Daily Republican., 1880-05-17

Mirage, OF mists Of merning made,
l That cInnot last.
!: 'Tis he who seeks woman's soul
Who wins her heat,
One reaches not Love's final goal
With shallow art.
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PEA.PATCH TO POkOMOkE.
State Life In Miniature as Told
the Delaware Papers-The Week
News.
The Kent county (Md. horse ''Stsn'
WALL" that was a favorite at the Per
|insular Fair, last season, won the 2:3
race at New Huntington Park, on Fri
day of last week, in 2:30, and was SEE
ond in the 2:29 race, at sufIoik Park
on Monday.
The Baltimore Company that resen.
| ly gave "Pinafore" in Middletown, vii
return with the same opera on Tuesda!
evening, May 25th, and will on tn
same evening give Gilbert Il Sullivan
amusing opera. "Trial by Jury"
A ecmmotion was raised in front o
ST.. Johns A. U. church on New Lor
don avenue, Newark, last Sunday eve
ming, by a young colored damsel, re-
ceiving a castigation at the hands O.
her mother, on account of a young man
The Road Commissioners of White
Clay Creek Hundred, have decided
to increase the rate Of Road Tax tt
25 per cent. on the 500, an addition Of
5 per cent.
George W. Ingram, real estate agent,
reports the sale of the "Thomas farm"
near Townsend, l73 acres, to George II.
Stone, of Scranton, Pa, on private
terms.
Quite large acreage will ke planted
in sugar beets in ST. Georges and ad-
jeiring hundreds, this spring. Mr. E.
c. FenimSre will grow about thirty
acres.
Ladies of the NJ. X. Church, Of Mid
dlstowD, will give a festival on May
2G!h and 9th.
Presiding Elder Martindale and wife
spent Tuesday in Middlstown, among
their old friends.
The Town Commissioners Of Newport,
have determined 70 break up the corner
lounging nuisance.
Middletown talks Of adopting an au-
omatio gas light.
Ex.Goy. Cochran has been very sick
With bilious.
KENT.
Rain Ii needed badly. Straw berries
will bs Oh next week, but the crop will
De very much shortened by the dry
The hay crop will also be
hort, as the clover is now headed out,
md on many fields it does not hide the
ground.
The Board of Education of Dover
aave resolved to make change in
heir principal, and MIR. W. s. Grouse
will retire from his position as prinoi-
,al at the close Of the SCHOOLS for the
umner vacation.
A berry train passes over the Della
yare rosd every day now. A few crates
AVE been eeh,.iHped frsm the lower part
f the Peninsula this week. Next week |
he shipments will be quite heavy.
There are eleven seines fishing at
.itt's Hammock at this time for trout.
he catch has been unusually large,
lors fsh being caught than can be dis
osed Of.
The Presbyterian chapel al Dover Is
eing pushed rapidly forward. The
expect 10 complete their
oIk in about two weeks.
State Treasurer Reynolds will pay of
46 ,000 of the Delaware debt on July
The bonds to be called in are Nos.
II to 345 inclusive.
DR.. g. A. Graham, graduate Of the
Dental College, has set
ed in Dover TO pl actice his profession.
At the late term of the Kent county {
,urt thirteen liquor licenses were gran
ID to applicants and two refused. q
A prize fight contemplated by some I
ilford pugilists Saturday, didn't come
I. Reason not known. 4
Wheat that promised such crops Of
raw fsw weeks since, has not been
owing so rapidly lately.
The new M. P. church, in FELTON,, ,
i'll 10 dedicated on Sunday, May 22d, .
'S0.
1t is proposed to give Milford another s
lily mail north in the 4 o'clock train. q
SUSSEX. 4
While Messrs. Thomas S. and Henry
arker, farmers Of Indian River Hun :,
ed, were riding to Millsboro' on Mon
~ evening last, some unknown per- {
n, being concealed behind tree near
obinson's Camp Gronnd, fired a pistol
Nj into their carriage, which passed
agonally between them, hit pipe in I
10 mouth of the former, leaving only ;,
10 stem, and passed behind the head !.
the latter.
Joshua S. Burton of Lewes, an old 4
I'd respected citizen, died last Monday.
0 led an active, industrious life, and i,
It'll few days before his death was A
ing about attending to his duties as p
ual. He was an ardent Republican n
ID had held several Offices Of trust n
ID responsibility under the general /,
,vernment. Il
On Monday last Stephen Hudson, an o
nployse in the steam-mill of Taylor 4 fl
kins, at Williamsville, was danger S
sly, and 1t is feared fatally scalded v
the bursting of steam pipe in the
gine room. o
The warm weather of this week is o
using crabs to shed freely in Indian II
yer, and they are now being shipped