Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-11
THE PENINS ULA.

The Delaware Democrat urges the direo- |
tors Of the Georgetown Farmers Bank to |
appoint q woman clerk.
Oliver White, plaster, aged So, died |
suddenly at his home in Dover, Sum
day, OF an affection Of the heart.
The st. Georges Fruit Packing Com
pany has loaded barge with it's goods,
designing to ship them to Chicago.
The Smyrna base ball club offers to
play the Stafford club for 800, either at
Smyrna or upon neutral ground, the
Seaford club to play with Its own nine.
Robert Wisher, oolorsd, the ravisher Of
Mrs. Eveline Atkins of the Dover neigh
borhood, was captured in Caroline county,
on Friday and lodged in Dover Jail on
Saturday night.
v bile towing in Smvrns creek, on Sat
urdsy, the tug N. Mckay Wilson broke
her shaft and lost her propeller. She
WAS towed to Philadelphia ty the tug
Bertha for repairs.
The Sussex Midland surv,ys are
rapidly approaching compilation The
engineer corps last week WAS stalk
ing out the final route between George
town and Bridseville.
At a sale recently at Greenwood, the
Williams estate in Somerset county, there
was good deal of spirited bidding over
antique mahogany furniture and china.
ware. which had been on the plaoe..f
over 200 years.
Fire ut Salisbury on Saturday after
room destroyed the stove warehou Of
Brewing ton & Dfman and the gram
warehouse of =. Frank Toodvne. ihe
l,-s to these two IL $3.50. A ton ry
and bridge were damaged to the amount
OF $500.
C. G. Woodall, editor Of the Chester
town Transcript, has been appointed
chairman Of the Maryland Democratic
State Central Committee for Kent county,
vice R. Hynson, Rsq., resigned.
1t is expected that the flagship Tennes-
see, the Alliance, the Vsndalia, the Yam
tic and this Sw atara of the North Atlantic
squadron, aud the Saratoga and Ports
mouth, training ships, will take part in
the Newburgh Centennial celebration on
the 18th instant.
/ Northern Pacific securities we're ham.
t mered down last week to the lowest price
r yet reached. Oregon Transcontinsnal
= went down to 49s Northern Pacific com
9 mon to 31a Northern Pacific preferred
8 to 60, aud the market closed weak
: Other stocks were not much affected.
i Indians arrived at Casa Grandes
L Mexico, about the % h ult., reported tina
the IHdisn chief in had b4en killed b,
falling from his horse aud over
ID prscipee while drunk. The report !
N doubted, the whites believing 1t 10 be
If ruse preliminary to another India
u attack.
Harvey Long, oolored man on trial i
New York, last week, charged with stesl
ing gold watch from Mrs. Mary Odel
told Recorder Smith that he had oftel
20 wound the watch up with key. Th
watch proved to be a stem winder. Lon
was sentenced to five years and 81
=, months in Sing Sing.
"a According to dispatch in the Bait
r. more Herald tornado In Worceste
IA county last week carried 2-year. oil,
10 child Of Isaac Jones, living near Sno
= Hill, a quarter of mile, dropping her i
a swamp, where she was found aslee
h next day half covered with leaves.
n. negro boy was blown half mile, and
.ir mule at Ree's Grange was blown over
ra fence.
lis William Collins of Greensborougt
lis Caroline county, who recently fled fro
On Camden, Kent county, to avoid the leg,
consequences of cutting STRAY, viii
D. on his way 20 Denton all week Sunday (,
lr. q petty otfense escaped from his capto
ny Late that night he stole hofaa aud Ca
he | rage from w. IL. CUhee Of Greensho
IA ough ard Dir VI ont OF the reach OF Car
ter line county la" 4.
cir The will of the late Judge jeremiah
sir Black was filed Thursday. Among Il
for requests is LIT of land in Somers
~ county, Md, to Henry +. sehill, OF co
an dition that 8 respectable house shall
led erected thereon aud finished by the
Of April, 1885, aid shall bs occupied
he the evangelist ur preacher duly appoint
ere by the Disciples Church at Somers,
OF and the pr perty only when the chur
len has no preacher shall be leased to soI
90 one else, and the rents paid to the eide
nid for the use OF the poor.
sei DR.. Philip l.. Jones, wealthy mser
you eccentric habits, was found dead in I
Thursday. He WAS at one time physici
ING INC bath room OF his house in Brook
'ue OF considerable prominence, but, accoi
,aa ing to neighbors, no human being h
leu leu been allowed to go inside his resider
Ia H for years. He was 20 years of age and
and a. 0on ono E.nn nars $50 t., v
nilt r,osnas,io, I, u,os 49, ~ ~. ~.
pro- | t,.a,o f la T., a.. t-;a. .
,a-. Dakota, AID was the proprietor of hui
vail nasa w. !" NA''A's"D' ""'' "''u ="
uld