Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-07-29
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Sturgeon are now being caught 10 tue
Elk river.
The Vienna, Md, Academy wants
principal.
-Frankford is going next TO ask the Leg
islaturs for an act OF incorporation.
There is not vacent house in Cam
bridge.
-Cumpmeeiing is the general topic of con-
versation in Georgetown at present.
WIN. Virden and George Draper are to
open Il canning establishment in LaweS.
The steamer Breakwater makes the trip
from Lewes TO New York in twelve hours.
1t is stated that Hance Lawson is 10 be
| the next Collector of the Port OF Crisfeld.
Rev. George S. Fitzhugh has accepted
a call to the Protestant Episcopal church At
Llurel.
The Breakwater Ligh. says Payater
Fraim W i'll be prominent cardidttc for the
| De mocratic gubernatorial nomination.
Mr.. Burton C. Gibbons of Somerset
county, is suffering from severe attack OF
inflammatory rheumatism in his right arm.
or the 1000 voters in Talbot only 1873
were registered at the fist sitting OF the
registers last week
On Thursday night, the steam mill of
Jonathan Tindal, situate on the lands OF 5.
A Lembden, in Nanticoke hundred, was
| burned.
The Onapcock cows have struck for an
advance in the price OF Milk. 1t has gone up
from 80 to 40 cents gallon, or from 10
cents per pint.
= The residence of Mr.. John w TAYLOR,
near Leemont was struck by lightning dur
ing last week, and one of the inmates there
/ -, Ar RI wa rpI k.0
VIM. Tyson, living near Elkton, aged
so years, work ed in the harvest field this
season doing The work of IA full hand he
sw ung cradle Tor four days and halt
from morning until night.
The largest yield of wheat that we la We
heard of on the Peninsula, is that by Mr..
John T. Stewart, near Cambridge. lie seed
ed forty bushels and realized l,4C0-thrty-
five bushels for one.
| The Diamond State Joint Stock Com
pany" has been organized in Delaware 1T
| is composed of coored men who are taxed
| 81 90 per month, the proceeds TO be invested
| in real estate for the benefit of those inter-
| ested.
The Rev. p. H. Rawlins has consented
| TO take charge Of the Georgetown camp pro-
vided the managers will obligate themselves
to conduct the same accordin TO the require
ments Of the Methodist Church. and allow
no Sunday traffic in ice cream, cigars etc.
Many farmers com plain that their sweet
potato crop is threatened with ruin. They
grew rapidly until nearly ready TO lay by
| when the tops commenced TO drop off near
the ground 1t is something entirely unu-
sual and no cause has rs yet been ascertain
ed-Eastern Vrginiau.
A young man named John Greenly
| while watering the stock on his father
farm, near Greensborough, Caroline CO unity,
| on Sunday last, attempted TO mount a mule
by jumping over his hips, whereupon the
mule kicked the youth in the temple, causing
his death within two hours.
-Middletown's Babcock extinguish ers
have been sent 10 Philadelphia for repairs
and the Transcript says: Ii a ile was to
break ont while these squirting machines are
away from home we should probably be al
most as bad off as when we had them with
u.s.
| A Salisbury youth is playing havoc
with the Ocean City damsels at the depot
! He puts on his nile green suit and patent
feathers and gets acquainted by introducing
Mr. Boston, the cake vendor. lunch en-
sues, Is girls are always hungry, and the
Young man has delightful time.-B lche-
! lor.
Mrs. D. S. Culver. near Demar, from
| forty hens made SIS go in four weeks this
| season A curious circumstance in connec-
ton with Mrs Culver is that she and her
| husband are each thirty mine years of age,
| one the sixteenth and the other the seven
tenth of March, and each weighs exactly
l5S pounds.
AT a meeting Of the trustees OF the Del
aware College, on Wednesday, the late tIou-
ble with the faculty was examined into, and
Professor Rcinhart request ed to resign,
which he refused to do, and therefore res
oluion was adopted by the Board Sevcring
his conue c,ion with the faculty. While his
ability was unquestioned, his unpopularity
with the students ne cessitated it.
| Mr. William Homewood says that the
contest for the Delaware College corn prizes
has taught him the important lesson that
one acre may be made with proper care and
cultivation to produce more than two acres
| as generally cultivated He has 20 acres in
corn. 10 acres Of which would under the
system of fertilizing and cultivation pur sued
on the prize corn, have yielded as much as
the whole 20. and the rest would have been
worth 81 90 for pasturag e.
1t il with sincere regret that we an
nounce the death OF Miss Anuie Carter, only
daughter of Col r. C. Carter, one of our
most prominent citz>ns. Some four weeks
| ago she received fall IRON the portico of
her fathers residence, and although the best
medical skill was brought into requisi'ion
and all that kind and loving friends could
do to save her young lite, she expired early
| on Wednesday M orning last, surrounded by
| her almost heart broken parents and sor-
row ing friends. --Denton Union.
| 1t is amusing to read the letters which
daily and weekly appear in the dliie rent
mongrtl papers OF tins State concerning the
! coming Republican success. II one viii take
the trouble to glance over the files of these
same papers year after year he will find the
same predictions. We have heard time and
again a gre. deal ab3ut new recruits TO the
Republican ranks, but the same majnri:ies
costume 10 be rolled up against mongrelism,
niegerism and plumber. Delaware is Demo
cratic. For twenty-five years il has kept
steadily in the Democratic column despi all
corrupting and alluring influences, and tho
returns in November will demonst rate furth-
er that The white man still holds the mastery
| here, Notwithstanding the corrupt agencies
that now are at work schen,ing and plot
ting for Republican mastery. We would,
however, advise the advocates of mongrelism
who believe white man TO be as good as
negro IL he only irhnvaa himself 10 boost