Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-11-21
OUR PENINSULA.

Over 1000 rabbits were killed in
Kent county last week.
Jacob Tome bought a Cecil farm
Of 2l0 acres at mortgages sale for
$4,000.
Five year-old son of Thomas Muir
ray, of Centreville, was kicked to
death by fractions horse.
A Frederick market man brought
to that city on Wednesday 800 rab-
bits captured in three days.
A barbecue was held at Hartford
Furnace on Thursday in honor of
Congressman Bakers election.
Nearly one-third of the voters Of
Kent county were unable TO sign their
names on the registration books.
:Greensborough is sinking wells
for the use of the new fire engine late
ly purchased by the town commission
ers.
Guy l.. Jones, ST. Johns Col
lege football player, has been taken to
Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment
for appendicitis.
VIM. L. Dougherty, of Pocomoke
City, tried TO separate his birddog and
a bulldog which were fighting. He
was badly bitten on both hands.
After December 2nd sealed pro-
posals will be opened at the United
States engineers office in Wilmington,
dredging Manokin, Wicomico and
Pocomoke rivers.
In case at Easton Tuesday
Judge Stump decided that a person
bringing perishable articles into the
State in bulk does not need license
to sell at retail.
George ID. lnsley of Wicomico
won his suit Tuesday at Cambridge
against the Aetna Life Insurance
Company, which had refused to pay a
policy assigned to the plaintiff.
The Queen Anne's Grand Jury
was discharged Wednesday. In its
report it recommended that new
county Jail be secured An hour af-
terward a prisoner escaped by pick
ing bricks out of the wall.
Charles II. Sigman paid an cleo.
ton bet at Easton Wednesday after
noon by riding Congressman elect
BARRIERS mule around town. The mule
was decorated with bunting and APP
propriate inscriptions.
DIR. John Turner, aged SS years,
died near WallviIle, Calvert county,
on Monday. He was prominent in
social and political affairs, having
been elected to several important po-
sitions by the Democratic party.
Talbot County Court began on
Monday. Numerous local option cases
will come before the Grand Jury, and
it will investigate the releasing of
prisoners from Jail on election day so
they could vote, and charges of bri-
berry.
The Dorchester Grand Jury has
adjourned. II found 80 indictments.
1t is said by members OF the jury that
high-license law would improve the
mortality OF the county and save the
taxpayers money.
Harrington has under construc-
ton new opera house. 1t will have
seating capacity of about 600, and
will be opened about Christmas. The
newly organized militia company of
that town will use it as an armory.
The difference between the charge
of Judge Stump TO the Talbot jury
and that of Judge Russum to the
Queen Anne's jury in the matter OF
recommending licenses for the sale of
liquor in license districts has excited
remark.
Work on the Queen Anne's rail
road is progressing. Piling are now
being driven for the bridge draw at
Denton, which when completed, will
connect the sections east and west of
the Choptank river. The telegraph
line over the route is also nearly com
pleted from Queenstown 10 Delaware
railroad.
The majority OF Hon. w. A.
Jones over VIM. b. Tyler in the First
Congressional district of Virginia as
shown by the official count, is 1869, a
majority so large that it looks as if
TYLER was not in the race at all, but
notwithstanding the large majority
given Mr.. Jones, it is stated, that
there is possibility OF contest be-
ing made.-Peninsuia Enterprise.
Four bushels If eels were taken
from the water wheels AT the Wicomi-
co Falls Mill. last Saturday. The
snake like creatures ran through the
gates from the pond, and became
wedged into the water wheels. They
became so tightly packed in the wheels
that it was impossible for the wheel to
revolve, and it became necessary to
pull them out with hooks. Some OF
the eels taken were as large as man:
arm.
A centennial year curiosity which
was inspected by many farmers visit
ing Crumpton during the past two
weeks, was an ear of corn just twenty
years old, gathered by Mr.. y. J.
Quimby, on. John n. Clark's farm
near Downe's Chapel, Delaware. on
October 18th, 1876. The ear, which
was very large at the time of being
gathered, is now rather below the
average size The grain though plump
hes become smaller, and is as hard as
flint, while the cob has also shrunk
ana is as solid as piece of bone. Il
there another centennial ear of corn IN
the State?
A drowning man would have little
use for method of rescue which would
require days A dyspeptic doesn''
want to bother with remedy that is