The Morning herald., 1875-11-29
DOWN THE PENINSULA.

NOTES FROM sEAFoRD AND THE EASTERN
SHORE PRESS.
A successful revival meeting Is in pro-
sress at the NJ. E. Church, Seaford.
Over three thousand gallons Of oysters
were shipped from our depot on Mondoy.
W. A. Howard has just received the lar
gest stock Of jewelry ever seen on the lower
Peninsula. r..r.
The annual meeting of the State Grange
will be held at Milford on Tuesday, Decem-
ber 14th, 1865. nH
The Good Templars of Milford will hold
a festival in their lodge room on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings, Dec. 2sth aid
Goth.
The regular meeting night of the Central
Delaware Fruit Growers Association Is
Wednesday next, December l. All the
members should make an extra effort to be
present, as the last meeting was omitted on
account of bad weather.
On Tuesday, in Cambridge Marylan boy
a ward of William Faucet, ESQ.,, while
handling a pistol, accidentally shot himself
near the navel and came out his back.
Two courageous watchmen are they that
guard certain store in Seaford. One is
armed with an old pistol, but forgot to use
1t On Monday night. The other remained
up all night, fearing, he said, the robbers
might put chloroform through the key
hole.
The body of young lady who died in
Cambridge two years AGO, was recently ex-
humed for the purpose Of removal to anoth-
er cemetery, and on opening the coffin it
was found that the hair had grown to an
enormous length, though when the body
was first inferred it was quite short.
Last evening the friends of DR.. Prettyman
and his excellent ard highly esteemed lady
came in upon them in large numbers and
fairly overwhelmed them with congratula-
tions and numerous and valuable presents
it being the twenty fifth anniversary of their
married life. The entertainment was bril-
j.. liant and apparently highly appreciated by
all present. t.-Myord Neavs.
There is a man down the Nanticoke river
who is always idle, yet too busy to make
himself boot-jack, and who goes every
night from the house to the barn, removes
the grindstone from its socket, pulls off his |
boots by placing them in the socket, re-
places the stone, and walks back to the
house in his stocking feet. This he has
done for three or four years.
Mrs. Shadrach Raughley died suddenly |
on Sunday morning of heart disease, at her
residence, Snow Hill, aged about seventy
three years. Her maiden name was Turner,
and her husband was Samuel Graham.
Widowed young she became tho wife of
Shadrach Raughley, Esq, with whom she
lived for about forty years and raised sew
eral children. Mrs. DR.. Burdick, we believe,
is now the only one Of these living. She
was lady of excellent character and high
ly respected by all her acquaintance. She
had been member of the NJ. E. Church foI
many years, and died in the full hope of
blissful Immortality.
The Cambridge Neacs has prospected oys-
tiers in Great and Little Choptank rivers,
and expresses the opinion of number of
persons engaged in that bivalve business,
that the entire beds of those rivers would
be found continuous oyster couch if they
were legally opened to scoopers and dredg-
ers. 1t appears that oysters die in their
little beds unless they are frequently raked
and more room thereby made for their fair |
proportions. Under the present oyster navy
law, however, there is limit to such process,
and it is found that this mute glory of
Maryland waters is languisning in streams
where it would otherwise be of luxuriant |
proportions.