Dispatch, December 5, 1888

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Infrastructure -- Public : ChurchesAfrican-Americans -- Race relationsAfrican-Americans -- ReligionInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving serviceInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Customs serviceNatural resources -- Shoreline migration

Onancock, December 3, 1888.

The colored Baptists are increasing very rapidly in and around this town. A revival has been going on at their church here, and many have professed conversion. Notwithstanding the cold weather a number of the new converts were immersed near here yesterday in Onancock creek in the presence of a large crowd of both races.

Lieutenant Wild, commander of the United States revenue marine, is on Chincoteague Island, whither he went last week to sell the revenue cutter Report, which is to be replaced by a new one better suited to the needs of the Government service, and Captain Benjamin S. Rich, superintendent of the life-saving stations in this district, is on Hog Island superintending the removal of the station-house there from the surf, into which it was washed during the recent storm.