The Countryside Transformed:

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Other

There is a negro boy in Onancock, Accomac County, who is six feet eight inches high, weighs 234 pounds and wears a sixteen inch shoe.

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Moral -- Other

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : DredgingSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Legislation

Dr. Frank Fletcher is the patron of a bill introduced in the Senate to amend the present dredging laws, so as to change the penalty from a felony to a misdemeanor "for taking or catching oysters with dredges or instruments other than ordinary oyster tongs within the waters of the Commonwealth."

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction
reprinted from Pocomoke City Record and Gazette

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Fields -- Livestock - Horses

The annual pony penning for Chincoteague will be held this year on the 8th inst., for Assateague on the 9th.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetings

Camp-meeting commences near Johnsontown on the 11th inst.

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Transportation -- Water - StrandingsInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving service

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reprinted from the Democratic Messenger.Infrastructure -- Commercial - Grist mills

MR. EWD. G. DIXON, until recently employed in the grain mill of the Pocomoke Steam-mill Company, has gone to Temperanceville, Va., where he has leased and will operate a flour and grist mill on his own account.

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Transportation -- Water - Steamboats

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Transportation -- Railroad - Litigation

THE County Court is at present engaged in hearing the contested railroad cases.

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DiseaseInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Quarantine, local

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : WelfareMoral -- Property crime

At the Alms House on last Saturday night thieves entered the smoke-house on the premises, by undermining the foundation, and carried off all the meat, four pies in number, deposited there for the use of the poor of that institution.