Chincoteague News From The Peninsula Enterprise in 1887
From The Peninsula Enterprise of Saturday, 8 January 1887, on page 3, column 2, under the heading "Local News:" "Chincoteague. Our remarkably quiet community was thrown into a state of excitement the day before Christmas, by the announcement that Captain Lawrence, whose vessel went ashore on Wallop's beach not long ago, had arrived from Philadelphia with a cargo of "Jersey lightning" labelled tobacco. Having rented Mr. J. W. Duncan's old bar, he proposed to retail 1400 cigars at 10 cents each with a drink thrown in, local option to the contrary notwithstanding. He was waited upon by a committee of our citizens who threatened him with immediate prosecution did he commence his illegal traffic. The pleadings of the captain for permission just to close out this purchase to save him from pecuniary loss and assist him to care for his afflicted wife and helpless little children had no effect upon the hard hearted committee, and tho...