Democratic messenger., 1894-02-17
From Peninsula Papers.

Prof. Ford * elocutIoniZing on the
Peninsula
Eli Perkins lcctured in Milford
Thursday night.
4 town clock Isl wanted for the
Easton High School.
\ Lewis Delaware man has seven
dogs assessed to him.
Kent County Teachers Association
met in Chestertown on Friday.
The Easton Methodist Episcopal
Sunday School has new organ.
Dorchester county commissioners
pay four-titths Of Il cent bushel for
oyster shells.
Harry Evans. Adams Express
Agent at Easton will go to Florida
for his health
Harry Brewington. of Salisbury has
been engaged as clerk AT the Ford
House, Pocomoke.
The Sentinel of Dover says. the Com
ference Academy will graduate about
score of students this year.
Ladies Aid Society of Georgetown
Church will hold "Ye Old Destrict
Skule" in the towr hall Feb. 22.
Hon. James X. Lohand the only
Delaware Republican ever elected to
Congress from that State is dead.
The Rev. George F. Hopkins has
been transferred from the Bombay
(India) to the Wilmington NJ. +. Con
ference.
Citizens of Wicomico county have
petitioned the Legislature for a repeal
of the Australian ballot law in that
county.
Not as many dredging licenses
have been issued this year as usual;
only 663 have been issued by the
Comptroller.
Mrs. Hester Eaton. of Queen AIMS
county died last Thursday morning
from the effects Of grip, at the age OF
eighty-two years.
Rev. W. W. Sharp. of Hillsboro
NJ. +. Church, married five couples
last week. one Of whom gave him
$40 bill for his services.
Delaware has no State prison.
State convicts are sent to the county
prisons or TO to the Maryland State
Penitentiary at Baltimore.
1t is not true that Captain Charles
Mister of the schooner Lacy Thor
oughgood was captured by the Nir.
ginia oyster police last week.
Miss Leila Massey. of Greenborough
Caroline county, was married last
"Wednesday afternoon at o'clock to
John W. Downs Of New York.
Freddie Barr aimed loaded gun
at his little cousin, Sidney Gibson. in
Georgetown on Friday. and pulled
the trigger. Sidney was killed.
Mrs. Emma b. Johnson. of Concord,
has just finished a bed quilt with
eleven hundred and ten pieces, no two
alike. She calls it Jobs trouble"
School commissioner George G..
Moore, of Talbot county, had eve to
give birth to four lambs on Saturday
last. They are all living. The eve
died.
Thieves entered Mr. 5. j. Meredith's
house at Chestertown and stole 900
pounds of pork. They also entered
his hennery and stole a number OF
chickens.
\. |. Dugan. of Chestertown, the
veteran hotel keeper. restauranteur
and politician, has sold out his hotel
business to J. w. Kendall.of Queen
Annes county.
Samuel Fulkner, of Caroline county.
on Saturday Feb. 3rd. caught leather
carp in his haul sein which weighed
- pounds. He retailed it out at s
cents per pound.
Mad dogs have appeared III Quaker
Neck and are playing havoc in that
section Thirty dogs have been killed.
and quite number of hogs bitten by
mad dogs will he slaughtered.
Mr.. Peter r. Causey, of Milford,
who has for some time held a position
in the New Orleans Custom House.
has been transferred to Syracuse. n
V, and is now at home in Milford
Oyster Boats are being sold at un-
precedented prices at some of the
places along the Chesapeak Bay. Ii
is significant and distressing result
Of the deterioration of the oyster
supply.
Mrs Edith Powell died at her res
dience about four miles..below Cecilton
on Wednesday night of paralysis.
She was the wife of Joseph Powell
well known farmer Of Cecil county,
who survives her.
Incendiaries at o'clock Wednes-
day morning burned Joseph I. Stout's
barns. occupied by Samuel I. Shippers
livery stable, near the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
six miles from Elkton. Six horses
and five cows perished in the flames.
Loss. $1,000; insured.
Mr.. John V. Crosby, of near Ches-
tcriown. was driving home from town
on Saturday when the horse stumbled
and threw Mr.. Crosby out of the car
riage. When picked up by friends