Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-07
THE PENINS ULA.

The Susser Journal swesrB to oirouls-
tion of 1,022.
Centrevlle Ia sbout to have a new
bank. The capital stock will bs s76, 900,
in shares Of $100
The firm of James Cowgill & Son,
Dover, has become Cowgill & Green; Mr..
Judge ]. Green having become 3 partner.
The establishment Of another bank is
being sgitatsd In Centreville. 1t is pro
posed to make the capital stock $4,000,
divided into 500 shares of 800 each.
The President has appointed William
Dean as commissioner to the Intern ationAl
Cotton Exposition Of New Orleans for the
State of Delaware, with Charles A. Treat
as alternate.
The formal transfer of the Eastern
Shore railroad to Il. L. Scott, the recent
purchaser, took place in Philadelphia
Piiday. ALI the old officers lsre re-
tained and William Caris, Jr, is ap-
pointed auditor Of the road.
Sheriff Harrington sold Wednesday week
the canning factory and ground OF Powell
& NAPLES at Pennington, to Lord 4 Polk,
| for $4,000. Also, Oh Thursday, the
| interest OF Silas Snow in the farm In Ray
mond's neck, of James P. Snow, for $500.
George E. Woody and Charles W.
Marshall, who have for some time been
| connected with the Record and Gazette OF
| Pocomoke City, have purchased the
| Salisbury Times, and will iseus their first
number about the middle of this month.
On Saturday ]. B. & 4. H. Brown, as
| trustees, sold the farm OF the late James
| b Ringgold on Kent island, containing
1853 acres, to James B. Ringgold for s16 20
per acre, subject to mortgage of 81 ,475
and widows dover.
| The steamboat agent at Clsiborn,
| Talbot county, has demijohn Of whisky
which was landed there in November and
has never been called for. The whole
village is anxious to know whether the
consignee has died iutestate.
Mr.. Sohlisser, o contractor for furnish
ing railroad ties, has paid $4,000 for the
privilege OF cutting ties from 500 acres of
swamp, belonging to Isaac Barnes, three
miles from Princess Anne, and, on
Thursday, he set a gang of 36 men at
work. The men are chiefly Germans.
1t is authoratively stated that opera
tions will shortly be begun to extend the
Kent County 4 Delaware Bay railroad
from Chestsrtown to COLCHESTER, thus
giving more direct communication with
Baltimore. At the annual meeting Of the
board o. directors, the name of this road
was changed to Maryland & Delaware
Bay railroad.
Mr.. Stanford W. Bullen, mate on the
Chester river police boat, killed a few
days ago, seven swan in two shots four
the first shot and three the second shot.
One OF the swan weighed % pounds.
This Ia the greatest number OF this excel
lent bird that has ever been killed in ae
many shots, SO far as 1t is known.-C Cen
treyiie Observer.
Talbot circuit, NJ. K church, 1t is said
will be divided at the next session of the
Wilmington conference. There are foul
churches on this circuit, two in Broad
Creek Neck, one on Tilghman's Island
and one in Bsyside all under the oharg,
of one preacher II the division ia madt
Broad Creek Neck will be set off as
separate appointment.
Hare in Caroline county where Fred
Douglass WAS known in early life and
sinos has been respected for his s'ruggl,
to raise himself from the depths, the an
nouncemeDt of his marriage to whit,
woman lowers him i'll every ones estima
tlon. VI oourse the woman il a sill,
thing, and could not lower herself 10 any
body's estimation. Denton Journal
A bill introduced in the MARYLAND
senate Tuesday by Senator Burchinal Il
more strictly enforce the local option Law
in Kent county provides that the punish
ment for selling liquor, instead of im
prisonment for 60 days in Jail, shall b
six months in the house of correction, o
from six months to two years in the peni
tentiary, at the discretion of the court
A committee has been appointed I
solicit subscriptions to build bishop
house for the d ocese Of EaBton. Th
, movement is not for the personal benefi
of Bishop Lay, who owns the house il
, which he lives at Eiston, but for til
erection of permanent Rpiscops
J resiieDoe, owned by the diocese, for tn
use OF the successors of the present bishoy
: Among the candidates for the positio
of Journal clerk In the Maryland hous
! of representatives, made vacant by tn
death of Milton Y. Kidd, are ]. "
! Abrshams of Port Deposit, Charles
Dallam of Hartford, William L Logan
Howard, John Rumbold OF Caroline, L
! 5. France OF Kent, Allison Wood
Wicomioo, X. s. Riley of Annapolis, an
IL
# Senator Thomas +. Bayard has al
j.. pointed James W. Spruance of Smyrr
y as the agent for all the property in viii.
II he is interested at Clayton and hi
=. authorized Mr.. Sprusnoe to make publ
the announcement that all of th
property at Clayton will be laid OF int
building lots as soon as the weather wi
permit aud placed in the market for sal
Therefore, the Record thinks, Clayton
D bound to boom next summer.
The following distinguished Democrs
Il are spoken of rs candidates for the ne,
n nomination for Congress in this distrie,
,s Charles Il. Gibson OF Talbot, Henry Lloy
1t ut Dorchester, James Alfred Pearoe
.e Kent, Thomas j. Keating of Queen Anne
rs Henry Page of Somerset, John B. Brow
IN Of Queen Anne's, Philip W. Downes
r. Caroline, and j. A. Parsons of Wicomic
with Hon. George W. Covington of We
10 eester, as a Ozark horse East
ID Gazette.
10 John Bockman ia soliciting stock
.. organize the Dover glass works. He h
in had great suooess SO far. Four hundr
M shares are desired TO be subsci ibsd, at s.
per share, When these have been tax
ge a meetiug will be called and an organic
~ tion effected. The prospectors of L
a. enterprise are sanguine of the success
The undertaking. The idea now is to Q
~ ganize and be ready to commence oper
80 tions the lst of September next.-Dov
ne Sentinel
re The keepers OF Bloody Point Lig
House OF Kent Island, in Eastern bs
report that hundred acre field of
in one piece came down upon them il
about dusk on Sunday night week.
struck the house and crushed into sm
as pisces at each swell of the tide. The |,
~. piece of about 200 yards square stru
=. the house and split from one end to
lie other, one piece passing on one side
in the other on the other side of the hon
,et The house suffered no danger from
mt 1t took just an hour for it to pass by.
he CsntrtuWs Observer.
re Coils. henry Page and Clement Su
Al vsne, oounsel for John Murray, now &C
ed fined in Cambridge jail for fatally sho
~, ing John N. Steele, determinsd Tupsd
afternoon not to apply for bail. Hi
an joan w. Crisfield arrived Tuesday att
he noon, having been employed to assist t
We states attorney, d. NJ. Henry. Jr.,
Id resisting the application. 1t is und
IL stood that serious doubts about
I'M measure have indnced Murray's ooun
,rs to abandon it The question of bail bel
IN. disposed OF, Murray will remain 10 i
until the next sitting of the grand jul
he on the fourth Monday of April next.
ste AT the annual meeting of the Que
nh Anne's County Grapge hsld in Cant