The daily gazette., 1883-08-28
Our NEWARK LETTER.
Railroad Matters. the school Question, and
Other Matters Of Interest.

NEWARK, DEL, August 1.--Since my
last letter v have had pleasant weather,
frequent showers, hot sunshine and cool,
pleasant evenings. Our surrounding coun-
try never looked better, clothed in beautiful
green Our young folks have been enjoying
themselves with picnics and pleasant little
excursions to different points of attraction.
In railroad matters there has been consider
able excitement. The p Il B. has secured
the right OF way through the lands Of most
Of our farmers and far away through the
farms of Cecil county, Md. The venerable
captain who deals In the right OF ways, has
met at last bis equals over in Maryland.
BE now says II he could only have got to
have used his Wilmington tools over there,
ne would have made the sturdy old farmers
of Cecil county sweat, but, as it is, the cap
tain is now sweating aud is disgusted with
himself that he has allowed himself to be
beat at his own little game, and
what is worse still, by lot Of coniounded
old cornfed Grangers
Speaking of Grangers, by the way, a lot |
of those fellows, with their daughters, from |
our town, have been up 10 the great |
Grangers' gathering, held at Williams
Grove, Cumberland Valley, Pa, aud hear
| they had q good time
DR.. Henry, of our town, is not only good
| physician but claims to he an equally sciea-
/ tihc agriculturalist and means to put to
| blush some OF our farmers in the raising OF
large potatoes. He has raised fine crop
OF Early Rose that, from the specimens ex
hibited, would average between one and
two pounds each. He thinks this should be
enough to entitle him to become Granger
Our town is bound to get out OF its swad-
ding clothes and In course Of time become
la great city, when it becomes
the great rSilroad centre, which
It is bound TO do at an early
day. With the P, W. Il b., Della
} ware City 81 Penn, and the B. & o. all en-
teriug ant crossing each other here, as they
are bound eventually to do, we shall bid
good by to Wilmington and claim to be the
great city of the Damoud State.
= By the way, there l. nothing like compe-
s | ttion in all matters of business TO make
things lively. 1t puts energy and new life
into things generally. Our two young,
, energetic real estate brokers are striving to
I excel each other. 'Sam" has taken the
E lead and has offered 20 building lots at
] public auction on Saturday, September l.,
! and see he means business, for he says
every lot offered shall be sold regardless Of
price and no undertaking, and gives five
y wears to pay for them in. Who won't buy
o on such termsi
s have heard it said that Wm. Dean will
:, give two acres of ground (the land to ha We
. railroad siding connected with it) TO any
| pGEsbu VINO Will GOillt anu Dull1 upon II dhJ
= manufacturing establishment costing not
r less than $1,000 Our town is eligibly
located for almost any kind of manufactur-
ing purposes, has cheap living, is 10 s
healthy locality, and surrounded by cheap,
Is fettile lands, with all the modern conven
10 fences OF railroad, telegraph, express office
it telephone connections with other cities anC
~ towns, frequent mails anG every thing tina
= tends TO make II a desirable location, anC
u | free from mnuipinal tayatiOu (nr nthp
d, taxes are very light.
It's The school question has died and will no
n be again resurrected until Gabriel or som
80 other fellow blows his horn to awaken
into new life. 1t may be that one Of tn
d. fellows who gave 1t It's death blow may agai
In reanimate it. Why should it not die whe
be two such stalwarts as the "Irish Gian
nd Murfee" and the muscular "John Bull
- the great men of our town, give the weigh
" of their arguments to hasten its latter end
ne "MustheT Murtee" makes great "spache
he and says, "gentlemen, its maself that nc
all what yees shud have for a schulz house, SUR
,tb and heven't meself been n liven her fur hi
last fluffy yers, an issent the schulz bee
'ns good enough torment all that timel Isn't
meeself an me own childer that reccaved
has dacent and illegent edecatiOR in this san
inn ould schulz house! To build q new OF
80 woulden't it be afther a takin out of M
nv own pocket tin dollars extra fur the year Fl
'nt' taxes and woulden't that be depriven me
its self out ofa hundred daeent drinks. of M
,les mothers own milk that issould be NEE got
friends Wilson and Lewisl An It's me
self that's to be deprived of that which Ri
MIA the true son of ould Ireland the gre
:, plesure, an its Of more benefit til hisself tn
VI all the edecation In the wurld" The 9th
all. man says: "Hi ham in favor of heve
ian, poor mans child in hour districts getti
ltly has good han heducation has benny maj
child can get ha. the college or the b,
school in the State, hand don't want to
,n, the school built on this lot but want
80 built on ha lot to be bought of hat least
ing. an hacre, in some hellgable location
hich After such flow OF intelligence fom two
will the greatest and most enterprsing of {
b citizens what else could be expected of
school house question but death. All i
was wanted to finish the subject was
decent funeral, when old "skinaint' volt
'n"' teered to act as sexton and the three T
, the erend gentlemen present agreed 10 otIlcia
:, is and the whole job was done up bro,
noes Some persons say the only real mourn
were the two School Commissioners, K
and Dean 1t has also been said that
,.,ro two persons named had an axe TO grind
ival, that thew had a large "eullured indiyid
said "kivered" up in the pile of infamable n
pre- ter somewhere, but our wisest citizens ne
could tell just exactly where he
"hided." Our fat town father had b,
,nry keeping cool during the past hot term VIII
- we have jrst passed through, and there
anp' no danger of his now having dts b. fore
q de- next town election, provided nothing in
feres with his financial operations.
The improvements spoken of in my
and are all well under way 10 completion.
Mr.. SiverthorR says the fellow who WI
that last letter to the GAZETTE ard tell
about Ills game of euchre is a trump,
now talks according to "Hoyle," +" and he will
tiers high ON that fellow for the next Legislai
with if he will only come out for the place.
not says he will eectoneer for him and get
Bit whole Of the rich mems pool association
II ia vote for him, when he will be sure tc
tea elected.
don't 1t is runored that application will
ll,da made to Court for the opening of new re
from the road leading from Milford X RI
to the creek road. They are much nee
for the convenience of public travel.
n and A young child of James Messenger
vous- quite suddenly OF cholera infantum on
a all urdsy morning. 1t was only sick a
never short time.
lIen,s The general health of our town and
rounding county is good, and our doc
are quite "solemc holy" looking. When