Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1874-07-06

The public schools at Seaford have closed.
Seaford will launch vessel before August
The potato bug is not troublesome about
Smyrna.
seaford is trying to form lodge of Knights of
Pythias.
Only a. few persons from Milford will tent at
l,ehoboth.
The Conference Academy at Dover approaches
completion.
The Nanticoke won't support steamer, after
-four efforts.
The Concord picnic was postponed from the
4th to the 9th.
DIR. West has an offer in Texas to teach skim
ming and carving.
Lewes has not single private boarding house
for summer visitors.
Base ball has broken out in Smyrna after five
years of quescence.
Richards IN K Robbins, of Dover, canned G. 900
pineappies last week.
An excursion will be made fiom Seaford to
Rehoboth on the 10th.
The Camden Camp Meeting, this year, prom
ises to be well attended.
The yacht Nellie, late of Seaford, has been
sold to parties at Milton.
A tri-weeky paper will be issued in connection
with the Rehoboth camp.
Drs. Houston and Burton, of Sussex county,
are about to form partnership.
The Milford Netc' gives its countenance to
the press convention at Salisbury.
The plentiful hay crop is expected to reduce
the price from $50 per ton to $15.
Thomas I. Lacey, of Frederick, is named as
candidate for Sheriff OF Kent county.
The tomato product of 150 acres about Mary
del has been engaged for the new canning fac
tory there
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aware College, will open school in Milford in
September.
George Faucett is building carriage shop at
Georgetown and will go into manufacturing on
large scale.
The elm tree in front of the State House will
be spared from the woudmans axe, but it has
been neatly trimmed.
Col. @. s. Watson and lady, of Milford, will
leave about the Goth inst. for their usual sum
merng at Saratoga.
Mr.. Causey has leased the Milford Mills, recent
ly vacated by Parker Bros, to Mr. Wilson, re-
Gently Of Sharp's mills.
A colored man at Seaford walked nearly mile
the other night, hunting TO-. the comet, only to
find he couldn't come-it.
Messrs. q. W. Joseph and Joseph Lane will
run an excursion tram on Wednesday, the 22d
inst, from Harrington to Lewes.
i. Clark, merchant, at Whiteysburg, had his
ankle crushed while handling barrel Of moasses
Oh Tuesday The injury is serious.
Mr.. Lewis Cannon of Milford, has, probably,
the champion hog of the State. II will easily
beat 1000 pounds by saughtering time.
U. s. Marshal Dunn sold the Alice lately ply
ing OH the Nantiroke, for debit last week, Jacob
Tome becoming the purchaser for @40O0
The children down the State have mania for
falling down wells. The latest was the mishap
of a daughter of Mrs. Perkenpine, at Seaford.
David Barr, Asbury Pepper, John O. Short,
John Il. Records. and Capt. Day are among the
Republican candidates for the sheriifalty in Sus-
sex.
The increase of the business at the Milford
post-ofice has justified its advance from q fourth
to thrd-class office. The change went into
offeot tho let inst.
Jas. A. Pearce as trustee, sold in Chester
town, Md, last week, the farm of John ii. Cum
Minis, near Galena, 223 4 acres to Major Black
of Smyrna, for $50 per acre nearly $1,000
At the interment of young colored WON III
in Smyrna last week, the familiar old sailor love
song, "Good bye, Annie darling, leave off
with thy sorrow" NC, was sung at the grave.
George Robinson, troublesome colored boy
at Seaford, assaulted John Russum, the other
night, for which lie was fined 81 and costs, and
failing to do this he was locked up at George
town.
An apprentice to L. F. Prettyman at Sc ford
stole his gold watch, last week, and sold it to
parties in Bridgeville. Mr.. p. recovered his
watch, chastised the boy severely, and then let
him so.
Fraland, Mr.. L. spruance's Beach, Bombay
Hook, is now open for the season, and line Of
hacks il to be run between there and the Wake
man House, j. w. Spruance's Beacll-two miles
distant.
Henry Neal, sawyer in the employ of the d.
~ d. II. II. at Seaford, was precipitated in front
of Il hand-car which he was propelling on Thurs
day and was so badly injured that it is thought
he will die.
The Trustees of the Aims House agreed at
their last meeting to lease the Grove at the aims
house to the Sussex County Agricultural Society.
The Georgetown journal thinks it one of the
prettiest sites in the State.
The Milford Ne,cs, learns that a Mr.. Boone,
of Frederick, fell from load of wheat or hay
last week, striking the upturned tines of pitch
fork, which pierced entirely through the mus
cles OF his leg, near the thigh.
Miss Rebecca Broadway an elderly maiden
of Smyrna, was found dead III her bed on We'd
nesday morning, at her home, ut Mrs. Rebecca
Wells's, on Methodist street. She had been for
many years cripple from scrofula.
VIM. H. G. Kent of Lambert Point, late Shor-
ilf of Norfolk county, Va, shot himself on the
morning of the Both of June. When he lived
in Delaware he was very temperate man, Or
ganizing the first temperance lodge at Wyom-
ing. Ii is not known that his habits had chang
ed
Capt. Scout, of Smyrna Landing picked from
three quarters of an acre of strawberries, this
season, 1857 QUARTS and his returns foot up
92I7.33. The picking cost him about S60 not
more than s15 of which was paid out of his own
family. He is a pioneer grower, and il always
successful.
Mr.. Samuel Sharp, carriage manufacturer of
Milford, met with quite serious accident on
Tuesday last He was assisting in moving a
carriage body out of his factory, walking back
wards, when he was tripped by something ON the
sidewalk and fell heavily on the pavement, par
italy dslocated his hip.
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