Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-05-31

the Dover jail.
Lewes expects more visitors this seison
than ever before.
Mackerel aud black fish are being
caught at Lewes.
The Smyrna Times reports ''brllliant"
wedding at Odessa.
Chas. H. Henderson, Of Smyrna, has
invented a car-coupler.
WIN. Irons, near Dover, is the owner
of a calf with four ears.
The Old Fellows of Dover have an ex
cellent circulating library.
The new NJ. E. Church at Pennington,
will be dedicated ON Sunday.
The new NJ. e. Church at Harrington
will be dedicated on jams LIST.
The Town Commissioners of Dover are
repairing the streets of the town.
Cabbage bugs are playing the deuce
with cabbageipla nts In Kent county.
Geo. s. Grier, of Milford, has patented
a machine for dwelling ship-timber.
Corn planting in sussex this season Is
very late, but large acreage VIII be
TILED.
The young ladies of Worrell's Semi
nary, Dover, held festival on Friday |
evening.
Anna Dickinson will lecture in Gull
breth's Hall, Dover, on Tuesday evening |
June 3d.
On Sunday week several persons were
baptsed 10 Cooch's mill-pond, Peneader
hundred.
II is expected hay will be much cheaper
in Sussex next fall than il has been for
many years.
Rev. Mr.. Dlnsmore, the new pastor Of
the Milford Presbyterian Church, has ar
rived at Milford.
The first quarterly meeting Of tue year,
for GEORGETOWN NJ. z. Church, was held
on Sunday week.
Rev. A. D. Davis, G. W. c. T. OF this
State, organized lodge of Good Temp
lars at Leipsic, on the 2lst
Rev. Charles Boynton, of Eldorado,
Iowa, has been placed In charge of the
Lewes Presbyterian Church.
The settlement Of Germans who have
recently settled near Camden, lost eight
children last week by scarlet fever.
It is said that Mr., Baumgardner is now
making efforts TO Induce Jay Gould to
buy out his Interest in the j. Il b. K. Il.
The quarterly meeting of the Kent
County Association of Good Templars
was held ut Little Creek Landing last
week.
There are three acres of timothy near
Seaford three ieet high and "stands rs
thick on the ground as the hairs on dogs
back"
Dover wants a park and the valley
formed by the branch south Of the town,
1t is argued, should be purchased for this
purpose.
John Carpenter, to be hanged at Dover
in June, says he is prepared TO die, but
AYERS he is innocent of the crime he Is TO
be hung for.
Mart Bates Hillyard, ESQ.,, of Dover,
has gone 10 McComb City, Miss, and Is
, now the Secretary Of the Mississippi
,, Valley Company.
The "peach weevil," a new enemy to
\ the luscious fruit, has made Its appear
nnce In Sussex county and is damaging
the peach prospect.
r The Sussex Journal defends the whip
= ping-post and abuses the Philadelphia
Press for denounclng Delaware's mode Of
Furnishing criminals.
: The White Cloud Base Ball Club Of
|, Seaford played the Phoenix Club of
e Laurel recently. The score stood, White
y NlOuu, 20, fnUnlAs v.
george Whitlock at Clayton has pig
that weighs eight hundred and twenty
{ three pounds. He challenges pork rails
d ers 20 match game"
e Mrs. =. A. smithers, for IA years 9
D teacher in the Dover NJ. f. Sunday school
i has been presented by the school with 6
f h audsome silver ice pitcher.
= Georgetown Lodge, 1. o. G. T., pale
y visit to Milton Lodge on Thursday, anC
Milton Lodge will return the visit Il
Georgetown on the 18th of June.
|. Capt. Andrews, who landed at Lewel
IN on Thursday week, reports having found {
~ water.logged vessel on the first instant
p forty miles south of Cape St. Antonio.
e. A drunken aud indecent man was ar
er rested in Dover last week, cursed and
abused the officer before whom he wal
ritd, aud was then allowed his freedom
Lebanon, near Camden, is pleased will
al its new German residents. Thirteen fam
II lilies have settled there, aud six neV
a houses are being erected 10 aecommodat
H.. them.
ly Smyrna has resolved to have children
M Jubilee on the July the 4th, and ha
nm asked the Town Commissioners 10 appro
pirate 500 to deiray the expenses OF th
same.
As soon as their terms of service ex
pircd last week, the Swedish emigTant
ic' took their departure from Middletown
cI and IN consequence the Transcript vote
them failure.
aS A Buffalo IN. " commission mel
~ chant has been soliciting consignment
"a of fruit in Kent county. This is is a neY
he market and will doubtless be profltabl
he one TO the fruit growers.
nd The marriage of Col. Townsend is an
Mt nounced In his paper this week, and abov
nd ana below the announcement are heav
~, rules, which are mHch more suggestive {
death tnan anything else.
The LigM says a ship-carpenter {
LeWes is remarkable for being absen
oil. minded he not unfrequently bites of th
es. head of a copper bolt and drives a plu
las of tobacco through vessels bottom.
Fry Rewdyism and drunkenness in Dove
las on Saturday nights are becoming grel
The nuisance and the peace officer of the tow
nst threatens to resign unless others are al
gu pointed to help him preserve order.
The Trustees of the Wilmington Coz
ference Academy have advertised Il
"a proposals for building their Academ!
which Is to be located in Dover. IL wi
OF be SS feet front, S9 feet deep, and fou
eAOAANe hAkhs WIN u iboA ~
u'y cupola.
nv The reception diyen to the flfty.eigl
nc emigrants, just arrived from Fleminl
,s1 burg, Germany, took place in the Reform
M ed Church, Wyoming, on Sunday wee
The services were conducted by the Re
Samuel Miller, of Philadelphia, and wei
Of the most interesting character.
:. Is. In defending the Richmond duellsts u
Sussex Journal says "the settlement of
,od difficulty between gentlemen on the ie
'"u of mortal combat Is neither new, dishoi
81, orable or barbarous, and certainly mol
i~' credible than street row. or bar-roo
,ho knock down."
the 7. Il. Wilson, the Milton school teacbl
%, has written long communicable
hat couched In bad English, in which he a
rats tempts TO Justify the assault be recent
Dad made on a colored woman teaehiI
school at Milton. His defense is print,
1rn, in the Sussex Journal, and is a mo
,rry miserable mass of nothing.
ate Mr.. Chas. II. Register, living in Due
hat Creek hundred, Kent county, has il
vented a strawberry picker, for which
,rn, has applied for patent. 1t clips Il
the berry with small portion of the steI
.og, without bruising, which has heretofo
aing been n great disadvantage 10 hand pic
y In ing, particularly with children.