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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateProfessionals -- Realtors and developers

Browne, Jacob & Co., sold recently property on Occohannock to a Penn. party for $1850. The sale was effected by Mr. Ed. S. Jacob, of Read's wharf, Northampton county, Va., who is now with the firm in the real estate business.

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Architecture -- Commercial buildingsInfrastructure -- Commercial - Hotels

Parties who desire to take the contract for building the hotel to be erected soon at Belle Haven, by Mr. Lucius J. Kellam, are requested to send in their bids at once. The new hotel is to be 3 stories high and 42x52 -- in fact the largest and handsomest on the Eastern Shore.

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reprinted from Norfolk Ledger, 2nd.Transportation -- Railroad - Steamboats

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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetingsAfrican-Americans -- Religion

A colored campmeeting commenced at Savageville yesterday.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Schools

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Sea -- Other

Capt. J. S. Davis, of Davis's wharf, this county, has invented and patented improved grapnel tongs for catching oysters, clams, sponge, or any substance growing in deep or shallow water, or for the removal of wreckage, logs, &c. The tongs are operated by ropes, and the whole apparatus is described as very simple, easily handled and effective.

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Moral -- AlcoholMoral -- Vandalism

The local option campaign has opened in the Onancock district, Accomac county, with spirit. The election takes place January 5th.

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Moral -- Property crime

Louisa Johnson, colored, was sent to jail last Wednesday, for 90 days by Justice Higgins, for obtaining goods under false pretenses.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing

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Watermen -- Personal injuryTransportation -- Water - Wrecks

Two young men drowned May 3, Greenbackville, Va. Oyster sloop "Bell" of Greenbackville capsized in Metompkin Inlet with Young and Benjamin Tull, crew, drowned. Tull was 18 or 19 years old, son of Mr. Solomon Tull.

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Lighthouse serviceTransportation -- Water - Aids to navigation

The lighthouse board at Washington has recommended Mr. Browne's bills for lighthouses at Tangier and Great Wicomico, and for a buoy depot at Chincoteague, Va. All these bills will be reported favorably in a few days.

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving serviceProfessionals -- Builders

Mr. A. J. Lilliston, Accomac C. H., has been awarded the contract by U.S. Government for building the new Life Saving Station on Metompkin beach.