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Fields -- Crops - Corn

Seven barrels of pop corn, consigned to Rice & Holway, Boston, by Mr. John R. Floyd, Belle Haven, last week, sold for $53.06.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Other

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement

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Transportation -- Water - Boat building

Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a shipwright of Baltimore, and who has been engaged of late years in building vessels in this county, died in that city Tuesday, at the ripe age of 80 years.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - HotelsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - ResortsTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Guides

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Laborers -- Construction

G. Welly Coard, architect and builder, has now thirty mechanics in his employ, and is having built under his supervision, store houses, hotels, dwellings, etc., in Maryland and Virginia. . . . however, he is still unable to meet the demand for his services.

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Sea -- Trapping

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Watermen -- Personal injury

A skiff with a fishing crew of three was capsized on Gargatha bar last Monday, and two of the party Joshua Joynes and Levin Northam, colored, were drowned. Capt. Wiley Baker the third party, narrowly escaped death, by swimming to the shore a mile or more distant. The accident was due, we are informed to carelessness, the boat being capsized by the anchor lying on the deck, falling overboard.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Boat racing

The race between the skiffs of Messrs. James K. Harmon and Ben U. Doughty, for a purse of $200, will come off at the North end of Hog Island next Saturday.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetings

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideTransportation -- Water - Wharves

A bill has passed the Legislature to allow Geo. W. Glenn, of this county, to erect a pier or wharf on Saxe's Island, for the purpose of shipping oysters, etc.

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Moral -- Firearms

Emerson Watson, colored, 19 years old, living near Oak Hall had one eye put out and his hand badly injured by shooting a gun, last Saturday.

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Moral -- Murder