Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-08-17
Stale Items.

Lewes has been tub racing.
The Camden camp is in progress.
The canneries are now running on peaches.
The potato bug has finally reached Sussex.
The berry season is over. 1t has been profta.
BILE altogether.
Service has been recommended in the Episco.
pal church at Dover.
The walls of the Kent County Court House
approach completion.
Over thirty conversions took place at the Har-
rington camp meeting.
Peach Plucks robbed Cato David, of Dover of
his breakfast and pistol.
George Ennis watch and horse thief, has
furnished a case for the next court.
The Seaford post-oifice has been removed
from the east to the west side of the town.
They still complain of little money down the
State, notwithstanding the fruit shipments.
The apple crop is abundant about Odessa, and
the peaches are doing better than was expected.
The colored folks will commence a camp-meet-
in Spruance's woods, near Smyrna, on the 21st
inst.
Fishing at the Breakwater was very good last
week. The crocus have just put in all appear
ance.
J.W. Muse has opened wood yard in Seaford,
and serves it to customers at any required
length
The annual meeting of the Kent Go. Bible So
ciety will be held on the first Thursday in Sep
tember.
Isaac Marker spends the long, long hours in
Dover Jail for selling liquor at Rashs camp
meeting.
Mr.. Clement l.. Sharp, of Milford, will shortly
commence the rebuilding Of his mill, burnt last
spring.
G. w. s. Nicholson's property in Sussex coun-
ty, which has been under the sheriff's hammer
| is once more free.
| Until further notice. there will be an extra
| train run between Harrington and Lewes OF
every Saturday night.
The peach-growers about Dover have shipped
more Troths than they had anticipated and have
obtained profitable prices
| The Democratic aspirants to the sheritfality
| in Sussex are few, this year. They think the
chance too doubtful probably.
| The sloop California capsized in the Nant
coke, at Seaford, the. other day, and sunk. Eff
forts are being made to raise her.
| An examination of the assessments or returns
to the Clerk of the Peace shows that SUISSE,
county has Z, 1863 voters, of which l,02T are col
ored.
Young white girl named Allen eloped from
Middleford in SUSSEX recently, with brigh
| mulatto named William Perkins. They now re
| side in Camden, N j.
Robert Stewart raised in the vicinity of Mil
| ford, went west after the war, where he ha
| been teaching. He is now named for surveyo
| OF Pulaski county, La.
Miss Alice A. Ford of smithfeld, Mass, hai
| accepted the position of music teacher in TIL
Smyrna Seminary. She is graduate of Ne'
England musical institute.
DR.. W. f. Goodwin has a field of corn on hi
farm about 21S miles from Middletown whic
will average u feet in height. Many OF tn
stalks are IA or 10 feet high.
Mrs. Westcoatt, wife of the proprietor of tn
Eagle Hotel at Georgetown was robbed Of SlOG
last week. Pedders named Snyder and Lee
were arrested on suspicion and held for Court.
A flock of lambs which James Boggs, nea
Mooreton, had bought for shipment to Phllade
pha escaped from their pen on Wednesda
night and 1S were killed or crippled by the SOW
| train"
An old colored woman, rs or 80 years Of age
WAS found dead in John Moore's peach orchard
near Moore's Corner, few days ago. She ha
started to visit neighbor, but being very feebl
fell by the wayside and died.
Frank P. Dawson, Seaford painter, fell 2
feet from Hcaffolding about q schooner, fe'
days ago, inhicting severe wound in his heat
driving spike through his arm, rendering hiI
unconscious He is improving.
As many as thirty converts are gathered aroun
the altar at one time at the camp near Laurel.
George M. Davis, Esq, member OF the las
legislature from Sussex county and resident 9
Bridgevile is very i'll and his friends have littl
hone of his recovery