Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-04-10
state Items,

Seaford is trying to raise "bnzz."
Court meets at Georgetown on Monday.
| Good horses are scarce and high about Mil
fold
There is some prospect of BAPTIST church al
Fredorca.
W. Il. Waters has retired from G.. ". & s
Taylor at Smyrna.
Smyrna has had three oases OF small pox, ON,
of which proved fatal.
1t il expected that work will soon be beguI
on the new post-oilice at Dover.
The late James Andersons peach and apple
brandy brought SO and 81 per gallon.
"Spider Legs" a well known trotter down ths
State was sold at public sale u few daps ago, fol
sl50.
The contract for the new iron bridge over the
Mispillion has been let, it liz said to Ohioans at
| S1S25.
In order to start a bee in Milford the
Aens has gwen challenge to the whole com
munity.
Jno. s. Collins & Co. are rebuilding their fruit
| packing house at Lebanon, which WAS burned
| last year.
| The missionary box was recently stolen from
| the M. P. church at Seaford 1t lad not been
| opened since 1873.
| The Junction and Breakwater Railroad Com
| pahy have recently contracted for some twenty
three new box and platform cars.
| The Dover Sentinel has found the reason of
| the scarcity of money in Kent county to consist
| in the importation OF seeds, potatoes, &c.
Miss Kate Clements young lady Is years of
| age, daughter of Mr. Charles Seth Clements,
near Leipsic, died suddenly a few days ago.
| Harry, a little son of Jas. H. Ward, of George
| town, had his hand almost cut off by an axe in
the hands of playmate willie at school the 9TH
| er day.
| The Sussex county Trustees of the Poor have
organized with the following officers: President
| Capt. Watson Treasurer, Miles Messck Sec
| rotary, N. II. Stayton.
When the young leaves of the hickory ara as
large as squirrels ears, the farmers say it is
| time to plant corn. This will probably be about
the LIST of May this year.
The wheat fields are reyiving wonderfully un-
der the warm sunshine and vernal showers.
Many fields that looked about used up a few
weeks ago now present promising appear
ance.
drixon, of South Milford, was severely but not
fatally burned few days ago by her clothing
taking fire while assisting her companions with
dinner.
The shad fishermen, sixteen boats, have COM
menced operations at Bombay Hook. This sea-
son they are carrying some of their fish to Bay
side and shipping to New York, via New Jersey
Southern II. II.
Elijah Conway, young colored man of Sea-
ford who bought house, found silver, it is
SAID, to the amount of $40 while removing the
building to new location. lie only paid 800.
for the house.
The canning establishments are now contract
ing with the farmers for the raising of tomatoes.
MIR. Samuel Hall, of Frederica, has contracted
for l5O acres at half cent per pound. This is
equal to about twenty cents per basket.
A lady in Smyrna last summer put some green
gooseberries in bottles, tightly corked and bur-
led them in the garden. Last week she took
them up and some tarts made from them were
fully equal to any made from the fresh berries
The school voters of the United School Dis
tlicts, 2, 100. 103 and 104 South Milford voted
down tax at their meeting on Saturday, and will
therefore raise only the amount required by
law The consequence will be that the school
can only be run little more than three months
during the year.