Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-07-26


The late rains have improved the black
berry crop.
a number Of visitors are now at the
R,ho5oih City hotel
Several visiting boat rlrhs have boon
nj Lewes during the season.
The lightning has been doing eonsidera-
bic damage in Kent county.
jacob Levy, Of the Delaware House. at
Dover, has leased the Bowers Beach
llO'rl.
Tho smryut Library Association have
fe-D,v,d 10 p'uchasG : 5OU MOltn of new
books
\ large picnic was held in the " Gods Of
Gov. Ross, near SeaiOld, on Thursday OF
lust week.
The excursion from Harrington to
Lewes on the l7lh was the largest OF
the season.
Hon. n. b. Smithers and Geo. V. Mas
sey, Esq, have been on Il fishing excar-
sion to Lewes.
Middletown's danciug-master will
teach the Terpsich art TO the young
folk Of smyrna.
An excursion train will run from Clay
ton, Sunday, to the GOdsborough Camp,
ON the Md AZ De-. i. X.
Enos Cole Of seaford has succeeded
Mr. II. Beckett as proprietor of the
Union Hotel at Milford.
b. F. Lippincoit, formerly Of the
National HOlel, Middleiowu, has taken
charge Of tile Odessa Hotel,
To make the Sussex uounty Jail more
secure, the Levy Cuurt have ordered
another Of the cells sheathcd with iron.
The Sheriff of Kent couHty last week
suli property to the amount of Sl9,UlD
which is said to be worth at least 900
The Central Delaware Fruit Growers
/ Association, of Milford, expect as large Il
crop Of peaches as was shipped in 1871.
IN colored people will hold camp
meeting at Sandy Branch, ~ niles from
/ Mildlct0Wn, commencing on Friday,
/ August S.h.
The Sussex Journal says Benz, Fooks,
ESQ, Of SUSSEX, "is named as probable
/ REPUBLICAN candidate for Governor"
Probable is good.
An Old Potter farm, near Milford, too
poor several years ago to raise anything,
now has upon it one oil the finest crops
in Sussex county.
VIM. Tamm, of Georgetown, ship ped a
crate Of peaches Tuesday week. He de-
clned an oller of 500 Tor them ut the
Georgetown depot.
General Torbert, U. s. Consul at
Havana, has reached his home in Milford.
lie arrived IN New York II few days age
on the steamship Moro Castle.
The body of man supposed to have
beeu drowned in April last near Indian
River Inlet, was washed ashore at Lewes
one day last week and inferred.
Steamers between New York and Lewes
commenced running Monday. The tariff
on peaches by this route is about 10 cents
per crate less than by the railroad route
to Jersey City.
The wreck of the brig James Hall
which had been lying on RehOboth beach
for some time, was blown up last weel
that certain proposed Improvements
might be pushed forward,
John Cow, E,q., is constructing {
= large cistern and appliances in the barn
. yard of the Van Worst farm, near Nil
! ford, for the manufacture, on a larg'
scale, of manure by the BONNER method
, DR.. George S. Gu breth, U. s. NJ, assis
! tant Surgeon on the nag ship of tn
Pacific Squadron, arrived home, i
I Smyrna, last week, looking REMARKABLY
well. He had been on a cruise Of tw'
1 and half years.
The Milford NeiOs AYERS that the juno
: ton II Brelkwater Railroad is in dilap
i'd ated condition and says "even the EN-
ployees on the road acknowledge 1t
shabby aud dangerous condition, and eS
{ press be greatest apprehensions of dis
aster."
= A correspondent Of the Dsldwdredn cay
that, owing to tue irreg6lsrlty Of the al
4 rival of trains at Jersey City, strawberrie
averaged only II cents per quart wherea
r. they should have averaged 10. 10
I. delays, be saws, occurred between Phild
/ dplphia AMI jersey City.
n Much Inconvenience is sutf red by gu
a shipbuidtrs On accOuat of difficulty
n getting timber transported on the DELI
E. ware and the J. * B r. R., neither cou
n pany being willing to furnish the neeei
r. sary cars 10 run on the others road, thu
" making it necessary to transship at Ha
le ringion. Milford Necs.
Or Coroner Cats held an inquest last wee
near Milford, on a new born babe.
in was proven to be the offspring of Lev
n Mereaith's daughter,and was repree nte
ie 10 be still.born. The neighbors believir
il to be a case of infanticide exhumt
lis The body after Its burial aud notified u
IN coroner. The jury returned verdict
death from causes unknown,