The daily gazette., 1879-02-20
Letter rrs~ sesford.
Special Correspondence Of the GAZETTE.
/ SEAFoRD, Feb. 10, 1870.

SEAFoRD, Feb. 10, 1870.
Cold, damp and dsagreeable is tire
saluta ion with which you are met on
every hand. A dr. zzliug rain with = va
ration OF snow and hail, and just enough
of the chilly breath Of winter to produce
an involuntary sbiVer, as u forcible re-
minder that be fingers with us still, has
knocke ed the vivacity out Of our people,
and rendered them temporarily morese
and ret cent. Old Sol has maze sever |
spasm' efforts to exhibit his genial
countf nance between the occasional riffs
in the leaden clouds, only to quickly
retire again into obscuriy. Such is the
condition of the W. ather at Seaford at tho
presei writing.
A serious o. revival meetings are in
progress in the n. f.. church, which
have been sttended with the most graft
flying resul spiritually. The altar is
surrounded nightly with penitents, many
Of whom rise from their supplica ing viz
ions with regenerate heal IS, and who will
hereafter consecrate their lives to he s. r
vice of their Divine Master.
Let me rehear Q the estereo:yped chapter
In the old, story of woman's fraiity and
mans erfiiy. A young lady, whose
name will suppress from cOnsideral ions
Of delicacy, residing in the little villas o
rejoicing in the euphonious appelatlon o.
Bladesyille, just across the Napticoke
river, has in an unguarded hour, fallen a
vic i'm to the pass Onate wooines OF a
faithless lover, and now seeks the protec-
tion ofthe law to shi Id her in h r shame.
The villain, who, by his alurng and Sc
ductive powers, has thus outraged the
virtue aud bla-ted the future hopes of
this innoce ent girl, has fed the county
"Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and
l will repay"
| Procra, tination js said to be the thief
Of time, aud those who reposs implicit
faith in the axiom, are det rminedl that
delay shall not steal from them the Op-
portunity of spreading before the public
at this early date the advantages Of the
route from Baltimore pid ID. " ID. X. r..
and Delawai X. r., t. OCEAN Civ. Ia.
deed, any one who has been saddled will
he discomfOrts and Inconvenience of the
circuitous bay route from the Monument
al City To Ocean Ctv, will seadily rec
ognize the feasibility of the new route
and greatly appreciate the economy o
time and money which it proposes u
offer.
And again,the facilities are far superio
to those If the old route, inasmuch as i
reduces the distances aud enables the ex
cursonst to prolong his visit by the ad
dition Of two or three hours. The rId'
from Cambridge to Ocean City is over I
continuous rail line, through a Cheerful
and diversified country, and every ap
; plance that modern invention eau sug
gest is supplied for the comfort, accom-
modation and convenience of those wh'
prefer the luxury of tirst-class, room.
railway coaches to the restrictions an'
incommodiousnes Of the unsteady an'
, slow steamer. All it requires to maxi
the route a practical success is the eyer
else of a little energy and foresight ol
D the part of those actually interested.
The lime-honored custom of fox hunt
ing is still enthusiastically maintained il
, this county, and the clarion notes OF tn
bugle ro-echoes over the hills, and TIL
distant baying of the hounds in the
race with Reynard, awakens the inter
sest interest, and IA frosl y-headed lover {
the sport gleetully exclaimed that ''tl
sound of the bugle infused new yig'
into his decayng limbs" }. +. +.