Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-12-08
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS

Salisbury, Md, has large circulating
library.
The young men of seaford want a
gymnasium.
The Delaware Democrat at George
town, is to be enlarged.
Eastern Shore wheat sells at from 90
cents TO 81 In Baltimore.
The NJ. e. Church at Nichols, Md. will
be dedicated December IA.
Loan association money In Odessa
sells at 81 cents premium
Reuben Gray has been admitted to the
bar in Caroline county, Md.
Seaford P. e. Church Will put in a
pipe organ. 1t will cost 81, 800
Israel Deans, of North East Md.
recently killed 800 pound hog
George A. Mace has purchased the 7.
J. sisk farm near Cambridge, Md
The public land in front OF Lewes is
being surveyed by the government.
The oyster houses at seaford are run
ning night and day to fill their orders
Prisoners Ia Dorchester county. Nd.
work In chain gangs on the public roads
The railroad company is building now
engine room and 20 600 gallon tank at
seaford depot.
Thomas jefferson Of Federalsburg
Md, Killed deer during recent gun
ming trip In Virginia.
J. K. Lewes, Adams Express agent at
Greensborongh, Md, has been trans
ferred to Chester, Pa.
Harrison Benlah, colored, of Concord.
Md, had his hand badly lacerated by a
steam saw last week
Edward P Marris and wife, Of Milford,
will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
Of their wedding Dec. 81.
n B. Reynolds, near Odessa. has har-
vested 800 bushels of sheled corn
from forty acres Of land
An additional freight boat will be run
on Choptank river by William @. Sat
terrified, Of Greensborough.
Maryland's "sound law" regarding
the taking Of oysters, has been declared
unsound by the Court of Appeals.
Despite the prevalence OF the peach
yellows large orchards of peach trees are
being set out all over the Peninsula.
The musk-rat law expired last week
and the trappers are bagging them in
large numbers all over the Peninsula
William D. Travers and Miss Hattie
Spilman of Spilman's Point, Dorchester
county, Md, were married last week.
Miles Messick and wife, living near
Bridgeyille, celebrated the fiftieth ami
versarY of their marriage December 8.
John Owens, who has been Imprisoned
In Sussex county, was pardoned Friday
by Governor Biggs He is in very poor
health.
One man IN fredericksburg, Md, has
shipped fifty large cases OF cedar ana
holly to Chicago for the Christmas deco.
rations.
MRS Fannie Daniels. the thrifty wife
Of farmer near Townsend, sold in one
DAY recently l06 ducks, weighing 500
pounds.
Frank Tyson has resigned his petition
as secretary Of the Odessa Loan Associa
tion. Leonard v. Aspril has been elected
Ia his stead
Northern mails are delivered an hour
earlier At towns on the Cambridge aud
Seaford railroad, as result Of the re-
cent changes.
A gold watch belonging TO Miss Ida
Lloyd, Of Odessa, sto en- from her one
year ago, was returned last week by the
conscience stricken thief
Hon. George Nj. Russum succeeds Hon
Thomas :. Hodson as referee in govern.
ment appointments for the First Mary
land Congressional district.
The Odessa creamery has he'd an in
crease IN the daily supply of milk Of
from 800 to 1900 pounds since the
Miodletown creamery was burned.
Alexander Vane. an srmless citizen of
Dorchester county, Md, has been
sentenced to. three months in the House
Of Correction for violating the local
option law.
Delaware waters produce relatively no
oysters at all. This year what few are
obtained are very poor and watery The
grounds are not as favorable for propa-
CATION as the Jersey waters,
Charles Il Sangston, son OF Mrs. @. A.
SaDgston, of Greensborough, Md, and
Miss s. Q. Doe of Denver, Col, were
married recently at the home Of the
bride.
A thief entered the house OF Job
Willoughby, Jr, at Smlthville, Md, re-
Gently, rolled out barrel Of molasses,
drew twenty gallons and carried of his
booty without disturbing the slumbers
OK the family.
Chief Of Police Shockley arrested
Francis Booth of Snow Hill, Md. in
Salisbury, Md, last week and took him
back TO Worcester's county seat, where
he Is wanted by the authorities to answer
TO a charge OF profanity committed in
the streets Of King George two years
ago.
1t has been agreed by the Board OF
Trustees of the Maryland Agricultural
College that the funds for the ApricuI
.ursl College shall 60 to the Delaware
Conference Academy, an industrial school
for colored children at Princess Anne
Somerset county, Md, provided the
trustees Of the college do not show race
discrimination In regard to the admission
of students.
Since the change in the running Of
trains over the d NJ s. v. railroad.
mail facilities from points below Bar
rington have been placed back to where
they were ten years ago We now have
only one mail from the North-the even
ing mail having been discontinued. This
service is not what the business people of
thls part Of Delaware require or expect.
and IL united kick is made the defective
service viii be remedied. Milford
Chronicle.