The Countryside Transformed:

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Moral -- Alcohol

A fireman on the steamer plying between Smith's wharf, this county, and New York, crazed by whiskey, left the boat last Wednesday. He was captured by Constable Bull last Friday, in an entirely nude condition, and lodged in the county jail.

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Watermen -- Personal injury

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial construction

A house is being built by Mr. A. F. Mears on Muddy Creek for the storage of freight and empties.

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Lumbermen -- Personal injury

Mr. Leslie McPherson, of Hadlock, who was so fearfully mangled by a saw some weeks ago, is improving, but will be confined to his home for some weeks yet. We regret the Herald was mistaken in the report of last week to the contrary.

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reprinted from Fredericksburg Standard.Moral -- MurderLaborers -- Fisheries

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers

The Eastern Virginian publishes the statistics of business done at Onancock in the month of January and half of February, which show that the people of that town and vicinity are evidently in a prosperous condition.

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Mental illness

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving service

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcementSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Poaching

Accomac C. H., December 7

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Moral -- Property crime

Accomac C. H.

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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices

Agents of New York commission merchants, now in our county, are paying $1.25 per barrel for sweet potatoes.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

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reprinted from Baltimore Sun, November 19.Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Maryland-Virginia boundary