Daily Republican., 1880-01-26
FACTS FROM THE PENINSULA
Or q Condemnation Of Things In
terssting as They Have Occurred
I'm the Various Districts.

I'm the Various Districts.
Dover has q vacant houses bu'
Milford mot cne."
A number Of Middletown young mer
are about to organize military com
pany.
The new Methodist Protestant Church
will be organized at Milford, on Sunday,
February lst.
Thirteen large, square-rigged foreign
vessels lay in the Lewes harbor await.
ing orders.
Stock Of the First National Bank Of
Dover changed hands last week at $l2C
per share.
seaford, through the efforts Of Rer.
resentative Martin, has q prospect Of
being made port Of entry.
The public library Of Centrevillp,
Nd, has just been sold at public sale,
and the Middletown library will proba.
bly, soon share the same fate.
A band Of gypsies, who have been en-
camped in the lower portion Of the coun.
ty for some time, passe1 through Dover
on Monday, moving north.
A 80 year old girl and a l6year old
boy tried to elops from Ridgeley re.
Gently, but we're prevented by the lat
tsy's father.
The ladies Of the Newark Presbyts-
rian Church have decided to hold a fair
and festival during the first week in
February.
This leap year Milford has l4O hand
some, we'll raised, neat, tidy, indus
trious, good, pretty and sweet young
ladies' that are open TO engagements.
Several of Seaford's citizens have
got the western fever, and it is rumor
I'd that quite company will start fol
Leadville in May.
There is to lie daily paper published
in Dover during the session of the Viii
mington Conference, which will con
vene in Dover on the 28th of March
next.
The gas house of Milford and the ma.
chinery are now almost ready. In two OF
three days more the people shall again
have the advantage Of gas for lllumin.
alton.
Business men of Dover are talking
Of making Jones' Creek navigable up
as far as Dover. The water is now from
81 to A feet deep. They propose to
dredge the channel.
Milford now has four vessels In pro-
cess of construction. One OF these is of
100 tons. another of 900, a third of
500, aad a fourth about 80 tons capaci.
ty, thus giving employment to all the
ship carpenters In town.
Instead Of guns, as the British
thought, our men had mustered with
corn stalks on their shoulders, as but
few guRs or muskets were kept in the
armory, not expecting to have any use
for them. Many time in my young
days have heard this narrated.
Peter Jackson formerly a citizen of
New Castle, who was reported to have
been lost on the ill-faIed steamer that
was sent by Collins Bros. to Brazil, in
1877, is alive and doing we'll he is
working in an Umbrella factory in
Philadelphia.
The warm weather is causing wheat
to grow very fast. Most of the fields
present the appearance that they usu-
ally do in April or May. Many of the
farmers are fearful that the wheat will
jsint soon. The grass in the fields is
green, and sheep have had good pas
ture all the winter.
A colored boy named Crocket was
committed to the Jail at Georgetown for
injuring a white boy named Thos. H.
RiggeR at Laurel on Saturday night.
Riggen went to Laurel to serve milk,
and while doing so he was attacked by
several boys, and in the scuffls he was
thrown by Crockst and had his thigh
broken and was otherwise injured. 1t
is thought that he will recover.
The Legislative committee wound up
their proceedings on Thursday in Dover
with banquet-or, as some Of those
who were present said by their manner,
small drunk. OF course it was not
on as large scale as the grand drunk
of last winter, when the whole Legis-
lature was there, but some Of those who
were there the Sentinel" say were
'pea-eyed.' Before they had touched the
wine, however, they made the follow
ing allowances for the party: $500 to
each of the late clerks for Journals, and
$3.50 to the Secretary of State for super.
intending the printing of the Laws.
A correspondent of the Lewes 'Lighp
from St.. Louis, in looking over old
land marks, says: "My father Thomas
Howard, was one who helped to guard
the town of Lewes in the war Of 1872,
and afterwards received peusion irsm
the government. When word was sent
for the women and children to fae for
safety, my grandfather, John Russell,
who was clerk Of Probate Court at
Georgetown, sent teams aud moved my
mother out to "Mipgo HILL" as it
was then familiarly called. 1t was two
miles from town, near the bridge on
Mr.. Reecs Wolfss farm, There they
kept guard over the gold, silver and
household goods, not knowing what
was going to befall themselves. Women
in those days were fitted for any emer-
gency. 1t is said that when few Brit
ish soldiers landed on our beach, and
saw all our men with guns on their
shoulders they retreated - boarded
their ships and set sail, concluding