Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-09-30
A Trip Through Sussex.

THE CROPS OF coRN-PoTATOEs- FIRE IN THE
swAMrs-EDucATIoN,L ETC, ETC.
KENT COUNTY, Sept. 9th.
MEssHs. EDiToRs Having just returned from
trip down in Sussex county, your corrcspon-
deut can testify concerning crops, fire, smoke,
etc, In the eastern part of the same
From Milford To the extremity of Baltimore
Hundred, was our tour The corn crop through
the section named is what we would call "fair'
crop. In Baltimore Hundred one Of the best, If
not the best corn-growlng Hundred in the State
the crop is much better than in either 81 or 6S.
There we cav the best corn VIC have seen this
season the ears were large, and the x Aus full
and solid.
Early potatoes yield we'll but late ones are not
so good. There will be an average crop of sweet
potatoes, ii the frost docs not come earlier than
usual.
The farmers were puitiag up their last rem
nants Of fodder; il is rather shorter than the
corn, in proportion, but all there was to he saved
was secured in good order.
The Cypress Swamp was still fire. The
amount Of damage done cannot be ascertained
with any degree of certainty The smoke was
So dense in the murning OF The day ON which we
| passed through Dagsboro' that we could not see
| II house in town 1t was not so dense after sun
rise. but at any time Of the day il was very trying
/ to the eyes
| In looking over the TgIBuNE OF the l6th mt,
a seutcnce In the letter from Lewcs, by Anon y
| impressed your correspondent with desire to
see and know more of that peeple. The sentence
referred to was: How strangely our. people act
/ concerning our public school system And, iii-
deed, how little the attention paid TO the cause Of
education throughout the entire of Sussex"
| Since pondering over the quotation, we have
| concluded Anon" must be u disappointed school
keeper; or he has found II far different class OF
| DcOule from those had tlp of IN M,
| in the same county. We found the people Jealous
| TN the subject of education; and, to illustrate
their zeal, we will state that as we went down We
saw two young men at Georgetown just ready tc
start to PRINCETON College, Mt FrankiOrd we mel
three ladies who were about leaving home fol
Wesleyan Female College, ut Milton two left fol
Baltimore; AS we were coming up we saw on the
train Gall from Sussex three young men on then
way to Dickinson College,two To Dover Academy
aud one 10 Fort Edward, New York.
| TO persons who have never been IN Sussex, lei
us say to you your ideas Of the soil, people, Gus
toms instituions,e etc, are far from being correct
il YOU believe ns we did before We went down ant
saw Tor oufsclves-nnd we were honest In oul
+ convictions, for we had heard from our inianc,
that Sussex was "sand aud pines - that thl
people wore fustan round-abonts," and live,
on "hog and hOniny" Is not that the opinion
We were pleasantly surprised to find the v wcr
quite US intelligent us our neighbors in Kent, nnt
displayed more taste In dress, In ncatncss and al,
pearance of their dwellings, mud especially il
Their horses aud carriages. Eve speak Of tn
farmers
III Baltimore Hundred, It is our opinion, Their
: Is not dwelling which is not either painted o
white-washed May the day soon come whe
Sussex shall be properly appreciated and all he
resources be fully developed.
On our trip We were not at>pn&n3 4 9iee wher
| the DELAWARE TRIBUNE was polsGxpsSttd .ah
received on Thursday afternoon or evening, tai
/ j was remarked THAI "a was the only paper tina
WIS alwfys IN tfurcs" OK.