Disptach, July 31, 1888

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal ordersArchitecture -- JailsInfrastructure -- Public : SchoolsInfrastructure -- Public : ChurchesFields -- Livestock - HorsesInfrastructure -- Commercial - Hotels

Onancock, July 28, 1888.

The laying of the corner-stone of the new Masonic Temple at Temperanceville last Wednesday was well attended and the exercises interesting and well rendered. The fair held by the ladies for the benefit of the Masonic Hall was liberally patronized. At night Professor Austin Merrill, of Vanderbilt University, delighted a large audience with choice recitations.

Douglas Manual, a negro desperado, recently committed to Accomack jail for grand larceny, made his escape several nights ago with the aid of confederates who scaled the high wall surrounding the jail, broke the three heavy padlocks which fastened the iron doors leading to the cell where Manual was confined, and liberating the prisoner, made their escape to the woods. Manual is from Maryland, in which State he is said to have broken out of several jails. His confederates are also believed to be from Maryland.

Professor Jesse Littleton, for the past year filling the chair of modern languages in the Methodist Female College in Danville, has been appointed principal of the public graded school at Belle Haven, and will teach there next session.

The Hollies Baptist church, near Pungoteague, having been rebuilt on an enlarged and improved plan, is now one of the most commodious and sightly churches in this section. The dedication exercises will be held on the first Sunday in September.

The committee of arrangements for entertaining the ministers and delegates to the Baptist Association on Chincoteague island report that they have secured suitable accommodations for all visiting clergymen and delegates. The association begins on the 16th of August. The pony-penning has been set for the 17th and 18th of August, so that visitors to the association can also witness this historic custom of the islanders. The two occasions will probably draw the largest crowd of visitors to the island ever seen there before; but ample preparations have been made to accommodate all who may come. Chincoteague boasts of the largest and finest hotel on the Eastern Shore with fifty-six well-furnished rooms for guests, and all the natives will keep open houses during the association.