The Morning herald., 1877-12-17
PENINSULAR NEWS.

| PENINSULAR NEWS.
Compiled from our Exchaages.)
T DELAWARE.
$1,000 gallons of oysters are shucked
daily at 6esford. ...,.....
Cunning for ducks, geese and brant is OK
cellent at Rehoboth.
A new M. E. Church costing about
$4,000, is to be erected at Milton, Del.
The tides at Lewes were lower on Friday
than they have been for twenty years.
The bridge at Seaford owned by DR.. Hugh
Martin, is said not to pay 50 well as it did
in former years. ...-... ....
Sheriff Blackiston, of Kent county, has
appointed Clinton Williamson, as deputy in
place Of Mr.. Myers, resigned.
DR.. j. H. Wilson, formerly of Philadel-
phia, has located in Dover for the practice
Of his profession. ..
By series of dramatic entertainments
the ladies and gentlemen of Frederick have
realized $160, with which they will purchase
uniforms for the brass band OF that town.
Mr.. Layton, overseer of the Kent County
Almshouse, slaughtered last week, the hogs
belonging to that institution. They produc-
ed altogether 12.Oso pounds.
Rev. John Hough, presiding Elder Of
Dover District, has purchased the property
in Denton belonging to the estate of the late
Rev. DR.. T. J. Quigley, for 81 200.
The Peninsular News says: When Dover
man gets tired of his location he puts his
house on wheels and moves. This is sensis
BILE plan that should be adopted by all we'll
informed movers-no trouble with fitting
your old stove pipe. rsw '-a
Owing to the warm and sprlng.like
weather that has prevailed for some time
past, the wheat of some of the Peninsula
farmers has grown SO large that they are
pasturlng their stock upon it.
MAINLAND.
Cashville is IN Accomac.
Maryland has spent this year for public
schools, 81 ,S23,0
Local Option appears to be great success
on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland.
A new oyster packing house is under way
Of Cambridge-makIng four in that town.
Rev. pr. W4., Fulton, rector OF Spring
Hill parish, Salisbury, died on the 9th inst.
Manufactures are being established all
over the Pepinspla.
The Talbot county grand jury refused to
recommend the issuance of any licenses 70
sell liquor in that county.
John E. Wilson. Esq, of Elktop, has been
appointed Captain of the Cecil Company Of
the 1st Maryland Regiment.
Robbers and horse thieves are prevailing
in st. Mary's county.
There was a very apparent GOODNESS at
Oakland last Saturday, the thermometer
Indicating eight degrees below zero.
Mr.. VIM. 8. Moore, sheriff of Wicomico
county, has received an appointment to
position In the lower house of Congress,
with an annual salary Of 81 900.
A convention has been called ia Maryland
to meet in Baltimore on December Goth, to
consider the tramp nuisance.
The street lamps are not lighted down at
St. Michaels and the Comet seriously sug.
gests that lanterns be hung against the
lamp posts to keep the people from running
into them on dark nights.
The Delaware and Maryland Railroad,
running from Oxford, , in Maryland, to Clay.
ton, in Delaware, . distance Of afty-aYe
miles, will be sold at public sale on Thurs
day next, the Goth inst, in Eastop.
A fair and festival is to be held at Chesa.
peake City, this week. by the Catholic con.
gregation Of that place. Proceeds to be
applied to the purchase Of an organ for their
church.
Mr.. Francis Bittner, resident of Port
Deposit, leaves for Prussia on Thursday
next, on the steamer Leipsic, from Balti.
more, to get handsome fortune left him by
his mother, who is lately deceased. Mr..
Bittner takes with him his son.
Forty hours devotion commenced in st.
Taeresa's 3 Church, Port Deposit, yesterday.
Bishop Becker, of Wilmington, Del, with
several clergymen OF ciated.
The "Ch esapeake " proposes that Chesa-
peake City hold baby shsw and they then
can also rcjoiee ......