Norfolk Virginian, June 14, 1889

A Fight Between Two Women -- A Sharp Encounter.

Moral -- Other violent crimeWomen -- Personal injury

Dispatch, March 29, 1889

THE TAYLOR TRIAL.

Moral -- Murder

The Case Given to the Jury -- No Verdict.

[Special telegram to the Dispatch.]

Norfolk Virginian, January 19, 1889

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Moral -- Murder

The Board of Supervisors of Accomac county have appropriated $200 to pay State Chemist Taylor to analyze the contents of the stomach of the late Wm. J. Taylor, who is supposed to have been poisoned by his wife.

Norfolk Virginian, February 15, 1889

"White Cap" Foolishness.

Moral -- VigilantismAfrican-Americans -- Racial violence

Norfolk Virginian, June 18, 1889

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Moral -- MurderSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcementMoral -- Alcohol

ONANCOCK, Va., June 17. -- G. Jefferson Adair, who was convicted in Northampton County Court last May of having murdered Peter B. Smith and sentenced to eighteen years in the penitentiary, has been assigned to duty in that institution as bookkeeper in the shoe department.

Norfolk Virginian, March 29, 1889

THE TAYLOR POISONING CASE.

Moral -- Murder

The Testimony all in and the Jury Deliberating -- Mrs. Taylor Alarmed.

Special Dispatch to The Virginian.]

ACCOMAC COURTHOUSE, Va., March 28. -- The testimony in the case of Mrs. Virginia Taylor having been concluded yesterday, argument commenced immediately upon the assembling of court this morning.

Dispatch, January 11, 1889

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Fields -- Crops - Other vegetablesMoral -- Property crimeInfrastructure -- Public : TownsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Other

Eastville.

Peninsula Enterprise, September 21, 1889

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reprinted from Cape Charles Pioneer.Professionals -- LawyersAfrican-Americans -- Work - Business And professional

Frederick Burrows, colored, was admitted to the bar in Eastville, at the last term of the court. He is a graduate of the Northwestern Law College in Michigan.

Norfolk Virginian, April 5, 1889

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reprinted from Richmond Dispatch, April 4.Moral -- Otherfields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Yield

Frank Powell the missing clerk whose body was reported to have been found last week in a pine forest in southern Accomac, has turned up all right in Scarborough Neck.

Accomac farmers are making preparations for an immense crop of sweet potatoes.

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