Daily Republican., 1879-08-11
PENn sULAR GLE RANlNGs.
Facts and Fanries - CuIled From
Onr ExchanGea.

Snap disappeared and the town was
deluged with the tears OF the distressed.
After the Seaford "Journal had
ground off lines Of agony, "Snap"
suddenly put in his appearance. Snap
had ridden up ss far as Wilmington on
a freight train, but probably not wish,
ing to affiliate with city breed boarded
down freight and returned home.-
Sea ford is still laboring under the par
o2ysm of joy that greeted Snaps reap
pearance.
"That religious meeting house; that
Methodist stronghold; that sanctifed
gathering-the Surf House-has finally
yielded to the seductions of the devil,
and its guests are skipping three even.
ings in each week to the sweet strains OF
the vl0lin What will our Methodist
friends do? Their leaders have deser-
ted them; their fortress (the "Surf
House') is captured; and their capital
is now being spent to aid their enemies!
In digging the cellar for new house
at Easton last Wednesday the work.
men unearthed three skeletons, one of
a man who has evidently been of note
in the neighborhood, for the grave was
carefully built with heavy walls. The
bones we're those of person above six
feet in height, and the skull was well
developed. The other two skeletons
were those of children. The ground
had once been lne site of graveyard.
Rev. Mr.. Nicholson, of Seaford, on
Monday night had his pantry visited
and family provisions taken thsrefrom.
The clerical gentleman who has been
informed as to who the malefactor is,
informs him by advertisement that III
he will come around at a seasonable
hour and make known his needy condi'
tion, a subscrip ion will be taken to
relieve his necessities.
The Sussex Journal" strong in its
claims upon party fav'r and the virtue
of occupation by priority, VOWS by all
that is earthly, toexist even II 1t has to
10 "printed in q garrett and its editor
reduced to bread and water." The de-
termination is q worthy one, colonel;
adhere to it. In Sussex it may be
"pure cussedness," but In New Castle
1t is a virtue.
Clara Roach, aged ten years dangh'
ter of Thomas L Roach of Prime Hook
Neck, Wednesday last, poured coal oil
out of can iEto few Goals that was
in the stove SO that she could kindle
the fire quick The contents exploded
scattering blazing oil all over the child,
who died from the effects OF the burn
in three hours afterward.
On Monday morning Mrs. William
Dyer, of Dover, was thrown out Of her
carriage and had her wrist broken, be
sides receiving severe cut on the back
of the head, and injuring her back.
Fortunately, her head was protected by
her back hair, or the accident might
have been more serious. The carriage
was demolished.
The dark horses that prance in avort
around the Capitol at Dover are eagerly
looked for. The Attorney Gsnsralship
is a political It'd bit extraordinary, and
the conclusion that the two racers now
on the track will be the only contestants
will prove fallacious one.
A. H. Low Der last week sent out
from Camden paper called I" he l.
dea." 1t ia a small sheet, devoted
principally to advertising, and is pub
Iished monthly for gratui.ous circula
tion.
Indigenous individuals are moving
through the peninsula, hut they being
of more respectable order than the
average tramp, are in most instances
finding wsrk in the peach orchards.
Somebody's dog went to Mr.. Denney's
farm, adjoining Dover, on Tuesday and
destroyed about thirty head Of young
turkeys. Mr.. Thos. Salisbury, west
of Dover also had twelve killed.
An additional telegraph wire has
been put up between Georgetown and
Lewes for the use of the railroad COM
pany. One wire is required exclusively
by the railroad officers.
Dismay seizes the people OF Sussex.
The latest from the water line says
there are millions of mosquitoes on the
marshes waiting for an easterly wind to
blow them inland
Frank f. Lofand, of Milford, former
ly editor of the Peninsular "News and
Advertiser" was recently married to
Miss 4. B. Hill, Of Milford Neck.
The law prohibiting the shooting Of
woodcock in this State expired last
month. More than two gunners to one
woodcock are permitted, says an ex-
change.
The men on the life saving service
at Rehoboth are drilled daily. They
are provided with the Boynton swim
ming suits.
1t is said, and vouched for by the
Salisbury press that after the ire there
the people had apples and peaches
oasted on the trees.
A Russian count turns up at Ocean
City. Gossip AYERS that he has dona-
ted large sum of money to build a
hotel at that place.
The fourth annual reunion OF the
P.ninsular Press Association will be
held at Ocean City on Wednesday, the
18th inst.
The Patrons of Husbandry of Della
ware, will mako an excursion to Ocean
City on Thursday next.
A canning factory in the lower para
of the State is canning huckleberries
by the Car Load.
w. Scott Way, Of the Middletown
" Transcript, :" has commenced writing
stories.
Tramps have been forwarned not to
come to Seafordi under penalty Of the