Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-05-27
PENINsULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


The African NJ f. conference will be
held il. CeniIeviile on the Goth OF next July.
The court house green OF Chester.own
will soon be enclosed by an iron fence.
Il. Mills, Superintendent If the Del
aware railroad, will have his Office at Clay
ton during the coming peach SEASON.
- Benson & Co., at Oxford are soon to
begin building a new schooner of 5000
bus' tls capacity for Capt james H. Benson.
The insurance companies have satisiac-
torily settled all claims of the policy holders
who lest by the late FIRE in Mddiclown.
A Frederick peach grower stys he will
not take $1,000 for his prospective peach
crop.
--Easion has 26 practising lawyers-quite
enough Tor present purposes and dozen or
more TO spare.
According to the Crisfell Leader, the
| editor Of the Cambridge Era is the Eli Per-
kins ot tile Peninsula.
The Times says that Miuos Conway,
near Lelpsic, has variety Of Twenty-Five
trees two-ihris OF the blossoms OF which
have SET doutie OF twin peaches.
Unusual quantities OF drum fish have
beon caught along the shores of Delaware
Bay this spring.
The annual meeting OF the stockholders
| Of breakwattr X Frankiord railroad compa-
ny Will be held at Georgetown, on the 3Ist
inst.
--Easton recently issued bonds to the a.
| mount Of SlO. 600. The whole lot was taken
10y Senator james G.oome at y per cent.
premium.
bro Emerson of tie Union is on the
sick list, having had severe hemOrrhage
lew days since. He has our best w..nes ior
n speedy recovery.
Bishop Lay preached in ST. Stephens
Protestant Episcopal Church OF Paramount
| On Sunday evening last, and administered
the rIle OF confirmation to small class.
The vestry OF ST Anue's p. f. Church
mt Middieiown, mas decided 10 rebuild The
church soon as the necessary amouu; is
subscribed Il is proposed TO raise IS U0y.
-Thomns II. Fitzgerald, j., made the
first shin inent OF straw berries from Somerset,
| Tor The season OF 81 On last Friday morning
the l9ih lie shipped crate Oi - qaaris
MARY lauder.
Some W mington colored people have
| organized what tney manned = Inc Equal
Rights League the Purpos. of which Is TO
demand recognition III the distribution OF
Official patronage.
MIR Benjamin T. CJulboarn, post mas
! ter at Marion, tnis county, Tor ABOUT tweAty
| J ears, died al his residence Gu SATURDAY
last of cerebro SPINAL menlngl;ts ii. was
nearly sixty years vi age im-rsel Herald
A colored Child, By name OF Sheppard,
| living Wi,h us mother ABOUT Iour miles iro III
! Cuestrr River B.Id,e on The Queen Anne )
eide W as burned 10 death GA Fi.uIy OF last
week. The culld notaer hii Kindled u
| rte al Il AN eIb ba
child caught nom gong TOO uear TIE lire.
--rbe Crstlcli correspondent OF the Bal
tmorc papers OF ltst thursday says that the
insurance company, the utganlzAuoa o.
winch Was contemplated Immediately after
| the late DESTRUCTIVE ne al intt place, VIII
hot re Iu.mtd GA account OF not 0ciug nGie
TO RAISE Tie itquisi'e cash capital as required
by Tie law he Ire eusInc, which Was
purchased Tor lEe town, has arrived, been
tesled ana accepted a> satisfactorily.
MIR CHARTS ". Knight, OF Delaware
who Is o. years old aud las been oril. Ceal
! from ohn~hoUd, dIseuyyred tbat his b.ariu,,
! had returned 10 hiW DUNG sleep GA he
! liz ht oI may 9. lie says inst on awakiug
the next IAoruin4 lac heard confusion OF
sounes below slalIs, and on going down
louud il was llodu ced by Tie movement OF
TIE lids upon the top 81 The stove in the pre-
partition Of the breakfast.
- fsey. George 5. Glssner, for fourteen
! months past pastor of Asbury NJ. + Church,
near CrlsEe.d q, has resigned The Passionate oi
SAID church to take effect June 5lh This
action on The part OF th- pastor is owing 10
ihe il;-healh Of his wife. Mr.. GaSsner uas
secured " position IS principal OF an aclie-
my neal hIlmington. lie will likely be
sacc'eeed as pas,or oil Asolry hy Rev
Vaughn Smith
A resident of that indefnable some
where called " SocLuh," came 10 town the
other day to sell dog. s. Was the price
asked, hGt tulers were scarce. Alter sever
al vain attempts 20 dispose OF his stock he
called the dog % hu and started tor home.
| studiug this parting shot ulon tue town -
= THIS IS The durEdrSt town | ever saw Ye
can sell nothing. Two heads of cabbage
and cowcumber would gut the Whole
durr ed Town '-Grtsusboro Free Press.
Many years ago Deal Island used to do
4 lively business in shipping sweet potatoes
TO Baltimore, and during the season the
islanders were in II stale OF hurry and tx-
citeineut. Rgv. Joshua Thomas-'' PArSon
OF The ISLANDS Mas AN extensive grower
himself, AND enc day an old friend oil the
parsou ventured TO ASK him = Brother
! Thomas, do You pray much during potato
| StHSND az N1eNih Olu ilSdCI4Cl iuOhtu
up and replied My ming prayer is
very short. tell you, broth er, in the potato
season.
The trout season on the Delaware Bay
promises 10 ice remuneIaiive. One day last
week cshua 5 Bennett caught nj the Pier
| lUl2 bushels of iLese bsh u one haul Al "A
second haul he caug..i 500 bushels more
Buckle BROS, eau Ia 400 bushels. john
! PrcItyman nj Slau. h, ers Beach caught 400
! bushels 500 bushels were taken III Bower )
| Beach and oiher large had.s ARE reported at
other points on Tie Bay shore. These fish
are sold ON The Beach al 20 md 25 cts. per
bu;ht. Recalled in Delaware towns at 10
cents PER lIck, Willie they are IeIailei IN
this maiket at 30 cents teT doz n
Mrs. Eff Coulbourn Long. consort of
| Charles W. Long, Esq lied at the r, snvucc
Of her husband enc Dud a-hali miles OF Prin-
cess Anne, on Thursday morning last, the
| 18th o Ma y UI cUngeSiive chill. She had
been sick TO- 5, yer days, but on Thursday
she was apparently much better, aud told
! her mother That She felt hangry and would
| like Ia good breakfast Wnea attacked by
the disease which snapped the silver thread
| of lite. she was chatting quite merrily with
those arou I'd her and rs llIey viewed the lie
| less remains few minutes alter the third
couvulson. they were shocked beyond ex-
| preston III erald.
The cargo mhnifestS of the Steamboats,
RUNNING p the ChoptanK reveal so me curl