The daily gazette., 1877-04-21
FIRST EDITION!
OHRIsTIANA ITEMS,

SCHOOL ELECTI0N--IdPEOyEA
~ CROP PROSPECTS, &C.
Correspondence OF The GAzsraE
CHRIsTTANA, April, 20.
At the annual school election tbis
week, one commissioners Term expired.
and VIM. +. Smalley wss eleci ed for Lbe
term OF th ee years. There wps raised
Dy tax the sum Ct four hundred dollars.
Rev, Robe Graham is .,acber. M.
Graham Is very competent to teach. and
nas gwen satisfaction as a teacher, and
hrs become a fiysd Institution.
Christiaua Is not quite finished vet. as
there seems 10 be some spirit of improve
menS. David .Appleby has built q \ adj
glpion 70 bis barn, aud is making some
su'tner Improvements by putting new
fence around the houss. Nv,
Robt. Clay has built stable for bis
tepant--now all That is wanted TO make
the village look clean, is to put on the
poor mans paint, infhe shape of. white
washing, and Jet it bleach for fall.
| The hotel keepers are jubilant now, ps
they find no difficulty in getting signers 10
thelr license applications, and in a short
time we will have two fotels rupuing on
flll Time, at the rae of 2;40 speed.
| The f. mers have finished their oats.
and are pushing on for corn planting.
The wheat prospect does not look bright
for heavy yield; son fields that l have
seen will not yield five bushels per acre,
unle7s we have vel = fine weather to Inn
prove il,
The backwarduess OF The spring has
| put quite a damper on gardening; some
haVe planned peas and early potatoes.
The early sowed clover seed, have been
informed, has been materially injured
fom the cold snap just about the time
the seed was sprOutiBg. The moving
crop of clover, fom appearances, will not
turn out more than half cop; there
may be some fields thai will yield full
crop, but none That have seen. i un-
derstaDd that Ruben Satterlhwait, near
Stanton, has The best pros, ,ct for a good
crop of wheat of any farmer IN New Cas-
tie county. He appea to be on a No.
one farmer, and never undertakes any
thing in bis farming operations, but
what is thoroughly done. This is the
grand secret which many slovealy farm
ers ought TO learD:-Never put off any
thing that should be done at once
Along our wbarves things look livery
dull; no business of any kind is trapsa,- =
ed pow, Us IT YVES in years past. The g
was considerable trade here, some three
or four vessels plying between bete and
Philadelphia; hour and grain aud other
produces, with scows boating wood 10
Wilmington. Now all this business has
sunk into irsigDificauce. There could
/ N Ik,,sl h n'nl.
would give our POI a business like ap-
pearance, and money could he made, if
some capitalist would take hold Of il, 9s
there is considerable grain brought from
the upper sec ions Of our county, and
also i,om Maryland and Per usylvania,
all of which comes 10 New Cestle and
lWilmin zion. p
Our mercha ITS are getting along slow
ly on their c. III principle. They con-
clude, that charging merchandise has
kind OF played out. .t.
Some one set ee to Mr.. Shannons'
clearings, on last Sunday afternoon; it
made quite a dense cloud of smoke, it
burnt over considerable leground, but did no
futher damage, as it WIS mostly con-
fined to the cl rings. This malicious
business is getting quite common, and
it is pity that tbe tresspa3sar cannot be
found out, aud made to So isr The penal
lty of the law. ti-.Yl
| The school Committee have repaired
the school bou-e, which was recently
damaged by f,e. Had The fire got a lit
tie more headway 1t would hive destroy
led the building, and also several othe:
lbr'ldiu9s-in fact the s eater pa ! of The
place would have been in jeopordy:
Il J.S.