Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-03-17
SOMETHING FROM SUSSEX.
RehOboth in March-The Old DOmfn-
ion COmPany's Lines-A Sussex
| Members Farm Local Option

Speclhl Correspondence Vi othte Souiuhi'
DOVER, March 14.-The people of Lewes
are getting ready for the preachers. Con-
ference meets there on Wednesday, and
the chickens and eggs are laid in. The
Lewestowners say there will be plenty OF
both. Notwithstanding the extra demand,
storekeepers there are giving only 10
cents per dozen for eggs. One thing they
are short of is cabbage; as DR.. Knowles
of the Breakwater Light says : "Thc cold
weather caught us with our cabbage ont,
and it all got froze; now they want 10
cents for a head no bigger than your fist"
Ministers who have cabbage had better
take some with them.
went down to Lewes on Friday and
saw all the sights of the town, including
Captain Fowler. The Captain is u spare
but well-preserved old salt, whose age
may be anywhere between 70 and 80,
with thin gray whiskers and gatf-topsail
boots. | noticed, among the other prepar-
atoms for conference, an evident DISPOSE
ton OH the part of some of the inhabitants
to get rid of all the whisky i'll town before
the preachers come, and they babe fair TO
succeed in this undertaking.
There has been some trouble among the
Presbyterians of Lewes. A part of the
congregation became dissatisfied with
their pastor and Henry Wolfe and other
monied members ceased to attend the
church. This led to the church being
closed few weeks ago, and the shepherd
is left without flock Yesterday they
expected to reopen the church to hear
trial sermon from another pastor but
have not heard the result.
Vha Mr. NVnlfn rnfarrub IN 10 Z ynurs
old and has spent all his days in Lewrs.
When saw him lie was experimenting
the Misunderstanding of one of his houses
with shingles, placed up and down and
overlapping each other in transverse
rows. lie said he could remember rs
years back and the house was there then,
looking nearly as old as it does to-day.
There are lots of such old shingled
houses in Lewes, most of them great,
roomy, barn-like structures. | was i'll
formed that Dir. Knowles house is the
oldest building in the town and that
there was for many years an old cradle
stored i'll the garnet which was marked
with CASH from an Indian tomahawk,
made by one OF the blows which killed u
babe sleeping therein when Delaware was
young.
The visitor to one OF these old houses
always finds long leather-covered and
battered spy glass lying around looking
as old as the house itself and warranted
by the owner to be one of the best glasses
in town. Each one has history and the
dents in their brass tubes could tell many
a story.
Down on the beach near the pier lies Il
large English built barque. She went
ashore some months ago and disagree
ment between her owners and insurers
keeps her there. Ailoat, the barque
would be worth SIS 900 but if broken up
and sold for old material, as now seems
probable, not over third of that sum
would be realized.
Among others met at Lewes was
lIarbeson Hickman, one of the largest
land owners of Sussex. Like Alexander
Selkirk, he can stand in the center of one
of his farms and exclaim ~ am monarch
of all survey" Captain frederick was
there too, and he talked about the
reorganization of the Legislature" and
complained that the Democratic party
had gone back on him. He was one of
the two or three dozen men who wanted
To he sergeant-at-arms of the House.
w. Fell, landlord of the Virden House
at Lewes, has leased the Douglass House
at Rehoboth for term of five years at a
rental of $500 per year. went down
| there with Mr.. Fell, DIR. Knowles and
Tom TruXton, the life station keeper, on
Saturday afternoon. The surf dashed up
and broke on the splendid beach as in
midsummer, but the summer guests were
not there and Rehobotll seemed mex
pressibly lonesome. The cottages and
hotels are deserted their shutters fast
ened and their doors nailed up only the
long, low, whitewashed Frederick House
remains open, like the tent of Bedoun
in the ifeless desert. The high tides OF
| the winter have washed over the beach
and into the bluffs and receded, leaving
drifts of shells and pebbles to mark their
course, but the place is little changed.
| The Douglass House is down near Lake
Rehoboth, and from its upper windows a
beautiful view is had of the seething
ocean on the east, the narrow strip Of
beach running for miles to the south, and
the placid waters of the lake with its dim
and distant shores to the westward. The
hotel will accommodate $50 guests. Mr..
Fell will begin at once to get it in readi-
ness for the season, which will open
about the middle of June. lie talks OF
adding a large dancing pavilion, but has
not decided exactly where to put it.
Quite an important trade is done be.
tween Lewes and New York by the
steamer Braikwater of the Old Dominion
Steamship Company's line. The Break
cdter is u boat OF about 1000 tons bur
then and was built by Roach OF Chester
expressly for this line. Her passenger
accommodations are described as first
class, and the trip by ocean between
Lewes and New York as a very enjoyable
one. Two round trips are made weekly
the steamer leaving Lewes on Tuesday,
and Fridays, and New York on Mondays
and Thursdays. The bulk of the freigh
from Lewes comprises oysters, lumber
grain and produce, of which from 10 to 81
ear loads are shipped weekly. The com
pamy also runs daily steamer from
Franklin, the southern terminus of TIN
combined Breakwater x Frankford ant
Worcester railroads, to Clincoteagu,
Island, connecting with the trains ovei
those roads.
spent sunday with William Payntrl
Jones, the member of the House from
LeweS and RehobOth hundred lie il
very comfortably fixed on his home farm
he owns two on three others, 4 short II
miles to the westward of Lewes. The
farm contains $50 acres, and there ar,
tine young apple and peach orchards upon
it and modern buildings. Mr.. Jones is
lover of good poultry and has the fines
flock of white Brahmas | ever saw, som
Of the roOsters being almost as big Il
grown turkeys. They step around OF
their featllered legs with Il deliherativ
air of walking on stills that is Yer,
amusing to the city visitor
: There is now no hope nt q new steam
boat pier being built at Lewes this year
Captain luhllcr however, still talks q
running his schooner regularly between
there and Cape May. The schooner i
tied up now by Marshal McAlnllen ant
the Captain is going around with sor
Jaw caused by bad tooth which defie
Sussex dentistry.
STRINGENT LICENSE LAW.
There is some talk now of withdrawn
+ the local option fromythe Senate and sui
shutting bill for stringent license lay
in its stead One of the provisions {
y this bill will make the exhibition of bars
decanters, signs and other paraphernali
of saloon primd .fdcie evidence tina
r liuuor is sold there. Another provisio
charges constables and collectors to kee
an eye open for illegal liquor dealer:
Another contemplates the licensing Of til
house instead of the man. Another pre-
n hibits distillers from selling in quantitit
J. of less than four gallons. Under til
i present law, a politician who runs 4
annie brandy distillery is clothed wit