The Morning herald., 1876-05-22
srATE AND PLNENSU4A.

,,., or DUR Country Eee7anges.
E.-Gov., Ponder was in Milton on inurS'
day last o,, nat
rOuized. .. :. .o ho hold m
Union camp meeting 10 10 Do neio Oh
chiucoteague Island in July.
Another large hotel will soon be erected
at Rehoboth City.
p,osnects are encouraging for large
erop Of strawberries in Kent county.
viddetown Is making an effort to organ
i've base ball club.
rbo Red Men of Laurel had pic mic and
nound party in the early part OF the month.
Tho GEORGETOWN Journal states that straw
,o'res in tn at section look promising.
The Lew Court of Kent county, will be
in session on Tuesday, June 9th.
The Citizens Cornet Band, of Newark,
have received their new uniforms.
Hind man and wife, both professional
,onoors were arrested in Newark on Tues
day, for fighting.
pe1dlers disguised as sailors, selling what
orc stated to be smuggled goods are infest-
np different portions of the State.
Messrs. Wm. R. and G. P. Cochran have
taken out letters of administration on the
estate of John Cochran, deceased.
The Diamond State Band will go to Phila-
appbia with the Rife Legion of Whining
ton on the 4th of July.
s.W.T. Milburn, of South Murderkill
hundred, has been appointed Inspector OF
Weights and Measures for Kent county.
The heaviest storm of the season passed
over Middletown on Monday. Trees and
chimncys suffered.
Curtis Burton has been appointed freight
and ticket agent at MillsbOrough, vice John
Il. Burton, removed.
There is said to be but little hope for the
recovery of DR.. Davidson, of the Milford
Ners.
Lobster fishing has commenced at the
Breakwater, and King crabs have appeared
int he bay.
Mr. John r. Walter is building fine
dwelling and restaurant on Chineoteague
Island.
At a meeting of the local Trustees of the
Wilmington Conference Academy, on Sat
urday afternoon last, it was determined 10
rebuild the academy at once.
The fourth annual excursion of the Re-
hoboth Beach Camp Meeting Association
from Dover, to Rehoboth Beach, will take
place on Thursday next.
RI. Rev Alfred Lee, D. D., Bishop of the
Diocese of Delaware, administered the rite
of confirmation to 2G persons in st. Luke'S
7. Z. Church, Seaford, on Sunday week.
Yandas, one night recently, cut the bark
on each Of row of young shade trees
which G. G. Donaho had planted near his
residence in Nanticoke City, in Sussex.
A dense fog which hung over the Break
water on Friday morning caused the fog
bell and horn to be sounded during it's pre-
yaence.
The strawberry crate and basket business
is quite trade in Wicomico county, Md.
About thirty Thousand crates and half
million baskets are the annual product.
The prospect for an abundant yield of
grain and grass around Cambride, Nd, was
never better at this season of the year than
now.
On Monday last there were four men took
dinner together at the Cambridge HOTEL
whose aggregate weirht was one thousand
a.!G thirty-six pounds.
IA Elftcn man had to cut through two
SoeIls TO get the pith of the egg at breaktas'.
tie other morning. A lesser egg had formed
inside of the larger.
In consequence Of the failure of the oats
tc come up thick enough in the neighbor-
i.- Of Dover, several farmers have plowed
W their fields and planted corn.
On Tuesday evening last Mr.. George D.
Armstrong, a student of the Conference
Academy at Dover, fell, receiving wound
upon the leg which is painful but not Sc
rl0ls.
There is said to be living at Lewisvillc, a
woinan who is over sevepty-hve years of age
ana yet she has never been five miles from
ner native town, never saw train OF cars,
ano ion't know anything abou. patent bus
Ties, false hair, or pin money. Neither is
she going to the Centennial.
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Philadelphia Items.
Robert Boyle, aged 81, and residing at
4l9 Carpenter street, was shot in the mouth,
hand and breast by party named John
Kelley, at Fourth and Trout streets, during
a fight Saturday night. Patrolman Gold.
slime, Of the Second District, attempted to