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African-Americans -- Work - FisheriesWatermen -- Personal injuryInfrastructure -- Public - Government : Life-saving service

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Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Pricesfields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Yield

Sweet potatoes of very good quality are now being shipped in large quantities, and our farmers are realizing handsome profits from them.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Resorts

John Shivers, living on Chincoteague Bay, near Horntown has recently repaired his dwelling, and is now prepared to accommodate a few boarders during the summer.

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Infrastructure -- Public - Government : Public health

The physicians of Seaside authorize us to say there is no smallpox in that vicinity, despite an entirely unfounded rumor to the contrary. Measles, however, prevails in that section, and some cases of scarlet fever have occurred near Dunkirk.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - HotelsTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Resorts

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Infrastructure -- Public : Camp meetings

A camp-meeting commences at Johnsontown, in Northampton county, on the 18th inst.

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Fields -- Livestock - Horses

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Infrastructure -- Public : Towns

Temperanceville.

The 'sound of the hammer' is heard occasionally, and signs of life and activity are exhibited

A GREAT HAUL OF FISH.

Sea -- Finfish - Methods : Purse and other netsSea -- Finfish - Catch : Menhaden

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Infrastructure -- Public : Churches

The dedication of the Presbyterian church at Powellton, one of the most thriving villages in Accomac, will take place on the 2d Sabbath in November. Dr. Armstrong, of Norfolk, is expected to preach the dedicatory sermon.

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Moral -- Other violent crime

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Watermen -- Personal injury

On Sunday, 11th inst. Moses Warner, colored, one of the hands on the schooner Patterson & Bash, Capt. James Milliner, during a severe storm, was knocked overboard near Ocean City and drowned.