The daily gazette., 1883-08-14

/ GOsstppy Letter GrOD the Mile-LOnp
-ImprOvemeDts--The school Ques
tiOn-Big POtatoes--I.aBd Damages and
Other Matters.
Especial corresDondence OF the Gazette
NEWARK, DEL, August 14.-It is long
time since last gave you an account of the
happenings of our thriving little town, and
many improvements have been added.
The Dean Wooden Mill has been com.
pleted in all its departments and is now in
| successful operation. We have added new
Industrial enterprise in the shape of a new
machine shop and agricultural warehouse,
conducted by Watson q Casho. Fl. B.
Wright is now building at the corner of
Main and Chapel streets large structure,
4OxSO feet, as hardware store and carriage
bazaar Mr.. Caskey has built four new
brick houses. Tobias Mckenzie has also
built one for himself, and then,
the demand for houses is so great, that
| such price was offered that he sold it, MIN
rod Worrell has Quilt himself neat frame
house, as has also Watson NJ. Dougall. g.
W. Williams has contracted for the building
OF two pressed brick houses on Main street,
James Manuel is building neat house
OF brick on Cnoate street, Pusey Pemberton
has built quite large brick machine shop
The new CaGholic Church is fast approach
ing completion; it will be the largest and
best building of the town. The brick work
OF all the brick houses, church, etc., has
been done by the Newark Brick Manufac-
turing Company, under the superintendance
of the gentlemanly President, James f.
johnson, who is a favorite of the town.
VIM. Deans nine brick houses are all fin
ished and occupied, and he is building two
more. understand he is going to open up
lot of his land and offer it for sale in lots at
public sale, when 1t is expected that our
town will take new start. The B. & q,
K. X. is being pushed rapidly towards com
pletion, quite a number of gangs of work
men are at work on it, mostly Italians.
The school question seems to have died
out for the present. There are lois of mar
minded, close fsted, rich old cusses in
our town who have no children to send to
school and who would rather that tie whole
community of workingmen's children should
grow up in ignorance than that S. extra tax
should be taken out of their pockets.
Among the greatest opponents to the new
school is our fat, overgrown town father,
who, by the way, is great tinancier, but it
is a system of his own and runs in the wav
he directs, which is directly into his own
pocket. He talks about giving some peo-
pie fits, but if the workingmen don't give
him fits at the next town election then set
me down as no prophet,
Inc crops arouuu our locality nave been
fair.
The farmers are complaining of the cold
and say it makes the corn crop backward
The potatoes are in prospect of being the
best crop for many years back. saw some
potatoes grown by Mr.. Thornley, that are
worth writing about. They are splendid,
smooth and free from blemish, and OF such
size that horse and plow are not to be used
in taking them up; for if one row was taken
up and spread around it would be worse
travelling for horse to pillow out than it Is
at the present time for any one to travel on
our public roads The latter are washed
and loose rocks are thrown around in such
quantities that it is almost impossible t.,
travel over them; but as to the. size of the
potatoes they would remind you of basket
of large cantaloupes. Some of the barrels
are said to contain at the very least 25 to
30 of these mammoth potatoes. They are
perfect show.
Some of our farmers, whose land the B.
Il o. r. r. goes througs, have had
the commissions on them and seem more
satisfied than our contrary friend Dean is.
The men who have been lately on the com
missions seem to better understand the
value of country land than the former ones
did. have heard that they have taken
from twentieth to a thirtieth of the land
of the farms and awarded the owners about
third to a quarter of the whole value
the farms, and that seems to have satisfied
the owner But then they are reasonable
men and easily satisfied, mean the owners
of the farms, and some OF them would like
to sell the balance at the same rate.
The Odd Fellows are going on an excur
sion on Tuesday next to Colchester, Md
Mr.. SlVerthorn says he can beat any
member OF the rich mems pool association
at euchre, If they will give him the joker
and the two bowers and two aces. He says
he is willing to bet high on that hand all
day. Some of the other members of the
club have offered to give him his choice OF
cards, out of the pack, and then bet two to
one that they can beat him; SO you see there
is difference OF opiniol on this question as
well as upon the school question.
Our new and efficient real es ate brokers
are hard at work to see which can do the
greatest amount of business. Nothing like
competition between competing railroads
and real estate dealers.
This is cert' inly the place for new enter.
prises, cheap land, healthy locality, cheap
living, no taxation, all the modern advan-
tages of railroads, telegraph, telephones,
express, post office, etc. Why don't the
people flock to our town and reap some of
the many advantages 1t offers.