Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-07-12
THE PENINS ULA.

The celebrated I.lewellyn setter, Dash
ing Countess, we'll known to the sports.
men of the United States and owned by
DR.. R. +. Tull of Elkton, died recently =
Biggs, Clayton X Co., of MIddlstown
| will experiment this season In canning
egg plants, and il it should prove suo
cess they will make speciality Of It the
next season.
The Presbyterians Of FELTON, are about
| ready to begin repairs on their church,
| The ladies have raised the money. On
Sunday week seven persons were admitted
to membership.
The Citizsns' National Bank of Mid
dldtown has declared 3 dividend of Ave
per oentum, clear Of taxes, out Of Its earn.
ngs tor the past six months, payable to
stockholders on and after July 16th.-
Middletopn Transcript.
The real estate of the late Byran Fields
situated near North East, was sold yestsr-
day by William J. smith, Ruotionsr, for
C. C. Crothers, to John s. Writ, Rsq., for
$4,000. 1t contains 160 acres. Cecil
County Ne,os.
Mr.. M. L. Lichtenstein, one of VIII.
mington's most energetic manufacturers,
spent Sunday here and has arranged
with DR.. Thompson for acoommod atoms
at the Bright House for his family during
the season.-Rehoboth Record.
There ia a rumor afoat that party OF
New York capitalists are going to come to
Rehoboth and have erected large excur-
sion house with dining and rsfreshment
facilities. There will also be In oonneo-
tion with this house great number Of
bath houses and suits.-Rehoboh Record.
The directors of the Centreville bank
have declared a semi annual dividend OF
per cent. payable on and after July
10th. At the same time 81 900 WAS car
ried to premium account, ~ 900 to sur
plus account, and q small amount to
profit and loss socount.-CentrepiiLe o.
serVer.
Wecott Lovell's carp pond nearly
dried up during drought and he con-
cluded that the fish had all perishsd.
After recent rain. he found the pond
teeming with fish, some of them Weighing
over three pounds, and he new believes
that the fish were buried in mud during
the drought.
A young man named Turner, from Bay
view, came to this town on the Fourth,
and took q young lady to Woodland
Beach. After their return, leaving the
young lady at home, he drove to the
pump on State street, near the Capital
Hotel, to water the horse, when . pistol
was discharged close to him, causing the
horse to jam him against a tree, and II
was not till noon Of the next day that his
consciousness returned.-Douer Deld-
| udrean.
A oolored man named Joshua Hodge,
liging on Queen street, WAS taken siok on
Sunday morning week, and died on last
Monday. On the night he was taken Ill,
he ate quantity Of peanuts and WAS
attacked with dysentsry, and getting
medicine checked 1t too soon, and his
death ensued. At his request, Drs. Will
son and Bishop administered ether to him
and opened him, and his iptestines we're
found to be literally tied In knots. He
lived about three hours after the opera
tion.-Dover DelaUdrean, July 81.
On Saturday the route agent failed to
deliver on the platform here the mail for
the Southern Division Of the D. NJ. & v.
R. R., and 1t WAS not discovered until
the train foi Franklin City drew up on
the main track ready for star. ing. By
this time the other train had run q oon-
siderable way towards Lswss, but no.
thing daunted, the engineer and agent
cut loose the engine and started In hot
| pursuit. The train WAS ovsrtaken At
Harbeson and the mail delivered to the
proper authority.-Delauare Democrat.
ia reporter OF the Baltimore Sun has
ha oh 4 &y,a
| farm Of The late James Grow, in Cecil
county. Sam Crow, a lad Of IT, and
several workmsn, discovering that George
Vansant, one Of the quarrymen, was
very timid took to othrowing stones into the
woods where the quarrymen were at
work. Vansant was thoroughly scared,
and the mischievous fellows went 30 far
| as to put stones in the orotohes OF the
trees and shake them down to the
increased alarm OF Vansant. Mapsel
Tweed, for whom the stone ia quArried,
| makes the same explanation.
The Smyrna Record says OF the fatal
stabblng at Bombay Hook on Wednesday
last, that George Faulkner, not Foreacker,
was the name of the victim and that his
friend John Culley is charged with the
| crime. "Mr. Faulkner reoeiveh out In
the right arm, one under the right
shoulder, and deep one in the left side.
His wounds were diessed as we'll as could
be, under the circumstances, and when
the train passed through Smyrna on the
way home, he WAS walking around In the
oars. He resided Gas did all the parties
connected with the affair." at Massey's
Cross Roads, and worked for DR.. Massey.
The indications are that the question
of the jurisdiction of the waters Of
this State will arise in the cAse
of the vessel built at Lebanon and the
Levy Court of this county. The bridge
at Barcus Landing is only "a feet wide,
while the vessel is Sc feet BEAM She
will not go through the bridge without
tearing portion OF it away. The owners
OF the vessel, as soon as they found this
out, notified the member OF the Levy
Court; whereupon the president OF the
court informed the owners that they
would expect them to leave the bridge In
as good condition as they found It. The
owners have asked the opinion of 9
marine lawyer in Philadelphia, who says
that the State or county has no right u
obstruct navigsble stream that any
vessel that will navigate a stream IL
entitled to an unObstructed passage
and if she lie detained by bridges her
owners eau recover demurrage for every
days loss.-DOver State Sentinel.