Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-23

development of fruit culture since, stimula-
 ted by eVaporators and 'canneries" and bet | ter railroad facilities, is pushing forward all | business enterprises connected with it to &
 prosperous future, and the blood that is tell l ing on the present growth and improvement | of nearly every town within her borders is | from the North. As the Northmen Oyerran 1 and conQ dered Britain, so are the Northmen 1 of own land destined to make all of the 1 old slave States teem with industry and pros perity greater than the word has ever known. The great curse of the State in times past
 has been farms too large for profit. As oth
 CT Improvements take place land is being cut up and sold in smaller tracts which admits
 of more thorough cultivation.
 We hear 50 much about peaches that other
 crops go out of mind, but this is the home
 also of corn and wheat 1 have not seen this
 vide of the great West such large and healthy
 fields of as here. Passing by field
 of forty acres not quite as heavy previ-
 ously noticed, my informant said 1t good
 for sixty bushels, and further, that not few
 fields in his mind would reach hundred to
 the acre. If Delaware was only & Texas or
 Dakota, my advice to speculative friends
 would be, 'Go short on corn, seller the
 year"
 l set out to write of peaches, and to em-
 brace the position of the farmers with the
 present large crop. It must be apparent to
 all that the best friends the growers have to-
 day the evaporating and canning facto
 ries, without which this important industry
 would suffer immeasurably. With factories
 springing up all through the, fruit-growing
 section, giving employment to thousands of
 operatives, including both skilled mechanics
 and ordinary laborers, and iD the ''canneries"
 large numbers of girls are employed, many
 of whom receive six dollars per week. It is
 easy to imagine that this once neglected pc
 ninsular is full of promise
 As illustration of the recent growth of
 the State as impelled by northern ideas, let
 Aol-a A1,ol o1 L@,.
 twenty five years ago the city had about five
 hundred population. To day it will number
 nearly four thousand and is steadily increas
 ing. So attractive it proved to me, with its
 quiet ways and shady streets, such an air of
 simplicity pervading every nook ard corner,
 that fingered like 8 lover at the gate until
 too late to reach my objective point, Balti-
 more on Saturday, and as Sunday here
 means the full and faithful observance of the
 day, no cars are run. Hence my soul to-day is full of peace and Dover As to the moral ground on which this community stands, it
 is firm in the old faith. Shops of every de-
 scription are closed and back entrance. The postoffice, telegraph office, barbers' shops, drug stores, saloons-al places in fact shut up absolutely, with the excep- tion of the churches, all of which are open
 and presided over by their regular pastors, Saratoga, Newport or other summer resorts having attractions great enough to draw them away from their tiocks. Crime is hard ly known, owing ln great measure, It IS
 claimed, to the whipping post law. The dis l grace of public whipping is sufficient to keep lawbreakers beyond the line, and both Republicans and Democrats consider the law | good and wholesome. We visited the post i in the jail ground and concluded from the ap- pearance of it's surroundings that it is sell | dom used. As our chaperon explains the | ma0dus operandi of punishment my friend | from New York expresses the belief that if l the law was to be enforced in Gotham the | post would need steam power attached. This | State has ever been anything but Republican, yet great hopes are entertained of electing 1 the Republican nominee for Governor, AL | bert Curry. of Sussex county. That public l affairs will soon pass from the house of Sauls- bury is b. lieved by a majority.
 ] cannot close this nasty ramble without 1 paying respects to the Hotel Richardson. | This house, built by Messrs. A. B. $ H. A. l Richardson, is new, having been open but ten days, and is a gem of neatness and beau l ty. Erected and furnished at an expense of nearly one hundred thousand dollars, it | stands fitting monument to it's projectors. 1 l he architecture, inside finish and furniture I are all of Queen Anne style, and comfort is ! indelibly written through its every cheerful l apartment. With mine host Colonel Foun 1 tain as proprietor, and the genial MT. Butler ' as clerk, the wayfaring man is sure to find pleasant and kindly reception. To the own l CTS of this model hotel the citizens of Dover | should feel deeply grateful. Mir. Alden B. Richardson, native of the Old Bay State, | pitched his tent among this people about twenty five years ago, and to day the firm of | Richardson packs, under the brand of "Rich- ardson X Robbins," the best quality of l canned fruits and meats known to the trade.