Democratic messenger., 1881-04-09
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
Condensed PROM OUR EXCHANGES.


Salisbury is rejoicing over spring chick
ems
--Dover's new hotel IS to be finished by
S ptembec lat.
The bay watering place known as kits
Hammock Is being fitted up for the coming
season.
MIR. W. A. Scribner, the Milford ship
builder, was stricken with ap0plexy a few
days ago and lies in q critical condi lion.
-Georgetown, Del. has the mumps, and
has 'em bad, too. There We're City cases re-
ported there the other day.
The name of the village of Cannon's
Ferry, on the Nanticoke in Western Sussex,
has been changed to Woodland"
--Nr. Martin, an Englishman, has pur-
chased lot in Elkton, and will erect there
ON the finest house in the town.
--DIED.-O Sunday last. about noon, Mr.
Thomas w Dryden, OF rheumatic nguc and
fever. He resided near Westover ahd was
about thirty 1--we ears of age.
George Ross, an idiotic white boy, SUBJ
ject to epileptic fits, who has been in the
almshouse OF Talbot county for the past ten
years. was burned 10 death recently.
Tyson, the murderer of his baGe, was
acquitted at Elkton last week. As his wife
could not testify against him there was no
evidence to prove the crime.
James r. Black, well known as a for
mer resident OF Centreville, Queen Anue'S
county, Nd, died at the Brevoort House,
New York, S turday night, in the 36th year
OF his age.
--Messrs. Polk Thomas and B. Hainebach
went down 10 keen-'s Ditch on rat
ting" expedition one day last week, aud
brought home over 2, 200 of the highly scent
ed though unsavory animals known AS
musk krats.-Chronicle.
The Democratic executive committee of
Kent county has abandoned the Crawford
county plan of nominations and returned to
the former plan of nominating candid ites
by what is known MS the district system.
The primaries will be held August l3.
The Denton Democrat says: One day
last week n laborer at Mr.. Mobiles saw mil
WAS accidentally thrown against the saw,
hi n was in rapid motion, and it took his
knee cap off aud part OF the boue in an
instant
There are now Eve prisoners in SCmer-
set county Jail TO be disposed oi 1T the a pril
term OF court which commences next MJn-
day. They are all coiored, and all belong
TO the masculine gender, except one--Lea Ii
Smith--who Is demeuttd aud has beeu
placed there 10 prevent her from annoying
the public.
This Is the way the Elk:on Wing ex-
plains it: '.rhe real reason why people
outside OF Cecil couuty think Elktou i, dead
and has no trade is, because the merchants
don't advertise. People not Seeing the
names OF Elkton business men in the count,
papers, naturally conclude there is little
trade here to advertise"
-Parson Morris, col d., of fredericksburg,
was loaded on a hand Car on recent Sun
day 10 be taken 10 "a distant point to preach.
The parson was aiding i'll the locomotion oil
the primitive train when the pole with
which he was pushing hooked into the
wheels aud off went the parson. Tie Car
ran over lis leg mutlilating 1t badly. The
preaching was postponed.
The arttsian we'll al Oxford, Talbot
county, having struck a stratum ot rock 26J
ieet below The surface. dynamite was used
on Friday last with perfect sue .ess in PEI foe
ating the rock. The explosion WAS Effected
by electricity, and the wI;.r sp9uted VI ten
rect high. The work is being done by the
Leach Brothers tor the Chesapeake & D,la-
ware HALLWAY Era.
aiN4S 'HS'uh 'uC i'Sh btai
which ran wild in Delaware, was killed in
Sussex county III 1850. The last deer was
killed in the same county in 1853 tie does
not know the exact date OF the death OF the
last wolf. Wolves roamed in such large
numbers through the State and created such
r.vages that The county courts ordetea that
trap. be procured Tor their determination -
Wilmington Republican.
A successful peach grower living near
Mi!dletowm, Del, believes that the crop will
be generally good, though considerable dam
age has been done in certain sections lie
says that The TACT that all The buds have
black spots in Them does not prove by any
means that they are dead, or even material
ly injured. In 1873, he adds, when the
largest crop on record was marketed the
buds had much the same appearance which
they present to-day.
According to ,he Georgetown Inquirer,
the ola Dover ring has com pleted slate
embracing all the Federal Offices in the
State ard some out:ide." The Inquirer
adds: Major Lcfland is marked dow II to
succeed Collector Thompson at Wimin Z ton,
while Watson is 10 have Consulship,
Editor Cannon the Mar shalship and Squire
Burton, oil course, something or other. DR..
Houston, of l.ewes, has been generously
slated tor the Internal Revenue Collector
ship OF the district"