The Cecil Whig., 1871-08-19
Peninsular and State Items.

Peninsular and State Items.
DELAWARE.
The old-side Methodists are building
q neat frame church at Marydel.
The telegraph wires along the p. W. 4
b. Railroad are being changed to the East
side of the track.
1t is estimated that five thousand per-
sons attended the Red Lion camp-meeting
last Sabbath.
Enos II. Jefferson, of Wilmington, had
his pocket picked at the depot, in that city,
on Saturday evening. 1t contained about
5000. There is no clue'to the perpetrators
of this bold robbery.
Whilst the evening train on the Md. d
Del. Railroad was in motion, on Saturday,
a short distance below Kenton, some vicious
scamp threw IA brick with great violence
against the side of the car, striking very
near the head of Il lady passenger.
Wilmington is building $150,000 Ma
sonic Temple, a $53G, 600 hotel new rail
road which will tap the rich counties of
Southern Pennsylvania, new $35, 600 pub
lie school house, $4,000 Presbyterian
church, and $4,000 "Home for Aged
Women"
A new Campbell book and job press is
being put in the Commercial office.
The Brandywine Summit camp meeting
commenced on Tuesday
Thirty car loads of peaches were shipped
from Middletown last Wednesday-the
largest shipment ever made from that sta
ton, or any other on the Delaware Railroad.
= The peach pickers have been very trou-
blesome at Middletown.
The new NJ. E. Church at Townsend will
be dedicated next Sunday.
Delaware City proposes to build a new
lookup to accommodate law w-breakers, the
present one being inadequate to this pur-
pose.
The fruit preserving establishment at
Milford, (the Alden process employs from
so to so hands, working day and night,
consuming 800 bushels or 500 baskets of
peaches every twenty-four hours.
Rev. James l.. Vallandigham, Presbyte-
rian minister at Newark. is preparing a
biography of his brother, the late Hon. c.
L. Fallandigham.
1t is rumored that Frank r. Pascault has
sold his farm in SasSafras Neck, containing
2S0 acres, to Mr.. Cochran, of Delaware,
for $4,000.
One of the paupers at the Kent county
Aims House, and known as Col. McKen
ney, died last week, in the Goth year of his
age. II man of education and intelligence,
he has been pauper more than twenty
years, only because he wou Id not work.
Captain Taylor's schooner the Gee.
Washington, has been gotten off the bar on
which she grounded, and towcd to Balti-
more. The 2, 100 bushels of grain in her
at the time only brought 500.
The Republicans of Kent met in con-
vention on Monday of last week, and NOM
mated William Hamilton for Sheriff; after
which they adjourned till the 12th of Sep
tember, when steps for the formation of
the remainder Of the ticket will be taken.
QUEEN ANNEs.
George McLaughlin, residing near Cen
treville, died suddenly ON Sunday night
last. On going to bed he complained of
having slight pain in his side and the
next morning was found dead in his bed.
Detective Carroll, of Baltimore, on Sat
urday last, arrested Solomon Holmes, cold,
who has been barber in Centreville for
four or five years past, charged with rob-
bing Augustus Labarr, colored hotel
keeper of Baltimore, of the sum of S25.
The Centrevill Academy is now undergo
ing repairs. The floors are to be lowered,
making the ceilings higher, and the school
rooms refurnished, repainted, and other
wise improved for the comfort of the stu
dents.
On Tuesday evening of last week, a Mrs.
Carter, residing i'll Centreville, accidentally
overturned a coal Oil lamp into her lap,
but had presence of mind sufficient to
smother the flame with her dress, thus pre-
We nting but slight damage to her person,
caused by the flame putting up into her
face.
The first train for freight and passengers
left Centreville the 18th inst, and hereafter
will run regularly between that town and
Townsend.
TALBOT.
Sixty-seven car loads of freight passed
over the Md. & Del. Railroad during July.
A milestone in Navy point grist mill
exploded recently, injuring Mr.. Sutliff
about the head.
James N. Goldsborough, of Royal Oak,
was found dead in his bed on Tuesday
morning of last week, having died during
the night from apoplexy, it is supposed.
A few, nights ago, some of the St. Mi
chaels oystermen who were late getting
home, observed brilliant bow in the cas-
tern sky. 1t had all the tints of the most
beautiful rainbow. This is the second one
that has been observed this summer.
wIcoMfCo.
An old colored man in Wicomico with a
horse thirty years of age, is going to raise
this year 400 bushels of corn. Some say
1 200 bushels.
Corn is looking well, and the prospect is
good for an average crop.
One day last week, Charles Smith, a col
ored sailor fell from the mast of vessel to
the deck, distance of over fifty feet. No
bones were broken and Charles is now in a
fair way of recovery. '-...tss
Richard Hawkins, an employee in the
steam saw mill of Mrs. M. E. Williams,
got one of his feet caught in the betting,
when it was brought i'll contact with cir
cular saw which he was running, on Tues
day of last week, by which he had three
toes sawed off and the foot otherwise ter
ribly injured. Es".-.
The Adoertiser says there is man living
in that county whose nasal organ is so long
that he can make it repose on his chin.
The old brick Protestant Episcopal
Church at Spring Hill, has stood the storms
of 13S years. 1t was built by the early
English settlers on this Peninsula in 1888
1t is thought to be one of the oldest church
edifices in Maryland. The venerable church
is yet in good repair, and it may be still a
temple of worship one hundred years hence.
WORCESTER.
On Saturday night last an attempt was
made to enter the house of Samuel II. Jar
man, of Snow Hill, but the family fortu-
nately were not asleep. The rogue got up
on the balcony running on the southwark
end Of the house, and evidently intended
to open the windows on the second floor
On discovery he jumped off and fled Sew
eral attempts have been recently made to
break into houses in Snow Hill.
Mr.. Fabier, peach agent from Philadel-
phia, while on visit to the orchard of a
friend, near Snow Hill, thougltlessly threw
his coat, containing some $500, across
limb. While hanging there the money,
with lot of accounts, was removed, and
all efforts to recover them have been un-
successful.
The Snow Hill Messenger says that John
Sturgis has one of those little curiosities
at his house called singing mice. The lit
tie fellow comes out and sings quite tune.
Sometimes he slips into the post office,