Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-03-07
The State.

several new buildings are being erected
In Laurel.
rhe Dew Drop string band is an instl
tulon OF Odessa.
The Nantlcoke House at seaford ls 9
m)del country hotel.
A lodge Of Good Templars has been
oRanized 10 Lebanon.
Wheat la looking we'll in the neighbor-
h)od Of Delaware City.
But three places In the town of Milford
are licensed to sell liquor.
The young peoples prayer meetings
IL Odessa are still progressing.
Marvil's factory, at Laurel, 10 turning
out 1000 peach baskets a week.
The recent exhibition OF tableaux and
charades at Odessa was successful.
Isaac Simpson, Jr., s. Co., are soon to
erect a phosphate factory in Milford.
The Milford Neps speaks OF female
chicken which lays eggs. Wonderful
A very credltable exhibition was given
ty the public school at Concord recently.
Bawdust, shavinga and shells compose
an improved pavement now used In Sea-
ford.
]. c. Matthews, an Odessa merchant,
9 going into the commission business 10
Philadelphia.
There are six vessels. of 2.S4o tons in
The aggregate. now building on the Mis-
pllllon at Milford.
A Smyrna quill-drlver recommends the
Middletown minstrels TO play Zen
Nights In Bar-room."
Milford is Jealous of Dover, because
the latter Is to be radically improved with
Its new public buildings.
At the Mlddletown town election there
will be three tickets presented Citizens,
Centennial and Laborlng mans.
The Sussex Journal says Democratic
candidates for office In that county are
not 80 numerous now as formerly.
Orphans Court and Court of Chancery
will convene ut Georgetown on the 9th Of
March, and Dover on the 18th Of March,
The Milford Nsns says the farmers In
that neighborhood accept tine Grange
movement, AID will 60 almost bodily lntc
1t.
The men engaged on the government
works about Delaware City were paid of
last week, and many of them went on o
drunk.
The great protracted meeting which
has been 10 progress for weeks at Smyrna
lat which about 200 persons have beer
converted, has closed.
Rev. j. Morsell, D. D., for nine year:
rector of the Smyrna Episcopal Church
has left that town for Lanesboro', Mass.
his new field of labor.
Most of the potatoes buried around Del
aware City rotted during the winter. Gu
of 1876 bushels buried by one man but i've
bushels remained sound.
The people of Smyrna don't like thu
course taken by Bishop Cummins, and II
consequence the latter has been made al
object of our sympathy.
The Stafford Citizen complains OF bat
management of postal affairs on the Del
aware Railroad and says caily papers ar
carried past that town and returned mex
day.
The title to the old NJ. E. Church a
Milford Is 10 dispute, and In consequence
One Baptist Society of that place have 70
fused to purchase 1t, as they proposed
recently.
In ~ the first herring OF the season
was caught at Delaware City on Jan. Sth
last year the first was secured on Marcl
1lthi this year the first caught was Oh
Feb. Esd.
Collins g. Co., the Lebanon Gamers
have contracted with the farmers of thei
neighborhood for about two hundred
acres OF peas, for which they are to pay
80 cents per basket.
Mr.. Benjamin Harrington, living nea
the village of Harrington, was 9S year
old onI Wednesday week. He was,born II
Independence year, and will be one hun
dred in the Centennial year.
The Ssaford Citizen says farmers AM
others around that town who ship pota
toes to Wilmington commission men al
ways have their produce to run short, an
desire to know whose fault IL is.
A negro man of Laurel recently ha,
bis fortune told by Gypsy who said
among other things, that he would die
The poor fellow Immediately went HON
and TO bed, and has not been out since.
The Smyrna Fines says that out of Al
mlsmbeeyTss q the n. ~, Church Ia s sas
1898 ere simply dead-heading their way
Heaven.
Dover policy holders In the Guardla
Mutual Life Insurance Company or
grumbling because the company have nc
paid any dividends for 1873, and will
probably, not pay anything during tn
present year.
s. Taylor, N. +. Wllds, John Fl. Hoi
fecker, j. B. Cooper, ]. VanGasken, {
E. Foxwell and 7. E. Jefferson have bee
elected town commissioners oil Smyrna
and II. G. Budd has been elected Alder
man, E. j. Got, Assessor, and j. Denney
Treasurer.
An Odessa correspondent says Gu
" city fathers" have been trying expsrl
meuts for some time past by lighting th
lamps in the latter part OF the afternoo
and putting them out at sunset, whic
proves to b. an efactual remedy TO pr'
vent the waste Of oil.
At donation visit made to Rev. NJ
Carol, NJ. E. minister of Bridgevill
Sussex county, last week, the pastor r.
ceived 100 rounds of coffee, 100 pounC
of sugar, 30 pounds of rice, 80 chicken
20 hams and Z dozen canned fruits, al
Mrs. Carol was presented with $50
cash.
An iron bridge will probably soon
constructed over the Mispilhon, at NJ
ford, to take the place of the old woodt
bridge. The bridge will be built by Krl
and Sussex counties, Jointly, and col
missioners have been appointed by Il
Levy Court of each of those counties
superintend the work.
In addition to the cash prize OF $50, al
silver medal, for the best display
peaches at the American Pomologic
Exhibition at Boston last fall, the Ce
tral Delaware Fruit Growers Associate
of Milford, have Just received from III
Society a handsome bronze medal " 4
pears of remarkable size"
DR.. Conway not long since, at Seafor
enclosed street, which he said belong
to him. The town commissioners q
Jected and repaired to the fence for d
purpose of demollshing 1t, but the dJct
was armed with an Injunction, restrai
ing any interference. The commissions
desisted, for the time being, but tue lie
day, the doctor being absent, the col
, misslouers demolished the enclosure al
the street lie now unobstructed.
A LITTLE CHILD DRowNED.-Thursd
three-yeaT-Old Guild of Mr.. Geor
Elliot, living in the Ninth ward, stray
! from its home, and as soon as its n
senee was missed search for 1t was ins
tuted, but 1t was not until late In I
afternoon that any trace Of the little o
could be found, and then Its body "
. discovered In one of those ABDOMINAL
p Inan-traps in the neighborhood of I
: cooper shops, known as soak holes, g.
, holes where hoop-poles are soaked. T
4. Coroner was notified and held an inque
, and the jury rendered a verdict in
cordance with the facts. Some one shot
l see that such places as the one in viii
e. the child was found are filled up or tn
=. owners made to put guards around tn