Democratic messenger., 1894-09-29
PENINSULA.

The Talbot County Fair was a sue
cess.
The mills in Wicomico county are
grinding new corn.
a tramp was kicked TO death by
mule at Marydel last week.
William Holten Legg and Capt. j.
w. Jones, Kent Island, are dead.
John +. Goodwin has resigned rs
director Of the Centreville National
Bank.
Capt. Frank Harrington, Princess
Anne, has double pig preserved in
alcohol.
The school board OF Caroline county
is taking census Of the school children
with view to finding out how many
do not attend school.
An applicant for naturalization in
the United States Court at Wilmington
was asked how the Governor is elected
He replied, "By Congress"
At the recent session of the Circuit
Court for Cecil county not criminal
trial was on the docket, something
that has not occurred before in 81
years, says Judge Stump.
The E;rston Ledge,' and the Gazette
both issued Fair" editions last weak.
Eight pages filled with important
fair news and illustrations, was the
size Of each issue.
Cards are out announcing the com
ing marriage Of Miss Margaret Edith
Adams to William j. Pcyton, both of
Crisfield, on Wednesday evening, Oc-
tober 3rd, in Emmanuel NJ. +. Church.
William L. Davis, of Linkwood
district, Dorchester county, died on
Monday morning. Sept. 18th. aged IS
years. Mr.. Davis was county COM
missioner for Dorchester county Tor
two terms.
Tie commissioners of Denton are
shelling the streets of that town, and
an effort will likely to be made soon
to have the approaches to the town on
the east side improved with coating
of oyster shells or mari.
George W. Humphreys, for eleven
years editor of the Wilmington Erery
Erening, has severed his connection
with the paper and will move to Eus-
It's. Fla, where he will engage in fruit
raising. Merris Taylor succeeds him
us editor of the Erery Erening.
When the new boundry line between
Delaware and Pennsylvania was made
not long since it cut one John I. John
son out of Delaware and placed him
in Pennsylvania He didn't want to
be Pennsylvania and is now trying
TO get registered in Delaware.
The seven-year-old daughter of John
Smith (colored). of Elkton, met with
a horrible death Thursday night. She
had been playing with fire, when her
clothing became ignited. Before the
flames could be extinguished she was
fatally burned. Death resulted in
few hours
George Parker who was recently
arrested in Baltimore and lodged in
Chestertown Jail, charged with stealing
s75 from Captain Mcpherson of the
schooner Carrie L., escaped from pris-
on in company with colored
man named Williams, who had been
sentenced to the House of Correction
for fighting.
Daniel Cochran. well known farm
er living near Sassafras, has curiosity
in the shape of a potato of the early
Vermont variety, which has grown
completely through a small bone which
has hole through it, about an inch
in diameter. The bone acts as sort of
a ring on the potato. Mr.. Cochran
intends to preserve the curiosity in al
chohol.
For the first time in any ag:icul-
al fair in Maryland native grown bar
lev was on exhibit in the farm and
seeds department at the Easton Fair.
1t represents the successful growing OF
this grain rs an experiment by Louis
Trail and DIR. Charles Lowndes. At
least 800 acres of land III Talbot county
will be sown in barley this year in