Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-11-19
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Only thousand bushels of oysters were
shucked in Salisbury last week.
- The Greensboro canuery has closed, at
ter having put up 800, eco cans OF tomatoes
-Greensborough is complaining about
the stencil arising from the canneries.
The Milford Chronicle man has eaten
the remnant OF a second crop of strawber-
| ries.
A debating society at Salisbury is dis
cussiug the propriety OF suppressing Bob In
gersoll's writings.
Salisbury is to have a night w stch man.
The business men are to be taxed ten cents
a week each, to support the new officer.
1t is said that two hundred horses have
died in Queen Anne's county, from the fatal
malady, pink-eye. The disease is thought
! to be abating.
MIR. Charles R. Marshall, late foreman
of the Esstern Virginian, has accepted po-
sition o new paper soon 10 be started in
Port Tobacco, Charles county, Md.
Twenty men are engaged in the survey
| of the Choptank river in connection with
the Maryland and Delaware ship canal. The
| survey will prob ably be completed by Dec.
| ist
The dwelling house on The fern of
David Lang, $50, in DANES Quarter dis
| trict, between seven and eight miles FROM
Princess Anne, was entirely DESTROYED by
fire on Sunday night last. about eleven
clock.
1t is said that Maniove Carlisle, who
died in Milford few days ago, could take
no food or drink for forty-nine days pre-
| vious to his death save the medicine admin
istered by his physicians. He left a $780,
600 estate.
A three masted schooner Kate Collins
went ashore on the 30th of October, on Asa
waman Inlet beach, near Chincoteague.
She had on board cargo of can-stnff The
cause of the disast er was short crew. The
vessel lies well on the shore.
"A Milford man slowed $500 away in a
cigar box. and hid the cigar box in a
woods When he went To hunt for it he
had forgotten where lie put it, and now a
comp any is forming with the intention of
digging the woods up in search of the treas.
ure.
IfNNarried at ell>ville, on the Goth
of-october, 81, by Rev. George w. Coving
ton, Mr.. Emory Fl. 6urbage to Miss Am
NJ. Powell. Also by the same, on the 81
inst, Mr.. Daniel r. Shockley to Mrs Ame-
liza Smack, all OF Wicomico county.
The Breakwater Light man has been
hunting in Northwest Fork hundred. One
day he got ESQ he says) twcnty-three squir-
| reis, and that night seven opossums. The
next day he got fifteen squirrels, and during
the next two nights captured eigh teen opos :
sums.
A yachng party appeared at Frederick
the other day proiessedly on cunning ex-
| petition. That night the safe in the store
OF Robert M,rshL was broken open and
| $3.50 were stolen, so that the Frederick peo-
| pie now say the well-dressed spor,smen were
really burglars.
! Dir. c. T. Fisher received on Saturday
evening, letter from J. Z. Lewellen, sta.
| ting that some men livi ng on the Requoson
| river nad found a drowned man answering
to he DESCRIPTION OF L L. Collins, who was
drowned of YorL town while visiting tn.
late centennial CELEBRATION there with par
| ~ of friends iron this place. Princess
! Anne Herald.
| The Wilmington Morning News says:
Wire pulling has already commenced among
soue OF the ministers of the Wilmington ".
E. Conference with retersnce to appoint
ments for next year. 1t is getting almost as
bad as political canvass prior to the meet
ing of Legislature. If the Bishops don't
put their feet down on this log rolling very
soon the usef, lness of the Methodist i,iaer
cy will be destroyed.
We regret exceedingly the loss OF our
ticket in Talbot. Mr.. Gibson, the candi-
| date for State Senator, is one OF Maryland 5
most gifted sons, and he would have graced
her Senatorial hall Doubtless. like the rest
of the ticket, he fell victim to the malace
eng endered by fla ctional agh:ings and jeal-
ousies The Republican ticket in that
county was exceptionally good. Among
the delegates elected is VIM. Il. Cour cell,
ESQ, the editor OF the Easton Gazette, a
gentleman of high character and moral
worth. He will, no doubt, ably represent
| his couaty in the House.
Brother Malone, who publishes q good
paper over at Salisbury, No., has bought
| out FIVE or six competing journals that have
been started in bis town, consolidated their
subscription lists with his own and stored
away their material Whenever man
yearns to enter the journalistic Geld at Sal
isbury Colonel Malone supplies him with the
necessary type and presses from his reserve
store at low rates, and gives him nice
complimentary notice as a send off. Then,
as the new paper pineth away and its pub
Usher growth sad and heartsick at the re-
morseless cry for copy and the realEa-
ton of the fact that he caunot achieve rich
ness that taketh an outlay of $35 week and
bringeth him in 81 5. the colonel comes to
his rescue, buys him out aud sends him on
his way rejoicing.