The Morning herald., 1878-02-18
PENINSULAR NEWS.
Compiled from our Exchanges.

DELAWARE.
| Seaford has formed . Moral Suasion Re
form Association, sNy y
An insane department is 10 be added t
the Sussex Almshouse..
The Dover Sentinel says, seaford has ar
unruly set of boys not yet out OF their teens
. The Methodist Protestants have aban
, doned their idea Of building . church a
, FELTON,.
Rev. J. H. Caldwell is talked of as th'
successor to Mr.. Williams as principal o
Dover academy.
II A Pennsylvania gentleman has purchased
the "Muiphy farm, near Dover for twelve
thousand dollars.
I The Baptist church at Milford Is withou,
pastor. Rev. Levi Theme, the late pastor
has removed to Ohio.
The missionary contributions of the M
e. Sunday school, of Dover, for the past
year amounted to $S66.91. The church
gave $50 additional.
Another attempt made on Tuesday last to
launch the Waponsa, belonging to J. W.
Han, of Frederick, which went ashore at
Benefits Pier, some time ago, proved un-
successful.
The Rev, ]. Walker jackson 10 said to be
dying or has died, out In Dakota Territory.
Mr.. Jackson attended Conference here last
March, and was about that time appoipted
to a chaplaincy in the army.
Mr.. Charles Smith, of Smyrna, on St.
Valentines day, found a valentine on his
door steps, in the shape of discarded ear
pet bag, and, when opened, It was found to
contain an infant white child, which was
Immediately sent down to the Kent county
almshouse.
There is very general complaint among
publishers and other, down the peninsula,
about the miscarriage of letters and pack
ages OF mail matter. The News and Ad-
vertis.r says: Many Of the Mail agents have
been so long in Office that they have grown
careless. A letter mailed in Frederick on
Wednesday last, reached Milford on Satur-
day afternoon, a distance Of miles.
MARYLAND.
The Sheriff Of New Orleans 10 an Eastern
Shoreman.
700 people on Chincoteague Island have
signed the temperance pledge.
The oyster trade at Crisheld is unusually
dull, and the oyster men are very much
dissatisfied.
Baltimore business men are taking steps
to raise $3.50, 900 required to build the Mid
dletown and Elkton railroad.
Washngton's birthday anniversary is to |
be celebrated ct Belair, by a dress parade
and target shooting by the Governors guard
cavalry company.
William Dickerson,s q young man, eighteen
years OF age, fell dead, in prayer meeting,
in private house near Providence paper |
mill, near Elkton recently.
Mr.. Vandirver has intro lueed q bill be-
fore the Legislature requiring every man to
pay the State $40 per year for the privilege
of drinking whisky at bar.
1t is proposed to establish a national |
bank in Newtown, Worcester county, Nd.
Some capitalists in Baltimore are said TO |
have interests 10 the project.
Charles Little, aged II years, an inmate |
of the almshouse, recently, stabbed with . |
pocket knife, another inmate named William |
Reedy, aged about 81 years. The knife en-. |
tered the left side in the region of the heart.
Reedy lies in q critical condition. Little |
was consigned to the House of Refuge.
The oyster men of Talbot, are much in
censed against the free dredgers from Phil |
adelphia and elsewhere, who drag their
hooks through river and bay.
The tongsmea regret the absence of the
State oyster police force, and several of the
rilghman's Island tongsmen, exasperated
1t the dredgers for robbing them of their
livelihood, have formed themselves in club
and intend to give the dredgers warm re-
ception when found tearing their oyster
bars to pieces.
Ella, bright and intelligent little. .dsugh-
;er of Mr.. Henry Campbell, of Bishopville,
aged Z years met with fearful accident on
Tuesday last, which resulted 10 her death.
The little girl in company with two or three
'ther children, was burning grass in lot
adjoining her fathers house, when her
clothing took fire. Upon discovering the
Ire she ran to a ditch and jumped into It,
Ind there her mother found her wsllowing
n the mud, the water having dried out of
t. The body of the poor little child was
burned almost to crisp, and in fact, around