Daily Republican., 1879-09-01
PENINsULARITIEs.

PENINSULARITIE
GIesniDgs From our Down state
Exchange List.
On Friday night OF last week as Mr..
Wesley Jackson was fixing large old
fashioned cider press on his place near
Hazlettville, the large wooden beam
slipped by some means from its position
and, falling, caught his left leg in a
bent position and mashed and fractured
the bones below tho knee SO that they
pr0truded. Physicians were sent for
and he suffered terribly. 1t is said
that the limb will have to be amputa-
ted. Mr.. Jackson is young man with
family.
Alpheus Sears, printer, on Wednes-
day night called on W. s. Pride, printer,
about statement he had made. Sears
received blow from a pole. Ever
watchful Hull and Mayor Messick then
took him into custody and imposd a
fine upon him. After he was released
Pride swore before Squire Thompson
that Sears assaulted him with intent to
kill him, whereupon he (sears) was
committed in default of $500 bail.--"Sus.
sex Journal"
A young man named Irwin White, Of
Laurel, is in dying condition, having
been beaten at Mount Zion Camp by a
rough named Minos Boyce. Boyce had
several ladies with him and White also
was with lady. Boyce wanted White
and his lady to give up their seats in a
hack so his party could be accommo-
dated. White refused and hence the
assault. Boyce is in jail.
The peach crop is on its last legs and
will shortly be no more. The weather
recently has been very injurious to
them, and half at least of the later va
rieties have been ruined by rain and
storms. Next week and the following
week will end the peach shipments for
Sussex and the returns will fall a long
way short Of the promise and prospect
in the early season.
We learn from James F. Anderson,
Esq, Deputy Internal Revenue Collec-
tor, that there will be about fifty distil-
leries in operation in Sussex this year.
The capacity OF these stills vary from
enc to thirty barrels per season, and
probably fair average for the fifty
that will be in operation is from eight
to ten barrels each.
On Saturday last Mr.. T. s. Wilson
launched from his yard at Milton. a
neat schooner of seventy tons carrying
capacity, which was christened P. j..
Hart for mine host of the "Ponder Ho.
tel" She ia owned by Milton parties
and will be commanded by Capt. James
Baynum. She is now being rigged and
will be completed soon.
Lemuel Showell, a prominent citizen
of Berlin, Worcester county, Md, was
prostratsd on the beach at Ocean City
by an attack of rheumatism, one night
recently, and he lay out on the shore
all night until early in the morning be-
fore he received assistance.
The schooner "Wm. Nelson" lying
at Little Creek Landing, was ordered to
be sold by the District Court last week.
This vessel was libelled by Mr.. Joshua
McGonigal for the expense incurred
by him in digging her off Of the marsh.
Elihu Jefferson has sold farm in
Duck Creek Neck to Thomas Shaw, Of
Pennsylvania, for 81, ,260 cash. Mr.. W.
W. Butler sold farm near Dexter's
Corner to John Walker, Of New York,
for 1925.
United States officials are observing
the rise and fall Of the tide, the course
and strength of the currents, and tax
ing soundings off the mouth of the
Mispillion.
Last Saturday night during a severe
thunder storm three cows belonging to
George Roberts, Baltimore Hundred,
were struck by lightning and instant
ly killed.
While workmen were engaged in re-
pairing the old bank property in Mil
ford last week, they found $36 in smyr-
ma bank notes under the floor.
The annual exhibition of the Kent
County (Md.) Agricultural Association
will be hell at Worten Station, Sep. l6,
II, and IS, proximo.
Miss Forney daughter of Hon. John
W. Forney, OF Philadelphia, is the
great guest of Mrs. Gen. A. T. A. Tor
bert, Of Milfordlo' y.
Miss Mollie Adkins left Milford on
Tuesday last to take the chair OF Math'
emAtics in the high school of Laporte,
Indiana.
The Delaware "Inquirer' estimates
that the storm did damage in Sussex at
the rate of one hundred thousand dol
lars.
Cattle and sheep were turned into
hundreds of orchards in Sussex, to eat
fallen peaches last week.
The recent storms have played sad
havoc with Peninsula bridges and mill
dams.
Women are making from Is cents to
$l.l5 per day in Kent county canner-
les.
A new heading on the Delaware I'm
quirer" improves that neat paper,
The Liver Pad man is doing the
eninsula.
seaford has organized brass band.
A Republican in South CarC.lna
EhOf ilOwn without PrOvOcat1On.
A despatch from Greenville, 5. u,