Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-10-18

Smyrna improves.
Odessa has a chess club.
Salt hay Ia In abundance.

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Rev. r. W. Todd is now preaching at
FELTON,.
Business at FELTON, is progressing
smoothly.
Lewes beach was covered with water
last week.
Georgetown Academy Ia filling up
with pupils.
The youths of Lelpslc are developing
their muscle.
Letherbury's late variety Of peaches
have just ripened.
g. Whitlock, of Clayton, owns 800
pound porker.
Tomatoes have been a success in Kent
county this season.
More second crop peaches are spoken
Of by our exchanges.
Some ont is still talking Of establishing
a paper at Harrington.
The largest cucumber grown In Kent
county weighs ~ pounds.
Frazer and Delaware streets, Smyrna,
are to be opened next week.
A steamer is to run regularly between
Seaford and Deals Island.
| anu now mlliOfu llhn uhu - AhoAAoA~
able wedding" Who next
Dover fruit growers are TO engage
largely hereafter in peach culture.
They say the equinoctial period passed
plaCiuly In lower Kent and Sussex.
The schooner Vim. 7. Orr was blown
ashore at Lewes one day last week.
Milford's schools, both public and
private, are now open for the season.
Middletown had a slight fire, but a big
scare, on Wednesday night of last week
Nearly all the Germans imported by
the fruit Gamers of Lebanon, have left
that town.
The people of Leipsic brag on a ~
pound potato and lmpudently ask, "who
can beat it %
Rev. DR.. Ridgway paid his own ex'
penses while in Europe, during the
summer.
The seaford oyster houses are all open
for the season and are doing large
business.
Lamb, the seaford vessel-builder, Sat
urday launched the finest vessel ever built
In Seaford.
Gen. c. Van Worst, of Jersey City, has
heeu on visit of inspection to his estates
near Milford.
The rumble of a foundry in Odessa
came near breaking up prayer meetings
in that town.
Monday and Tuesday Of last week
we're the stormiest days seen at Lewes
for some time.
The Maine Mutual Life Insurance
Company Is to have Board OF Directors
for this State.
The manufacturers of phosphate, neal
Smyrna, are to double their producing
capacity soon.
Several shlp.builders are DESTROYS Of
locating in Milford but cannot obtain
eligible sights.
Emmett Culbretb, formerly of Dover
Is nov on the editorial staff Of the st
Louis Democrat.
, But one real estate agency in Ken
} county Is doing business according u
law. So it is said.
A special meeting of the Smyrna ant
Deiaw Bay Railroad is to be held a
smyrna tomorrow.
Mollie Doughton has resigned her posi-
, ton as librarian of the Smyrna library
and Miss Alice Hoffecker succeeds her.
South of Wilmington, the largest Ger
+ rage factory on the peninsula Is said Il
be located at FELTON,.
The Rescue, Rev. MIR. Davis ten er
Z auce paper, ia to be enlal ged and publishe
weekly after January lst.
The Kent County Good Templars wi
: meet in county convention at Magnoli
! on Wednesday, Nov. 18th.
= Py catching bis leg between a WACO
i and a stump, the other day, Albert Smit
OF Milford Neck, fractured Il.
5 Gau. A. T. A. Torbert, of Milford, L
S. Consul General at Havana, will retur
i to his post Of duty this month.
4 Messrs. Richardson & Robbins, {
n Dover, paid the largest manufacturer
o license Of any firm Ia Kent county.
!, VIM. Fountain, proprietor of the Cal
>, ital Hotel, Dover, has in his pen no
which will weigh from 1000 to 1,5l
a pounds.
A 5OO.ton schooner was launched {
Il seaford on Monday. A small sloop bui
= some miles distant, was hauld there au
T. launched also.
v Milton supports three shiphuilder
e three doctors, as many muliners an
a | tlEuN ihtiNhuuiss put hAub DlOAN oul
IS plies the physic.
a A new variety of potatoes, whic
i weigh pound piece, have been raise
- this year near Milford. They are GALE
n the clay" variety.
" T. B. Coursey, ESQ, grew this year
% fine field Of wheat from seed imported /
o him from Italy. 1t weighs about
y pounds to the bushel.
u Ashley Reynolds, colored woman
- - century old, took her first ride in a raj
y, ~ road car last week. She went fro
~ Georgetown to Milford.
Only eight persons in Sussex coun
,e were able to secure the requisite numb
IF of names to their applications for licen
re to sell intoxicating liquors.
he 1t is estimated that Delaware has 8
d marines who pay the Government, as "a
~ 1880 per annum. And still there Is n
=" Il marine hospital In the Slate.
ne The store of s. r. Stephens & Co.,
Il Mledletown, was broken into one sig
e. last week and various articles of clOt
u ing, watch and pistol stolen.
W. A six weeks old infant at Masten's CT
- ner, Kent county, has just died, accol
IN, ing to the marsh-mud verdict of a col
~ ner's jury, from "causes unknown"
gs Rev. A. D. Davis offers $40 reward
10 any ore for evidence sufficient to COW
ey any liquor dealer in Sussex county
,ol violating the provisions OF the new liqr
We law.
,m The Messrs. Carlisle, of Milford, ha
Use Just laid the keel of the largest vee
to ever built there. Abbott e. Co., of /
W same town, have also just laid the k
in of large schooner.
Ga The brig J. Pollsdo, from saqua, VI
W on the stone pile, near the Breakwat
oW last elk, and capsized, and afterwa
'as went on the Hen aud Chickens sho
sl' and broke to pieces. Her crew W
OF saved.
ga, Mr.. Edgar Hastings, of Smyr
,sd launched fine 500-ton schooner on NJ
~ day afternoon. She is owned principe
~ by Capt Henry ii. Vansant, her O.
nd mander, and was ehristened the 4
ict Miller.
lth $500 reward is offered by the to
ian commissioners of Smyrna for the apI
hension of parties who break stl
- lamps or injure other town proper
ar (The Smyrna Times Is responsible
,,,h this
ere The schooner Webster Bernard, Fl
low Jacksonville, Fla, put into the Bre
5 TO water last week with all hands sick
YES typhus fever One of the crew, Chas
Itch Cutler, of Warren, K. l., died of
ain disease and was buried at Lewes.
yer The Jones peach cnller is said TO B
) dc perfect machine and TO do its work to
satisfaction Of all. Several large pc
sde- growers will use II In their orchards .
nal season. The inventor Of the cutler
ties, also invented a stump puller, which