Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-01-13
della WARE DOTS AND D4SHE8.
Little DRsbes Of News CuiIcd from
the state Papers


the state Papers.
The MILFORD Ohr0atcle says: "oar nur-
seTyuien have Examined their nursery
stock, and report tnat the recent cold wave
has been especially disastrous to them, as
learls all OF the young trees are killed"
Petitions are ia circulation in Sussex for
the passage of a hawk law The hawks
are 80 numerous and so destructive to
birds and chickens that it is thought it
would be economy to kill them of at
cost of 80 cents or more per head.
Milford had ghost early this week,
that fitted about an unocoupied house
carly il the evening and caused the eyes
of the superstitious to bulge. A hero In
vestigated aud found the mystery to be
the moon shining through window.
Wyoming has organized military COM
pauy with Charles Nj. Carey ss captain,
Henry X Wbeatley, as first lieutenant, and
John X. Walheater as second lieutenant.
The organic alton is known as Company E,
aud has been assigned to the second
Battalion, d V. VI.
The Milford Nelos says that New York
parties, sppreclaliug the tad condition o.
the Walnut street bridge, in that town, for
pedestrians, hal the snow and slush
clean OF at their expense. Our Town
| Commissioners are Undertaking, and will
probably awake eager for reform in the
spring.
rhe Georgetown Inquirer says that
some OF the finest catlie ever shipped
| from there were sent north on Friday.
| The largest-a pair of oxen-were
furnished by Superintendent Stockley, of
the almshouse. They weighed 8 100
pounds, and were the heaviest ever
shipped at that depot.
The annual meeting of the Farmers
Bank of the State of d 4leware was held in
The banking house at Dover on Thursday.
No change was made in any of the boards
exc It the Nav Castle branch, r. q
Cooper being elected cashier in place of
Charl-s KINNEY, aid John Black direc.
tor IN D ace OF Cooper A semi-annual
| dlyd-rd OF three per cent was declared
The suss-r journal says: 1.-THE safety
Of th= p scn crop for Isl Is already called
IN gus lou by the Interested growers, A
gsu,le man of K ut county eugsged largely
in peach culture said 70 ~ that if the
htrmomstsr reached 1U9 below zsIo th,
p aches we're gone up, az the sap in the
rees would fss,zs 1T that paint. II this
Il true ve shsll have no peaches next
summer"
The D57sr Slut Sentinel says: "rhe
cold weather caught iar3s uumoer of
eyatr boats loaded wish oysters al
Mahun5. BeItg unaole 10 get to the city
% water To y IS, - compelled 10 ship tbeir
oJ sters by rEt!, ard 81! the week teams
nave bseu IL den!sud. Several car load.
have beeN shipped We hear taat prime
oyster, a;e "osth 80 barred o. Fr,day
The river Was opsu and the boats are now
at work catching oysters
The Georgetown Inquirer says tha
! John kaarDey, the bound boy taken from
John iiudal last week because Of his bsC
T treatment IT the little fellow, was OF
Monday returned TO Iindsil 10y order O
Jddg. WoJt.en. Tue reasons that in
huenced tue Judge in placing the DO,
= again dnder the guardianship of a mai
cantr5sedly uutit to care for nun are no
Known but It Is said Iindalt made BIZ
t promises to reform and treat X -arne,
) more npuauely. several excellent FARMER
were d4sltou5 u taxing charge of the boy
Milford Naes says the late cold weathe
aAd snow mas % very severe Onall kind
/ OF GENE Ordinary snow leaves some bar
+ -pots WHICH hud+ and rabbits iud bu
'nts one was SO deep and drifted so tina
4 scarcely Any p ace was uncovered. Henc
game uoI ouiy found difficulty in iudln
= food, uu. in keeping warm Numbers Q
= blrd5 have been found dead, aud ia som
d cases partridge hsv, been pick. up aliv
l. III the SLOW. Furred animals have ker
alive, bul they are poor Ia lrackin
parlrldges hunters loud that the bird
), stopped OCCASIONALLY AID scratched throug
+. tine SLOW 10 the ground IA search Of iooC
OF Ii,;ord -hipbuiliing, thu Chyoaic
i say. 'i5ecause OF the Dad weather
u tins wtntar ~ork in tue ship yards an
oil mills ANi 5-en very SLACK. Capital
f. Sharp '. ssel III AbUott's yard is not Y,
hi ri6b-d up and the saw mills have sh,
5. dgTn "olk, 50 10 ship timber can De ha
tor immediate use until they start u
.e ag1ia. j. W. Abbott Il Co., a,
y nov lHy lng do~p the plans for ne
So echooIer- in the anuory of Company |
She vi, bs 10 feet keel, q feet btau
ls four aud a-la!t feet depth Of bold. al
+, abUu % tons 5urthen. Size is built fl
Milford parties and " II be commanded
~ Capt. Caleb Smith, who will use hur
the nv York outside trade"