Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-09-11
QUE VIRaINIA SEIGHBoRs.
The Iron Bands which are Bringing
Them Near us.

BAthmo-e sun.
The telegraph line on the New York,
Philadelphia & Norfolk railroad has been
completed as far as Aocomaek station,
about 80 miles below Pooomoke City, aud
the people Of the Eastern Shore Of Vir-
giniR are now enabled for the first time
since the country WAS founded TO COM
munioste with the outer world by cleo
tricity. In 1861 q military line was
erected from Princess Anne, Somerset
county, Nd, down the lower Peninsula
to Cherrystone, and thence by cable
Communication to Fortress Monroe. But
the line, being put up exclusively for
government use, was little employed for
commercial purposes. The poles upon
which the single wire was strung were
temporary sticks Of ordinary slender pine
sspling, not even dsnudsd Of the bark.
In Snort time they became worm-eaten
and rotten, and when the military neoes-
sity for the line ceased the poles and
wire soon disappeared. Messages are
now sent regularly from all stations on
the new road to any point in the United
States. The line Is attached to the
Western Union system.
Rails are now laid on the road as fsr
down the Peninsula as Pungoteague,
seven miles below Acoomaok station, and
nearly to the Northampton county line.
Construction trains are running to that
point. The prospect is that, should the
weather continue fine, the road will be
completed to Cape Charles City, Cherry
stone hsrbor, before cold weather sets in.
It ia stated that It is not at all probable
that any part OF the road between Aooo-
mack station and the terminus at Cape
Charles will be received by the company
from the contractors until the last
spike ia driven. In a few weeks the bulk
Of the sweet potato crop will have been
moved to the markets north and east and
there will not then exist any strong COM
meroial motive to operate the road farther
down than the terminus whence pas
seDger and freight trains now start for
the north. II is stated, however, that
the entire line will be in operation from
the southern terminus by the lat Of
December, or January, 1885, at the
fArthest. But the freight and pas
senger traffic, while 1t may receive
some impetus via the steamer
Northampton, which PLIES between Nor
folk and Cherrystone, will be mainly
confined to ths counties Of Acoomaok and
Northampton in Virginia, and Worcester
and Somerset in Maryland, until next
spring, when two large steamers, shortly
to be contracted for, will be ready for
service in transporting passengers and
freight across the bay.
Tie New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk
railroad has determined, It is said, to
make city out Of Cape Charles City. II
is 70 be built on what is known rs ''The
Old Plantation" which commences at
Chsrrystone inlet and stretches down the
bay coast to Cape Charles. The situa'
tion commands splendid view of
the bay, and possesses the advantage
of breeze from both the Atlantic and
Chesapeake. 1t is proposed to make
Cape Charles City summer re-
sort, and it is thought the place
will spring into popularity as
soon as its advantages are made known
to the public. The Peninsula Is very
narrow from Cherrystone down to the
cape, with splendid shooting and fshing
grounds along the bay shore, and within
eRay reach Df the sea oORst.