Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-10-12
THB3sTATE.

Chestnuts are becoming plentiful.
Business is improving in Seaford.
Sussex county has been visited by one
frost.
end.
The Middletown academy has 90 schol-
airs.
The Smyrna Methodist revival mas
closed.
The Episcopal chapel at Smyrna is being
renovated.
All but the very latest varieties ofpeaches
have disappeared.
Reports from the lower counties agree
that game is plentiful.
Smyrna young men have formed an Ida
Greeley campaign club.
The oyster eanneriee down the State are
reported as very busy Of late.
Recent rains near Milford have saved
the late potato crop in that vicinity
On the Goth inst, the Superior Court for
Kent county will convene at Dover.
And now each party is accusing the
other of fraud at the Little Election.
The grand and petit jurors to attend the
Kent County COurt have been drawn.
The oyster canneries of seaford are eel.
ebrated for the excellence of their products.
Henry Bacon, of Laurel, has been lodg-
ed in Georgetown Jail for Ill treating bis
mother.
A Democratic Campaign Club has been
organized in Duck Greek Hundred, Kent
county.
The work on the large schooner building
ct seaford for parties 10 that town Is being
pushed rapidly forward.
The Smyrna Library has been replenlsh'
ed by The purchase OF several hundred dol
lars worth of books recent ly.
A fine schooner of 450 tons was launched
last week at Smyrna Landing She wa
built at the shipyard Of e. Hastings.
Il Is said that Messrs. Matthews, Rus
sell g. Co., will build large foundry ant
, machine shop at the depot near Milford
soon.
q The people of Smyrna want to hea
, John O'Byrne, Esq, deliver his popula
! lecture on the Crusades and their influence
on Civilization.
Dover has two amateur pedestrians, VIII
: are DESTROYS of Weston's fame. They re
Gently started on twenty-eight mile wall
: but soon gave 1t up.
h The new NJ. E. Church at Lewss, sal
/. to be one of the finest aud best arrange
/ OF the peninsula south of this city, will
). completed at an carly day.
n The Episcopal Minister at Seaford
e preparing himself to administer to q
y body as well as the soul by attendi lg met
!. ical lectures in Philadelphia.
,: The barns Of A. F. Norton and Care
: L. Hynson, situated near Milford, we
r struck by lightning on the evening of Il
T. Goth ult., and slightly Damaged.
. James Wood, recently of this county,
7 now proprietor of the Brick Hotel,
! Georgetown, and his administration
. affairs there is very satisfactor
r. The workmen engaged on the Cover
9. ment pier at Lewes struck last week I
IL an Increase of pay, and it is thought tn
le were successful for they soon resumed.
y, The Democratic club of Smyrna
e. DESTROYS of having Hon. James A. Baya
IL fpeak In that town, In behalf of Greel
= and Brown, before the campaign closes
"a Il is said that paper has been In Giro
~ lation among the Democrats of seaford
W. the signatures of those favorable to moi
Nm. mating an O'Couor and Adams eiecto
,p ticket in the State.
The schooner Charles Smith was dri'
on Lewes beach one day last week,
ell the day following she was got of with
Id, little damage. the belonged TO the Re
at Ing r. R. Co., aud Was loaded with c
At. for Providence, K. /.
er, Mrs. Mary N. Eaton, aged 81 years
.le- resident OF Kent county, Md, fell d
Ion last week in Middletown while passing
nu- the breakfast table. She was visiting
ent James A. Morris, her son-in-law, of
town.
ira A lad in Delaware City fell from
. third-story window Of a granary
,es. week, but was uninjured by the
Another lad living in the same town,
nncS badly burned by the explosion of a
10 oil lamp.
hen The Sussex Journal says that tnis p
is wes in error in figuring ont RepuL.
'oks gans in Sussex county, aud states
TO the Democratic vote in the county
ents 200 short, while the Republican
Ing, was in excess of the vote polled two y
that ago. We give the Journals version
licity.