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African-Americans -- ReligionInfrastructure -- Public : Camp meetings

The camp meeting of the colored people commences at Savageville on the 18th inst.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Baseball

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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices

A private letter from Mr. L. B. Kellam, commission merchant, 184 Reade Street, New York, bearing date Sept. 8th, quotes sweet potatoes at $3.23.

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Transportation -- Water - Steamboats

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Fields -- Livestock - SwineFields -- Livestock - Diseases and pests

In the vicinity of Locustmount hogs are dying with cholera. In many instances valuable porkers ready for the knife, have died with the disease.

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Disease

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

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Sea -- Whales

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Professionals -- Commission merchants

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reprinted from Democratic Messenger.Infrastructure -- Commercial - Hotels

We learn that Mr. Augustus Parker, proprietor of the Atlantic Hotel, Berlin, contemplates the erection of a fine hotel building in Drummondtown.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Bird

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Sea -- Fish factoriesSea -- Finfish - Catch : Menhaden

Alewives in large quantities are being caught for the factory of Powell, Morse & Co., Hoffman's Wharf. The weekly catch is a million or more.

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reprinted from Pocomoke TimesInfrastructure -- Commercial - Newspapers

C. W. B. Marshall, who is well known in Pocomoke, has assumed the management of the Record and Gazette. Mr. Marshall is one of the best newspaper men in the State, and our contemporary does well in securing his services.

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reprinted from Tappahannock Index.Moral -- MurderLaborers -- Fisheries