Dispatch, October 14, 1888

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Fields -- Crops - FodderSea -- Finfish - Methods : Pound-netWeather -- OtherMoral -- Property crime

Onancock, October 12, 1888.

The stormy weather that has prevailed here for the past few days is ended and the sky is again clear and the atmosphere pleasant. Several nights ago a terrific thunder-storm swept over the northern part of Accomack. A house in the neighborhood of Atlantic was struck and several of the occupants were so badly stunned as to be rendered insensible. An accurate record of the weather here for the past forty days shows that there were in that time only four cloudless days on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. As a result of this much of the fodder has been saved in a damaged condition, and farm work very much retarded.

The heavy winds that have prevailed here for the past three weeks have done considerable damage to the fishing interests. It is reported that many nets and fykes have been blown to pieces or otherwise damaged, and many of the boats used in going out to the nets have been blown high and dry upon the land.

An attempt was made last night by some unknown persons to break into the dwelling house of Levin Parker, a farmer ling in Deep Creek Neck about four miles from this place. The would-be robber had ripped the facing from one of the lower windows when Mr. Parker's sister heard the noise and screamed for help. Mr. Parker rushed out, shotgun in hand, but the thief had fled. This, taken in connection with the robbery committed last Monday at Finney's Wharf, near here, and a previous attempt to break into the house in this town now occupied by Mrs. Lottie Taylor, a widow lady, has given color to the belief that an organized band of thieves is now infesting in those parts.