Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-09-06

The tomato crop is large.
Tho fnllnW nlnM Is nj work.

Inc tomato crop IL laiBc.
The fallow plow is at work.
Pennington Is said to he thriving.
Late potatoes promise heavy yield.
Ten prisoners are confined in the Jail at
Dover.
The marsh hay crop, il is asserted, will
be light.
A school will be opened at Clayton,
Sept. lat.
Milton is healthy, busy and constantly
improving.
The Milford market il overstocked with
watermelons.
"Big Thursday is still an institution
down the State.
A camp meeting began near Milton ON
Tuesday of last week.
The loss to Delaware City by the late
rains will foot up S25.5OO.
Milford enjoys mosquitoes of fair size
and remarkable appctites.
Georgetown has for some time been
crowded with peach wagons.
A new blacksmith shop was burned at
Leipsic on the night of the l7lh.
The "earnest citizens Of SMYRNA are
holding red-hOt temperance meetings.
Eighty-ive vessels we're anchored at
the Breakwater last Saturday morning.
Richard Corsa, living near Milford Is
still picking and shipping hlackbcl rirs.
f. The coored people make an excursion
from Clayton 10 Oxford on the 10Th lust.
Eleven mill dams have been carried
away in Appoquinimink and 81. Georges
Hundreds.
Mlllord'is enjoying cheap butter and
her people feel justified In spreading their
bread thickly.
On Thursday Of Inst week 3,544 crates
Of peaches were shipped from the depot
at Grol gctOwn.
j. Purnel Conaway and David Greenley
both wellknown citizens of Sussex coun.
! ty, di, last week.
The first wagon load of peaches Middle.
town has seen this year, arrived on Wed
nesday Of last week.
A bucket Of water exilnguished what
might have been "a con1agrntiun ut Mil
ford one night recently.
On Thursday night Of last week, over
/ 10000 crOcus were caught at Lewc g, the
/ largest and --LATEST ever seen.
August 18Th was the day on which the
Maryland and Delaware aud Bonn bay
Hook Railroads were connected.
WIN. X. Wolfe, of WILLIAMSBURG Va,
who 30 years ago wnb trsidrnt Oi
Ltwes, is now visiting his Old home.
Charles Dunning, colored, Of Lew cs,
has been held to court for entering II BARI
at Night In the neighborhood of his home.
+. F. Rasin, Esq., young and pros
| porous merchant of Smyrna, and II geniid
| gentleman, died at his home ON the 18th
/ ult.
| Lewistowners want their merchants 10
send to Philadelphia or New York iur
vegetables with which to supply the
town.
A four-year-old son Of Peter Rust, liv-
lug near Georgetown, was run over by a
cart last week and had his thigh irac-
tured.
Dr. Henry Ridgely, at Dover, has sold
his entire crop Of peaches, estimated at
10000 baskets, for 81 per basket, delivered
AT the depot.
! subscriptions to the capital stock of the
Baltimore, Chesapeake and Delaware
Railroad Company, will he received on
and after Sept oath.
As larger acreage of buckwheat than
usual was sown this year, buckwhrnt
cakes viii doubles be as numerous as
| popular next season.
Prime Hook neck, Sussex county,
hoasts hen that lays eggs three inches
| long, two and twO-sixtcenths across or
six and ninc-sixteonths around.
The Milford telegraph Office is managed
| badly. The same could be snid of other
telegraph offices along the line of the
junction and Breakwater Railroad.
A man named Prettyman sold load OF
peaches to the agent of Il New York com
mission house recently for which he was
given nothing but II piece Of worthless
paper.
III 1t is aaid the Delaware Railroad Com
pany refuses longer to TRANSPORT peaches
To Philadelphia, unless by the carload.
I his cuts OIL snail growers from the Phil
adelphia market.
The camp-meetings are now about over,
and. so fur az the Milford Mems can learn,
the sum total of the Spiritual results arc
not very satisfactory to the champions OF
the ''tcnted grovc.n
I'm oyster bank. 90 by 10 feet. has bncu
laid ont At the mouth OF smyrna creek
Tie hlvalycs are put in this place Ia
initrn ana he Favored, hut are only
allowed Ia reWan two Tides.
"o'hirf ct Police" HAYES Of Middle
town, inuu. il nrcrs snry srr.r hi.hts
enc, l." 'houl u culor,d rmn manned
FrislY ."turr the latter would hrlny,
himself. The wound IS not dangerous.
Correspondents in The down couutr,
papers, are severe on the management nj
he Junction " BteukWuter Railroad ano
suggests many plaus ~ which shipper
emf do without nsporlation on that
line.
n. sullivan, residing in the upper par
OF Dover, was struck 10y lightning Ia ia,
d peach orchard of Mr.. Walker, on TlAurs
day of last week. MIR. Nickrrsnn, super
, intcndcnt Of the farm, was also stu lne,
slightly.
, Thomas G.. Nahcrry, an aged citizen o.
Smyrna, died on Tuesday. lie was {. $
e Appraiser in Philadelphia during the nd
; mlnisiratiOn OF James Buchanan, an,
formerly an extensive dry.goods mere han
s In that city.
/, Dover has passed an ordinance roquir
ing all gntrs open ing on the sidewalks 1,
he removed or placed So rs to open on ~,
inside Of premises. II goes into effect oi
!, the first OF Srlhembcr. The penalty 10
! dlsregarding tnc ordinance is five dollars