The daily gazette., 1880-05-03
DOsOn the state Items.
LIFE IN DELAWARE AS DEPICTED BY
THE STATE PAPERS.

LIFE IN DELAWARE AS DEPICTED BY
THE STATE PAPERS.
City drummers are now busy with
the down State merchants.
Eight families of color reside in an
old saw mill in Newark.
Wheat throus holit the State is report
ell as lo, king unusually well.
The two houses in Dover destroyed
by fire week ago are to be rebuilt.
The school taxes of Dover have been
reduced from $l.32 to $1.25 on the
$i00.
Pleuro-pneumonia is beginning to
play havoc among the cattle in Kent
county.
AT Harrington new canning tstab
lishment is TO be erected during tile pres
ent spring.
c. G. Davidson's 600 ton schooner
was launched at Milton on Tuesday,
last week.
"Pina'ore" was handsomely perform
ed in the large towns of lower Della
ware, last week,
Two new business houses are to be
erected on Main street, Middletown,
during this summer.
Bob Henson, COL, of Newark, was
kicked by a horse, a few days ago, and
had both knees broken.
Jacob S. Allston, has sold his farm
near st. Georges, to John Chairs, of
Delaware City, for $4,000.
Mr.. Frank Gemmill, Of New Castle,
has been appointed ticket agent at Wyo-
ming Station, Delaware Railroad.
Peach orchards have largely given
place to corn, and larger quantities Of
this important cereal will be raised this
year.
Richard c. Hayes, Of Odessa, has
taken out letters of administration upon
the est ate Of MarLh. A. Hayes, late of
81. Georges hundred.
Engineer 81 Mcguire opened wide
the throttle of J. & b. engine, the
o her night, and made run of three
miles in four minutes.
Mr.. j. g. Corbit, of Middletown lost
a valuable h ,rse by lock jaw, on Satur-
day last. The animal S uck nail in
his foot OH last Friday week.
A colored child was burned to death
last week, about eight miles from
Georgetown, its clothing having caught
fire while its father was burning
brush.
1t is said that all the Middletown peo-
pie who went to Leadville about year
ago are doing well and getting ricn.
Bat, still, don't let's all start for Lead
vllle at once.
The junction s. Breakwater Rail
road Company are having all their pas
senger cars painted just the same color
Of the coaches they purchased from the
West Jersey Railroad last year.
The Fourth of July celebration is
still being worked up in Georgetown.
Wilmington merchants will take an
active part in the trade display of the
procession.
The neighborhood of Hollandsville,
Kent county, was visited on Monday
evening by severe storm of wind and
hail. Fences were blown down, and
the hail played smash with the window
glass.
United States Fish Commissioner
Baird has Informed Mr.. l., z. Cowgirl,
of Cam len, that after June 10th he will
be able to supply him with all the yonHg
shad he will transport from the Matching
station at Havre de Grace.
Some Lewes parents demonstrate
with schoolmaster b. F. Twllley for
trouncing the bad boys, and the Light
advises him to "kick the fathers down
stairs and throw the boys out of the
window"
Daniel Davis, who for two years past
has been an exhorter in st. Johns A.
U. Church, of Newark, was expelled
from said church on Wednesday even
ing last on a charge of neglect of all
official duties and total disregard and
contempt the minister in charge and
the official Board.