Peninsula Enterprise, April 16, 1892

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Poaching

The case of William Marsh, indicted for felonious dredging, will be tried on Tuesday, the 2d day of the next term of our county court. He will be represented by the Attorney General of Maryland and Hon. John Goode, and the Attorney General of Virginia may be present to assist Mr. Fletcher in the prosecution.

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Transportation -- Road - Legislation

The Board of Supervisors at its meeting last Wednesday, by a vote of three to one, determined that it was inexpedient to approve the road law of Accomac as enacted by our last General Assembly, and without their approval it cannot be put into operation.

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving serviceInfrastructure -- Utilities - TelephoneInfrastructure -- Utilities - Telegraph

The Congressional House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Monday reported favorably the bill appropriating $16,354 for the construction of a telephone line along the Virginia coast from Cape Charles to Assateague Island. It is further provided that the telegraphic communication shall be maintained with the principal seaports of the Atlantic coast.

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Lumbermen -- Personal injury

Mr. William T. Wimbrough, Onley, had his ankle crushed by a timber wheel some days ago, and has been a great sufferer from the mishap ever since.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionArchitecture -- Commercial buildingsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Hotels

The old hotel building at Accomac C. H., is now a thing of the past. In the construction of the new hotel the frame of the main building only will be utilized and it is to be raised a story higher, and to be enlarged with wings on either side.

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeedTransportation -- Water - FreightInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential constructionTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders

Chincoteague.

The following vessels have loaded here with oyster plants in the last ten days: L. B. Leeds and John Wesley for New Jersey; Susan Jane, John B. Price, R. F. Hastings, Elliott and William Sherman, Thomas Thomas, P. J. Hart and others, for Fair Haven, Conn.

Edgar V. Twyford, is erecting a dwelling which will be, when completed, one of the handsomest on the Island.

Schooner John A. Kelsey, John D. Whealton captain, arrived here last week from West Indies, on her way to New York city.

A lodge of Red Men will be organized at Franklin City, next Monday night, by brethren of the Order at Chincoteague, and the initiates will find that their joints will need a vigorous application of Indian medicine next morning, if handled as roughly as they were here.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Cemeteries

Onancock.

A called meeting of the cemetery projectors was held in the town hall Monday night last. A four acre lot of good high land on the Meadville farm will be purchased at once. Onancock will have a long needed cemetery.

The Fish Commissioner.

reprinted from Richmond Times, April 12.Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Surveying

The Board of the Chesapeake and its Tributaries, consisting of the Governor, Commissioner of Public Accounts and the Treasurer, held a meeting at the office of the Executive yesterday. It was decided to request Dr. J. T. Wilkins, Jr., the Fish Commissioner, to attend a meeting of the board as soon as possible. Dr. Wilkins is to supervise the survey to be made of the oyster lands during the coming summer.

Life Saving on our Coast.

reprinted from Norfolk Ledger.Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving serviceInfrastructure -- Utilities - Telephone

The Treasury is taking much interest in the bill before Congress for the establishment of a communication between seven life saving stations on the Virginia coast, between Cape Charles and Assateague. It will cost $16,000 to erect a telephone line connecting these stations, and making a connection with the nearest telephone station at Cape Charles, Va. The heavy cost is explained by the fact that the numerous inlets along the coast will have to be cabled. The reports show that since August 26th last twenty-six wrecks occurred along this coast, of which five were steamships. Had the telephone line been in operation, so that the life-saving crews could have been concentrated on short notice, much valuable property could have been saved, and sent tugs to assist in saving the property.

Prohibition Meeting.

Moral -- Alcohol

All who favor Prohibition are requested to meet at Tyler's Hall, Onancock, April 16th, 2 p.m., to elect delegates to the State Convention that meets in Lynchburg, April 17th, 1892.

By order of the Chairman of County Committee.

H. L. CROCKETT.

Onancock, Va., April 9th, 1892.

The President's Visit to Accomac.

Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Bird

The President arrived by train at New Church, on Friday morning, of last week, on a snipe shooting expedition to that locality. His coming was unannounced and consequently he was not received with "plumes and banners gay," but Mr. John Brittingham, who happened to be at the depot on his arrival, was equal to the occasion and boarding the train was cordially received by the President and in turn in an impromptu address extended to him the hospitalities of the Eastern Shore. He spent the day in gunning, chaperoned by such skillful sportsmen as Messrs. W. U. Schoolfield and Hiram Brittingham, and bagged quite a number of birds -- taking an old fashioned Eastern Shore dinner with Mr. J. E. Brittingham, a staunch Democrat, near the Virginia line. He expressed himself as pleased with the trip and said that he would make another visit.

Cape Charles Harbor to be Opened to the Public.

Transportation -- Water - Channel and harbor dredging

The following dispatch from Washington, appears in the Baltimore Sun, under date of April 10th:

The river and harbor committee yesterday reported back their bill which had been recommitted, and it was placed on the calendar. The principal amendment was an appropriation of $10,000 for dredging and otherwise improving the harbor at Cape Charles City, Va. The last bill carried an appropriation of $25,000 for this harbor, but when on the original consideration of the bill in committee, this item was reached, Representative Jones, of Virginia, a member of the committee, said he would not ask an appropriation for this harbor for the reason that the harbor and all the surrounding land were private property owned by the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railway and the estate of the late William L. Scott. Other members of the committee who were members of the committee in the last Congress said this fact was not known when the appropriation of $25,000 was made, and it was proposed to take steps to have that amount recovered by suit. After the bill was reported, however, the owners of the harbor offered to cede it to the United States. With this understanding the appropriation of $16,000 is provided for, with the proviso that no part of it shall be expended until the owners of the basin and the channel or canal leading to the Cherrystone inlet shall have executed a deed for the same to the United States, and have provided a public landing of not less than one acre with a water frontage of not less than 300 feet and connected by an approach to the nearest highway.