memory serves us very badly if Capt. Browne did not in a series of letters last year favor the sale in fee simple of all the State's oyster grounds and our memory is equally at fault if it did not meet with an indignant protest form one end of the county to the other -- and for the reason, that it was then regarded as a step towards placing all the oyster bottoms in Virginia under the control of wealthy corporations. With such a record, however, Capt. Browne has the temerity in his letter accepting the nomination to ask the "working men" to help him in his fight against "the privileged class of the county." What say you "working men" to such a ludicrous appeal?