Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-07-06
PENINSULA.

RenODOtn ms season.
Policeman Stephen Plcasanton, OF
Dover, was bitten by mad dog in
that place ON Tuesday morning.
The Kent and Sussex county Sun
day School Convention will be held in
Georgetown on July rs and IL.
The Hotel Henlopen, Rehoboth, gave
its opening ball on July 2nd, to which
the public were cordially invited.
4 mysterious and fatal disease is
rapidly killing OIL horses and mules in
in the vicinity of NAPLES Mill, Sussex
county.
Cambridge can boast of more lady
cyclists, and they are nearly all grace
ful, than any other town Of lis size in
the country.
The July term of the Circuit Court
for Somerset county convened on Mon
day. This was non,jury term, and
lasted only two days.
Prof. James +. Carroll, who has
been principal of Dover public schools
for the past fifteen years, has resigned
and accepted position at New Castle.
Rosetta Wright, an aged woman,
was found dead in her bed early Mon.
day morning. She lived with her
daughter in Easton and was said to be
81 years old.
A telephone line connecting West
over and the village Of Paramount i.
now an assured fact. The work OF
settling the poles between the two
points was completed last week.
The British steamer Daylight, with
the second cargo Of sugar ever shipped
to this country from Egypt, arrived at
the Breakwater last Friday from
Alexandria. The steamer was ordered
to Boston.
Lightning Monday struck tenant
house on one of the farms of Colonel
Lloyd near Easton and badly damaged
ii. One Of the occupants, a colored
woman, was stunned and dog killed
by the lightning.
The residence of Capt. J. w. Web
ster, of Deals Island, was struck by
lightning on Monday afternoon, OF
last week, during thunder storm.
Fortunately no one was hurt and the
damage to the house was small.
Superintendent c. c. Tindal, OF Kent
county, and Superintendent Willard
L. Smith, of New Castle county, will
join this year in holding a summer
school for teachers in Dover, beginning
July LIST, and continuing five weeks.
Lightning struck the Baptist
Church at Cordova, Sunday, while the
morning service was in progress. Ar
veil Randall a young farmer who had
just arrived, was instantly killed by
the shock, as were also pair of horse.
standing near by.
Robert W. Mustard, a brother oil
DIR. ID. l.. Mustard, native of Lewis,
but now resident of Shanghai, China,
arrived in the former place last Satur-
day for protracted visit among rela.
tives. His last visit to his native
home was in 1887.
Mr.. +. +. Milligan, of Edwin 7. o.,
Revell's Neck, picked and shipped a
carrier of tomatoes on Tuesday last.
This we believe is the first shipped
from the peninsula this season. Since
Tuesday, several other parties have
been shipping tomatoes.
The Lewis Base Ball Club has
brought suit against +. NJ. Jones,
manager of the Georgetown Base Ball
Club, to recover the amount of S15,
which they forfeited by refusing to fin
ish the game on the occasion of the
last contest between the two clubs.
On the 2Sth of July, 1873, nearly
twenty-five years ago. the Groom
Cottage" at Rehoboth, while in TIE
course of construction was struck by
lightning and slightly damaged, the
contractor, Stanley Short, who was
standing in door of the building,
being instantly killed. Last Monday,
during the prevalence of severe rain
and hail storm the cottage was again
considerably damaged by the fatal
fluid.
During a severe storm Sunday even
ing, about ) o'clock, Mrs. Lille Jack.
son, wife of Mr.. Stephen Jackson OF
Principle Furnace, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. Mrs.
jackson was in the act of removing Il
cloth and line from n tree in the yard
adjoining the house when she was
struck. Her face was badly burned
and part Of the hair on her head was
burned Off One shoe was torn from
her foot Mrs. Jackson leaves fam.
lily OF five small children, the youngest
being four weeks old.