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Professionals -- TeachersAfrican-Americans -- Work - Other

The next annual meeting of the Colored Teachers Association will be held at Onancock, Saturday, November 8th.

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Fields -- Crops - Cabbage

The prospects of the cabbage crop are good, but the acreage is comparatively small this year.

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Architecture -- Jails

The new jail of Accomack has at last been completed and accepted by the county officials. The water fixtures are still to be put in and the building will not be ready for use until May 1.

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Weather -- Northeast storms

The high tide of Sunday night overflowed Cobb's Island and wrecked every building there except Life Saving Station and dwellings of Thomas B. Smith and Ashby Jones.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Insurance companies

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reprinted from Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Yield

The condition of seaside oysters has greatly improved in the last ten days, and large shipments are now being made. Chincoteague Island alone will average 2,000 barrels a day.

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Disease

Our Modest Town correspondent, writing from that place, says the smallpox cases in Metompkin Township, recently under medical treatment, have recovered.

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Tourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal orders

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Transportation -- Railroad - Construction

The Cape Charles Headlight is responsible for the statement, "that parties are at Pocomoke making arrangements preparatory to laying another railroad track down the Peninsula."

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Professionals -- Surveyors

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Infrastructure -- Public : Cemeteries

The Onancock Cemetery Company having obtained a charter are now prepared to furnish the public with burial lots, size and price to suit all parties. Plat of the cemetery can be seen at W. T. Wise's drug store, Onancock, Va.

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Forests -- Sawmills

Messrs. Tarr Bros., of Maryland, have put up a new steam saw mill on the Bibbins land, below Eastville. This makes the fourth in this locality.

DEED RECORDED.

Infrastructure -- Utilities - Telephone

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reprinted from Baltimore American.Transportation -- Railroad - Corporate