Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-03-09
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fnproremeat.-I. ). Miler has Kept the New
bridge cheap store, on the lirsndywine, Tor a
period of nine years, and is now doing good
business, being accommodating aud quite popu.
lar with the people. fortune has favored his eff
forts, and he Is now having erected very hand
some frame Gotta -es, thirty-tieht Us twenty
foot, with back building sixteen hy eighteen, at
a cost Of about 5000 lear MI, Salem Church,
and il Is being fitted lp with all the modern i'm
proveinen,s. lie las also put up very neat
s'ayle, aud made arrangements fpt comfort and
convenience. III" carpenter work is beng
done hy UArrOtt y Cloud. Mr.. Miller is the
son of tin ,te Jonas Miller, who was In the
employ Of the Messrs. Dupont within a few
| mouths of ify years aud had 1t not been fol
| an accident he wouli doubtless realized his
purpose Of holding his position for the full hall
century. and then retirn, Oh 4 we'll earned
and deserved competency.
Kllsd By tn, Casa man named Geurg,
| Ningelt was stuck by the express raiu whl
| walking on The rail TOAD near Stanton abou
noon Oh Friday last, and fatally injured. TIL
| train was stopped, and he vas taken up au'
| brought 10 this city, where lie died III fey
minutes after his arrival Coroner Winsloy
held Az itq4est, and the jury rendered vel
diet OF death by beiug accidentally struck viii
| The cas-. Niugert was about twenty-five year
of age, and belonged 10 Detroit, Mich gan.-
| WneeTt was Ia company with man name
George Williams, aud the two were on the
way from Baltimore to Philadelphia lie BIZ
ing out Of funds the jlry gave him their fees
Fire.-The cotton factory of James II. Tia,
, l0r, in Stanton, took fire from some cause la
Friday afternoon, and was entirely destroye,
with all the machinery and tie greater porto
of the contents. Raw material and manufa
tured goods to The value OF about 500 wei
4 aavnI 'Iha lng9 Is ngtipnptnI AT Gin 0(O
$4,000, which is partially covered by insu
ancr. So rapid was the progress of the fam
| that The hands had barely time to escape fro
, the mill. There were from 10 to ~ hands en-
. ployed, and the destruction OF the mill is Ii
only loss 10 them, but to the entire VILLAGE
it is supposed that it will not he Irbuin.
C Railroads. 1T is rumored that the Old Dutai
e ion Steam ship Co., of Nrw York is uegoti
f. ting Tor the purchase of the Juuci0 X Brea
i | water Railroad. IL this company should b
come the purchasers it would greatly graft
the people Of that parl q the Peninsula. rs
would give them the steamship line % NJ
York fol which they so Pa'iently wait.
Tho iron for the construction ii the t,cur-
town aad Ftankt,li Road has arrived a. u
Il former place and ti.n cuntr1ctol, arr now
IS work pushing Ii" rua uA ~ iisl they "a
Ills wms vii i1 i"uta .. c'fnpl ;lj- :;
4 -on,
: SueceSyR Nlnp fictuf,f..- Joseph ia
4. croft, who is one of the largest and most ST
% cessfu manufacturers in this country, local,
OH The Brandywiue, over forty-oue years Al
\. and from small beginning, succeeded in
pt cumulaing quite large fortune. Three ye,
IT, ago his son Samuel was admitted iutp partH
~ snip, and ha, nov The chef control of the bu
IS. ness. Al though IA" recent peuic the mi
IS, were keil ~ c'nsttrt operation, andituru,d 1
IN an immense quantity ii window shade ca
bric., which We're sold principally to New VI
and Philadelphia merchants, nu" Of whom d
. posed Of, within the pas, year, upward Of $50
u OOJ yards. 1ley are now ull;lrg one hundi
"a thousand yards II MA ,rtre. per month,
10 which th"v lind Fcaly Silr, hey give enpl,
=" ment TO l45 hands Al apicar To he content
W and comfortable, ZONE of them having been
T. the factory over twenty trlrs / l- eilti ire Il
=, chiHery is drive by water IoWrr which is u
Nv izad and made 10 answer Their purpose e
~ fully. Tn" juror mrmh"r Ut Il G firm is set
Nv and enterprisine,ard cou'enrla,ns erecting
. coming year, low bleach and iya house,
j" also number # dwellings in oder 10 ext.
he business and provide 4 the accomlna
." Ion Of Tho bands in their Employ. Mr.. Il
a crof,, Sr-, is oveg seventy Yeas cf s.c.
hence h. greater part of the rssroasib lly
conducting rho a - business, now Geyuives
IA. m the jlniar member 4 the firm who has /
Re, far shown hinIsel! % b, fully equal t. The
minds such an important position