Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-05-19
THE PENINSULA.

onancock, Virginia, cries out for an
ice cream saloon.
Wye camp will open about August "a,
and continue 10 days.
0nancock, Va, was threatened with .
negro riot few days since.
The legal season for net fishing on the
Eastern Shore expired on Tuesday.
The season at Colchester Beach, Queen
Anne's county, opens next week.
Mosquitoes already vex the inhabitants
of Aceomac and Northampton counties.
Post Is, q. A. r., was organized at
Rising sun, Cecil county, ON Thursday
last.
The Eastern Shore Weekly Heraid, pub.
lished at Drummondtown, Va, has a
negro compositor.
Northampton Readjusters endorse
Malone. There are three candidates for
clerk of the court in the field.
Public school house No. 2, Kent Island,
caught fire on Monday morning last. But
for prompt help it would have been de
stroyed.
Peggy Savage, colored, lunatic CON
fined i'll Drummondtown Jail, was acct
dentally burned to death in her cell
week since.
Captain Andrew Woodall, it is said,
will soon build at Georgetown, on the
Sassafras, an elevator with capacity Of
500, 900 bushels.
Efforts are III aking to establish q mai
route between Pungoteague and CrOdI
dockville, Eastern Shore of Virginia. 1t
would DE a star route.
j. Barkinan, a farmer OF the Chester
town neighborhood, muurns the departure
of last week S visitor who took with him
$62 of his hosts money,
The Centrevile Observer says that
Queen Anne's county's annual wheat
product, set down in the census reports
at l23,9i6, is really more than million
bushels.
A. IL. Robinson, overseer for Colonel
Goldsborough of Talbot county, on
Wednesday week knocked down dis
obedient negro with club. Robinson
was arrested and held for court.
James A. McMullen, aged IL year, q
member of the freshman class OF 81
Johns College,was drowned at Annapolis
last week while bathing in College creek
His home was IN Berlin, Worcester
county.
George 7. Parvis, indicted for forging
the names OF Samuel W. Walls, John
COppage, Frank Wright and John H.
Chance to note for $500 drawn payable
to the president and directors OF the
Easton National Bank of Maryland, was
found guilty in the Queen Anne's county
court on Monday week.
Six thousand boxes of peaches is the
estimate for the coming season of one Oh
our most successful farmers and irull
growers, residing near ChestertOwll. ne
made the same estimate on his orchard
last year, but his crop turned out lals"
than the estimate. - CheStertOWn Ifd''
Script
We have been handed the following
warning for publication which we CIV.
verbatim; "As there has Been qulie
ComOtion in this town About A Young
Clurk that hard A horse and Buggle 10
Cow to Ebnezia Last Sunday we thihk
that he Went Down there After A Young
Lady But Sorry to Say that we think that
he did Not Meet with success Ebnezla -
A Bad Place to Cow if A Young Clurk Is
Not Posted. "-Risiny Sun journal. .."
Among the cases for trial at the present
term of court is an interesting damage
suit, removed from Caroline. 1t Is tue
case of Jacob C. Wilson VS.. the county
commissioners. Sometime last year, Mf
Wilson, resident of Milford, Del, his
mother and two children, while on tle,'
way home from visit to DR.. Alex. haru,
castles, driving two horses to two-Sea'
carriage, broke through bridge and Sus-
tanned injuries to his family. MIR. wilson,
after consulting counsel, concluded "
bring suit, laying his damages at Slu'oVv'
The case was removed to this county oh
motion of Mr.. Wilson.-EdstOn Star