Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-10-23
Peninsula P1ckings.
DELAWARE,

The Levy Court Of Kent County will be
in session on Tuesday the Oath inst
Captain John A. Gum has been appointed
keeper of Fenwicks Island Light House.
The crop of cloverseed saved in Kent
county this fall is an unusually heavy one.
Fl. Getz and family, who have been resi-
on Monday to Mobile, Alabama, their for
mer home.
Milford is getting in her coal at $4.70 for
stove, 1920 for nut. This is the loN est it
has been since the war. 1t is purchased at
Richmond, above Philadelphia.
Adams Mahood has been appointed JUS
tice of the Peace at Clayton, in place Of J.
Douglass Coverdale, now in Missouri, and
A. S. Clifton has been sppointed Constable
in place OF r. B. Garman, resigned.
The barn Of Fl. L. Page, near Milford,
was burned on Thursday evening last, with
all its contents, including 200 bushels Of
corn, one Thousand bundles of fodder,
threshing machine and other farm imple-
ments. Loss estimated at 81, 900, insurance
$40O.
The farmers Of Kent county say that the
crop of white or Irish potatoes is failure.
The vines, lin some instances, failed to come
up, and in other cases, where they have
come up, there are no potatoes on them.
The droughtof the early summer is thought
to be the cause Of the failure.
The Seaford Citizen denies a report that
Kendall Records, the Democratic candidate
for the Legislature from Baltimore Hun
dred, cannot read and write. 1t says in it's
denial that MIR. Records is q man Of So
briefly, morality and intelligence, but says
nothing about the read and write question.
lEAsTERN SHORE.
The fall meeting of the Northern Convo-
cation Of the Diocese of Easton was held in
Trinity Church, Elkton, last Tuesday and
Wednesday.
A Mr.. Nusbaum of Easton was severely
injured last Tuesday by his horse suddenly
starting, and throwing him violently against
the side Of the wagon.
Jacob Davis, alias Jake Babes, who made
his escape from Easton jail recently is
skullxing about Denton and has been seen
by parties who know him.
At the "Chapel Grange" tournament near
Easton, on Wednesday last, w. 7. Dukes
took the first prize, and crowned his wife
Queen Of Love and Beauty.
During one Of the races on Friday last
Mr.. Richard Smelling was accidentally run
over by the trotting horse, "Colmar," and
very seriously injured. he is now lying in
q critical condition.
A gentleman named Lloyd, near Wood
land Station, had a thumb blown off and
some shot put in his face by his gun going
off while leaning upon it. He thinks his
| dog struck the hammer.
| (rhe County Conmissioners or Somerset
have offered a reward OF 5000 for the arrest
OF Benjamin Riggin, who recently shot, iii
is feared fatally,) James Ford, in that coun
ty, because he forbade his attention to hil
daughter.
Lafayette Dickinson, young man a
Newtown, while fooling with loaded CUR
one evening last week, came very neai
shooting young lady by the name Of Mis-
Mary Davis, the same place. The ball strik
ing pane of glass alone saved her.
The cranberry farms in the vicinity o
Salisbury will yield quite handsome RETURN
this season. Mr.. VIM. S. Parsons has Sc
cured about thirty bushels from the small
lot he has in cultivation, ard Messrs. Gra
ham & Co. will get near two hundred bush
els from their grounds. These ''cranberry
bogs" are within the corporate limits of Sal
isbury.