Evening journal., 1894-05-28
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Soft crabs are being shipped from Re
hoboth bay.
A telephone company has been organ
lied In Salisbury with capital Of 81 500.
About 500 barrels of fine oysters are
being shipped daily from Chincoteague
Island.
A small blue-black beetle Is destroy
ing the Sussex grape crop by attacking
IL In the bud.
A movement Is on foot TO erect Pres
byterian church in Pennington during
the present year.
Persons in the vicinity OF Marydel
say there will be large crop Of buckle
berries this year.
Rev. c. A. Grloe, OF the M. f. Church
OF Georgeto wn, is recovering from an
attack Of the whOoping cough.
The young men OF Lewes are contem.
plating forming base ball company,
enclosing the grounds and erecting a
grand stand.
A sea turtle that weighed over 200
pounds and was three feet across, was
caught by the sturgeon fishermen of
Cedar Beach.
The army worm is IN the wheat ia sew
eral sections Of Talbot county. Farmers
are not apprehensive, however, that it
will do material damage.
In Indian River hundred there grows
plant called Indian pone, or cucumber
the root Of which Is said to have been
used by the Indians as food.
The Singerly Pulp and Paper Mills
which were compelled to close Wednes
day on account Of muddy water froR
heavy rains, have started sgain.
1t is estimated that Milford and Cedar
Creek hundreds, which are headquarter,
for crimson clover In the United State es
will produce 6, 600 bushels Of seed
Evidently the clerical gentlemen whs
attended the colored conference werl
disappointed because Dovertes did no
kill the fatted calf, says the Della
warean.
Georgetown girls have plenty Of en-
ergy, enterprise end ability. One o
them hiss opened an ice cream parlor
and will certainly achieve the success
she deserves.
Down at Rehoboth rything is be
/ ginning to assume a-like-summer ap
pearEnce The great storm doors hav
been removed and barricaded window
have been opened, according to the Pilot
Dr.. Hickman is repairing the old man
sion built by Dr. Henry Fisher on Pilo
Town before the Revolutionary war, say
the Lewes Pilot, and will reside ther
during the summer.
Professor Horace w. Britcher, Of tn
John Hopkins University, Of Baltimore
Is studying the habits of the king era
at its favorite spawning place on tn
shores Of the Delaware bay
William Lawson, who was arreste
for robbery, escaped from Salisbury jai
Saturday night by saving the bars Of hi
cell. There was one other prisoner d
the cell with him, who refused to escape
The strawberry crop has been dis
appointment to the growers this seaso
on the Maryland side Of the Peninsuls
The crop was early and the weather 5
dry that they matured small and th
prices have been very low.
factory is TO be erected at Ceda
Beach in time for next seasons 6shin
by Peter Fedderson, for the purpose q
rendering oil from the skins, heads an
other parts Of sturgeon now throw
overheard The refuse will then 20 int
fish scrap, or fertilizer.
One day last week some person kille
female fox and her young in den 3
May Shoal, near town, says the Milfor
News and Advertiser. He left a not
saying III you want TO see foxes, loo
up" The dead animals were hung &
limbs Of tree.
Joseph Neale left at d. L. Mustar
& Cos drug store on Thursday th
largest hen egg ever recorded. says th
Lewes Pilot. The weight OF thu egg
"a ounces, eight inches in circumfersnC
around the short diameter, and Il
inches about the long diameter.
The Berlin High School graduates th
year are Caroline G. Farland, Samuel 4
| Quillen, Jr.. and James Roscoe Whit
l The graduates of Snow Hill High Scho,
are Ruth Brimer, Carrie NJ Peters, III
zie M. Richardson, Ethelyne w. Wilson
= John |. Coulbourn, Harry Howard, Wi
M..Wa