Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-21
The Peninsula.


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QUEEN ANNE's COUNTY.
Fruit growers talk of canning their own fruit
this season.
The Centreville Observer, CDemocratic) is
anxious that the Republicans of the First Dis
trict shall nominate colored man for Congress
and names it's man. 1t will find nextf fall that
the Republicans are able both to nominate and
elect their man without Democratic assistance.
Dr. Joseph A.. Holton has been appointed ply
stefan at the Almshouse, Rice, DIR. Emory,
deceased.
Wheat is being threshed and turns out from a
third to a half less than usual.
The members of Centreville NJ. Il. church,
have resolved to hold no camp meeting this
year.
wIcoaIIco COUNTY.
III the Eastern iShorei,,an has a few moro such
articles as its leader of last Saturday it will earn
just reputation as the ablest liar of the Pc
ninsular press.
An effort is now being made to organize the
Salisbury Navigation Towing and Wharf Com
pany chartered by the last Maryland legislature.
On Wednesday of last week the residence of
Joshua johnson, in New Town, part of Sails
bury, was damaged somewhat by fire.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
A camp meeting will be held at Danes Quar-
ter, commencing August 26th.
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the recent session of the Circuit Court
Henry Hubbard has been committed to Jail
charged with deadly assault with knife on
John Selby, at Monte, on the night Of 9Th inst.
Both are colored men,
DORCHESTER COUNTY.
man rejoicing in the Polished title OF Prof.
Gawronski thinks this a good time of year to
open dancing school in Cambridge.
The tax levy is % cents ON the 800. and the
State levy being 19l4 cents brings the whole
amount to SLIP on the 300.
Small fruits have been abundant this year.
Base ball is becoming epidemic at Cambridge.
The Bramble House, at Cambridge, has been
surrounded with an iron railing manufactured in
Seaford.
Jas. Dafrney, colored, had horse killed on
the ID. " ID. II. II. last week.
TALBOT COUNTY.
Easton has particularly mean breed of thieves
who steal the flowers off Of graves.
The paddle Duck Club" an Annapolis organ
ization, which thinks water better adapted to
sailing on than to drinking-houses, visited Eas-
ton, and nearly all other river towns on the PEN
insula.
The Easton Journal (democratic) is evidently
fishing for an invitation to join in the Fifteenth
Amendment celebration in that town, and growls
about its being confined exclusively to colored
men.
And now Prof. Saracco proposes to torture the
youths and maidens of Easton with dancing les
sons this hot weather. His name ought TO be
Sirocco.
A colored man arrested on charge of perjury
IN the procurement of bOunties escaped from
Deputy Marshal McNiel last week.
Edward S. Harrison's store in Oxford was
slightly damaged by fire recently.
II. II. Murphey has sent to the Comet office
fnat f...
high?
The Masonic Hall at st. Michaels is rapidly
approaching completion the plasterers finished
work on it last week.
Wheat turns out better than was expected.
The Easton Gdzette speaks out plainly in oppo-
sltion to holding the Republican Congressional
Convention in Baltimore, or any where else out
side the district.
The NJ. 4 D. II. H. is being rapidly pushed
forward and piles are now being driven for a
bridge across Wind Mill Branch.
CECIL COUNTY.
The closing exercises of the Elkton Academy
took place in the Presbyterian Church, in the
town, on the 18th inst.
The horses and carriage recently stolen from
J. w. Caldwell have not been recovered as was
incorrectly alleged in the Delaware Republican.
Money recently sold at SO per cent premium in
the Elkton Loan Association.
A correspondent of the Wing alleges that q
child of MIR. Evans of Little Britain which had
been sick five months died on the 7th inst, and
that about Is minutes before its death it
threw up snake u inches in length. The rep
tile was dead, supposed to have been killed by
medicine given the child.
The Democrat says Elkton has large crop of
cropped heads, yes, and If il will make the r
next to the last instead of next to the first letter
in its adjective the item will still be true.
The Wing is heated by the weather, and
reads the Denton Union out of the Republican
party, and accuses the Democrat of having " a
wild and tangled exuberance of tropical fancy"
A little daughter of p. G. Scanand, of Elkton,
was recently gored by vicious COW, and severely
injured.
The Third Annual Grand Mass Temperance
Meeting, under the auspices of Mnnehaha
Lodge, l. o. q. T., will he held in Clynick's
Woods three miles north of Rising Sun, on the
Z. Il Is. Central Railroad, on Thursday, the 18th
day of August next.
Glen. little son of W. G. Hollingswortl, of
Elkton, run under a horse to get ball, the
other day, and was kicked in the head and SER
iously injured. He is now recovering.
CAROLINE COUNTY.
j. W. Bryant, of Denton, has purchased the
30 Anthony farm, in the Second District.
A colored camp will commence in Joshua
Johns woods, August 18th.
The county is having real case of "Babes i'll
the Wood" says the Union, Jake Babes having
broken Jail and fled to the woods.
Jas. X. Salisbury has been appointed post
master at fredericksburg. He had been perform
ing the duties of the Office for over a year,pre-
viously
new paper, called the Good Templar, to
| be devoted to the temperance cause, is to be
w. s., Of the order of Good Templars, will be
editor, and James L. Rowns, publisher 1t will
| be published monthly. A new paper is also
talked of at fredericksburg.
| The Union is bitterly opposed to holding the
| Congressional Convention in Baltimore, and sug
| gests Easton as central location. They NIGH
~ well come to Wilmington as go to Baltimore
and it is much more accessible to the whole
Eastern Shore.
WORCESTER COUNTY.
Francis IIarmonson, proprietor of the Atlantic
| Hotel at Berlin, has purchased the farm latel,
owned by d. +. Russell, for $1,000.
The work of grading the Worcester Count,
| Railroad from Berlin to Snow Hill is being rapid
ly pushed forward.
Geo. W. Wise. of Berlin, was drowned Will
sea bathing last Friday week, and last week Hay
| ward, son of j. Everett Smith, of the Snoy
Hill Shield, was drowned in mill pond nea
Snow Hill.
The Orphans Court met at Snow Hill on Tues
day of last week. But little business was brough
before it.
Scott's Beach receives considerable local pat
ronage as Watering place.
The Diptheria is still fatally prevalent il
| Newtown.
suit of the School Commissioners of Wicom
leo county against the School Commissioners O
Worcester county for one-third of the schot
fund possessed by the latter county at the tim
Wicomico was created out of it and Somerset, /
now pending before the Somerset Court.
The new Farmers market is great conven
ence, but it would doubtless be much better SUI
piled with country produce, and others like it b
built if street markets were abolished.
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