The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-08-14
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OUR NEIGHBOURS.
DELAWARE.

The Levy Court Commissioners of New
Castle county are erecting work-house in
the Jail yard, in connection with the prison.
The object of the workhouse is to furnish
employment for the prisoners who have
been sentenced for long term. When
finished it will be furnished with looms for
the manufacture of carpet, a large quanti-
ty of which is now made, which saves the
county Il considerable expense in the main
tenance of the prisoners. The Commits
sioners are also putting up an addition to
the Court House for the use of the attor-
ncys during the Court.
Sixteen and n half dozen of fine white
pearch were taken in net, at the Fox
Hole, on the Sassafras, by two citizens of
Middletown, recently.
G.. c. Foster of Odessa, we understand,
has received a reissue of his patent from
the Patent Office i'll Washington, thoroughly
covering and protecting his rights to his
improved Phosphate Attachment.
Levi B. Moore, Sheriff of New Castle
county in 1S60-61, died at his residence in
Mill Greek Hundred on Thursday last
AT the last monthly meeting the Middle
town Building Loan funds brought an av-
erage premium of 26 per cent.
The corner stone Of the Town Hall,
Smyrna, will be laid, with appropriate Ger
emonies, by the Masonic Lodge of that
town, on Monday, the 10th inst.
George Clendaniel an old and respected
farmer, living near Milford, had his eyes
and head severely injured while threshing
wheat on his fam a few days since. 1t
seems that Mr.. d., had put gogglers over
his eyes to keep the dust and chatf out of
them and while examining some of the
bands on the machine they came in con-
r.. ut wit mi,
him about the eyes and head.
Some thief broke into the store of John
Steward, of Milford, on Sunday of last
week, and stole therefrom pocket-bOok,
containing between thirty and forsy dol
lars.
John Barney, formerly of Smyrna, is
now postmaster at Augusta, Georgia.
Track laying on the j. & B. r. r. from
Georgetown to Lewis is progressing and
the piles are being delivered for the pier
at Lewis.
II. Gerker, who owns peach orchard
near Smyrna, said to be the largest in the
State, is erecting a still, to convert fruit,
too ripe for shipment, into peach brandy.
Rt. Rev. George D. Cummins. the Pro-
testant Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky,
whose ardent advocacy of Low Church
views in his controversy with Bishop
Whitehouse, of Illinois, an extreme ritual
list, has brought him prominently into no.
tice, is 4 native of Smyrna.
The shipment of peaches is far beyond
the calculations heretofore made. Every
means of transportation, in every locality,
seems taxed to the utmost to get the fruit
off. The estimate of /, 800, 600 baskets for
Delaware is certainly not above the mark.
Fifty eight car loads of peaches were ship
ped on Saturday. Shipments have been
avoided on Saturday, generally, heretofore,
but the fruit is so abundant it has to be
sent away OF loft to rot on the trees. The
steamer Jersey BIne, Which runs from Roth
wells. broke one of her wheels, Monday,
in coming up Smyrna Creek. She takes
from 3, 600 to 1000 baskets of peaches daily.
The Perry also goes loaded each day
There are three ocean steamers running
fruit to New York from Port Mahon, do
ia Landing) which receive much of their
carSos from vessels that run out of the
creeks and inlets to meet them on their trip
down the Bay. Large cargos of peaches
are being sent to Philadelphia from the
Sassafras, Chester and Bohemia rivers,
through the canal. On Thursday of last
week, nearly 81, 900 baskets were thus ship
ped, and on Saturday about 10000, On
Friday of last week, there were "a car loads
sent via railroad, II of which were for Phil
aae.pha, the balance for New York. We
give the shipments for Saturday above
On Monday there were 81 cals--G for Phil.
There were 81 cars in the Clayton train, "a
in the Dover train and 81 in what is known
as the Harrington train. There were two
other trains above Clayton. The prices
were SO low on Monday that some of the
shippers declined to forward some of the
fruit it would not have realized sufficient
to pay the freight. The prices On Tuesday
ranged at from so to 15c. per basket in New
York.