Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-30
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Dover has water works and fra appnra-
tus.
Grapes are selling at two cents pound
Butter is selling a: Is cent, pound i n
Smyrna.
seaforl anticipates big oyster trade
this season.
a fair and festival comes Off at Lee
mont on the 4th OF October
-Ex-sheria James b. Price, of Elkton,
Nd, died suddenly Sunday week.
a writer to The Easton lie ger suggests
Col Edward Lloyd for tie United States
Senatorship.
The total number of voters registered in
Kent county thus far is 3,433, being I4s
less than the vote OF 1881.
Thomas Harvey, aged IS years, of Cecil
county, wns drown ed a few days ago whilst
attempting 10 ford Actoraro creek
&C. Company of Georgetown, D. V. ~.
Capt Roseubiun. has been disbanded and
the men have applied for their discharges
Joseph Gibbs. colorcG, died in Caroline
county, last week aged 90 years. His
youngest child is 40 years old.
-Jere Zimmerman has purchased the
'Jesse 7. Mitchell farm, near Greensboro O.
Caroline county. Price 81 200.
Mr.. Wesley Melvin, a prominent farmer
of Kent county, living in Morgans Greek
Neck, died on Monday night week after a
lo"g and helpless illness.
Rev. c. W Tessdale has vacated the
editorial chai OF the Seatord ENTERPRISE and
re-cnered the Baptist ministry. ssaming
Charge OF the church III that town.
4 mule belonging to John W Jones,
Wicomico county, died last week at the age
oi u years. He worked up 10 within y
few hours Of his death.
a house used as public hall near
Crisfeld was burnt down last Thursday
night. 1t is believed to be the work OF an
incendiary II was the property OF colored
man named Tucker and was insured.
The contract for the building of the
new county Jail at Cambridge, Md, has
tteu awarded by the comm soners To Mr..
William Hucy, vi Seaford, :or Sl3, s45 he
being The lowest bidder The highest bid
was SIT go.
q. \. Maddox, who at Clisfcd succeeded
in sinking an art,siun well about n ear ago.
Is rganing pipes through the lower part OF
the town, aad thus preparing to give Girls
held iull supply Of water during the com.
ing winter
The managers of the orphans Home al
! Aaston, are making arrangements to very
! materially enlarge their building The
drawing have already been comp eed and
WIc.. the work is done will cost some four
/ thousand dollars.
The smallpox still prevails at Jack
town, near Cambridge. The county commits
sioners are buiidlr ~ pest house and DR..
Marsiers, OF Wcom;co has been employed
10y tie county TO treat the smallpox cases.
Iho disease al lresent is confined TO negroes.
The little election in Delaware will be
held on Tuesday, October 81. Only hun
dred Offices are lill.d hut on account Of the
influence Of the result on tic November Goa
test, both parties will endeayor 10 bring out
their full strength Tie Inspectors 10 hold
the November election are chosen at this
October election.
Alta recent meeting OF the Old Domin-
ion Steamship Company, the. resignation of
{. c Stocley. AS Piesid Mt of the B L .
K. K. was accepted, and n l. Macreadv, OF
New York elected in his place Mr. Msc-
reody IS also President Of the j. x b. Il L
Elisha W. Cannon WAS chosen Di rector of
the j. * 3 r. Il. 10 I'LL the vacancy caused
by Mr.. Stochley's re sgnation OF that posi-
ton.
Il has been deter mined to cousecrate the
Protestant Episcopal Church al st Mcha,ls,
Iilto; county, on All Saints Dav in Nov
cnber The church WAS completed in 1850,
LIT owing to some litigation growing out OF
the financial Enlargement OF the contractor
tie y'stry has been unable to settle all the
pay ments satisfactorily till recently The
church IS beautiful s,oue structure, COM
Portable aud well heated.
Our respected friend Dr.. Asa 7. Dix.
OF Metompkn, this county is no more He
| had beer IN feeble health for several months
past and on Friday Of last week was strek.
en- with paralysis and expired within few
hours. Dr. Dix WAS one Of the best educa-
ted physicians in the county. and a gentle
man OF the hig hest type, beloved hy all who
/ knew him. he Was twice married, Ct wears
Of age and leaves a wife and fifteen children,
several 0: whom are married. May he rest
III peace.-EaStern VirgInian.
Seven black men, two white men and
one white boy were publicly whipped in the
Jail yard at New Castle on Saturday morn
ing in the midst of driving rain The
black men took their punishment pretty
much rs matter OF course. Six received
20 and one o ashes. The white prisoners
two Of whom received 40 lashes, wri,hed
jumped aud begged for mercy. The boy S
misery was p;tiiul and his back was baily
muIilsted. Two white and one black man
stood for an hour i i the pillory and were
drenched to the skin
We learn from one OF our readers at
Atlantic, this county, that early ON Satur-
day morning, the 9th inst, an outrageous
! attack was made upon the person of Mrs.
George Wise in that neghborhood by an
unknown negro. The scouudrel choked the
lauy ard struggled with her for some time
| but being physically superior to her assail-
ant, NrS. " ise succeeded in driving him off
The Leghbors arrested several parties. but
none were ide ntifed, and the presumption is
that the man was stranger. -Virginian.
The Ea>,ville Eerald states that the
work OF construction of the Peninsula rail
road las actually commenced and it hopes
IN the course OF a few months to ste the road
completed from one end of the Peninsula to
The Ciher The Herald adds that the com
pany IS in earnest about the work and
states diet the prospective road ircm POGO
mcke City, Ma TO Cherrys tone, Va, will
make an airline from Florida TO Maine, and
put thc products OF the Peninsula into the
New lork and Philadelphia ma rketS twenty
TOUR hours earlier than at present.
The writer was in Easton on Tuesday
and lad II little opportunity OF learning
some facts about Col Nullikin, the recently
nominated Republican candidate for Con-
gress The colonel belongs to Congress
The colonel belongs to the most extreme
and p.oscriptive class OF the party. lie