Evening journal., 1895-12-31
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS.


Mushrooms grow abundantly on Wash.
ington College campus near Chester
town
Burglars blew open the safe Of the
Standard OIL Company, Salisbury, and
riHsd il OF It's contents.
Prize. IS Anne has literary society.
Cambridge has twenty meat stores
Abe Butler. oolored died In Kent county
Nd, last week, sged 1O5
There is talk Of a law and order so.
clety being formed in Elkton.
Elkton NJ E Church has issued
calender for 1896
large soft crab was caught At Girls
Geld last week
Ridgslj's new freight depot Is com
pleted.
A. X Cruiser, Of Greensboro, has not
failed to attend a shooting match on
Christmas Day for over fifty years.
The bay shore at Tolchester is sire wn
With dead FISH. supposed TO have been
killed by the recent cold weather
Lewes has a thlmble aud needle club,
WIcomlco's commissioners have con
trscted for an electric light to burn In
the hallway Of the court house all night.
The public schools Of Dorchester
county are more largely attended this
year than ever before
Princess Anne's new bank will be
completed some time In January.
manse will be built for the Presby
terian minister At smyrna next Summer
The question OF circulating library
for Cambridge is being agitated
There are no houses for rent in Gorge
town.
war among blacksmiths has made It's
appearance In Kent county, Md, aud
three shops have lowered the price Of
horseshoeing to 20 cents.
Mrs N J. BArwlck, Of Green wood
was struck with apoplsxy and died In
one hour
The proposition 10 subititute coal oil
for gas for lighting the streets OF Gam
bridge meets With much opposition
among the citizsns
Four generations Of Mr sud Mrs
Richard w Cochran's family celebrate
ths Christmas festival at their home In
Middletown on Wednesday
Cambridge ministers have pstliioned
the county commissioners to Improve tho
condition Of the jail.
Dressed turkeys have been 20 cent
pound In Georgetown market.
Near Laurel Saturday another NJ p
Church WAS dedicated, making the third
one dedicated In Sussex county recently
rhs growth OF this denomination has
been marvellous
Pomona Grange for Kent county meats
In Camden on January, 2, 1895, at 10 80
q. m
Daniel Toomsy. Of Cool Spring, aged
about 10 years received q severe gun shot
wound from the accidental discharge Of
bis gun on Christmas day The load took
eject In the leg. shooting away part Of
the bone.
There Is considerable talk among the
sportsmen OF Kent and Sussex about
securing quail from some other state to
be distributed this Winter in Delaware
The heavy SHOWS and extreme cold OF last
Winter practically annihilsted the quail
OF this section. The Game Protective
Association will be asked to buy the quail
for distribution.
There has bsen so little rain OF late
that the water In Elk creek has become
decidedly brAckish, something extremely
rare The engineers at Slngerly's Pulp
Mills say that it bothers them consider
ably as II forms heavy enorustments
upon their boilers Elkton Is twenty
miles from the head OF the bay on a
stream fed by springs, and the presence
OF salt water can only be accounted for
BY the scarcity OF rain.
smyrna can boast Of as many man over
40 years as any other town OF It's siz,
perhaps In America A real estate firm
has list hung up In It's Office Of thirty
fve white men over 20 wears Of age,
twenty OF whom average 70 years.