The Cecil Whig., 1870-08-06
Peninsular and State Items.

were drowned.
The Camp Meeting at Chesteryille. wa,
continued until Tuesday last. Animmenst
crowd was in attendance. The meeting.
pave been good, number Of person.
nave professed conversion, and the tide o.
religious feeling is on the increase.
oh wednesday week JAS f. Baily, ol
Queen Anne's county, lost two mules and
eight shoats killed by lightning, and tive
other shoats injured. P. B. Hopper, ESQ,
lost during the same storm his family
driving mare
The steamer "Osceola," purchased by
Isaac Hayden for $1,000, is to run between
Centreville and Baltimore.
Samuel Chance residing about three
miles from Centreville, had three valuable
horses killed by lightning during the storm
on Thursday night week. This is the
third time that Mr.. Chance has lost stock
by lightning during the present summer.
The steamboat i" Massachusetts, has
resumed her trips to Denton and the yari-
GUS landings on the Choptank from Balti-
more.
Two large sharks were seen at Deep
Water Point, in Miles River, few days
since.
James Floyd, of Trappe District, one
night week before last, had one of a yalua-
BILE yoke of oxen stolen from his field, the
thieves first killing and skinning it. Mr..
Floyd missed his OK and ON searching for
it, found the skin in the field.
The Easton papers state the population
of that town to be: White males 600,
females 588; cOlored males 296 females 513.
Total 2, 100. This shows an increase over
the previous census of about six hundred.
Broad Greek Neck Camp will commence
OH the 18th inst
The wheat crop in Dorchester is turning
cut better than was anticipated.
The public schools closed Oh the 18th
ult.
Chicken cholera is making sad havoc
among the feathered tribe.
Talbot county is suffering with drought.
An accident occurred on the railroad
near Easton, Oh Thursday night of last
week. One passenger car was thrown off
the track and damaged little. No lives
were lost.
The seventh session of the Delaware
Annual Conference, NJ. E. Church, con-
yened at Cambridge, July 21st, Rev. Bishop
Levi Scott, d. D., presiding.
Two men were riding in dearborn, in
dorchester county, the other day during
thunder storm, and were surprised to feel
the wheels give way and find themselves
on the ground. Lightning struck the
wheels and shattered every spoke. The
men escaped unhurt.
John Il. Jackson, of the same county.
had his collar bone broken by the kick of a
horse.
The Methodist Protestants are erecting
fine church in Salisbury.
There are eight prisoners in the Princess
Anne Jail.
1t is very dry in this county, and the
growing crops begin to show the want of
rain
Thomas Sudler, of Potato Neck, is the
largest grain grower in Somerset, and las
this year threshed out over two thousand
bushels of wheat and nine hundred bush
els of oats.
There will be Camp Meeting held at
Danes Quarter, to commence OH the Goth
inst. Alse there will he Camp Meeting
held in W. l.. Handy's woods, in Ammo
messX, to commence on the 18th inst
Also, one at Coulbourn's woods, to COM
mence ON the 10Th inst, and the colored
people of Deals Island intend holding a
Camp Meeting at that place, to commence
on the 18th inst. All Of the above Camps
will be held in Somerset county.
The population of Newtown is, 1,165.
A Camp Meeting will commence at
Chinateague Island on the Goth inst.
They are shipping two car loads of
peaches per day-1,0O0 baskets-from
Clayton.
Several farmers in the vicinity of Smyrna
have sold their peach crop for so cents per |
basket, and one or two small crops have
been sold for dollar.
The hay shed of Mr.. James Buckson, in |
Thoroughfare Neck, was struck by light
ming, OH Monday night week, and set on |
lire, but pump being convenient the fire |
was extinguished.
An lrishman at work in the field of Mr.. |
John Cochran, near Middletown, had a
sun stroke on Monday week.
The Middletown Transcript says:-The |
shipment of Hale's Early peaches will be |
pretty much over, after next week. This
yariely OF the peach is but little esteemed.
1t has to be picked and shipped in an unripe
state, or else it will rot and fall. No more
trees of this variety will be planted here,
md some who have the trees are talking
of having other varieties grated upon
heir stocks. Mr.. William Flintham, Of
Middle Neck, has shipped the finest lot of |
[1ale's that has been sent to market this
season. They were of large size and we'll
,olorcd.
Parties from Philadelphia and New York
nave recently built scow and located it
out in the river opposite New Castle for
nave all the necessary facilities for canning |
5he meat and converting the fat into OIL
It is to he very lucrative business, and |
from the energy these men appear to dis
play they will realize handsome profits.
A new Building and Loan Association is
jalked of in Middletowli, to be organized |
Jn the permanent plan
A chap, in Dover, is so fascinating that |
ne charms the cat birds as he walks the |
streets.
The Fifteenth Amendment celebration
1t Milford, on Thursday week. was grand
affair. A very laage crowd was in atten-
lance, and able speakers addressed the |
meeting. Everything passed off quietly.
The Milford Mutual Friend says:-We |
we're shown by David Murray, at Lewes,
4 few days since, one Of the greatest curl
osities we ever saw in the way of duck. |
1t was very large of lead color, and had |
foor aoiags! Two Of the wings were of
natural appearance and construction, whilst |
the others, which were of lighter appear
ance, were attached to the body near the
tips of the larger ones, and projected up
ward and outward, giving them more the
appearance of fins. What is more remark.
tulc, VIC ioLlCcu ScFcIdi young uuCkS, INC
progeny Of this singular bird, with the
same peculiar appendages growing out
from their sides, and therefore conclude
that they must belong to a peculiar species.
Havre de Grace is healthy this year.
The Havre Iron Works at IIavre de
Grace are preparing to resume work.
The Camp Meeting journal, was printed
at the Office of the Havre Republican, and
that paper lost one of its issues, thereby.
A little girl, under fourteen years of age,
named Elizabeth Matthews, was committed
to jail, charged with attempting to kill the
infant child of Mr.. Greenleaf, of Hayre de
Grace, by administering to it an ovedose of
laudnuln. The child is recovering.
A carriage containing the sister and two
daughters Of Mr.. w. Matthews, Of Howard
county, IN attempting TO cross tire Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
near the Darlington Camp, was struck by q
passing train and the inmates severely but
NOT fatally IN inred