The Morning herald., 1878-03-25

PENINsULAR NEWS.
Compiled from our Exchanges.)
| DELAwA1E. S.a.s.e
To-day Is moving day down the State.
Travel on the Delaware road il on tho
increase.
The Fair Ground at. Dover are being push
ed fast to completion. -.
A Sunday School Convention will be held
at Rehoboth during the summer.
George Gale, of Middletown, has removed
with his family to San Francisco.
The Millard Club, Of this city, Will give
a concert at Dover, on Wednesday next.
Messrs. W. M. Rsss & Co., of Seaford,
will shortly ship sixty barrels Of their
phosphate to Florida.
The peach buds In some parts Of the
Peninsula have been injured by frost, In
other parts the buds are in full bloom. #
The Junior B. B. c., of Smyrna, have
reorganized, and will play any club In the
State whose players are under Is years Of
age, for the championship. ,. ..s
On Thursday morning last. about 4
O'Clock, the country store-house Of Rey-
nolds & Bro, in Prime Hook Neck, with all
its contents, was destroyed by fire. The
loss was 81 300, which is partly covered by
insurance.
| The Hon. James Williams, our very
worthy and excellent member of Congress,
is making an effort to get an appropriation
made to pay the expense OF q survey of the
| Mispillion river, to see what is necessary to
be done to improve the navigation, and the
cost required TO 10 1t. The river is In q
terrible condition. A petition asking for
the appropriation and that Congress shall
authorize the survey, is new being signed,
and will be sent on in day or two.
MARYLAND. s,..r
The limits Of Cris6eld are to be extended.
Snow Hill again needs N. J. Less sers
| vices. .4as3 gs.....
The " Dashaway Club " has 9o,oOo mem.
bers in Maryland. .t. a..g -a
Caroline County can no longer rsjoics at
their empty Jail. 1t 10 filling up.
The Maryland Editors Association meets
| at Annapolis, on Wednesday next.
Capt. J. Dawson, who runs o freight
barge on the Elk river, lays In very criti-
cal condition from ruptured blood vessel.
A petition signed By 1000 well-known
citizens of Calvert county, has been sent to
the Legislature asking for the repeal Of the
Local Option law. ...
The colored people of Centreville are
divided on the question whether their
churches should be governed by conferences
| of their own color or by whites. 1-aG .
Mr.. Jos. johnson, editor of the Cam
bridge News, and member of the Legisla-
ture from Dorchester county, 10 to be marA
ried to young lady Of Annapolis.
Col. Bowen, of the " Dashawsy Tenn
perapce Club,"at q meeting in Perryville
recently, he obtained ffty-four signers to
| the pledge out of an audience of ffty-nine
people.
In Cecil county, under the contract sys-
| tenn 627A miles of public road are worked
| for $12,297 so. In Cecil the roads are
| sold at public sale to the lowest bidders, by
l election districts.
The dredging schooners Elizabeth Anne,
/ of Baltimore, and an unknown enc from
Philadelphia, collided and sunk in the
| Chesapeake Bay, off Sharp's Island. The
| crews were saved.
At Ingleside, Queen Anne's County, re-
Gently a young man named Day, aged 18
| years, was stabbed in the abdomen, by q
Young man named jackson. The wound
was several inches in length, and SO deep as
to canse the iptestines to prOtrude .Dav ia
recovering. Jackson has fed. The set
was caused by an old feud.
Sheriff Griffin, of Easton, Talbot county,
was al atracted by an unusual sound coming
from one of the rooms Of the jail on Tues
iay night about dark, when on entering he
found the bolts had been taken cut Of one
of the white oak boards that line tho cell
and q number of bricks removed from the
wall. Seven prisoners were confined in the
room and it was only the timely discovery
shat prevented general jail delivery. It
is supposed that Smith, confined for horse
stealing, was the ringlsader in the matter.
The Cambridge Chronicle says Cams
bridge and surrounding neighborhood WAS
visited on Wednesday by one of the severest
hail storms that was ever known in these
parts. The storm was preceded by . very
heavy thunder cloud, and after q light
shower of rain, hail stones commenced to
fall the size of large marbles, and continued
for at least twenty minutes, denolishing
window panes and tearing the buds from
the trees along the streets which were
nearly 10 bloom. We learn that 1t did con-
siderable damage to the fruit trees, in some
nlares killing at least eight-tenths Of the
buds.