Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-05-28
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

run to Rehoboth.
A Clayton turkey hen has laid forty
four eggs.
The Government will build house
on Fenwick's Island for the lightkeepsr.
The Cbestertown Transcript is
twenty years old, and like old vino. it
is good to take.
A black bass weighing twelve aud
halt pounds, has been caught in the
JhoplaDk.
The Protestant Episcopal Conven-
ton of the diocese OF Eas,on meets at
Salisbury the frat day Of June.
Salisbury thinks its tuin comes
next or Whereabouts to have Centennial.
1t will be 100 years old in 1885.
The ninety second annual session
of the Delaware State Medical Society
will be held at Dover. on the second
Tuesday in June, (l4) at II NJ.
The people Of Parsonsburg Circuit
have concluded to hold camp meeting
in Leonard's woods, about l ] miles from
Parsonsburg, commencing July Both.
Soft crabs are nov being extensive
ly shipped over the b & L. railroad,
from Mlllsboro aud Dagsboro to New
York aed Phila delphia markets.
A Dover man adopted an ingenious
method Of getting rid of an extra SER
want girl. He kissed her when his wife
was looking.
A Milford brick maker planted
beans and when shey came up bean end
FIRST, he indignantly pulled them up and
replanted them.
After nearly two months sickness
with typhoid fever, the editor OF the
Leader (though still uuwelD appears at
his post.
The boy with the pistol which be
thought was empty has been at Denton.
His name this time is Lord. aud he
shot his sister in the arm.
There was marriage in the Dor
| chester county almshouse the other day.
The bride was a woman of ill-repute
and the husband blind man.
Hos. Samuel J. Tilden. of New
YORK, few days ago. presented to the
Conference Academy the sum of $50,
through its agent, Rev. 4. L. Hub
bard.
The pea crop Of the lower peninsu-
la is quits promising. In the neighbOr-
hood of Princess Anne, and below there
toward Crisfeld they are already in
bloom:
Miss Lucas. daughter of Robert
Lucas, of Queen Anne's county, lady
just approaching womanhood, was burn
ed to death in Philadelphia a few days
since by the explosion of coal oil
lamp.
A complete investigation has shown
that Mrs Patty Ward, who now lies a,
the point OF death in Crisield, has made
no confession concerning the murder oil
Asariah Dougherty, which occurred in
that town years ago.
George T. Parvis, the Centreville
merchant, who was arrested sometime
ago for passing forged notes on the Eastou
National Bank, was tried at Centreville
court last week for forgery, convicted,
aud sentenced to five years in the peni.
Tertiary.
A Seaford woman farms cats on G
large scale. She now has twenty seven
confined 10 one room. aud has employ ed
a cross-eyed man to stand out on the
roof aud catch the boot jacks on fly
as they come along from all points Of
tie compass.
A female child was recently born
to Rev. aud Mrs. Prcttyman. and al
the suggestion of the editors of the
( Advertiser they have given to the little
stranger the pleasant aud agreeable name
of g May" We hope she may live
long aud be Blessing to her dear par
ents.
David Argo, farmer near Dover,
sixty years of age. has not worn stock
ing since 1850. He has pair of call
skin boots bought FIVE years later. ard
they are good yet. He wears them only
on Sundays and holidays. He he's no
corns.
The carpenters at The Cambridge
marine railway have mutual insurance
company against accidents. aud when a
man gets hurt they all contribute So
much per week until he is able to work
again There is one or more accidents
nearly every week.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Breakwater and Frank
ford r. r Co. will be held at the depot
of the Junction and Breakwater Rail
road Company. in Georgetown, at II
o'clock. NJ, on Wednesday, the LIST da )
Of June next, for the purpose of elect.
ing nine directors for said company for
the ensuing year.
"A young lady. recently on a visit
to family living near the Cambridge
ship yards, on retiring at night left a
pair of buttoned CATERS on the floor
The next morning she found that the
rats had eaten away all the uppers OF
the shoes. leaving only the soles. The
breakf fast bell rang 10 vain for her. and
she had no appetite until the gentlemen
left.