The Countryside Transformed:

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reprinted from Pocomoke Record and GazetteTransportation -- Railroad - Construction

The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company are pushing their line through Dunn swamp.

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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices

By circular received from Hatch & Chandler, commission merchants, New York, sweet potatoes are quoted at $1.50 to $2.00 per barrel.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial construction

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Sea -- Market hunting

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Hunting : Waterfowl and shorebird

A gunning party, consisting of ex-Governor Swann and others, of Baltimore, are stopping at Kellam's hotel, at Powelton.

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Watermen -- Personal injury

The schooner Collector, Capt. S. F. Byrd, was capsized off Pungoteague [Creek] last Monday in a storm and two of the crew, colored men from Norfolk, were drowned. The Capt and three of his crew, Solomon J. Lucas, Jno. Godwin and Millard Poulson, clung to the schooner and finally reached land in a small row boat.

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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices

By advices received from Hatch & Chandler, commission merchants, N.Y., under date 17th September, sweet potatoes are quoted at $3.50 per barrel. The decline in prices of $4.00 and $4.25 of last week was due to large shipments of sweets on Saturday and Monday.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateInfrastructure -- Commercial - Residential development

Thirteen lots have been sold recently for building purposes at Powelton, Va., and on most of them handsome dwellings will be erected next spring.

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Forests -- Sawmills

A huge boiler from Girdle Tree Hill, Md., passed through our town last Tuesday for Mr. Frank Smith, of Chapelville, in this county, who purposes establishing shortly a saw and planing mill near that place.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Horse racing

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Disease

Several cases of small-pox are reported from the upper part of our county.

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Disease

Several cases of diphtheria are reported to us from almost every section of our county. It has not been attended so far, however, with the usual fatality incident to the disease.

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Transportation -- Water - Steamboats