Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1892-02-13
Maryland and Delaware
News of Our NeighbOring Towns
and Villages.
CONDENSED FOR YOU.
Fires, Weddings, Deaths, Legis-
Iatiye Matters and Other
News.

county are devoting their time TO fox
hunting.
Mr. Spencer c Jones will enter upon
the duties ofthe office of State treasurer
on February 18th
Surveyors are at work IN Cecil county
Md, on the proposed railroad from Elk
ton to Lancaster, Pa.
3O55 52 gallons of oysters were shucked
in Cambridge during the four months
ending December 81, 1891.
The loss TO the b. and o. Railroad by
the freight wreck near Jackson, Cecil
county, will, it is thought, reach 100000.
Application has been made to Governor
Brown for release of five oyeter boats
confiscated for violations of dredging
laws
There were $3.50 gallons of fruit bran
dy manufactured on the Chesapeake-Del-
aware peninsula last year. a great in
crease.
1t is proposed to create new county
out Of the upper districts of Dorchester
and the lower districts of Caroline coun-
ties, Md
1t is rumored that dredger was shot
and killed Sunday in Herring bay by the
oyster police. Commander Seth will IN
vestigate.
William Miller, well known harness
maker OF Elkton, cut his throat with sui
health caused the deed.
A movement is on foot to procure
steamboat to run between Oxford and
Tilshmans Island. Four thousand dol
lars has already been subscribed.
Goodwill fire company, of Centreville,
fought their first fire Monday night Liv-
cry stable and sheds were a fire, but the
soon put it out.
Rev. L. II. Lewis, ID. d., president of
Western Maryland College, who has been
travelling through Japan and the Holy
Land will sail for home from Liverpool
on February 10
A fire in the business portion of FELTON,,
Kent county, Del, ON Thursday night
destroyed the New York store, S. G.
Somers store and dwelling, and Thomas
d. Keley's dwelling. Loss about &c.,
900; insured for 5000.
The three hundred young ladies of the
State Normal School, at Baltimore, of
their own sweet will have discarded the
corset and the garter as any part of the
home, school or promenading costume, a
result due 10 their training in physical
culture.
A New Castle man was awarded prize
AT public entertainment in that city
few nights ago. for having the largest
nose in New Castle. The dimensions of
his proboscis are not given, but the pre-
sumption is that he had a nose of noble
proportions.
The dwelling house of John l.. Short
about three miles from Georgetown. was
destroyed by fire last Tuesday. The fire
caught from defective fiue. There was
an insurance of 81 600 in Delaware State
Grange. The house and furniture were
valued at $4,000.
There was a sadly disappointed bride
groom at Milton one evening last week.
All the preparations for an elegant we'd
ding aud reception had been made. and
guests and minister assembled when the
prospective bride changed her mind, and
the marriage was declared off.
The dead body of William Horsey, col
ored, of Salisbury, was found in the Wi
comico river on Tuesday. at i. L. Will
liams Il Cos, wharf The negro disap-
pcared from his home on Saturday. He
was last seen at IL o'clock that night, in
an intoxicated condition. II is probable
he accldently walked overheard.
III Came to Life-A Galena, Nd, cor
respondent writes as follows; "A very
interesting case which occurred here dur
ing the past week was that of colored
man who was supposed to be dead and
for whom coffin was ordered. After he
had been laid out and the assistant under
taker osked the colored assistant for the
measure. he was answered in this wise:
Bless the Lawd, Boss, the man amt
dead.
Last Saturday night shortly after mid
night, the jury in the case of the state vs..
John X. Lodges, indicted for murder in
the second degree. in having performed
criminal operation upon Miss Martha |.
Evans, OF Indian River hundred, Sussex
county, Del, resulting in her death last
July, returned with the verdict of guilty,
and the prisoner was sentenced to pay
the cost of the prosecution, $500 fine
and be imprisoned for life.
One of the sights Dover presents in the
afternoon is the "gizzard brigade" II Is
mostly colored, with an occasional white
boy or girl in the procession. The Eri-
| gade heads for Richardson's factory on
KING street, and il carried kettles and
cans empty as it approaches the factory,
but filled to repleiion "a it returns. The
gizzard brigade is after gizzards, and giz-
yards it gets At the factory of the
Messrs Richardson, hundreds Of turkeys,
ducks and chickens are packed every day
put into the cans which bear the famous
brand of this firm, so none of the geblets
of the fowls. nor the hearts, hvers or giz-
yards. These are given TO whoever wants
them, and tons of them go entirely to
waste. At the same time hundreds Of
families avail themselves Of the privilege
offered and 20 10 the factory after gig