The daily gazette., 1875-06-14
State Items.


hundred lots,
Sussex county mourns the assaults
: OF the potato bugs.
Lewes is growing more lively and
business Is improving.
The crops down the State were great,
ly helped by the late rains.
The Seaford streets and cutters are
being cleaned and repaired,
A black snake measuring over five
feet in length was recently killed near
lSeaford.
| The trains now run through from
larly. i
| Two thousand crates of strawberries
were shipped from the Laurel depot,
last Monday.
Some wretch near Seaford amusing
himself by obstructing carriage road
with large logs.
a SeafOrd man, the other day, had
to jump into the Nanticoke to escape
from mad bull.
! A colored man was drowned one
day last week, while bathing In the
Broadkiln, at Lewes.
Mr.. Harbeson Hickman, of Lewes.
lost SIG, 900 by the recent burning of
his barn and Outhouses.
On Wednesday next NJ. E. Sunday
schools. of Milford, are to join in a
picnic excursion to Lewes.
There are now three trains from lie.
ives to Harrington and three from Har-
rlngton to Lewes each day.
Manners, Fisher & Co., of Seaford.
have been awarded the contract for
building the new church at Preston,
for s2,80o
During the berry season the attend
ance at the Dover public schools de-
creases, as the children stay away to
pick berries.
John 5. Collins & Co., have rebuilt
their fruit packing house, at Lebanon,
and propose to be ready for operations
when peaches ripen.
Last Tuesday evening, the 26th an
niversary of Amity Lodge, No. 90, L.
o. o. F., of Camden, was celebrated
in pleasant manner.
A practice of stealing strawberry
crates and erasing the names of the
owners, has been carried on for some
time at the Soaford depot.
A ticket Office and freight depot is
now being built at Harbeson. These
buildings have long been needed and
will be quite an improvement to that
station.
Theo. Jones, young colored man.
was drowned in the creek at Leipsic'
while swimming on Sunday last. 1t is
supposed that he was seized with the
cramp.
A peninsular camp meeting will be
held at Spring Branch, FELTON,, COM
mencing July 6 and closing July Is,
under the management of the NJ. L,
Church.
The fruit canning establishments
arc now buying up cherries and straw Z
berries. The former are selling for 10
cents-a pound, the latter from to 10
cents quart.
The Nanticoke House, at Seaford.
was sold last week to the Delaware r.
r. Co., for IS, 1875. A $4,000 mortgage
and other incidentals will increase the
price to $4,000.
The Joshua r. Clements farm, near
Marydel, was sold by Sheriff Cooper,
on Tuesday, for S25. 10 per acre. The
tract includes 240 acres. John Daily
was the purchaser.
A colorcd man named John Sohns,
while working in Thomas PrattIs corn
field, near Blackiston Cross Roads, ON
Thursday week, in apparently good
health, fell to the ground and soon af-
.er died.
Subscriptions are being taken for
he erection of new NJ. E. Church
1t Kenton, and it is proposed to soon
out the building under way. 1t is to
DC 40x60 feet, 16 feet in ceiling anil
inished in good style. 1t will be frame
md is estimated to cost three thousand
lollars.
Governor Cochran has appointed L,
J. Colt to the office of Justice of the
Peace for Duck Greek Hundred, vice
Nv. Mariner, resigned. Esquire Colt
his position as teller in the
Bank of Smyrna on Saturday, and N.
:. Wilds has been selected to fill the
1acancy.