Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-11-01

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Lewes needs more dwelling houses.
Peaches generally paid we'll last season.
Wild ducks and geese arc becoming
plentiful.
Pennington is to have an academy and
q town hall.
Much wheat has been sewn around
Milford this fall.
The Presbyterian church-yard at Lewes
is being repaired.
A biz temperance meeting was held at
Lclpsic last Sunday.
The streets of Georgetown are being
strewn with oyster shells.
Hon. G. S. Layton, of Georgetown, has
opened law Office in Dover.
Twenty-Five pupils are now in attend
ance at tue Conference Academy, Dover
Twenty-ounce pears were grown this
year by James II. POstles, near MILFORD.
Robt. Denney, OF Duck Creek mills
has grown second crop of fine potatoes
David Pnlett, of Lewes, was drowned
in the Delaware at Philadelphia last
week.
The John Wesley A. NJ. E. Church,
near Lewes, will be dedicated next
Sunday.
The schooners Wm. D. Mar0SR and l..
A. Romnsel, were blown on Lewes beach
last week.
Passenger traffic oyer the Junction
and Breakwater Railroad Is constantly
increasing.
There has been but one drunken man
seen in Lewes sinee the new liquor law
went into effect.
The Lewes Light says there is now a
prospect of government hospital being
located at Lewes.
Some rascal with malice aforetheught
killed the deer which was purchased ior
the Georgetown park.
Three pumpkins, weighing respectively
g., 1917 and l05 pounds,were grown on
vine near smyrna this year.
The Harrington peach growers deny
that they lost heavily on account oil oe'
faulling commission men last season.
f A Bible meeting, under the ausplcies
? of the Kent County Bible Society, will be
r held in Smyrna OH Thursday evening.
John W. Hall, the prospective Demo
e cratic candidate for Governor, is WORTH
SoOO. 900, and has an annual income o
7 $4,000.
!. James Cook. who kept the Eagle Hote
q at Fl edeTica, died last week. He was a
one time Assistant Assessor of Interna
# Revenue.
Z, The Trustees of the Milford NJ. p
y Church refuse to allow sacred concert
i to take place in the church building
&c This is iron-clad orthodoxy.
e 1t is strange, but nevertheless fact
e that real estate is selling abont. smyrn
q for more money now than il did durln
"a n less stringent money market.
The Sussex Journal now thinks th
- construction put upon the new liquor Lay
by the Sussex County Court was unfai
10 Times change and so de mems opinioai
pr The Breakwater Light man owns be
m which has hatched 80 chickens since u
/. first Of June and successfully raised Us
ic them.
r.. The Daughters of Solomon, colore
IL association, paraded the streets oil Dow
III gu Wednesday week with music III
ID banners.
RS Il. 4. Cochrsne, of MlddleiOwn, hi
rs purchased the Biddle FARMS (74l acre
is situated near Chestertcwn, Maryland, I
cs S37,9S4.
oi The Milford Nass says that John v
u, Hall will be the Democratic candida
for Governor and Congressman Big
"a, ~ will be nominated for the position
nd lilled four years.
,er Hamilton Graham, of Hockessin VI
nv ley, has made discoveries which lead
en- the belief that iron ore of excellent quail
mt can be taken from his farm.
IDS A man named Joseph Wyatt, Nv
he near Frederick, WAS bitten 10y mad d
IN. Inst week and is now suffering the INT
nd terrible mental agony in apprehension
hat the worst results. lie is under medl
II treatment.
act Henry Pratt, of West Dover, has be
nd testing the productive energies of but
OF wheat. From II single seed, planted
us season. was grown a stalk that yield
ana 1000 grains, which flied "a halt-pint tn
tue bier three.quariers luu.
,o I Robert II. Cummins, of Smyrna,
W., week took the first premium for fine pe
VS. at the exhibition Uf the Pennsylva
io,o horticultural Society. The commi
i . reported that they we're the largest pc
', ~ ever exhibited before the society.
of J.R. Dick has been engaged for
de- pnst three weeks in weighing the m
i'm on the j. " .. Il. X. The henviest II
,Ase yet in single day was 1877 lbs. up,
,nr l95 lbs. down. The average is at Il
iiye an increase Of onc-iourth over last "
inst Jos. Bogps. living near Moorton,ne
the $1,000 from six acres OF peach trees
heir season. Mr.. j. W. Emerson, near
Il Of same place, is also very successful {
the grower. lie has quito number OF a
well ia small fruits, such as strawbell
the raspberries, blackberries, &c, and
eral present season he has realized about
dyes hundred dollars Fer acre from his Ell
II plantation.
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