Peninsula Enterprise, November 30, 1895

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Fields -- Livestock - SwineFields -- Livestock - Diseases and pests

A great many hogs are dying of cholera on seaside in lower part of the county.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Bird

Sportsmen report a much larger number of quail in the county than was expected.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - LecturesMoral -- Alcohol

The lectures to be delivered by Mr. J. W. Guy next week will be entirely in the interest of temperance and good morals and free altogether of politics. He is an interesting and entertaining speaker and you are cordially invited to attend the meetings.

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Moral -- Other violent crime

The county court now in session will continue the full limit, 15 days, for the trial of parties indicated by grand jury in its session of three days. John Carpenter and George Broadwater, tried last Thursday, for cutting and wounding with intent to maim, &c., were convicted and go to penitentiary for 8 and 2 years respectively.

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Forests -- SawmillsSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : PackingSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Seaside

Assawaman.

Quite a number of new buildings have been erected in this section in past 2 months and more are wanted.

The Queen Hive Mill Co., will be under the management of Mr. Joseph W. Taylor during the absence of Mr. Matthews, who will spend the winter in Richmond.

Messrs. Emory & Dutton are having built at Wishart's Point a large house to be used as a oyster packing establishment. These gentlemen come highly recommended and it is to be hoped that our oystermen will appreciate this new industry by patronizing them.

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Sea -- Fish factoriesForests -- Barrel factories Transportation -- Water - Freight

Chincoteague.

John W. Bunting & Son have closed their fish factory and with the best returns in the history of the plant. The catch this season was about thirteen million.

Mr. O. M. Chandler arrived here this week with supply of barrel material and is now engaged in manufacturing barrels at this place.

Schooner Palestine loaded this week with oysters for Norfolk, Va.

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Professionals -- Builders

Onancock.

The new Presbyterian Church on Main street shows up well. Truitt, Latham & Mears are pushing the work. It will be an ornament in that section of the town.

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Transportation -- Water - StrandingsSea -- Wrecking

Wachapreague.

Schooner Lucy A. Davis, Capt. Loving, loaded with lumber from Brunswick, Ga., to Portland, Maine, went ashore on Cheese wreck shoal, on Friday, and was floated by Merritt Company's steamer Coley.

Schooner Foster Seized.

Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Customs service

Deputy Collector of Port Sharp, Saturday morning boarded the Schooner Joseph W. Foster, anchored near the mammoth buoy in Delaware bay, eighteen miles from the Delaware Breakwater, and placed two Government agents in charge of the vessel. The Foster, which left Philadelphia Tuesday for Tampa, Florida, with a cargo of coal, was suspected of having a party of Cuban filibusters and a quantity of arms on board. Deputy Sharp returned to Lewes after formally detaining the vessel, and later again went to the schooner for the purpose of making a thorough search.

The collector of customs at Lewes having reported after a thorough search the failure to discover arms, ammunition or men on board the Foster, the secretary on Monday ordered the vessel's release, but her master, Capt. John B. Whealton, refused to accept her and will bring suit against the Government for her seizure and detention which he claims was illegal and unjust.

Capt. Whealton is a native of this county and one of the owners of the Foster.

The mate of the schooner has taken command of the vessel and she will sail for Tampa, Florida, with the first fair wind.