Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-07-12

BrRLfs, July 1.-THE permanent re-.
tirement of Prince Disma ell from the
Russian Cabinet Is on the eve Of accom-.
pllshment. lie will retain the German
II Is reported that Han
Won Brlen will be Minister Of Foreign
Affairs.
THE sTA-L.
The raspberry crop is paying well.
Sussex is betting on fiae crop OF corn.
Lewes is afflicted with sinking pig
pens.
Lcwes swins st. julien Mo'oc clarct
wine.
Lewes was on a drunk Fourth of Ialy
night.
sheep.hoad and black fish are abundant
In LeWcs.
The drought makes vegetables scarce
in Smyrna.
The wheat crop is tt ning out well in
Kent county.
A curraut bush is growing in Smyrna
mulberry tree.
Harrington had a mule race, zig race
etc, on the 4th.
Millions of Juue bugs are dead on the
beach at LeWes.
Peach crops in Kent are being sold at u
cents per basket.
The colored brass band of Smyrna has
been REQ rganized.
The farmers held festival at Lincoln,
Sussex county, on the 4lh.
Twenty-slx soft shell crabs, caught at
Lewes, weighed 1874 pounds.
Lewes enjoyed a delightful rain last
week, the first for some time.
Dog-haters in Lewes killed five of the
canine race one day recently.
The Hygenia House at Collins Beach,
has been opened for the season.
q Eleven new silk dresses were pe.,ut
at Smyrna church last Sunday.
An excursion from Harrington to r..
hobolh will take place on the 18th,
The Smyrna Gas Works now manufar
ture gus from coal instead of rOsin.
There was largely attended excursion
from Harrington to Lewes on the 4lh.
On FRIDAY week the colored people cl
Seaford had an excursion TO Cambridge
The eastern part Of Kent county VII,
visited by "a terrific hail storm Inst
week."
Last week the Salisbury Base Bali
CLUB beat the Laurel Club by score Vi
So TO IL.
Milford Mus has reviewed the business
of that town and has made very good
showing.
A large tcmTererce meeting was held
in Carriers woods, West Dover bundled,
on the 4th.
Smyrna Seminary, the property Of
private parties, Is to be sold " u company
and enlarged.
The night air in Georgetown sis poi
soned by the fumes from foul stables and
hlthy hog-peus."
The Lebanon canning establishments
nave canned immense quantities Of
peas this season.
The j. Il B. II. K. Company are con-
tracing for two steamers to run bet Teen
Lewes and New York.
Daniel Thompson, of Clayton, has lost
Two valuable horses recently-one by ac-
cldent and one by botts.
The Sunday schools of Wyoming held
p union picnic at the Camden camp
meeting ground on the 4th.
Gen. A. T. A. Torbert, U. 8. Consul at
Havana, will leave that place for his
home in Milford on the 10th.
A Temperance Harvest Home ia to he
held at kenton on the 23d. Rev. Pencil
Coombe will deliver an Grafton.
The marsh bog at Lewes mas been sold
at auction. Some lots sold for Us much
as one cent, others Ull for two.
Joseph 5. Loilahd, w,r. known in Kent
ana Sussex counties, died ht lus G0n,e in
Milford On Friday o. /, 81 week.
Mrs. Hastings, livli near uuiy camp
ground, Sussex county, Vac badly turned
by "a recent coal oil iamp exro.iou.
6smyrua celebrated the F urth for The
iirst time in twelve years. We hive
already given sketch Of the exercises.
Work on the Bombay Hook Railroad
Is progressing very favorably, ana an ex-
cuislon over it when Completed Is krt
posed.
A Lewes lady has lost her purse, CON
tNuing Sl.oI, and the uuder, whom ,1,
implores to return il, turns deaf cai :,
her appeals.
a Dover peach grower, who some tim,
ago ordered 10000 peach baskets Of 1
smyrna FIRM, has cCuntermanded his VI
der, his crop promising failure.
Wesley Cooker, of Smyrna, for bru.ssl
heating livery horse, was arrested uBy
committed TO Dover Jail in defaults Of SaUl
nnll 10 answer the charge at Court.
At meeting OF IT, Trustees Of thu
snsseS county almshousc held last Scl X,
II Was decided To erect new buildings iui
the accommodation OF the unfortunate.
On the 9sd of last month Charles Bas
tlnm. HEiutr
hoy named Charles Ravel. The shootmp
is supposed to have been accident,l. M
load LOOK elect just below the right eve
The steamer Pilot Boy now makes tm,
trlps per week to COnin's and spruance'
W ednasdays and Saturdays. Last Sat
uru'iy she had to leave over hundTr,
: PERSONS on the wharf in Philadelphia, Il
prevent being Over-crowded.
A Mlddletown colored man last week
Went into the yard of neighbor and dc
linerately took the clothes from wash
, tl?i piece BY piece, until he came to sor ,
snllst tAat suited his fancy these Ii
eonhscated and walked oil.
EVERY EVENING is In error. Y he far
10 hehoboth from LEwes is Lut 6octs an
0ice versa. -Brcak,0qter I,oL.
WHO who SAID anything to the contrary
r,s-ardi,t,. H. H. w .hY EVEN ING. Our itef
'ne latter was correct.
smyrna celebrated the fourth with
Taha a T' headed with band Of music
a., Goddess of Liberty and a dilapidate
~ engine also appeared in the proeei
Zion. The Declaration of Independence
|, was read, songs sung, and speeches made
a Lewes was filed with people on th
y 18th. p. j. Crowley, of New Bedford
4 Mass, entertained them with some aston
lshlng teats In submarine diving. ii
y walked from point near the Breakwate
|. to the beach, thence to the railroad pie
! aud landed.
Georgetown ia cursed with calthum
plan band and the Sussex Journal say
II any OF our neighboring towns wisl
}, instruction in the calithumpian art W,
a can safely export a score or two of younJ
+ yagabonds who can raise the devil gener
:, ally with goods box, a piece of planl
!, and few old tin pans"
e Mrs. Gen. A. T. A. Torbert, of Milford
0 was recently the recipient of beautiful
solid silver pitcher and goblet from Mr.
I ~ Henry Haight, of New York, in .rati
tude for the kindly attentions Of thii
lady and her husband, the Consul Gen
eral, to SOD of Mr.. H., who slckenet
! and died OF yellow fever in Havana.
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