Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-07-23
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

! IdIicu III
Sweets will soon take their place.
- The Bank of Middletown and the
BaUk Odessa have each declared a
dividend of four per cent.
An Ekton man set a steel-lrap for
rats one night this week and in ibe
morning found be had secured one of
the finest hens in his flock.
-Captain r H. Miles, of Eastville,
Va. Was attacked by bull few DAYS
ago. and ouly escaped by defending him
self with a pocketknife.
The children cf Drlmsr, like all
others, will eat unripe fruit the couse-
que nee is that six Lave been buried
recently.
Although Georgetowners saved
m ore ice last Winter than ever before,
the crop is already getting short aud
one dealer has ceased TO sell it.
Kent Island peaches are said to be
large. healthy and of excellent quality.
The yield will measure up to two-thirds
OF crop.
Rev A G. Harley. Of CentreviIle,
was last week elected President of the
State Teachers Association fol- the en-
suing year.
"A demented tramp stole a horse
from the field of Joseph Veazey. near
Coolspring. He was traced to Mills
boro' aud captured.
The Delaware State Agricultural
Society's snnual fair will be held 10
Fairview park. Dover, commencing Sep
TENDER 26, aud closing October l.
Governor Ponder is willing to open
his 3 600 or 1000 acres of land to the
occupation of thrifty families in small
alternate farms at low figures.
Benjamin n. Harrington, Esq ,
recently a member of the Easton bar.
died at his fathers residence near To-
baccostick, Dorchester, on Wednesday
morning.
Judge James McCauley, of The
Eiktou Orphans Court. is rs years of
age. He is bale and hearty and is as
active ia the handling of an axe as men
OF less years.
-Ou Friday night of last week VIM,
TooDey who lived near G georgetown.
ran away with two horses belonging to
e f See. He probably took them to
Mary !and.-Inquirer.
A young man of Seaford, after
playing the agreeable for an hour to
pretty girl at public entertainment the
other night, was disgasted to learn that
she was mulatto.
--Fcur thousand dollars is the modest
sum demanded of the b. & o. railroad,
by Cecil farmer for the privilege OF
crossing his farm with the line Of their
new tracks.
The Cris6eld Leader aud the Sails
bury Advertiser have gotten into
wrangle ever the assertion made by the
Leader that "private citizeus of Sails
barry recently put out fire while the
fire company were putting on their
rig"
A colored preacher at Smyrna
threatened to lock the church aud re-
turn home if his congregation we're not
on hand at 5 o'clock promptly. 1t work
ed we'll. the people came on time aud
the service was concluded at a respecta-
BILE hour.
Among all the lands under the sun
this Peninsula OF ours is one Of the most
favored. Its advantages are many. Its
seasons of harvest are several weeks
ahead of other sections OF the same lati-
tude. With easy cultivation it's crops
are the finest and most plentiful. Its
vegetables are the largest. rs orchards
rarely fail, Its facilities for transporta
ton are as plentiful as its products are
good. Its counties are crossed and re-
crossed with streams of varied depth
aud volume and the farmer ships his
grain from the granary's very threshold
In addition to its abunauce Of wild fowl,
its forests of piOe and cypress, aud It's
thousands of acres OF arabic. but yet un-
cultivated land, there is its sea coast.
with its fat and juicy oyster aud the
toothsome crab. II is an inexbaustible
field which the Pennsylvania railroad
may open and turn the products this
way, if it will Baltimore grows rich
on the Eastern Shore trade; by right it
belongs to Wilmington. And it will
be profitable both to the Pennsylvania
railroad aud to this city. to turn the
trade this way Wilmington News.
On Saturday last William N
Watts. residing near Vandyke's station.
Appoquir mink hundred, met with q
terrible accident. He was raking his
wheat field with an iron tooth wheel rake
having thereto gentle but spirited
horse four years old. The flies fretied
the animal considerably, which iu switch
ing at them jerked the reins from bis
hands. 10 leaning forward to gather
them up again he lost bis balance and
fell at the horses heels in front of the
rake, which frightened the animal and
caused it to run. He was dragged or
revolvcd some distance. aud when the
rake passed over him bis foot, from be-
log entangled in the machinery, was
dislocated and two of the leaders cut aud
| his leo badIv lacerated. He was alone