Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-18
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seaford is agitating Local Option.

oehIord III aBltatlnB Local Optlon.
Capt.. W. P. Orr is the new Mayor of Lewes.
Col. W. H. Cannon, OF Seaford, Weighs 355
pounds.
1t is said that prize fight will take place at
Seaford next week.
Smyrna is anticipating an early visit from the
Hayes Quartette.
The granaries in Sussex continue to pour their
treasures into New York.
Officer Wheelan, one of the lice officers lost
little child, yesterday, from scarlet fever.
Moorton is proud Of its public schools, and is
probably the only village in the state that is.
The friends of the enterprise are expecting
State aid for the proposed Seafurd and George
town II. X.
Dover has musicaes for next Thursday and
Friday which promise to be the best ever given
In the town.
John Springer, grocer at 9Th II Lombard Sts.,
died on Saturday night from pneumonia, after a
brief illness.
Smyrna wants all appropriation from Congress
to deepen Smyrna Creek and make it navigable
for large vessels.
On the first of the year the Maryland and Del
aware Railroad reduced their passage rates from
So to 25 cents between stations.
Mollie, infant daughter of JAS. W. l.. Phillips,
OF Seaford, died OF Group, one night last week,
whilst her parents were asleep.
John s.. Crouch has been appointed Notary
Public for the Citizens National Bank at Middle =
town, vice James b. Clarkson, resigned.
Sussex farmer who was unwilling to take
$4 for a calf which he had offered in the local
market, sent 1t to Now York and obtained S12. 75
net.
Thos. Lumb and W. r. Martin have dissolved
their school partnership at Milford. Mr.. Lumb
will continue the school with Mr.. Martin rs as
sistant
The Milford NeBs thinks that the convenience
Al.
among the farmers down the State, the coming
season.
The meeting Of the Association for Moral Re-
form Of the State Of Delaware, will be held in
Dover ON tomorrow, in connection with the
Temperance meeting.
1t is reported that the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company will carry peaches to New York
next season for fifteen cents per crate, II reduc-
tion Of not less than one half.
VIM Ward, of Brdgevie, who first injured
his foot, in playing base ball and subsequently
by dropping an iron weight upon it, has had to
undergo the amputation Of the member
The farmers of School District No. 49, Milford
Hundred, have organized Library Association
They have now seventy-iive volumes and expect
to increase the number considerably in short
time.
A successful protracted meeting in the M. E.
church at st. Georges has resulted in the addi-
ton Of twenty probatoners. Extra services are
also Delllb uelu III tDe trebDyUerlhn CHURCH, bAiHe
place.
A couple down the State who were about to be
married grew faint OF heart as they were about
to be ushsred into the room where they were to
be made one, and the nuptials were indefinitely
postponed.
Altogether from 1866 to 1874, there have
been 18 vessels built at Smyrna Landing the
tonnage of which is 5,545, and the value s314,-
009. The largest vessel WAS $50 tons and the
smallest 30.
The Milford Fruit Growers think peach cul-
ture has increased one hundred per cent. in
Sussex county since 1873, and that full crop
would enable the Junction AMI Breakwater
Railroad to ship 100000 baskets.
Wingate Belts WAS found dead in a peach Or
chard near Whiteleysburg, recently, With his
SONS lie had been Oh drinking carousal to the
'burg," aud separating from them because of
drunken disagreement about which way to pro-
ceed, he went Off to himself and sat down under
peach tree, where he froze to death.
The Dover Sentinel says the clock III the tow
or of the Court House is a failure, 30 far the
town is concerned, and cannot be heard above
Lockerman street. The bell is no doubt very
good one, and if had been hung in ali
open cupola above the clock, it could be heard
probably twice az far as from the position 1t now
occupies,