The daily gazette., 1879-09-22
All Over she Peninsula.
rHE WEEKS DoINos FROM THE Pc
PATCH TO THE P0KOMOKE.

raE WEEKS DoINas FROM THE PEA
PATCH TO THE PoKOM0KE.
NEW CASTLE COUNTY.
The lower hundreds have had few
Sheriff sales this season.
John g. Corbit, ESQ, has taken out
letters Of administration npon the estate
Of Cornelius U. Watson, late of Appo-
quinimink hundred.
Richard E. Lockwood and William X.
Vasey, Of near Middletown returned on
Thursday from an expedition up the Sus-
qIehanna river, with ten fine black
bass, which they put in Drummond's
mill pond.
Thieves walked into John Downs
smoke house, at Mt. Pleasant and bOr-
rowed SIX hams, last Wednesday night.
An adjourned meeting of Presbytery
will be held in Drawy0s Church on
Wednesday, the, the 9th, for the pur-
pose of ordaining and inst alling tho Rev.
Mr.. L0uderbough, who has been In
charge ION tria y for some months past.
"Mine host" Lewes OF the Deer Park
Hotel, Newark, h as geological garden
ON a small scale.
Attempts to wreck P. W. & B. r. R.
trains around Newark, ars filing the
officials with great forebodings.
KENT COUNTY.
| The Milford Chronicle thus describes a
curious fish that was left at that Oil co;-
at IN about ten inches long and nearly
round. The nose sharp and a long rOue b
spout runs down what might be the
belly but is the back. The entrails being
on the top of the fish along with the
eye.. Lot Davis, Of Slaughter Neck
caught the curiosity In seine last Wed
nesday."
After long delay and much incOnvsn'
new iron bridge made their appearance
at Lebanon last week.
A few days sine o a son of William
Calhoun, residing st Slaughter Neck
aged ten years, fell from tree and broke
his arm.
Hezekiah Masten, who lives neal
Laws Chanel, at one picking last weel
secured from the viBes on three acre!
eleven tons Of tomatoes.
The wife of George Collins of Farm
ington, while washing some cloJbinl
last Thursday, her dress caught fire, ant
before assistance arrived she was barnet
to death.
SUSSEX COUNTY.
In Seaford last Thursday U. s. Mar
shal Mem ullen sold the sloop Only Siste
60 Levi q. Bird, Esq for $50.
In an editorial the Georgetown Inquir
er says:
Notwithstanding storms aud othe
draw backs, the people of Sussex hav
calse TO rejoice. The corn crop, thOuRl
average yield, while the peaches hav
netted the growers at least thirty, an
probably forty cents on the basket
There is more ready money noatin
around here now than there has beef
since initiation times.
Milton IS experiencing great busines
prosperity.
The Methodist Protestants of Laure
and Seaford are to unite and hold a cam
meeting on the Mt. Zion ground. The
; will pitch their tents on the 9th inst.
There is adverse criticism on the re
cent action Of the Chancellor and Go,
ernOr in making an order OF $500 yea
upon the poor fund Of Sussex county fo
the support in Kirkbide's asylum, fhils
delphla, of q demented son of LoxIey
Jacobs.
EASTERN SHORE.
There is a grand political boom clea
down the Maryland side of the PENN
sula and things will be- warm until No'
3rd.
The ninth annual exhibition of u
Kent County Agricultural Society W;
held at the falr grounds, WortoE Station
on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursda
The weather thr0ught was very favol
able, AMI the exhibition a success. tt
attendance of persons was good, and Ia
cluded more than the usual complimer
from distance.
The Worcester county Republican
J | will not nominate a ticket this fall.
Elkton mourns the loss of Mrs. Gi
mour. wife of VIM. U. Gillnour of th
. Cecil Democrat. She was an esteemabl
| lady and died ahout a week ago.