The Newark ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1877-1???, 1880-08-07
wlLMIsGTOS AND THE PENINSULA.

about Georgetown. .
Peach drying began all down the
Peninsula this week.
Greenwood will dedicate its new NJ.
P, Church tomorrow.
The camp meeting at Milton will
commence August 10.
-Chincoteague Islands great annual
pony penning will take place to-day.
Tho Wilmington receivers of city
taxes collected 5000, 900 during July.
Sussex Greenback men will hold
conference at Georgetown on the II inst.
The Milford Neios Rep.) predicts
Kilkenny cat fight in the Republican
Convention.
Sussex peach growers are finding
more marketable fruit in their orchards
than they looked for.
Company d. Dover's militia, have
taken name-"Thc Hall Guards" in
honor of Governor Hall.
Building goes on in Wilmington.
During the month just closed 40 permits
were issued to in July, 1879.
Talbot county Democrats have in
structed for Chmles II. Gibson for Con-
gress. The sogtaNst Conyention indor-
sed James U. Dennis.
Ten thousand dollars in premiums
are offered by the managers of the State
= Fair, which will be held at Dover on
| September 27-October 2.
t Isaac J. jenkins, formerly Collector
' of the Port of Wilmington, man well
' known in every part of Delaware, died at
Asbury Park last Friday night week.
/. james Weldin was knocked down
and robbed by two negro highwaymen at
French and Ninth streets, Wilmington,
J on Tuesday night. The robbers used
8 blackjacks.
Samuel Jess, plasterer, aged 60
t years, was drowned at Bombay Hook pier
n on Wednesday. lie was fishing on the
pier when, stumbling over spike, he
lell lnLO Lnc WatcE.
The engines, cars and Office furniture
l., of the Dorchester and Delaware Railroad
!, at Cambridge are offered at Constable'f
. sale. The sale is ON Judgment of a
Is Justice of the Peace.
Is The Kent Neacs is authority for the
IN statement that James Commerford, the
e. newly appointed postmaster at Massey's
it cannot write, and signed his name with s
-. cross to the official oath.
ri Bishop Becker has removed from st
Peters to st. Paul's Church, Whining
ton, and the Rev. D. j. Kelley has re
{" moved from st. Peters, New Castle, t.
N. st. Peters, Wilmington.
EST The peach peelers of Henry's dryin
OF factory, in Chestertown, struck, on las
ed Monday morning, fsr IL cents per basket
no Their 6e,pands were acceded to.
he1 The sel sus emlmerators failed to
Mt. justice To the upper district of the Eas
-, ern Shore Kent. One long strip of terri
=" tory, containing $50 white people and
number Of eolored people were overlooke'
"A Rising Sun turkey gobbler has di
Ing tinguished himself by Matching a lot t,
ca chickens from hen eggs placed und,
til. him. His gobbler instincts caused hi
,as- to tramp them all to death just after the
III. birth.
the -Camptain Henry Bacon, U. s.
ost Corps, has made surveyor the L
River preparatory to the improvement
W for which the last Congress made an a
ned preparation. North East River is also
/ a be deepened.
Isly "A little son Of Michael Piper, of L
ous coin, tried tickling mule with stra
and when the mule had finished givi
Into his opinion about the matter the bo
, nose was broken, one eye put out ard
40 whole countenance generally disfgureC
any Eli Crozier, Wilmington's eccent
re- citizen, whose mania is patriotism, G:
reat free excursion to the widows 9
ling orghans of soldiers and sailors on NJ
the day. The steamer Susie Mccall b
Mr.. Crozier's guests down the bay Q
back.
,,oo 1t is estimated that 500, 900 bash
of peaches already have been shipped
market. Ex-Governor Cochran thil
that at the end of the season Middletc
ilent alone will have shipped 375, 900 bask
ough SIiddletown shippers have been clear
/, the about thirty cents basket.
THAT 'lightning never strikes ty
day in the same lace, no longer holds e
er to In 1873 thumb bolt scal9ed he tol
their tall sycamore in Somerset, and a
al. days ago lightning not only played
havoc with the same old sycamore,
con- killed understanding OK as well.
y, as p.,
yond ,,nr ont tpo two v;rrin;. oonnt;s,
ao- shown by the census to be $685.
ctioD; this number Delaware has 146, $40.
lit as populations of the Eastern Shore c
been ties are as follows: Caroline, 10, 97S; c
RI, 81, 1874; Dorchester, 23,00s; Kent, II
- Queen Annc's, 19,44s; Somerset, 81
aneeo Talbot, 10, lie; Wicomico, 1892,
he Worcester, 1894.
49," "A. ]. Snow, an old citizen, died
tight Dover the other day. His family