The daily gazette., 1883-10-09
NEWARK LETTER.
The Weather, improvements, Local Cos
sip and Moral Reflections.
Ipecial col respOndcncc Of the Gazl


sip and Moral Reflections.
Especial col respondcnce Of the Gazette
NEWARK, DEL, Oct. 8.-We have had a
week of varied weather, rain and sunshine,
warm and cold. The rain has somewhat in
fered with the whcatseeding as well as with
the cutting up of the late corn crop. The
latter is remarkably good where it has been
properly cultivated.
The Elkton fair has been the centre OF at
traction for our towns people, and most of
the week we were we'll represented. Messes
Kerr and Homewood, of our locality, had
| some good sheep on exhibition. "Delaware
Boy" Mr.. Wilson's horse, was one OF the
objects of interest," from our town. Much
| may be said both for and against horse rae
| ing, but where horse belonging to any To-
cality contests for a prize all from his
| neighborhood, regardless OF their opinion
about the morality of the thing, have feel
| ing that they would like their horse to win.
| judging from the long trains and tie
crowds of people on them our railroad man
ayers viii all feel deep interest in agricul-
| tural fairs.
The improvements of our TOW n are still
going on. Pusey Pemberton is about put
| ting up an addition to his already large
buildings used as machine and blacksmith
| shops. Mr.. Z. r. Wilson Is preparing
drafts of great improvements to be made in
his country residence just outside the town
limits. William Dean has started digging
cellar and well for a. new house, the first
one on the lots lately sold at public sale,
which no doubt will be the forerunner OF
many more in the same locality. He is
done grading the track for new railroad
siding of the Pomeroy and Newark railroad,
which now connects with the p, W. & B.
X. X. If our town had a few more men
like him who were not afraid when they got
dollar to let it breathe the free atmosphere,
they might breed more dollars and be OF
| some good to their fellow citizens. But the
reverse is the case with most of our moneyed
men. When they get hold of dollar they
seize 1t with such a grip that in most cases
| all the life is taken out of 1t. When this is
not the case they are quite willing to lend
them to some hard working, industrious
man, at a rate any where between and 12
per cent. just as the borrower is willing TO
bleed. Take the Dean Woolen Co., the
Newark Brick Manufacturing Co., and
Deans own individual enterprises for the
last few years, out of our town, and It
would be almost like taking the heart out
| OF 1t. The fountain OF its life blood would
be gone.
There has been report in town during
| the last week that Mr.. Dean had been
| turned. out f court in regard to his getting
a new commission on his land which the
b. q z. X. Il. passes over, and q consider
| able amount of chuckling has been INDUCED
| in, not by his friends only but by those who
pretend to be so. Time will tell what will
be done, He at least does not seem to be at
all discouraged. Those who started the re-
port no doubt wished it to be SO.
The railroad company are fast pushing
their work to completion, which no doubt,
when finished and in operation, will be of
great benefit to the town, and everyone
should lend it a helping hand. So say all who
have no sacrifices to make and who have
large estates in the immediate vicinity of
the town that are to be enhanced in value
by its construction.
The business OF our town looks to be in a
prosperous condition, all our merchants ap-
pearing to be fully occupied, and as for
work, our people never had more work
under way at one time in the last 80 years.
Even our local newspaper has awakened up
under its new proprietors, who have lots of
energy and are not afraid to use It, 1t has
got out of Its old fogy ruts and is bound to
be what it was under the administration of
its lamented proprietor, Esling, one of the
leading local papers of the State,
Talking of newspapers, one of your Will
mington dailies had an editorial Saturday
night ON "Waste," in which most lament
able picture was drawn and an attempt made
to shuttle the cause on The young men of
the country towns. 1t is really Surprising
that with paper claiming such high
moral standard as the one referred to is not
able to have an influence on the city of
Wilmington for the bettering of its people.
Yet II one half of what 1t says about the
crowds of foolish young girls and the reel
ing crowds of foolish young men and the
gangs OF boys and men varying In age from
16 to 40 who are all of them more or less
under tie influence OF liquor, is true, it
looks to your correspondent that the opera
tions OF that paper are somewhat like the
"blind leading the blind" and that unless
something soon inteyenes they will all fall
in the ditch together. '1t is a dirty bird
that fouls its own nest" Is not this the
position in which the paper referred to
has placed itself? This paper has
moral influence for the bettering the condi- |
tion of the people of Wilmington, to long
before this time have brought them up out
of the miseral lie, drunken rowdy, worthless
condition which it represents them to be in.
1t claims to be a teacher of morality and If
what we see is the results of its teachings
were a citizen of Wilmington, I would say,
"good Lord, deliver us from all such in
structors." We also have a class of men
In our locality who are not probably all they
should be, that is the Italian railroad
laborers, yet judging by what is said in re.
gard to them they are probably amore sinned |
against than SHINING" They cannot speak |
and understand our language, and they no |
doubt have been imposed upon, which has |
caused them to resent the imposition and |
then those whose duty it is to sec that JUS |
tice is done to all are the very ones who |
have imposed upon these persons who are |
not able to make known the cause of their |
acting as they have. In most cases men are |
not SO corrupt that they violate law from |
pure deyilment, but there generally is some |
injustice practiced upon them, which causes |
the rebellious spirit to be developed. No |
good citizen would for a moment tolerate |
any such imposition upon defenceless per-
sons like these Italians.
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