Peninsula Enterprise, November 11, 1882

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Moral -- Firearms

At a serenade given to Mr. Robt. Marshall and bride, on Saxe's island, on last Monday night, a gun in the hands of Mr. Thomas Evans bursted, and a piece of the barrel, more than an inch in length, was blown through his wrist, making an ugly wound.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estate

L. Floyd Nock, Special Commissioner in suit of W. W. Durkee, wife &c. vs. Sylvester Stockley, sold at Dunkirk on Saturday, Nov. 4th, two tracts of land, Thomas L. Trower being the purchaser of a tract of 40 acres, at the price of $2,280 and James R. Bull, of another tract of 55 acres at the price of $1,146.

Small-pox.

Disease

Near Wagram, in this county, there is a house with thirteen inmates, colored, eleven of whom have the small-pox. At other houses in the same locality three more cases of small-pox are reported, also, and the probabilities are that many others have been infected with the same disease in the same section. Our reason for that inference is based upon the fact that fifty or more attended the funeral of a colored man who died with the disease, three of whom certainly were inoculated.

Reported Drowned.

Transportation -- Water - WrecksWatermen -- Personal injury

The sloop Fourche, commanded by Capt. Haff, bound from Thomas' wharf, Northampton county, to Norfolk, loaded with sweet potatoes, was stranded and went to pieces near Cape Charles on last Friday night during a storm, and all on board were drowned except the Captain.

Mr. Arthur W. Jacob, a very clever and worthy gentleman, son of Wm. E. Jacob, Esq., we are pained to have to announce was a passenger on the boat at the time of the disaster, and one of the victims. Capt. Haff, after remaining in the water all night, was picked up by a passing boat, but in so weak a condition that his life is despaired of.

Mr. Jacob was carried by Capt. Haff, who is a very expert swimmer, after the boat stranded, for a mile or more on his back, but he finding it impossible to reach land with him, returned with him to the boat and lashed him fast.

Later advices are to the effect that a schooner was seen to approach the wreck next day and take off something, which taken in connection with the fact that Mr. Jacob was lashed fast to the boat, gives a faint gleam of hope to his friends that he may have been rescued.

We have not learned the names of the other parties aboard the boat.