Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-07-02
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Greensboro will celebrate the
Fourth.
-Seaford lie TO have a new marine
railway.
Smyrna wants to celebrate on the
Fourth.
About all the wheat in Caroline
county is now Ous,
"A Sussex county fss mer has sold bic
present years wheat crop fOr 81 per hush
ell.
The season at RehOboth opened last
week, and the outlook for hotel keepers
is said to be very Aattsriug.
MIR. WIN. McKenuey. OF Centre.
vile, expects 10 has vest this yesr 40 GOO
bushels Of wheat.
Horace Reed, colored. qualified as
magistrate for the Eastvills district on
Monday last.
-Smyrns is troubled With Saturday
night crowds which get drunk. howl aud
swear.
Paid puts are legitimate means Of
advertising. The road to wealth 10 Q
steep one and nobody ever got to the
top without pufiDg.-Del. Ledger.
Hon. Thomas james Heating, who
vas last week renominated for comptrol-
Ter. is q native Of Delaware, having been
born in Smyrna in 1929.
Bishop Lay. with bis family. has
gone to New Hampshire to spend the
heated term. His address during the
summer will be Lancaster, N. II.
One day last week there were three
car loads of spring chickens shipped
from lower Sussex and Worcester couo-
ties to New York.
"A live and healthy three-legged
colt is the latest sensation 10 Queen
Aune's county. Md. A horn protrudes
from the place where one OF the front
legs ought to be.
james Gafford. Of Templevillc. is
cabvassing his district for nomination
as county commissioner. He carries q
fiddle With him and plays wherever be
goes.
Mr.. Harry G.. Couucell, of the
Easion Gazette, wac married to Miss G.
Irvine Rose, of Baltimore, ou Tuesday.
June 81, at the residence of she brides
mother.
-Supt. Thomas Groome received, q
few days ago, patent velocipede hand
car. 1t is novel as we'll as useful 10.
vention, and can be run With ease and
pleasure at the rate OF IL miles per hour.
Tho State Convention. that lately
met 10 Baltimore. named DR.. Vim. II
Gale. Captain John T. Miles and Dr..
Samuel II. Robertson the democratic
central committee for Somerset County.
When che body of Mrs. John X.
Bruff, buried nine years, near Chester.
town. Kent county, was disi0terred 0
few days since, it Was found completely
petri6ed, weighing 600 pounds. The
head alone bad disappeared.
MIR. Vaughn. Of Dover, q csrpen-
Ter, while shlDgl,Dg the roof of house,
ripped and fell headlong to the ground,
a distance Of twenty feet, striking the
scaffOldiog with bis stomach 10 bis de-
scent.
Rev. DR.. j. o. Barton has com.
pleted the ecclesiastical matters. with
which be was charged in the north, aud
reached home on last Friday. He filed
bis pulpit on Suoday morning and even.
ing.
The handsome young women of
Milton have lent themselves to meIceu
airy scheme to nseigle the unsuspectiug
into twenty. Eve cent lunch 10 Lavina
grove on the glorious Fourth. Two
ministers and doctor are pushing the
thing through.
A two year old child 10 Centreville
fell out Of a second story window on it's
head aud shoulders. without sustaining
any serious damage. This yarn is pref
ty rough on CeDtreville. IL must be
true. however. as it appears 10 the
Observer
We are Informed that Hons John
s. Sudler and George r. Dennis, re-
spectively Of Fairmount and Brinkley's
districts, have imported Poles for farm
laborers and are pleased with their labor
and methods. This is new departure
and will very likely work toward the
settlement OF some of our untitled lands
on the peninsula.
The editor OF a PeniDsular paper
is getting a cute trick 10 on his subscrit :
ers. He beseeches them to pay up. on
the score that be wants to get married,
and after the unsuspecting crowd has
tiled in aud paid it's dues. be slips
around 20 the nearest dry goods store
and buys calico dresses for bis wife and
four daughters.
Such Of our farmers as may be in-
sured 10 the Kent County Mutual In
surauce Company should obtain a per-
nit. if they place their steam thresher
within 60 yds. Of property insured. The
charge lie moderate compared to the
risk caused thereby. Without such
permission the Company cannot be held
bound 10 case of loss by FIRE.
"A camp at Camden will positively
be held this year, commencing August
Sd, aud closing on the 18th or 18th: