The Countryside Transformed:

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Transportation -- Water - Wrecks

Several barrels of linseed oil came ashore on Cedar Island this week and the presumption is, that there is a wreck off the coast.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders

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Transportation -- Railroad - Personnel

Mr. H. W. Dunne, Superintendent of the N. Y. P. & N. R. . and Mr. R. B. Cook, General passenger and Freight Agent, attended our Fair.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Boat racing

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers

The last issue of the Eastern Virginian contains the announcement, that the former proprietors have assumed control of it again. The change will be gratifying to many of its old subscribers.

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Moral -- Murder

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Sea -- Fish factories

The firm of Powell, Morse & Co., hereafter will be known as the "American Fish Guano Co." The notice of dissolution which appears in this issue, means only a change of name. The business continues under same management as heretofore.

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Moral -- Alcohol

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estate

Messrs. Browne, Jacob & Co., have recently sold to parties in New Jersey for a good round sum, 30 acres of land for Mr. Wm. J. Mapp, at Exmore Station.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Football

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Infrastructure -- Public : Churches

The new Methodist Episcopal Church near Pittsville, this county, will be formally opened for religious services, Sabbath, January 2nd, 1887. Preaching at 10 a. m., 2:30 p. m. and at 7 o'clock at night. Rev. C. A. Grice will preach the opening sermon. Other ministers have been invited, and it is expected that the services will be continued during the following week.

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

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Transportation -- Water - Freight

The steamer Maggie of the Eastern Shore Steamboat Company will be placed on the line between Baltimore and Onancock, next Monday, and the freight and passenger facilities between the two points be thereby doubled.

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Sea -- Egging

Bird eggs, or as the darkies used to say "mashed eggs," are now coming in. Colonel Schoolfield and Captain Irving caught the first batch with nickle bait on a silver hook. They were "speckled beauties."

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Fishing

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reprinted from Somerset Herald.Transportation -- Railroad - Steamboats