Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-03-18
PENINSULAR ITEMS.
CONDENSED FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

seventeen Wild pigeons on Saturday OF last
week.
The Rev. Vaughn NTH was appointed
AT Conference TO take pastoral ch urge Of E1
worth ChaptI.-Wilningto News.
1t is 10 be definitely Sc tiled, says the
Cecil Wing, that Rev Walter Avery will
be returned to the Elktou NJ. +. Church for
another year.
Over loo bushels Of grain were losi in
the creek nj Hills borough Caroline county,
recently by breaking away of the dividing
wall between a full aud empty bin.
A great religious revival has been going
on in the N. +. Church AT Lewes for the last
eight weeks. As many us one hundred aud
forty conversions have taken place AMI the
manifestations OF the spirit continue unaba-
ted.
-Sel5yville people are turning their at
tention to the raising Of potatoes to a great
er extent than ever before. One party order
ed fifty barrels OF seed potatoes last week
and PocOmoke phosphate is being soil III
large quantities TO stimulate their growth
A respondent of Every Evening says
that the ciliZens of q .Oryetuwn, ) isi.x 90
are much exercised over the fact that they
have had nm election Tor Commissioners
but because the notice Of the election was
not publisbed-they have not had one. The
Old Board has another cilance TO go abe ii
A Caroline lassie was recently noticed
by her mother 70 be fondling AMI kissing \
pet kitten. Why, May, said the mother
you have kissed that kitten more in five
minutes than you have me iu five years
: Don't you know why had rather kiss
that kitten tn an you, mother p No, my
child" :" You haven't got whiskers.'
The location of the proposed new rail
I hattx Rail- lac. lt,i,i /.
giving some of the citizens OF Newark, Del,
great anxiety. Some OF those who were most
Aaxi gus for the Rad and worked hardest
for the Legislature 10 grant the charter
last year, are worGing just as hard now a.
gaiust the road unless they get excessive
land damages.
The seven year-oli dau ghter OF Richard
Squares, who lives in a tenant house on the
farm 0: +. 5. Megiuns, in oneen Anne )
| county, near CheSlefIown, stood on u chair
close TO a hot stove oae day last week, to
get something off the mantel. Her clothes
! Iook fire. and she Was 50 BADLY ourned tuat
on last Monday she died. The mother WAS
also badly burned is Try ing TO save her child
-One day last week, a young son of Mr..
Kunsm IN reading AZ Rehobo'h, crIwiei out
on the root OF the house 10 make some re-
| pairs he lost his bdlauce and fell To the
|
0u, injuring himself in any whatever.
Some might consider the report MS savoIiDg
somew hat OF the Munchau.en style, but lis
truth is vouched fox by the most respectable
ciuZens.
"A friend Of the Cenireville Observer
gives the following remedy for collie in
| horses, ich he says he has tried several
times and knows il will do the work Get a
small % cent bottle Of good cologne and
dten ch The horse with it. This is cheap, and
he says it will cure in talr;y minutes, the
worst case OF collie. 1t is worth u trial, aud
lit does no good it certainly can do no
harm.
TIE nurual meeting OF the Presbvterv
OF New Csstle will be held in Princess Annt
On Tuesday, April le and continue several
days. The Rev. J I. Umsted, of SMYRNA.
Is The retiring moderator aud will preach
the 81 onlng sermon. Commissioners will b.
chosen &c rtpresent tie Presby terry at the an
nual session Of the General Assembly OF ;he
Presbyterian Church.
The Wil7on damage suit against thi.
county for S5 coo for injuries received by
the breaking OF bridge in the upper par! Of
the county. hns been CONFRONT sed by the
Commissioners paying S62 800, and re
ceipt was given releasing the County Com
claims and demands against the said Com
: missioners for DANA ges or other claims
Caroline Democrat.
Miss Lillian Roach, who was recen,lg
severely wounded by the accidental dis.
charge Of pistol in the hands of youth
named VIM. Berry, has returned to her home
near CrisG-ld from her yis 10 Baltimore
for surgical cid. She does not experience
anv difficulty or inconvenience from the
wound and her friends do not anticipat
, any. The ball is a: rest in locality where
il would bc dangerous to in serl probe, and
the danger of cutting ii out would be two
5 told.
On Sunday last William, a son Of Nc
! | Henry Renshaw. Of Mt. Vernon district thi !
county, fell from the mast of boat living
anchored in the Wic"mico River short
t distance below White Haven. He tell to the
deck a dist ance OF forty feet, and would have
been instant " killed, ii is supposed. lad rot
his FIJI been partially broken by the riggin
of the boat as il was he had one rib broken
AN ankle dslocaied and ore side badly hruis-
ed. Dr. Rufus ". Dashiell was called in
and attended 10 his wants, and he is now
Z getting along well.--Semersei Herald.
On Thurcday last, Andrew Riggin. a
white man with wife a1d four children, re =
} siding on the suburbs of Crisfied was ar
rested and taken before Justice Oliver S
tlorsey on the charge of committing ss.-
ious and indecent assault on the person of
one Sallie Ward, 4 colored girl of fourteen
, or fifteen years of age. The evidence being
sufficient, in the opinion OF the jusic. The
accused was committed to jail to await the
action of the next grand jury. Sheriff John
Sterling brought Riggin to town GU Friday
) las, and lodged him in Jail. The case is no;
bailable oEe.--SomerSet Herald
Mrs. Susan East, wife of Peter t. East,
Esq, near this town had hen on her prem :
Uses apparently crippled. but without an,
visible cause. The clic ken died and Mrs.
East dissected it in or der to find out the
cause OF death. The hen proved to be I'M
. usually fat, whereupoD she. to use the ex
preston of our in formant, "she eat her up
with strong lye and made one of the finest
p pots OF soap ever known, supposed to be al
most twenty pounds this is nAri TO believe
but the facts can be corroborated BY Mr.
| East at any time. IL will raise the price Of
chickens no doubt-Eastera Virginian.
The Rev a. w. Mil1y preached his
farewell sermon in Denton en- Sunday night
Inst. Mr.. MILKY in conclud ing his discourse
on the theme - Christ and Him Crucihed -