Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-25
THE PENINSULA.

l. k'Di rant nav au''t leu
Robert Wi-r OF Wat Nottingham, 93
years old and still hale, ia believed TO be
the oldest resident Of cecil county.
According to he Insurance Chronicle the
FIRE loss of the Uaited States in August
WIS SO 56S, 469 Delawsrea ahsre vas
$50 $50.
The steamer Artisan, plying b.tween
Seaford and Baltimore, having been sold
10 parsons in CheH'ar, made her last trip
on the Nsntieoke Thursdsy.
Fire early Monday morning at Snow
Hill partly burned the honse IN the
heart of the town owned by Miss Eliza ]
Fleminv, and occupied by Mrs Cor
d-iia J9hnson A s.rions conf A. raiiou
wss at one time threatened.
James y. l.eary, the slayer of Edward
b, Gallup. was found Rnilty In the Kent
county, Nd, court Monday OF murder
in the sepoud degree Hs wap sentenced
yesterday to Is years. imprisonment in
the psntentisry.
Charles A. Miller, a young peansyl-
vaniau who lately went to QuseD Anpe's
county and entered istn the employ of
Wright x Sparks, was week taken
back to York, on requisition from
Governor Pattison, to answer charge of
forgery.
The Salisbury Adoatiser says The
latest project for town improvement is to
bridge the river above Camden bridge,
open street to intersect Newton street,
and thereby bring large territory,
which Ia very nesr the centre of town,
int i1uh
NJ. Conway of Leipsic, Kent county, is |
reported by the Smyrna Record as having |
about so trees of late and very fine |
variety of peach called "Billyeu's Ooto-
Der. The peaches are white with a |
faint flush. They have none of the bit |
ter tRang usually characteristic of late |
peaches.
William A. Miller, who was arrested in |
Queen Auue's county, Md, on a rtqusi- |
ton from the Governo OF Pennsylvania, |
was taken to York by Officer Ginter.
Miller is charged with forging the names
nf Benjamin and j. +, Spatz to a note of |
sl45, anG passing forged check on
Henry Boil for SIS so. He is also charged |
with having committed forgery in Ian
caster county.
expect shortly to be connected by the
lines of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Company with one another and
with Wilmington, Philadelphia and other
points. The charge to subscribers will
be $50 per year for offices and $36 per
year for residences. George R. Ash is
manager for Cecil county.
Captain Henry Fisher, while dredging
in Tsugier sound, Md, recently, brought
up from the bottom jug all covered with
bsrnacles and oysters. The oysters were
knocked of the mouth OF the ing, the
stopper was removed, when 10 ard be-
hold a jug of "mcilow whisky" which
wss passed around to friends. The
stopper was sealed by wax, and the size
OF the oysters indicated that the jug had
been in the water considerable time.-
Somerset Herald.
Willis X. Hackett, aged II, of Kent
county, Md, was found guilty Friday
of aggravated assault upon the person of
Isaac R. Starkey, and sentenced to pay
the fine and costs of the suit and undergo
six months imprisonment in the county
jail. Haekett was pupil OF Sankey's
from 1877 to 1881, and in the latter year
was expelled from school. He hat bored
a grudge against his teacher, and
assaulted him with club without warn
ing in May last, inficting serious in.
Iuries. The boy belongs to family OF
high social standing,
OF one OF the late bsrries now in market
a dealer tells the New York Sun: .Our
supply comes from Wicomico and
Somerset countless Maryland Children
harvest the crop late in the fall, because
sll summer and III early fall they are
busy gathering peaches, pears and other
fruits. As soon as irosts come they take
,ut wooden psles and bring them home
Al night Drumming full with the
pink bsrries. Merchants buy them from
.he children, not for money, but in
exchange for their goods. The merchants
sell to us aud We sell almost exclusively
20 fancy fruit stores. Women buy them
oscauss they look so pretty, and believe
hey are said to be good Tor the health"
How much does it take to glut the
nardet 7" "From 20 to 30 crates of from
81 to 60 quarts in crate serve to break
he prica. 1t starts of this year at Is
tents quart, wholesale. In short
ime the price will fall TO 10 cents
quart, Wholesale, In short time the
price will fall to 10 cents quart. Then
he market will so to pieces, and no more
oernes will be sent to New Yark."