Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-08-15
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Cambridge has bull ding boom.
Middletown has small ice manufse-
tory.
Crabs are reported as being scaree at
Port Penn.
The MiddletoWn New Era has put in
water motor.
The Catholic church al Middletown
will b improved.
Horse thieves are operating at the
Sussex camp meetings
James 7. Brooks. Of Newark, has been
granted an original pension.
The Delaware City eannery is putting
up large quantities Of to natoes.
Summit Bridge NJ. e. Sunday school
Iicnieked at Boulder fishing shore yes
terday.
w. Addison Bestson Of Brooklyn will
be the new pastor Of 81. Georges Presby-
terrain Church.
Elkton is to have an enterprise VITA
capital Of $4,000 and giving employ
ment to 500 men.
Professor J. F. Baugher has lately re-
signed as principal Of Cambridge Female
Seminary and will take charge Of Row
| land Academy in Baltimore
Miss Annie Ellison, daughter Of Harry
Ellison, living near MiddletowR, has
been offered and has accepted a position
in the Census Bureau a. Washington,
D. c.
The yearly camp meeting at Woodlawn
Nd, commenced Yesterday and will
continue until the 22d. About 100 tents
are already on the ground and the at
tendance for the FIRST day was fair.
Calvert orem, Of Cambridge, Nd has
been missing from his home since the
middle Of July. oren went to Baltimore
in July TO sell his grain. He received
/ $l69 and has not been heard from since
&. w. Jester Of st. Georges has last
purchased the finest Scotch stag hound
in this coUntFy. Though young, il Is
already prize winner, and was bred in
the kaanels Of the Boston millionaire.
John Thayer, who has the hest kennel OF
this breed in America
Fairs viii be held as follows ia this
Peninsula: Wilmington Agricultural
and Industrial Association, Wilmington.
September to 6 Talbot County Agri-
cultural Society, ERston, Nd Septem Der
% 10 e; Delaware State Agricultural
Society, Dover, September 30 TO October
a Cecil County Agricultural Society
Elkton, Nd, October TO TO-
A tournament was held on Wednesday
near Queenstown, Nd. on the grounds Of
Charles TaVlor, adjoining NY Lords
Gift, his residence on Chester river 1t
was attended by about 400 persons from
4 A VI
and good sized delegation OF Balti-
moreans, many Of whom are spending
the sumner in the county.
The oyster season will reopen Sep
TENDER 1. and already number Of resi-.
dents living at remote places from Cam
bridge have secured licenses The
oysters are reported in good condition.
Several changes in the local oyster law
we're made by the Legislature AZ the late
session. The season for longing will
end April % instead Of April 20.
and no longing will be allowed
in Little Chopssnk river until Septem Der
IL. In all other county waters the season
will begin September l.
John f. Tregoe farmer, living near
the Maple Dam bridge, about four miles
from Cambridge, says that while passing
through q woods adjacent to his home
several days ago he saw ar enormous
black snake, hanging head down. from a
green sspling within few feet
OF where he stood hr. Tregoe states
that the tail Of the snake was wrapped
around the top OF the saplinr. which is
about thirty feet high, and that the rep
tiles head reached within few feet OF
the ground. The tree swsyed and bent
from the snakes weight. He estimates
that the snake was twenty-five feet long
and as large in circu inference as man s
leg.
Middletown can boast OF at least two
curiosities, and it is doubtful II ANYTHING
like them wRs ever heard Of before.
"Pussy" Is the name of the large, gray
cat that makes her home in and around
one Of our enterprisiug grocery stores.
There was recently an addition to the
family of this same feline There were
Three Of them, but two of the number