The daily gazette., 1879-12-01
Peninsula Paragraphs.

HAPPENINGS AND DOINGs IN DELAWARE
AND ON THE EASTERN SHORE.
There seems to be some misunder-
standing with regard to the recent settle
ment between the State and Sussex coun
ty. 1t is stated that q compromise was
entered into by which the county paid
only SJ,OOO34 of the whole $4,000. Mr..
De Orten OF the Sussex Levy Court
Committee says: GA careful investiga-
ton of the accounts reveals the fact
that Sussex county collected for the
State the sum of SOL ,355.7l aud has paid
through the various county treasurers
S42, 1868 which leaves balance of
$1,000 "A still due tho State, and thus
the ma ter rests.
A j. & b. r. r. engine knocked one
Warren's carriage to pieces near Eli n
dale last Monday and seriously hurt
Warren himself.
A nine year old boy was kicked and
instantly killed by q COW last Friday,
at North East, Md.
The Sussex County Teachers Insti-
tute will be held in Laurel on Dec. 3rd,
4th, 5,h and 9th. The programme is in"
terestlng and long.
at is said of "two of Milfords fairest
bellies" who were appointed acommittee
to solicit donations for the M. Il. festiv
lHdJ tHey t&cDduRtu d hiss IOT tth anu
sugar for the affair with close fisted
sceptical store keeper, who bantered
them to do 1t.
The practice of promising to marry
and and then "skipping" the town in
order to cancel the engagement Is be-
coming fashionable In certain circles of
ElK.on society.
A Milford veteran In luck James Coop
el has received back pension to the
amount of S1.385.
Milford has seldom seen the day
when her ship yards presented snch a
busy scene az now.
The march of improvement in Sussex
county sull continues A pier Is to be
erected at Franklin City one hundred
aud forty feet long, also pattern for
| freight, one hundred and twenty-f Fl VI
feet long.
Two inhuman inebriates from North
East, j. V. Thompson and ii. M. WesI
bv name, hired bOrse and drove II tC
Wilmington in three hours. 1t died froM
the effects of hard usage.
A meeting of the comm issioners, ap-
pointed by Act of Assembly of the State
of Delaware, passed at Dover, March
| 28th, 1879, to inco :porate the Elkton and
| Middletown Railroad Company, was
held at the house of William Falls, at
Elkton. Md, November 25th, nearly all
the commissioners were present. A pro-
posed article of agreement between
President Hinckley of the Z. w. & b. r
r. and the L. & M. K. r. Co. was read,
the purport of the document is kept Sc
cret. Il. Larkin of the Z. w. & b., pres
scented a report he had made OF the pro
posed line.
Editor Theo. Esling of. the Newark
Ledger having said harsh things about
the Delawarean, is thus spoken of by
that paper this week: "Since our last
notice Of the loDg-eared quadruped, wh,
runs and edits that paper, the Ledger
we see that he has assumed the role of.s
bard. and we must acknowledge that hi,
enauatioDs in that direction has con
vinced us that he is a rare specimen O
the long card species" This is equal tt
the Caroline county editors.
/ A person writing to the Milford News
calls Justify for the holding of green
back State convention at once. He
doesn't want any nomination made but
thinks a platform, pure and simple
should be adopted. 1t recurs to mint
that all the greenbackers ever did in thi.
State was TO adopt platforms and pas
| resolutions.