Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-08-28
FOURTH EDITION
A FlsurishIng TOwn-The Method
dist Sunday School 10 have .
Harvest Home.

A Flsurishing Town-The Metho'
dist sunday School 10 have
Harvest Home.
Special correspondence Of the REPUBLICAN.
CHRIsTIANA, August 9th, 1881
This pleasant little town, about nine
miles from Wilmington on the Christi
ana creek, has about 800 inhabitants,
and IL as busy place of its size AZ can
be found anywhere. We have four
churches, one school house, four stores,
two hotels, two blacksmith and two
wheelwright shops, each Of which has
fair amount Of business This L. a
pleasant place to live, and as a general
thing very healthy, but within the past
few weeks there has been considerable
sickness, but very few deaths. DR..
Springer is kept busy, and DIR. Whist
Ter of Newark has had several patients.
The Rev. Mr.. Beal, Presbyterian
minister, formerly stationed here but
now of Philadelphia, has been visiting
friends in this town and spent several
days. The Rev. Mr.. Snyder of the
Presbyterian church has returned from
his summer vacation. The Rev. Mr.
Green and wife of the Methodist church
went to Braniywine Summit Camp last
Wednesday in company with William
Mcbride and. family. The Christiana
M. f. Sunday school are talking ofhav-
ing harvest home in Banks woods.
but have not yet settled upon the time.
The Presbyterian Church will have
an excursion to Cape May on the 81 of
hnt
tons will be we'll attended. Several
young ladies are getting ready to visit
friends at distance : Miss Fannie
Cannon is going to Illinois, and Misses
Emma Bratton and Hannah Sevey will
visit the Rev DR.. Poulson and family
at Alexandria, Va.
Ogletown Sunday school had a pic
mic in Morrison $ woods last Saturday
that was well attended. Last Thursday
Ebenezer Sunday school bad the big
gest picnic that was ever known in
this section. They had an overstock of
provisions and a large amount was sold
and given away. Mr.. John Peters, one
of the prominent citizens of this place,
talks about going East, and DIR. Spring
or would have started on his summer
vacation several weeks ago had he not
been SO busy and the weather SO
warm.
Tramps are abundant and can be
found on every hand, and 1t is said that
before the close of the season they in
tend to tender vote of thanks to the
authorities and people of the State of
Delaware for the kind treatment and
protection they have received. Instead
of spending so much money on an
insane asylum, it would be better for
the country TO build work house,
where these rovers would be kept out
of mischief.
They are a great nuisance, ard the
only way the State can ever hope to be
rid of them is by putting them at
hard work for 40 or SO days, as that
is something a tramp cannot stand,
and the fraternity always shun places
where it is enforced. Last Saturday
evening tramp, who was consider
ably under the influence of liquor,
went to the parsonage of the M. E.
Church as the family were about to
sit down 10 supper, but fortunately the
pastor was at home or there is no
telling what his conduct might have
been, as he was very saucy, and it
was only with the greatest difficulty
that he was induced to leave.
AGATHON.