Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-12-22
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS


Laurel needs street crossings.
Milford citizens want dogs taxed.
Business is good at Chesapeake City,
Md.
Eagle Hotel at Georgetown is being
enlarged.
BpwOrth League at Cecilton, Nd, is
fiourishing.
Eggs sell at % cents per dozen in sus-
sex county.
Goldsborough, Md, is making rapid
improvements.
Snow Hill. Md, wants better transpor-
tation facilities.
A movement is on foot to deepen Lin
chester river, Md,
A box and barrel factory will probably
be started in Berlin, Md.
Sussex county Farmers Institute will
meet in Seaford. December 20.
The schooner Thomas Winsmore was
launched at Milton last week.
The people OF Elkton, Md. complain Of
bad gas for illuminating purposes.
Elkton Fair buildings were badly
damaged by the storm last week.
Large numbers Of perch are being
caught in the waters near Millsboro.
Many horses near Milford, are dying Of
peculiar disease that resembles collie.
The Maryland militia will be armed
with sixteen shot Winchester repeaters.
The Middletown creamery directors are
trying TO find out who fred the build
ing.
J.H. Rowland has bought Of w. J.
Jones a residence near Coloro, Md, for
81, $50.
]. Zebley Finley, prominent citizen
Of Cecil coun0y, Md, Is dead of pnou-
monia.
Extensive additions are being made to
the Mccullough Iron Works at North
East, Md.
The Nanticoke river is to be made nav
igable for large craft rs far up as FEEDER
alsburg, Md.
Delmar M. e. Church was reopened
Yesterday, after having undergone extern.
slve repairs.
Snow Hill, Md, is offering a FREQ site
to New York silk factory if it will
locate there.
II is said that Centerville, Md, Is to
have a new paper to be called the Queen
Anne's Advocate.
Rev. Edward Freeman Of Lincoln has
relinquished his charge and gone TO
Providence, r, |,
Thomas Leckie and Miss Annie z.
Wright, OF East New Market, Md, were
married last week.
There are 800 children OF school age in
South Milford and only one-half Of them
attend the schools.
The improvements on Delmar N. Il,
Church have been completed and II was
reopened yesterday.
The Gallaher shoe factory has been re-
moved from Ohilds, Cecil county, Md,
to Pennsylvania town.
T. A. BeardsIey Of Lincoln recently
shot henhawk that measured four feet
four inches from tip to tip.
The railroad from Oxford. Pa, to
Singerly, Md will soon be built. The
right OF way has been secured.
Curtis f. Cannon shot a large otter in
Laurel river Thursday. The otter is
nearly extinct in Delaware section.
Andrew Jones Of Bridgeville, ana Miss
Jennie Kitchens Of Laurel, were married
last week by Rev. J. o Sypherd.
A meeting Of Sussex county agricul-
turists will be held in Georgetown next
Saturday for the purpose Of forming a
Farmers Alliance.
Lieutenant Robert G. Houston has
hsen elected captain Of Company G,
n CD. Of Georgetown, vice @. w.
Cullen, resigned.
Elkton people complain that mail bags
thrown from through trains frequently
fall under the car wheels aud the mail
matter destroyed.
Maryland is to have new police sloop
for the oyster grounds on the Chesapeake
T. A. Bounds of Barren Creek, Md. Is
building the sloop.
George X. Phillips Co., ship build
ers Of Shar otown, Md. have contracted
to build $4,000 vessel for stock com
pany in that town.
Joseph Hamilton ard Nathaniel TingIe.
/ iAAARNt9 ~ AAasNA AouAAy lalAt tENNNNN
last week. Hamilton was recaptured,
but Tingle cannot be found.
Alfred Lynch Of Angola, and Miss ANY
O. Warrington of Harbeson will be
msrried to morrow in Beaver Dam M P.
Church, at Hsrbeson, by Rev 5. W.
Kindley.
A Rising Sun, Md. correapent Of the
Cecil Democrat says: "The FIRST whiskey
agent seen inithe Sun for near ten years
past. WAS here the other day with his
samples Of whiskey."
The vote in Cecil county. Md, for the
admission Of women delegates TO the
General Conference Of the NJ E. Church.
resulted in a vote Of 1871 for and 1874
against admission
Rev Nathan johnson OF Millsboro
went to Barren Creek, Sussex county.
Tuesday, where he has assumed minis
terial duties That place has had no
minister since September, when Rev
John Robinson left.
A Berlin, Md, correspondent saws:
'The manner in which the Ocean City
end of the B. & e. Shore railroad is now
run is doing great injustice to the people
of our community, and isreducing Berlin
to the condition of a suburb OF Salisbury,
discriminating In every way against our
business interests that Salisbury may be
benefited"