Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-09-14
DELMARvIA PARAGRAPHS.
Condensation From Our Penin-
sula Exchanges.

sula Exchanges.
Laurel, Del, wants electric lights.
The peach crops have been marketed
Elk,on gunners are having sport with
reed birds.
Thursday was Farmers Day" at Col.
Inns Beach, Del.
Fine bay mackerel are plentiful In Chcs.
tert0wn market.
There have been several cases OF diph-
iberia in Milton, Del.
Horses are dying Of blind staggers in
Northampton Co, Va.
A fatal disease has made its appearance
among hogs In Talbot county.
Prof. Eaton has opened private school
in Laurel, Del, with 30 pupils.
John $. Parker, prominent citizen of
Eastvillc, Va, is dead, aged ~ years.
Judge Wicks, of Kent, sold $500 has.
kcis of peaches this season for $4,000.
Rev. John Il. Todd is instructor Of Greek
at Wilmington Conference Academy.
Dover.
Thompson's Island in Rchoboth bay,
has been rented by Lcwcs parties for duck
shooting.
Grace p. T.. Chapel, at Oxford, Talbot
county. was consccreatcd last week by
Bishop Adams.
Rev. James Conway of Port Deposit
has just arrived home from visit TO the
Paris Exposition.
Oct. 3 is the date for holding the 50
annual communication of the Grand
Lodge 4. +. A. NJ. nj Wilmington.
Dover canncrics have only secured half
enough peaches this season. The crop
was shor, aud the quality inferior.
J. Dallis Marvil. son OF J. Il. Marvil,
ESP. and Miss Sallic Collins, both Of I.au-
rel, Del, were married lasi Tuesday week.
Although the weather was had the sue.
cess of the Eastern Shore Agricultural
Sociciy's fairthis year was unprecedented
On the Cowgirl farm, near Dover, O. T..
LaiTcriy from SIX baskets Of seed potatoes
raised four hundred and twenty five bask.
cts.
The faculty and students of Delaware
College will attend Dover fair Oct. :. in n
private car furnished 10y the Delaware
railroad.
The young gentlemen of Ccn,rcvillc
gave the young lady visitors In that town
u complimentary "hop" ON Thursday of
last week.
The amount of funds 10 bc distributed
by the State Treasurer for the use Of
schools throughout the State Of Delaware
amounts 10 $sa,O00.
James 7, lIcphron, Of Still Pond, has
been appointed head drnggis, and chemist
of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
out of 60 applicants.
Uncle Joe Bartlett. one of the oldest
railroad engineers in the country in active
service has sat nj his throttle for ~ years
lie is on the F., ". X Il. II. X.
/! Strawberries were served nj the table
of a Clayton family, Sunday dinner. They
came from their own garden. where there
is still more Of them growing.-CoR.
The Wilmington Fair closed on Satur-
day with an attendance Of about 5000
people. Secretary Brown estimates the
attendance during the week at 10000
Joseph McCartcr, of Townsend. Del.
has a four.lcgged duck. The extra legs
prOtrudc from the right side Of the body
and are not us long as the natural ones.
Several thousand paper peach baskets
sold at public auction in Chesieriown
last Tuesday, q, prices ranging from
twenty-five 10 thirty cents per hundred.
DIR. Charles W. Reid. vice-principal and
professor Of Greek and German nj 81.
Johns College. Annapolis. has been elect.
cd president of Washington College. Ches-
tertown.
4 A large barn belonging To Louis H..
Kirk, about 1; miles from Elkion, was
burned on Wednesday evening the 9Th inst.
The fire is supposed to have been of in
cendiary origin.
l.. y. Evans and DR. !. W. Kontts, OF
Queen Anncs county, got into quarrel
about politics one day last week, and
/ Ia. hnal
with large knife. inilic,mg severe
wound.
Capt. William Archibald, prominent
retired farmer and one of the hest known
citizens Of Kent Co, Md. died Of brain
I trouble nj his home in Kenncdyvillc on
Monday evening, the 2d inst, in the 9Th
year of his age.
/ Paynier Frame. the celebrated water
melon grower Of SUSSEX county. present.
cd the editorial staff of Wilmington Er,ry
Erening with 20 III. mellon the other
day, and the boys dcyourcd il q h Balii.
more .imcriedh.
/ DIR. Ezekiel Dawson Of Frederick has
been appointed To the position Of chief Of
the Division of Public Debt III the Office Of
the first auditor Of the Treasury at Wash.
ing,on. lie was sworn into office on Sat,
urday last. The salary ofihc Office Is 81,
800 per annum.
The Ccsarian operation was successful
/ ly performed an cOl0red woman in Chris.
,iana last week by Drs. !. j. Black and IL.
H. Tyboui, of New Castle. and u. u. Peters
and +. l.. Springer, of Chrisiiana. The
child is n male, weighing cigh, pounds,
and with II was extracted an eigh,-pound
tumOr.
Levin B. Hall and Sarah +. Hall, his
sister, of Paramount, Somerset county,
! We're arrested and lo,lged In iail nj prin.