Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-23

Foxes are plentiful about seaford.
The corn crop 10 Sussex turned oul well

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The corn crop in Sussex turned on. well.
The new Sheriff of Kent county bonded
last week. s
Winter apples ag.ut smyrna. have
, The 'cola5red' 'M:~7V chds6h r. soaGord.
has anew bell. 49, =. 4.
|. Chicken thieWs arc troublesonie lnmanY,
pats Of the State. ;
-Badscolds anG sore throatsare preyaleIds
In Sussex county.
Georgetown wants a good saw and grist
mill, and granary.
The Sussex journal says "Ge9ige,owu
seems never 30 dull"
seafsrd's ice supply has bce4exhausted
by the oyster packers.
Many fatal cases Of dyptheria are re-
ported from Sussex county.
Beef has been selling at five and six
cents Per pound at Lewes.
The Local Preachers Association of
Dover District met last week.
Several fatal cases Of the el iii ppc have
occurred 10 Kent and Sussex.
The Ponder Hotel, at Milton, Is to be
run by p. II. Hart, of S.aford.
DR.. C. l.. Mahon has given up the prac-
tice Of physic In Smyrna.
The dedication of the new ME. Church
at Milford Ia now set down for.
Money rules steadily from to "a par
cent. in Newark, says a correspondent
Many of Seaford's oyster shuckers
struck last week for an increase In wages.
One gentleman has shipped 400 barrels
OF apples from Delaware City this season.
The Newark Machine Company p. opose
soon to Increase their manufacturing facll-
tiles.
Mr. Geo. Clark, Of Delaware City, last
week refused S2O0 for pointer dog oWn,d
by him.
Il is said that one-third Of the voters Of
Sussex county sold their votes al the late
election.
Milford, it is rumored, will buy tho old
NJ. E. Church in that place, aad use il for
town ball.
The next quarterly meeting Of the Kent
| County Good Templars Association will
be held in Milford on the eth instant.
Arthur Colburn, of Delaware City, net
ted $4,000 this season from a single acre Of
ground ret In pear trees.
A schooner bouud for this city, loaded
| with lumber, ran on the Brandywlue
shoals week before last, and losi large
quantity Of ner cargo.
George B. Dickson, OF Dover, james r.
Mitchell, Of Milford, and o. b. Noshell,
of smyrna, want to be the Clerk for tho
next House Of Representatives, rs do also
several other gentlemen.
Ell r. SHARP, the new Sheriff Of Sussex
county, bonded last week and entered
upon the discharge of his official duties.
He has appointed John d. Rodney, Esq
his deputy
Sheriff sharp, Of Sussex county, has iu.t
waited on the Town Commissioners OF
Lewes Ia his official capacity. II is said
they have heen encroachug upon the
rights of private citizens.
At lis meelitg in Smyrna, last week, the
name Of the Local Preachers aud Exhoiters
Association for Dover District was changed
to the Wilmington Conference Assocla-
ton of Local Preachers and Exhorters, g"
thereby taking in the whole Conference
district.
The Sussex Journal Ia warm in its de-
Tense Of the action of the Baltimore Con-
vention, and aays the "RubicOn had to be
crossed, and we are over" aud that the
lesson to our children, taught by that
Convention, will be las potent aud as
eloquent as the tale Of Thermopy',e , the re-
cord Of Waterloo, Bunkerhill, Gettysburg
and Appomatox."