The Countryside Transformed:

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reprinted from Cape Charles Headlight.Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Baseball

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement

The schooner J. W. Brooks, belonging to Caleb Evans, of Crisfield, taken for dredging unlawfully in Virginia water, was condemned at present term of county court, as forfeited to the Commonwealth, and order entered for sale.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers

The Cape Charles Pioneer has been enlarged.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Corporate

Trains 80 and 81 of N.Y.P.,& N R.R., have been discontinued.

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reprinted from Cape Charles [City] Headlight.Moral -- Property crime

A Mr. Thorn, from Accomac, who had come up here with a load of oysters, came up to the town on last night, and allowed two confidence men -- one an Italian and the other a one-eyed negro -- to swindle him out of $10.

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reprinted from Cape Charles [City] Headlight, August 4.Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Surveying

The steamship "Fish Hawk" left here on Friday last, for Tangier Sound, where, it is said, she will remain sometimes locating natural oyster rocks in that sound.

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reprinted from Pocomoke City Eastern ShoremanTransportation -- Railroad - PersonnelTransportation -- Railroad - Rolling stock

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African-Americans -- Race relations

Wm. H. Grant, a very respectable colored man, and one of the largest owners of real estate of his race in county, died near Modestown, after a short illness, of pneumonia, on 9th inst.

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Sea -- Finfish - Regulation

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reprinted from Richmond Dispatch.Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Lighthouse serviceNatural resources -- Shoreline migration

Plans are rapidly drawn for the new lighthouse at Cape Charles, which has an appropriation of $150,000. The point had washed away to such an extent that a new site had to be secured.

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Farmers -- Farmers' organizations

Sub-Alliances will be instituted at Pungoteague, 2 p. m., to-day, and at Mappsburg at night, by D. Frank White, organizer of Farmers' Alliances. He met the farmers at Cradockville, last night, for a similar purpose.