Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-11-12
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

among festive old maids.
"A Wicomico coputy school mistress ha
swallowed a pia. It has lodged in hei dia-
phragm. and now she writes her nurmuring
thoughts on the blackboard.
The buckwheat crop has this year prov
ed almost an entire failure, and rs result
the price has advanced nearly fifty per cent.
over the figures OF last autumn.
Tracts of land unimproEed, but high,
OF fair natural quality, and not far distant
from railroad, in Sussex county, may he
purchased at from 81 TO $40 per acre.
| Rev. L. II. jackson, of North Car DINA,
has accepted a call 10 Christ Episcopal
Church, Milford. He will enter immediate
| ly upon his duties.
Large quantities of ship timber, among
which are valuable cypress logs, are being
shipped over the Junction and B,eakwater
railroad from p oints in the lower part OF the
Peninsula.
AT Frankfora, on Sunday, the Ptesby-
terians dedicated their new church. Rev.
J. B. Adams, of cortland, Pa, preached the
assisted in the services.
Colonel Turtle, OF Georgetown, who
was nota believer in the Confederate Gov
ernment has disposed OF several thousand
| dollars worth of bonds, at the rate of Sl2 =
so per $1,000.
Last Thursday at noon, when Major
Arthur Boyle, of Dover, went to his home
fiom work he found his wife dead lying
upon the floor in the parlor closet. She had
committed suicide by stranglng.
Morgan Black Hawk. u once well-known
trotter, the property of p. J. Hart. of Milton.
| died last "Wednesday At the unparalleled age
OF 40 years. He was probably the Oldest
horse in tie country.
Mrs. Elizabeth SmuleD, widow of the
late Henry Smullen, died ut her residence
near this town on Friday morning Ia aged
So years and days. Her remains were in
TERED in the NJ. E. Church yard on Satur-
day afternoon. Princess Anue Herald,
delaware Conference, NJ. L. Church,
with - memter slip OF Is. ISL pays her pas
tors SO $40 10 presiding elders, 50 2l4.-
II. Bishops, Sl67. 25-total, S25, 1879 So. or
all average OF less than ) IS year 10 each
member.
- Probrbly there was never So much tim
Ter cut on the Peninsula in one year AS this.
Larger quantities than usual have been used
i'll building dwellings and vessels, and for
piling, telegraph poles, and RAILROAD ties &c.
The quantity has been enormous.
1t is a curious fact that while the tide
of population is pouring from Talbot County
in the Kansas City region, an equally per-
sstent tide is flowing into every nook and
corner OF old Talbot IRON the Tar North aud
West. difference of taste-that is all.
- The dead body of an infant babe sup
posed TO be about "A hours old, and wrap
ped in -four sack with brickbat, was
found in the edge OF the water nsar Tsylor's
wharf, at the foot OF Main street, Chester
town, last Friday morning.
On Tuesday OF last week, at Trinity
| church, Elklon. Rev. Mr.. Schouler, Official
ting, Rev. Samuel Davis, a colored divine,
WAS joined in matrimony to Aunt Betsey
/, Creig, a colored damsel of some seventy five
winters and summers. The groom is about
sixty.
| The backs OF the seats in the Dover
Methodist church have been proven such a
nuisa &c that an indignant band of ladies,
armed with scrapers, scruboiug brushes and
b, ckeis of water, marched 10 the church in
u body, one day last eek, a Id removed the
entire deposit.
The Salisbury Advertiser says: Captain
Thomas II. Rotten dug up on his lot in Sails
bury, on Thursday dark slaty substance
which contains large amount of yellow,
shining subsiance resembling gold The
capiain dipped the end Of the quartz into
aqua ierus, which seems not to effect the
shining property Of the substance.
The Cen,reville Record tells tale about
an oyst err which was caught in Chester river
with a perfectly formed pipe in its mouth
The oyster has always been regarded as a
registering, jolly bivalve, bat the idea of
rendering the animal II chew OF tobacco, or a
pinch OF line cut, is decidedly novel aud re-
fleshing. There's nothing that gives tone
to the Imagination like getting worried over
| the elections.
The survey OF the ChOptank river route
for the Delaware and Maryland ship canal
is being vigorously prosecuted. p. Paret,
of the Engineer Corps, left Baltimore We'd
nesday, with second party to assist il: the
survey. The entire work is managed by
Capt. Thomas Turtle, OF the United States
Engineer Corps. There are now twenty
men engaged in the survey, which, it is ex-
| pected, will be completed by December l..
-Wicomico couhty has IS elementary
schools, against 62 in Worcester and as in
Somerset, a seating capacity of 4. 500, a.
gainst 3, 2s6 in Worcester and 4, O9l in Som
erset. total annual attendance OF 4.26S,
against 4, lis in Worcester and 4,l27 in
Somerset She has 3,57l over 10 years,
who cannot read, against 5, 22l in Worces-
ter and 5 ,4l6 in Somerset, A. 235 who can
not write, against 6 049 in Worcester and
6,4s6 in Somerset.
On Tuesday night two of Georgetown's
young merchants met for social talk, AS
was their custom OF evenings. One desiring
to prepare for the fast approaching winter,
said he had tvn watches hat he ,y,,tii truda