Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-12
DELA WARE DOTS AND D4sHES.
Milton camp will commence August
10

Milton camp Will commence august
18th.
Over 200 hands are employed in Mil
ford's peach evaporators.
The new M. E. Church at Greenwood
was dedicated yesterday.
Smyrna has a dog named DR. Tan
ner." He has tasted almost as 10 pg as the
Doctor.
The Green hackers of Sussex will hold a
meeting in Georgetown on Tuesday, the
18th inst.
j. L. Tygert y Co have connected their
Smyrna by telephone.
The Seaford Indt1 calls upon tue COL
lector to enforce the payment OF school
taxes in that neighborhood.
The Rehoboth camp begins on Thurs
day next, August 18th. This is to be a
good old d-fashioned camp for pure religious
worship, where every one can sing and
shout to their souls conteut. Extra trains
will be run at reduced fare.
well-dressed man is going about the
country claiming to be deeply interested
in the cause of temperance. He calls at q
farm house, presents n pledge for farmer
to sign, and when this is done produces q
card, similar in appearance, to which he
also desires the signature to be affixed,
'in order to keep n correct memorandum
of his work" The second card il sight
note for any amount the swindler may see
fit to demand. A suit of tar and feathers
would fit well on such swindler.
William B. Lowery, Milford grocer, is
the possessor of n secret for preserving
fruit. He has exhibited in his window for
year past large glass jar filled with
peaches, pears, apples and ounces, packed
in water in which certain chemicals were
dissolved. The jsr was unsealed and the
fruit has kept perfectly. There was one
bushel of fruit in the jar, which weighed
103 pounds when filled. Ms. Lowery says
that 10 cents worth of chemicals will pre-
serve bushel of fruit and that it may be
packed in barrels as well rs in jars.
The canning and drying houses at
Dover commenced operations last week.
Richardson e. Robbins employ about 200
hands now, and when in full operation
have 25 or 30 moro. They are using about
l,20 baskets of peaches per day. j.. NJ.
Chambers employs IS 10 100 hands and
uses 400 to 600 baskets per day. The
drying factory on West street above the
depot is being run by W. +. Mckee, aud
employs about rs hands, using above 400
baskets per day, William Walker is run.
ming three tunnels in his drying house
over the railroad, employing 40 to 80
hands, and using 200 baskets or more
dau RaliIac fbpga rutnaI ahoua fhara
are number of driers being run by
farmers, altogether using probably more
than 1900 baskets per day.
The Dtlaioarean thus paints Saturday
at Camden camp "0f course all who
went on that day did not go there to hear
preaching. Nor did they. Here would
be group, clustered together uGder the
shade of some tree, discussing the modes
of farming, while little further on there
was another one, somewhat larger, talking
politics. Between them were long line
of people, which reached from one end of
the circle to the other, promensding. The
latter pleasure was freely INDUCED in
and was kept up not only all day but until
a late hour at night. The evenings pro-
gramme far exceeded that of the day
For no sooner had the sun sunk behind
the western hills and the shade of night
robbed the day of its last ray of light,
before the bashful young man, who had
concealed himself during the day, was out
with pretty young lady leaning on his
arm, prone nading around the circle. He
would smile at her and she at him, and
they would both smile together"
From an item in the Sentinel it seems as
If Jones' creek has really been made
navigable to Dover. 1t skirts the northern
suburbs of the town and looks like an in
significant sort of stream in that part of
its course, though Forrest Landing about
four miles below, has long been ship
ping port for grain. Between that point
and Dover, Jones' creek is augmented by
three branches, known as Puncheon run,
Lindale's run, which flows through the
Camden camp ground, and Tidbury creek,
or the Red House branch. The item is rs
follows; "On Tuesday evening tug boat
with the schooner Commerce in tow came
up to the wharf at the foot of Front street
The tug is Sc feet long and IL feet beam,
and will seat GO to rs persons with chairs
on her deck. The schooner brought
load of lime for Mr.. j. W. Cullen. The
boats left on Friday. We learn that they
will have no difficulty in coming up or
going down on single tide in q to 3
hours. The road to the wharf is being
graded"