Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-18
Milford wants a National Bank.
Ieweg is increasing in population

Iewes is increasing in population
selford's ice houses are well filled
Shell lime is worth eight cents per bushe
at SeafOrd.
The Nanticoke being open now, oysters
are plentiful at Seaford.
A New York gentleman il building A
large ice house at Lewes.
A pigeon shooting match came VII at
Middetown on Tuesday
Middlrtown ia to have cooperative
| grocery and provision store.
The steamer artisan and bark Chdnt,,sr
got of Lewes beach last week
The ice houses about Delaware city
have been filed with ~ inch ice,
The "week of prayer was very gen.
orally observed throughout the State.
Little Creek Landing is to have a can.
nj NJ establishment. Milford wants one.
Two detectives have been visiting Lcwes
The object of this visit has not been stated.
A man forty years old, in Dover, has
| just discovered how to spell correctly his
surname.
DR. c. A. Cowgirl has been appointed
Comptroller of Florida. DR.. G. formerly
lived at Dover.
A movement is about to secure the Ie-
moyal Of half plotage fees. This affects
Delaware pilots,
The NJ. T.. Sunday School Concert, at
Middetown last week, was pronounctda
"grand success
The Mission School of Smyrna has pre-.
scented its Superintendent with hand.
some watch case.
Miss Ellen Ryan, of Delaware City, fell
while walking ON the ice recently and
broke her shoulder blade
The Kent County Farmers Club viii
hold u meeting in Dover, 10 day, II
quorum can he secured.
Pigeon shooting matches are contrary
10 law IN this State, and the offenders ute
liable to fine of $50 each
meeting Of the " Association for Moral
Reform of the state Of Delaware viii be
\ held at Dover on Tuesday, 2lst inst.
. Bridgevlle has been treated to a lm'
e matte entertainment and Scniord how
] Graves the same kind Of amusement.
: The National Hotel at Middleiown nar-
rowly escaped being destroyed by Dire
recently by coal oil lamp being upset.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Delaware and Pennsylvania Rail-
road was held at Delaware City Monday
Owing TO professional business, John
O'Byrne, Esq, cancelled his engage
q meht To lecture in Dover on the 18th inst
o The master of the brig Hattie, which
T. Touched at Lewcs last week, reports losing
= Ills lrst-mate overheard on December 18th.
i The annual meeting of the Central Del
o aware EKult Growers Association was
e held at Milford, on Tuesday of last week,
" and officers elected.
! Isaac Wmdlc, formerly of this State,
was presented by the Scott NJ. Il. Sunday
= School, Of Philadelphia, recently, with an
~ ebony gOld-headCd cane.
;, During the cold snap the number Of
4, people crossing on the ice from Delaware
City to Fort Delaware was quite large,
b. many performing the feat simply because
, they can boast Of il in after years.
n Passenger traffic over the Delaware 4
10 Pennsylvania X. X. is increasing. About
If twenty passengers per dav now pass over
# it, and the number accommodated since
d the opening Of the road is estimated at g0O.
D. A dishonest colored man found pocket
4, book in Milford recently, containing Que
hundred dollar bill, and, instead of return
'e Ing it TO its owner, tried TO spend the
% money. He failed, aud the money was
re recovered.
6 Rev. Il. W, Todd President of tht
"a Rehohulh Camp Meeting Association,
~ visited lcwcs last week AMI made the first
Is payment on the land purchased by the
u. Association. The work of surveying and
Y laying out the ground will soon commence
~. w. The brig Horning Light, of New Haven
n with cargo Off ugiraHd mOlasses, from the
West Indies, valued ut $4,000, came
ia, ashore at Cape HenlOpcn, on the 9Th inst.
r. Part of the cargo viii be saved. and hopes
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