Democratic messenger., 1881-03-26
PENINsULAR ITEMS.
CosDErsED FROM oUB EXCHANGES

"A well-developed ase OF oiP1sne!in pHs
yet to make its appearances i'd Middleto wn'
Laurel, excepting Salisbury, i said 70
be the biggest lumber market on tie Ssn'h-
sula.
DIR. r. F. Tull, corresponding secretary
Cecil County Sportsmen's Associatio n has
ordered from Florida 94oquail for propagat-
ing purposes.
The Sussex Levy Court has bought from
DR.. Hugh Martin the old tOll-bfidge over
the Naniicoke, at SeafOrd, for So. ooS, and
it viii be free after April l..
-Selbyville has ten men who answer to
the name of Frank, aad, it is rather amusing
to step into store, call out the name of
Frank, and have half dozen start to their
feet in response to the call:
Washington College, at Chestertowp,
caught fire on Saturday last aAd was de- mag
ed to small amount. The FIRE was fortan-
ately discovered before it got much head
way, and the building was saved.
The sale of the Newark Ledger did not
meet with success. The highest bid was
$3.50. The administrator of the estate Of
The late Theodore Esling would not accept
of it, aad the bid and the property will bo
DISPOSED of BY private sale.
Within the last three months two hum
dred cannon have been converted into car
wheels at one of the large car shops in
Wilmington. The big guns are subjected TO
intense heat for four oS Ave hopra to reduce
them 10 pig iron.
Cambridge has q big ship-building
boom. Skilled workmen are in demand.
New contracts have just been made by the
va rious ship builders aud the coming sum
mer will be the busiest ever knowa on the
Choptank.
"A famous horse in Wilmington is
known as "Old Niger" He is twenty
three years old and has worked steadily as
car-horse ever since the street railway was
laid, seventeen years ago. When he dies he
will have a tombstone.
The new hotel at Dover, 70 take the
place of the one that was destroyed, will
be built at ice. The contractor was in
Wilmington city on Saturday, aud hired
eight bricklay eTs and went to Philadelphia
for more. He says that 400, 900 bricks will
be laid. These will be sufficient to keep
twenty men employed during the summer.
Sickness and death have been holding
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Winter particularly among the little ones
The diseases most prevalent were measle:
and diptheria among the children, ami pneu'
monia and consumption among the adults
One Baltimore hundred updsria ker has sup
erintended as many as three interments IN
a single day,
lin removing the inside ceiling from an
old fredericksburg building recently citizen
OF that town found a lady's slipper, in q
perfect state OF preservation, the diminuiive
ness of which entities it to rank &C "Cin
derella." Investigate showed that the
slipper had been there 80 years, because IN
800 the building was used as store, the
slipper beng a relic of the storekeepsr's
stock.
-Qrite q sensation was created in Eastor
short time since by the sudden disappear.
ance of young man who had enjoyed tn,
confidence Of his employers and the comma.
nifty generally, and the discovery that he was
p defaul,er 70 the amount of several thou.
sand dollars. HIS employer losses about
81, 500. One gentleman endorsed O note
for him for SlO), which he raised to 5000
and negotiated it.
The trustees Of the Conference Academy
at Dover publish positive denial to tn,
following item which has appeared in sever.
al papers: "The Wilmington Conference
Academy. which has had heavy debt up
on its hands for several years on which it
is now unable to pay the interest, will like
ly be allowed by the Conference to be sold
For several years TIE influence Of the Con
ference has preYeuted its sale, but it is con
sidered NO longer expedient to do so. IL
event of its sale it will probably be purchas
ed BY private parties, yet run as Methods
School"
The lumber for the new church at Lanr
el, lying on the bank of the creek at thai
place, owing to the freshet and by the heavy
rains was washed away. The fences on sew
eral farms bo rd ering the same creek were
washed away, and in many instances large
fields were completely covered By water
Much damage has also been done in the vi
cinitp of Seaford and Concord. At the lat
ter place T. P. Rodney, merchant, lost
about 100 cords of wood which was carried
down the stream. Mr. Co lbourn Of the for.
mer town was also very heavy loser in the
article of wood.
MIR. John D. Dilworth, Of Berlin, Md,
but formerly of Port Penn, this State, is in
the s2nd year of his age and is bale and
hearty. Mr. Dllworth was elected TO the
Legislature of this State in 1880, ran for
Congress against John W. Houston, in ls46
and was for years Prothonotary OF New
Castle county. During his long life Mr..
Dilworth has been actively allied with the
Democratic organization, and still adheres
as strongly as ever to the principles of the
grand old party. S Since Mr.. Dilworth attain
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