Daily Republican., 1886-07-28
PENINSULA POINTS.


Igave biith TO trlplets last Tuesday. tw
Iof which are still living.
Forty acres Of land near Rests m III
Nanticoke Hundred, were sold b
Sheriff Short last week for $l6O.
Walter Daniel of Milford, who own
l76 8-yearf old peach trees, has jus
harvested his crop of three peaches.
Old celery growers say they neye
knew such weather for starting celer,
plants Immense quantities OF plant
have been put out.
Three thousand dollars have bee,
subscribed at Chestertown for a new M
Z. Church. on the corner In town diago
naliy opposite to the M. K. Church.
A farmer Of Leipsic, Kent Comfy
plucked his peach crop the other even
Ing and wrapped 1t in tissue paper. ID
consisted OF q single peach.
a brakeman named Frank Haye,
was thrown from q car on the d M, q
V. railroad, at Glendale, on Tuesday,
oy the breaking of brake chain, and
had one leg broken.
The Kent County Railroad, which Ia
reported to be now under the manage
ment OF the Pennsylvania road will run
Tour trains daily to accommodate the
peach shippers.
The corner stone Of an NJ. K. Church
was laid ut Crosskey's, Dassboro Hum
dred, on July II. The Revs. j. W.Gray.
u Waddell and w. j. Duhad wsy
officiated. -
The congregation of the 81. Z. Church
OF Salisbury have fully decided to
ouild new structure, The building
WIZ cost about $1,000, u large portion OF
which has already been subscribed.
Col. WIN. McKenny Of Queen Anne's
county, Md, estimates his wheat crop
at ~, GOO bushels. A fair yield would
nave reached $4,000 bushels. He had
about 1000 acres in wheat
Those farmers who CONTRACTED n PROV,
tomatoes this year have every prospt ct
% large crop at this time. az the
plants never looked more promising.
Many fields have fruit set on the plants
now.
Sheep worth nearly $500 In the age reeate
we're kliled by doRs in Slaughter Neck
asst week. Joseph Shepherd, JAMES Il
hammond and Charles Hammond are
,ue losers. Fonr ofthe dogs were caught
And await their owners.
Curns Towers, said TO have been 81
Sea4s OF age, died NJ Union Grove.
JAro lre County, July loth. He had
served in the war of 1912 and was ri
81. Mlchae!'s when The British attacked
hat place IL 1914.
On Saturday last Michael Bradley
accidentally stepped on the driving he'll
~ sinReTly's pulp works and was hurled
with great force against the cellar wall.
Luckily tue engine was running yery
slowly OF ne would probably have been
xilled.
old Trinity Church, In the village of |
Jhurch Greek, is the Oldest church eii.
ZOE in the State of Maryland. IL Ia a
1lain and quaint brick structure. but
VIII arrest the attention of the passer |
~ By this very plainness and Quaint |
less.
l. was decided on Saturday by the
ht-holders of the camp meeting held |
asst year at Concord, Md, to hold a
amp meeting this year on the same
to begin August 10. A camp
Meeting will also be he'd at Chestnut
1rove, beginning the 2Slh inst.
The fruit Rrowers of the ueigborhood
u Still Pond, Kent County, Md.
lavipg established O fruit exchange are
low building hotel at cost of 81, 600,
or the purpose of accommodating the
fult buyers, whom they expect will 20
mere. The hotel will be owned by a
took Company.
a camp M eeting will commence at
ones woods, near Gumboro, Sussex
,ounty, August 10. Colored camps
VII be held In the county, as follows:
ailton, July %, Middleford, August 6:
edges woods, near Lewes, August z:
iethel, August 10; Woods mestips nj
no "oid teld," near Millsboro, July
William Jones, son Of ex. Sheriff VIM.
=. Jones, OF SUSSEX County, and stu
ent OF Jefferson Medical College,
hliauelpula, last week removed a
"enty ounce tumor from valuable
W peionSing to Il A. Bosenbaum, of
10 bticK hotel at GEORGETOWN. The
peFation was an entire success.
On the Choptsnk river, at a point
ear cambridge, there stands an old
zee that Tor several years has beer
ID i9ss and dead, with an eagles nest
the top OF 1t. There is now a stalk of
Urn at least five feet nigh growing
ON the nest, and it makes conspIcu
ls OBJECT from the river and the
lore.
The cost ofthe contemplated Eastern
hore railroad is estimated ut about
a 600 per mile, including bridging.
40 u Will require about $3.50, 600 10 |
una the track with steel rails. When
IN pleted the trip from Salisbury to
aitimore can be made In 3 hours,
I'D from Easton TO Baltimore In 9
ours.
lLere never was 80 large crop OF :
raised near Seaford AZ ia
5lng picf I'd this season But the prices I
VI them are unusually low, the pick
y, commission men and the railroad {
lung about all tho money there il In
10 DuslneSs, while the hard. working :
inner has only the consciousness mas
Is The backbone Of tho countrvn IN 7
'mfort him. ~ 3
Peter Carter, the noted co,ored nol,ti
an OF the Eastern Shore, died and
~ y at bis home near Fran ktown. Last
'onday, aged 40 years. 1t ia thouohtl
the colored people of that Vicinity c
lat he was poisoned, and Peter ex g
,essed the same opinion. Just before
expired he said that he had partakep l
a meal III Norfolk a few dayK ago
hlch, he believed, contained nolson ,
ne ueceased was one of the most i1,llr- I
i9al coldred politicians In the STATE =.
az was widely known. At the time
DIS death be was engaged In mercar- :
ie and agricultural pursuits.
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