Evening journal., 1897-07-31
ON THE PENINSULA.
What is Transpiring Among
Eastern Shore Folk.
CAMP MEETING FIRES BURNING
VARIOUS HAPPENINGS IN THE
TOWNS DOWN THE STATE AND
THE NEIGHBoRING MARYLAND
COUNTIES.

THE NEIGHBORING MARYLAND
COUNTIES.
Some of the important school ap-
pointments in Talbot county school for
the next scholastic year are these: Ed
ward Reisler, of Union Bridge, Carroll
county, to be principal of the county
high school, at Easton, with Miss Fla
via A. Welby, Miss Alice Mcdaniel and
Miss II. l.. Mellier, assistants. Some
years ago Mr.. Reisler was principal OF
the high school at St Michael's. Talbot
county, but for a number of years past
has been editor of the Carroll County
News, at Union Bridge. Charles Hill
Winder, of Williamsport, Pa, to be
principal of St. Michaels High School.
Mr.. Winder is a native of Onancock.
Va, and is a graduate of Dickinson
College. N. Price Turner has been re-
appointed principal of oxford High
School, and Addison e. Mullikin APP
pointed principal of Trappe High
School.
The large camp meeting at Chiffon s,
four miles east of Greensboro, began
yesterday and will continue ten days. II
is under the auspices of the Methodist
Protestant Church, and is in charge of
Rev. VI. w. ID. Johnson, who is pastor
in what is known as Caroline circuit. 1t
is one CT the finest groves on the PENN
sula, and is largely tented this year.
Some Of the ablest ministers of the con-
ference will be present and assist dur
ing the meeting. Among them ne Revs.
A. D.. Melvin, w. K. Graham, J. l..
Straughn r. IL. Vandyke, G. |. Bacchus,
w. ID. Austine, John Wright G. L. Har-
desty, W. H. Kenney, A. L. Dean and
e. ID. Taylor.
For the last fifteen or twenty years
the species of fish known as spots or
reaches, have been rarely found in the
littoral waters of the Eastern Shore of
Virginia, but this season they have re-
appeared in great abundance. A farmer
residing near Assawaman inlet, on the
seaside, went out one morning this
week and returned home before break
fast with ten bushels of these delicious
fish, which he and boy had caught in
a seine near the inlet. The hogfsh and
sheepshead, which were once very
plentiful in these waters, have also
almost entirely disappeared in late
years, and as yet there is no sign OF
their return.
Jacob Stein, a white barber, of
Smyrna, was taken from his shop by a
crowd of thirty or forty young men,
and on the green in front of the public
school building, whipped with switches.
Some of the crowd wanted to take him
to the mill pond and give him a duck
ing. Stein has been very intimate with
two colored women. 1t is alleged.
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county, Pa, was last night elected prin-
cipal of the Middletown Academy. He
was elected on the second ballot out of
a list of nineteen applicants.
A rocking chair in which Robert
Russell, Jr., of Milford, was sitting,
rocked off a high porch, and Russell S
righ arm was broken by the fall.
These Maryland scholarships have
been awarded Normal School: Miss Mol
lie w. Tarr, of st. Michaels; Miss Eva
Jackson, Of Tilghman, and Miss Lola
Jump. of CordOva, st. Mary's county;
Miss Laura Leila Wooters, of EastOn.
William 4. a. Boockerman has been
appointed collector of town taxes in
| Easton, to succeed Charles e. NicOls.
J Basil Sewell. a former resident OF
Cecil county, died recently in Philadel-
phia, aged SS years. He was a native
of Baltimore and for large part of his
life was a resident of Cecil county.
Mrs. Marshall Richards, of St. Mich
aels, slipped on a boardwalk, fell and
broke an arm and the socket bone of
one of her hips 1t is feared she will be
a cripple for life
Governor LOwndes has designated the
Easton Ledger, Democratic, and the
Easton Gazette, Republican, as the
papers in Talbot county to publish the
proclamation of the constitutional
amendment, to be voted on next No
vember.
E. l.. Jones & Co.. of Dover. has re.
ceiyed an order for six boilers.
Miss Anna Pitts, the 14-year-olC
daughter of J. E. Pitts, of Princess
Anne, died this morning of typhoid
fever.
Frank NJ. Steele has been chosen
superintendent of Newark's electric
light and water works.
The Perry Hawkins camp meeting
about eight miles from Princess Anne
will commence tomorrow and continue
over TWO weeks.
Tomorrow promises to be a big day
at the Sand Hill camp, near George
town.
The people of Greenwood, who arc
strictly prohibition, are having a lively
time over the sale of whiskey at th'
hotel in that place.
Overseer Hickman. of the SUSSEX
almshouse, gave the inmates at that in
stitution a days outing at Oak Orchard
on Wednesday.
James camp, near Sycamore, begins
to-day Evangelist w. X. Galloway will
assist in the meetings.
Sussex oats are badly damaged by the
wet weather, having sprouted in the
shock in the field.
The unthreshed wheat in the vicinity
of Milford has been ruined by storms
and will be used for feeding hogs.
August - will be big Thursday al
Bowers Beach. and August 10 will b,
big Thursday at Slaughter Beach.
The telegraph offices and freight
agencies at Ross and Bacon's Mill Pond
on the Delaware railroad, have beer
/ closed.
Those interested in the proposed BIZ
cycle path on the road leading from
Georgetown to Lewes met in the sher-
IFS Office and elected a president. sec.
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