Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-20

Eioss praueel, has declined the Repnb.
liean omis+F'o4 for surveyor of Somerset
county.
", q Dniiey has purchased Of II. X.
Hays his farm in Talbot county, 4e4
sores, for $50 coo.
Smyrna Pte7byterians hope to worship
in the ehape, Of their new church or the
hrst Sunday Of October.
The schooner Banvard, from Viraiuian
port for New York, is ST the Delaware
| breakwater with her crew sick of insiarial
fever.
Managers of the Wnodlswn NJ. E. camp
received 81, ISL 25 and expended u, 1882
including the payment of an old debt of
$75,9S.
According TO the Insurance Chronicle the
loss by fire in the United States in July.
1883 was Il, ,S30,51 Delaware's loss
wac $4,000
TX Superintendent ssof Schools J. Il.
Groves. has bought the interest OF L.
Phiileo, IN the Diamond State Piekliug
Company" of Smyrna.
The next report is expected to show
the individual deposits of the Citizens
National Bank Of Middletown to exceed
$3.50, ,0o0.-- Afiddtetopn Transcript.
Annie Paget OF this city, and J. C.
Sites OF Middletown, are among the
Delswsreans in attendance at the present
session Of the State Normal School, West
Chester, Pa.
There had been shipped FROM Dover,
up to Friday, 80 car loada of peaches.
Before the season is over the number will
be over 100. The Smock peach is yet to
be shipped.
DR.. S. T. Earle of Queen Apne's
county, has sold two of his Jersey COWS
fer $500. One was sold to DR.. Tunis Of
Talbot county, for $500 and the other ito
e gentleman in Baltimore for $500.
The Boston Advertiser says that the
finest basket Of peaches sver sold in the
Boston market was sent this week from
the farm OF D. ]. Cummins, near Smyrna,
and in the tenancy OF of J. W. Lightcop.
The peaches sold for $5.
Among the inmates of the Cecil county
almshouse there is now an ex-State Sena-
tor and dental surgeon. The first is
ex-senator Taylor, the latter DR.. Brinton
late of North East. The latter lost a
limb several years ago by being run over
by a railroad train.-CecI Wing.
John c. Trautwine, an old and widely
known ciyil-engineer, died at his resi-
dence in Phil adelphia, last evening, in
his 74.h year. He was engaged in many
extensive engineering works, among them
that of the Delaware Breakwater in 1923,
and the P, W. & B. railroad in 1888.
A canal barge captain at Elkton this
week lightened his vessel 80 by the dis
charge Of her cargo that he could not get
her under the bridge at low tide, and in
the end he had to pump several feet of
water into her so as to sink her suf-
tieiently to pass under the obstruction.
How would it do for our County Exhi.
bition Managers to offer liberal pre-
MUM for the best essayo on practical road
making aud mending The question is
essentially live one, and embraces a
subject upon which there appesrs to be
needed more liberal infusion of light
s. grna Times.
John Wesley Boone, ex-postmaster at
Frederiea, died last week, aged SO years,
having served IS postmaster from June
l6th, 1851 to September Both, 1882. In
the earlier years of his term he en-
countered some difficulty by reason of the
strong southern sympathies Of the COM
Duuity.
The people of Dorchester county are
excited over recent supernatural appear
guces in their midst. Hundreds of people
ere said to have seen three bright lights
red, white and blue--coming down the
Chesapeake following the track pursued
| by vessels tnst pass through Fishing
Creek Ferry to Fishing Bay. They con-
stantly change their relative position,
and are sometimes near the earth and
then again high up in the air. They cast
bright lurid track upon the water, and
| nobody can account for them.
OF The work OF smyrna's capneries the
| Smyrna Times gays {; "John Il. Hoffecker
has canned as many as last year, but ia
not up in evsporated fruit. He is rum
| ing forcs of about 125 hands and will
| go immediately from peaches, apples and
pears to tomatoes. Voshell & Jerman,
Hsrdcastle & Jones, William Tygert, and
the establishments in the country of
John Anthony, I. S. Lapham, John P.
Hudson, A. l. Hudson, N. 7. Underwood
have been making good time last week
and this, as have alsoJ. NJ. Arthurs and
John II. Graham ct Kenton, James G..
Farson at Brenford, aud DR.. j. NJ. Smith
and Messrs. Boggs x Jefferson at Moorton.
The impaired fruit is turning out we are
told from five to six pounds to the basket.
Canners have had to pay high for suit.
able fruit, the yellow varieties, in some
cases exceeding 81" ..=-.54