The daily gazette., 1880-02-09
Doson state Dosngs.

Inc KoSt Omce a. blAckblru Ii IN the
hotel.
Taffy pullings are all the rage in some
sections Of Sussex.
4 The blue birds have already mated
and are building and laying down IN
Accomae. -----.
| There 10 q probability Of q summer
course in Delawafe Coll6ge. ri q B3
| Hundreds Of ducks are now along the
marshes near the mouth of the MisPil-
lion. r.Cl NJ 80 " 80 =
The schooner Samuel ,,RaYren, Of
Fredesica, is sshore At Little Egg Hsr-
Dor and has gone 10 pieces. ..,td
twenty-five probationers were recent
ly received in the NJ. e. church at
| Odessa. s H.n,..t..
Fortunate Milford claims 40 Of the
handsemest and neatest girls In the
State. -.li
Twelve persons have applied for the
| positien of census enumerator In Lewes
and Rehoboth Hundred, Sussex county.
Mrs. M. E. Townsend, the late pub
Usher Of the SUSSEX Journal, left for Viz
ginia on the 4th inst.
A new canning factory at Frankford
I Is talked of.
An epidemic In the, shape of sore eyes
has seized upon many Of the children of
Georgetown. .I,..s s.. II
Under the game law ., ,partridges can-
not be shot after Feb. 18th. 10 q ...i
In order to pay their pastor George
town Methodists will hold festival this
week. 9lil e. 9ufl IS
Dover's town Council has concluded
10 have the houses numbered. n" % =
The Middletown Fair Association
have elected VIM. r. Cochran, President,
and W. S. Way, Secretary.
A son of 5. W. Powell. Greenback-
vile, Sussex county, has the smallpox.
Senator Bayard will probably send his
imported thoroughbred stallion "Clema-
tbs" to Sussex this spring.
A fire among Judge Wootten's kind
ling wood, in his Georgetown Office,
nearly burned the building down the
other day.
The storm Of Monday night last
brought cart loads of channel crabs upon
Slaughter beach. Many Of them were
frozen and ruined.
A MIllsboro' fishermat caught q fifty
pound rock fish recently.
The Kent Levy Court will meet for
assessment as follows: East Dover, Feb.
10; Duck Greek, Feb. IL; North Mu:-.
derkiil, Feb. II; Milford, Feb. IS; South
Murderkill, Feb. 10; MispilliOn, Feb.f7
Kenton, Feb. lS; West Dover and Little
Creek, Feb. 10. ~
The owner of the Bright House, at
Rehoboth, has purchased 100 feet Of
ground fronting the ocean.
Sixteen shad were caught by . fishing
boat at Bombay Hook last week.
The school house at Lewes was built
prior TO 1852. .....
FELTON,, a horse that has great speed In
him, and was owned by j. T. Connor,of
Kent county, has been sold to Penn
sylvanian for $500.
On Tuesday, John Sherwood, while
engaged in busting some machinery in
Lea d Sons flour mill, at New Castle,
had one of his arms near the shoulder
caught IN set of cog wheels and terri
bly, lacerated. r.4
Messrs. Marvel & Downham have
made marked Improvement In their
newly-acquired paper this week. They
say that they intend 10 make il ''such q
paper AS shall commend itself TO all its
old patrons, and, wetrust, TO many new
Ones" 4
Blair, the erratic baker, whose family
overlook him in Newark, last week, has
deserted bis household again, leaving as
soon as he got them started towards
home bn the cars.
Concord, Sussex county, Is q thriving
little place, only having q population Of
$50 people. Last year 1t shipped 25, 900
bushels of corn, $500 cords of wood, z,
OOO, 1000 feet of lumber, 600, 900 cement
barrel slaves, 1,200, 900 nail keg slaves,
and thousands of dozens of eggs, pounds
of poultry and baskets Of fruit.
Taking his boat and gun, Freeborn G.
Wells, of Frankferd, started after ducks
last Thursday on the Indian river. Soon
afterwards gun was heard TO 10 of and
a man TO scream as if in pain, He did
not return, and when neighbors started
To. look for him they found the boat with
blood on it, and Wells hat with shot
hole through the crown, 1t is thought
that the gun went off by accident, and
the load, hitting Wells In the head,
knocked him oyerboard,
The great sensation in Harrington
this week has been an elopement, The
wife of respectable gentleman residing
near there, ON Monday last, eloped with
half brother of her husband. The
guilty couple took north bound train,
but their destination is unknown. ~
SUSSEX journal: ''Mr, Higgins has
labored hard for his party, but he has
only brought forth ridiculous mouse,
and its squeak will make neither
Judge Bradford nor himself U. s..
Senator in the place of Hon. T. +.
Bayard." f.. r.',