Evening journal., 1893-07-07
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Salisbury has Turkey Bone Club"
Caroline county levies $1,000 for
public schools.
A large marine railway is to be built
at Chincoteague.
Brigden & Ramsdell Ridgely are max
ing 5000 baskets day.
Frank McShane has charge of the
Ridgely-Denton stage line.
J. Pliny Fisher has bought Colonel J.
W. Bryant's law Office in Denton.
H. W. vickers has bought the Weer
house in Kennedyville for 81, 800
There are thirty families on Hollands
Island and 80 Sunday school children.
Captain Joe Griffith, Of Denton, is So
years old, and is now cutting large
jaw tooth
James w. Holt gathered ripe peaches
from his Cowards point orchard June
90; Waterloos.
Shad to the number of "a, 900, 600 were
Matched at Tuckahoe station and $4,000,
000 at Sharptown.
Miller Maslin, Of Kent county, Md,
caught a crab having the claw and fins
on one side white
A boy II years old caught a rock fsh
which weighed 27i pounds in Jobs Hole,
near Conowingo bridge.
Rev. Robert Scott, rector of All Hal
lows, Snow HILL will take course Of
lectures this summer at Oxford Univer
| sity, England.
The Dorchester school board has de-
clined to change a regulation which pro
hibits married women from teaching In
the public schools.
A large annex is now in the course OF
construction for the colored branch OF
the Maryland Agricultural College, stu
ated on the suburbs Of Princess Anne.
The Eastern Shore Steamboat Company
has just completed a new wharf ano
warehouse At Rehoboth an1 now have d
force Of woikmen making extensive i'm
provements on its property at that place
The pastor Of the colored people
church at Marydel advertised thus; On
the 4th of July there wiz be 8 contest %
| thirty virgins. Every virgin who fails
to raise so, her light will go ont an,
she will be numbered among 9 he foolish.
The county commissioners of Corolid'
and Dorchester counties expect to builC
bridge over Miles Branch on the count,
line road leading from Federalsburg T.
Reliance, and to grade down the hill an,
widen the road bed on the south side o
the branch at that point.
Henry Kirkwood, residing on the farm
Of the late William NJ Costen, was dis
patched 10 Pocomoke City on horsebacl
for doctor, and in running his horse a
high speed the animal fell and broke il
neck The horse was a valuable one an
belonged to the Costen estate
William Rodgers, young man, resi-
dent of Elkton, went to Washington abou
two weeks ago and on the 23d ultim
returned with bride She was a Mis-
Jennie Talbot. Shortly after her arrivl
Mrs Rodgers was taken III and earl
Tuesday morning died.
Reports from Dublin district. th
banner oat district of Somerset count,
show that the oat crop in that section
better than il has been for fifteen year
and the farmers are much @ couraged (
I the prospect of a good yield. The OF
crop in this section of the state for tl
4 past year or two has been almost a fai
ure
d The examinations Of applicants 4
e teachers certificates and for the vacai
scholarships at the Normal School al
= st. Johns and Western Marylar
Colleges were completed yesterda
S Sixteen applied for certificates and nil
for the scholarships. There will be b
d few changes in the corps of teache
), this year, and for every vacant schO
t there are numerous applicants.