The Countryside Transformed:

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Laborers -- FarmMigration

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estate

MR. STUART KELLAM, of Pungoteague, during last week, sold his farm containing 75 acres, located near Craddockville, to Geo. S. West, of that place, for the sum of $880, reserving the rent for this year.

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Transportation -- Water - Freight

Eleven hundred barrels of sweet potatoes were shipped from Onancock to day.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Churches

The Presbyterians have purchased the old church property of the M. E. church south at Onancock.

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Mental illness

Mr. Frank Custis, a very worthy gentleman living in Slutkill Neck, in this county, was drowned on Tuesday last in a well on the premises of Mr. Chas. P. Finney. No one saw him fall in the well, and it is a question, therefore, whether it was accidental or not. The opinion prevails, however, that he committed suicide, but why he should take his life, no one can conjecture.

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Fields -- Livestock - Horses

MR. LEVIN T. PARKER, living near Locustmount, has recently sold a three year old colt, to a gentleman in Washington, for the sum of $350. He purchased the same colt from M. Oldham, Jr., of our town, less than one year ago for $125. A few months ago he sold to Mr. Fred. Waddy, of Northampton, a five year old colt for $1,000.

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Transportation -- Water - SteamboatsTransportation -- Water - Wharves

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Taxation

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Moral -- Firearms

At a serenade given to Mr. Robt. Marshall and bride, on Saxe's island, on last Monday night, a gun in the hands of Mr. Thomas Evans bursted, and a piece of the barrel, more than an inch in length, was blown through his wrist, making an ugly wound.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

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African-Americans -- Work - Business And professional

Rev. Smith Wyatt, colored, of Northampton, was pierced through the body during last week by the limb of a falling tree and instantly killed. On the Sunday previous he had predicted that he would be killed accidentally before the next Sabbath.

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Moral -- Other violent crime