The Morning herald., 1878-04-15
PENINsULAR NEWS.
Compiled from our Exchansas.)
DELAWARE.
Dover is improving.

Dover is improving.
Kent county farmers are planting corn.
Prospects for wheat and grass this season
Is good.
The number of MARRIAGE licenses issued
in Suesex since October, 1877, 10 1893.
The law for the protection Of insectivor>
ous birds In Sussex has bad good effect.
The "blight" for year or two past has
been very ruiuous to the pear crops down
the State.
Some people think there will be lsrpe
peach crop this year man the Oldest inhsbit-
ant can remember.
The Dover Sentinel thinks the reduction
of taxes by the Levy Court was done with
view to this falls election.
The school election in Dover was tame
affair on Saturday, only 40 votes were cast.
Tfe same commissioners we're re- elected.
A few pears more and Dover will, IN all
probability, cover all the ground between
the present limits Of the town and the lake.
Messrs. Huxford Il Taylor have begun
the manufacture OF berry bsskst and crates
in Frsnkford with a force of thirty hands.
Prof. Dare, the man fly, was 10 Middle
town Saturday week The Transcript thinks
his business as danHereus and unSeRuserar@
tive as running country nswspspss:
The Dover Agricultural ssc,ety has Isha
out race track mile long, and the lpuhsr
and posts for the fencing are delivered. An9
In sheft tlns the erounds will be snoloss&-
The Newark Ledger sAys, After do
months experience amid combAttyS acrib-
blers who never have beap inarodpoed To-
each other, W begin to fssl that Ne oe&
keep secret. -
Since work has commenced ppea tho rosa
from Lewes 70 Rsheboth, lots have heson[R
more desirable, The new railroad win hAxe
. wonderful effect upon the devsleyna1s sf
Rehoboth.
A Newark clergy man bad great troahss
In securing the services OF "cullia " EssA
wit b nerve enough To shoot Bine cats IN
on last Wednesday, after eating conpla q
pies, one accomplished the task,
MAINLAND.
Base bsll 10 all the rage about Ceetltsa.
Elkton's building society 10 10 years OLD.
shad 10 selling ip Salisbury ct 90 essts psc
pair.
Garden vegetables flourish IN cussA
Anne's csunty.
Cambridge people 10 BY water 10 Bsla4
more for 80 cents.
A new post Office, in Queen AAns's eeuasy.
Is being petitioned for.
Sheriff Trader carried three eonvfcts irpn
Salisbury to the Psnitentiary Isst wesk.
The salisbury Eastern shoreman wss II
years old on Saturday. It'll good paper.
Moro clover and rrass s.eds are being
sewn on the Eastern Shore than ever bsfere.
There arc now more parsons out af en-
ployment In Kent county than 1t any foraet
period.
Cecil county farmers have Detective
Association for the recovery Of stolen
property.
Saturday week ago four year old son
of w. N. Kirby WAS burned to death In St,
Michsels.
A son of Capt. Geo. Taws fell from q
row boat at Deals Iland on Monday, and
was drowned.
The name Of the ''Principto Manufactur-
ing Company Is changed to the F" Geoixs
P. Whitaker Company"
The door of the Chesapeake City lsck-up
has not squeaked to the admission OF q.
prisoner In the past six months.
The Mccullough Rolling Mills at Rows
andsville, Cecil county, are now running
on half time, owing to the scarcity b,r
ron they have been compelled to stand
idle tor some time past.
Vanderford of the We stmips.cr Advocate.
calls George Alfred Townsend "thAt wun-
herful production OF the lower penipsuls,---
that rambling, restless, garrulous goss p of
the nj wspappr press "