Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1879-12-29
JOURNALISTIC sPLINTs.
Carved from Great Chunks Of Pen.
insular wisdom.

1nsuIar wisdom.
The "great uncombsd" Of the "Dela
warean," in nosing around where III
had no business, b as discovered mare'
nest, and imagination filed with cot
fins, bowie knives and ku klux sym
bols, he warns the people of Delaware
to beware Of know nothingism. Ii
coming from the bar of the capital hote
ON Monday evening last, peered through
the windows of DR.. Jumps Office, aud
beholding several prominent Republi.
cans gathered together bis disturbed
condition contorted things, and this
blast from the junta's bugls has been
the result John, quit drinking
Phoebe Brown and Margaret Boyer
were brought before Chief Justice Com
eggs on Monday morning, at Dover, OF,
writ Of habeas corpus, for the pur-
pose of relieving them Of the charge OF
having burned the barn and attempted
TO burn the dwelling of James Wright
at Kepton, on the 2jth of last month.
Chief Justice released Margaret Boyer,
but committed Phoebe Brown, and
taxed the cost of the case on the coun-
ty.
Frederick Woodward, in Mill Creek
Hundred, near Pleasant Hill, recently
engaged Charles Croft to dig well land
when necessary to blast rock 1t was the
Young mans habit to look down the
wsll and wait until he saw the fuse
"fz." On Wednesday of last week he
look ed once too often and piece oil
the rock struck him in the face and cut
one cheek very badly.
On Christmas morning a mulatto
woman, said to be Ella White, entered
the Dover Baptist parsonage, went uI
stairs into the bed chamber, pulled Out
a bureau drawer aud began overhauling
1t. Rev. b. g. Parker and wife, being
in the study and hearing the noise,
stepped to the door and caught her.
There were some valuables lying upon
the bureau which she did not see.
On Monday last two Of the best bill
liardists of Milford crossed cues for a
purse of 500 in a game Of $50 points,
French caromes. 1t resulted in a vic
tory OF IS points for N. T. Raughley
over Del. C. Vaules. Following the
game J. G. Bogart and Harry Holmes
Q N ested for purse Of $4,000 points.
holmss won very easy.
A Kent county farmer recently killed
30 hogs, Is months old. He fed them
20 bushels of corn each, which at fifty
cents bushel amounted to $500. The
total weight of the hogs when dressed
amounted to 2,233 pounds; at s. per
hundred weight, worth $lll.65-leav-
ing him in debt $lSS. 45. The question
is: Do hogs pay
In the Department OF Agriculture's
special crop report for December, the
following crop statistics for Delaware
are given: For 1879 the average yield
of corn to the acre was q bushels of
wheat, IS bushels of rye, II bushels !;
of oats, 20 bushels of potatoes, 80
bushels Of sweet potatoes, % bushels
Of hay, ton.
The people of North and South Mil
ford On Christmas had a pigeon contest.
Each represented by four OF the
crack shots of the town, proved inter
estipg to all concerned. The score
standing after each four had shot at for
ty pigeons, North Milford killed rs, miss
I'd -. South Milford killed "a, miss ed
six.
On Monday the vestry of Christ
Dover, completed the purchase
of the lot of land with the large two
story brick dwelling thereon erected,
on the southwest corner of State and
Water streets, and formerly owned by
Charles KINNEY, Esq. They paid $685.
900 for tho property.
Rev. George J. Porter, pastor of the
Newark Presbyterian Church, while
srossing the street opposite his resi-
lence, slipped and fell injuring himself
severely. He was picked up insensi-
bio. He is now doing we'll.
George ". Ingram, the Middletown
real estate agent. has sold for 5. F.
Sh allcross, the Riley farm, near Nc
Donough, 245 acres, to Eugene Mail
ey, of Odessa, for eighty dollars per
lcre.
Messrs. James II. Ray < Co., real es-
ate agents, recently sold to Franklin
Penpock the John d. Forrest farm, in
Mil Creek hundred, '$5, 800 was the
paid for the property.
Nickels of less denomination than
i've cents are very scarce in Newark,
md storekeepers complain of the in.
resulting therefrom.
Senator salisbury is at his home in
Dover and will remain there until the
senate shall resume its session afttr
he Christmas holidays.
Individual deposits in the national
Bank of Newark, subject to check, at
he close of business on the 18th inst,
to 500, 1921.
Frederick has no hotel.
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