Daily Republican., 1880-04-19
STATE DVIYT.

The boiler Of Gordey's steam 81
mill, located about nine miles FRI
Laurel, parted at the centre sea
Wednesday, causing an explosion. 81
eral pieces Of machinery were great
damaged, but fortuR atsly only one m
was injured. The ends Of the boil
were thrown two hundred yards in Il
jopposite directions from the place
the explosion.
The "Journal" says that Sussex
peculiarly free from litigation al
crime, as all the civil and criminal bus
ness before the court at the April ter
was disposed of in little over thrt
days.
NJ Hon. Lemuel Malone, President ,
the Peninsula Press Association, ha
called a meeting Of the Association I
! take place Oh Wednesday, 2lst inst, a
the Clayton House in Wilmington.
Milford people will apply at the Apr
session OF the Kent County Court for
new road, which will greatly shorter
the distance from Milford 10 Frederica
G. M. Howell of Milford will use VI
at least SIS acres of tomatoes in his can
merry this season, that being the guam
tity he has already contracted for.
Four Of the workmen on the NJ. Z
Church at Greenwood, by the breaking
Of ladder were precipisated to tn,
ground and seriously injured, lately.
Mackerel is rare fish in Delaware
waters, but Thomas Short caught a
large one in his net of Bowers Beach
the other day.
Already Milford has subscribed
$4,000 for the building Of the proposed
J. & B. r. R. branch down along the
wharves.
TIE early fish that catches the worm
this season is the trout. Numbers
were caught at Kits Hammock last
Thursday.
WIN. +. Cochran, of Middletown who
has had two Weeks siege of sickness,
is about again.
Captain Fowler, the nautical oracle
Of Lewes says trout will be plentiful
this year.
Milford sportsmen are pleased to see
the plow fluttering across the marshes.
The Middletown militia company
seems sick Of playing soldier.
Unfortunate Middletown will have
"Pinafore" April "a.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
The spring term Of the Middletown,
schools opened Monday with good at.
tendance The number OF pay scholars
has been rapidly increasing, and the
receipts last year from this source were
about $400.
At the celored preachers meeting
held in Smyrna last week, resolution
Vas adopted calling upon the General
Conference to elect colored man as
me Of the new bishops.
Rev. W. G. B. Lewis, son Of Rev. W.
!. B. Lewis, of Middletown, is now the |
managing editor Of the Silver Cliff, Col
'rado, "Daily Republican," news
} per Of recent birth.
At the quarterly meeting of Apo
uinimink Circuit, it was decided to
Iold camp-meeting at the Black bird
amp-meeting woods the coming sum-
ler.
The ladies of the NJ. 4. Church at
have secured Miss Gertie
'unnell, for readings at the Town Hall
n Friday evening, I'D inst.
Rev. Father McGivney will deliver
'ee lecture in Middletown Hall, on
thursday evening, 22d inst, at s
clock.
Bishop Scott's condition gives alarm
his family. lie is obliged to remain
rest.
The attendance at all the county
hools falls of as spring comes on a
aee. II
The school assessmen mt for Dover has
zen completed.
AMoNG THE PEACH ORCHARDS.
J. ]. Jones, a Smyrna man, fights
ost with fire, for on the nights when
Q thermometer went down to the
sezing point, he built and kept fires
lrning along the north side of his
chCrds to counteract the effect Of "the
piping and eager air."
The Middletown Transcript" dis q
sed to bear up under the blow, says .
at the farmers are going to have such .
big wheat crop that they don't seem s
care mach about the peaches. {
On the principle that misery loves :
npany, the Milford "News" says Z
At the Delawareapsaoh growers can :.
lsole themselves with the fact that =,
, Western orchards are also badly in A
ed.
The Milford papers state that the q
d weather OF last Saturday and Sun
y nights, especially the latter, was OF
,ost incalculable injury to the peach -
p in that vicinity. ~
he Dover "Ssntinel" says that the p
,st accounts from the peaches in y
ir locality, is that there are enough
yet If nothing further happens to -. ~
ire them. ~
n the Seaford section Of peach or
rds, the scare has somewhat ab&ed,
the growers are still hopeful. =
he breeze did not hit the Eastern '
re as hard as it did the Delaware
I of the Peninsula. n
he outlook in Pencader Hundred 10 w.
so bad as was at first feared.
POLITICAL PICKINGs.
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