Democratic messenger., 1889-11-30
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORs.
Condensati0ns From Our Penin-
sula Exchanges.

Stttt fSAcuhuBeSs
George w. Naylor. Of Trappe district
Talbot county, died suddenly at his resi-.
dence Sunday morning last.
During a prayer meeting at Laurel a
colored man arose and requested the sis
,ers to come forward and kiss him. lie
was fined for disturbing the meeting.
The Talbot County Court at Easton
awarded Daniel Stanmicr 81 800 In his
suit against the Colchester Beach Improve.
ment Company. The case goes over to
the Court Of Appeals.
The fitll annual meeting Of the lIom9o.
pathic Medical Society Of Delaware and
the Peninsula was held at the Howard
House, Elkton, Thursday week. About
twenty-five physicians attended.
The 10Th annual meeting Of the Sussex
County Teachers Institute was called to
order at 3 o'clock last Wednesday after.
noon by Supt. Ward in the Hall Of the
Georgetown Public School Building.
Talbot county has an esteemed citizen
who has four grown sons not one ofwhom
ever took drink Of liquor, smoked ci.
gar, chewed tobacco. swOre an oath or
voted a Republican ticket. All the young
men live ut home except one.
The required amount Of land for the
proposed nail factory at Elkton has been
donated by two citizens of that town and
negotiations with the projectors are now
in progress with flaitcring hopes Of sue.
cess In securing the enterprise.
There were four men whipped at New
Castle last Saturday morning: William
Banks, five lashes William Bird, five lash.
es; Thomas Reynolds, dcn: Frederick
Douglass, ten All were for larceny. There
was not very large crowd in the Jail
yard.
Under the new contract awarded by the
Postoilice Department the one cent stamp
will continue to be printed blue; the two
cent stamp now printed in green, will be
printed 10 bright carminc, and changes
will be made in some OF the other demon.
nations.
The Sussex County Farmers Institute
met last Tuesday afternoon In the Court
House at Georgetown. The attendance
was small ON account Of the bad weather
and wet roads, but deep interest was man.
iicstc IN the proceedings by the few ,ha,
were present.
The Delaware Baptist Union held a
meeting in the First Baptist church of
Chester, on Tuesday. Moderator, Rev. G.
W. Bishop. of Marcus Hook, presided. A
very interesting session was held In the
morning and the afternoon was devoted
to Sunday School work.
\ special grand jury was summonsed
ON Monday last, in Accomac county. Va,
10 investigate the criminal assault, alledgcd
TO have been committed upon Mrs. Geo
A. Penncwell by Irving lIolstein. After
examining Mrs. Pcunewell and DIR. b. Il.
Kellam. they returned true bill Of indict.
ment.
Gen. ". +. Smith, Chief Engineer Of
Rivers and lIarbors for this district, ac.
companicd by Supt. |. \. Mills and sew
eral other prominent railroad officials,
visited Scaford Friday of last week on
business connected with the widening Of
the draw of the railroad bridge at that
place.
At the annual session Ot the Grand
Lodge of Delaware, |. q. O. f., u rcsolu
was passed requesting the Grand Lodge
10 call a meeting Of delegates from al the
subordinate lodges 10 consider the project
of forming an Odd Fellows home associa.
tion, which shall maintain home for in.
digcnt Odd Fellows.
The annual meeting of the Delaware
Game Protective Association was held at
Wilmington ON Thursday Sup,. I. y.
Mills was elected president. 1000 birds
will he bought and liberated in the State
and all the violations of the law will he
pushed To proper punishments. \ detec.
tive has been securing the State with the
result that 10 eases are now pending and
90 other cases have hcen settled, in all oi
which the association was successful. The
fines will go into the associations Golfers,
fience the crusade has been fairly profit.
able one beside proving u protection To
the game. The ASSOCIATION is in flourish.
ing state, and numbers GOO members. such
an association should he operating on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland