Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-07-03

James Fl. Calloway's steam saw mill, below
Salisbury was burned Thursday night.
1t will take $4,000 from the Cecil county
treasury to repair the damages to bridges and
roads by Thursdays storm.
About l, 100 men are at work on the extern
sion Of the Peninsular railroad to Cherry
stone and are pushing il at the rate of one
mile per day. Forty miles have been COM
pleted and tho road will be finished in
September.
The Delaware Democrat Of Georgetown,
is having new office built.
CLARK & Uber of this city, are painting
William NJ. Wilson's residence in New.
ark.
valuable horse, owned by ]. b.
Dukes of Dsntt n, died from eating Paris
green, last week
Tue Smyrna Record completed its first
year on Saturday. 1t is popular and
prosperous publication.
Several State papers are crying aloud
for the removal of the useless and loud
smelling ailGnthus trees.
John NJ. Emerson, who recently re-
| tired from the editorial management Ct
the Denton Onion, is now quite ill.
/ George NJ. Russum, Esq, leading
member OF the Caroline county bar, will
edit the DentOn Union during the Presi.
dental campaign.
Eugene Manning OF Lewes, a professor of
Syracuse University, will accompany ].
I. Cause and son Of this city on trip to
Europe, starting next week.
A move was made in Georgetown to raise
by subscription enough money to pay for
painting and otherwise improving the
academy. The required amount was soon
procured.
Rickard Dale, freight agent on the
Delaware railroad at Harrington, esti.
mates that go, 900 baskets of peaches will
be grown near that station. The esti.
mate for Milford is IT'S, 600.
II il said that Milton ia soon to have a
weekly newspaper, backed by ex-Gov-
ernor Ponder and other capitalists and
edited by David Conner, correspop-
dent of various Sussex papers.
Farmers of lower Delaware have all
harvested their wheat, and this week
many Of them will commence to thresh.
Que dollar per bushel can he had for red
wheat delivered bsfore July 10th.
George Russell has sold his residence
on South Front street, Milford, to George
II. Hall for $4,000. Mr.. Russell will
move to Wilmington aud Mir. Hall win
occupy his new purchase at tho close ~
this year.
SMYRNA nson1o oro ,,ota..;,,
nronos;tio,! 10 now tha t.,san asA'nss
to the railroad station, which is far away
from the business part of the town
Some business men offer to give office
room for telegrapbic purposes, rent free
Antonio Anqeletti and Pasouals Fen-
rallo, Italian iaborsrs, were drnvned in
Principle creek while bathing snnday
afternoon week The bodies wern "a
covered, and Inferred in st. Marv,s p Il
cemetery, North East. nv tbeir fslIou.
aborsrs, They Leave families in Itaiy
-
. Joseph M. DAVIS mas purchased of
uepIRe husse,i .le residence on Sontl
front streSI' MILFORD, row IN tenure q
build himself a residence or sontb No.
street, below Franklin. ava MI Dayis
will ocoupy his pnrobase on Jarna,Y La
1885. -
.hneess anne yonnR man had a
oaftfi1ge IN ms revolver which failed to
eAP,oue, s''er repeated attempts. He
u anolher attempt with the muzzle Of
1ne weapon resting against the first finger |
o. ms ieIt hand. TINS attempt was
shorouGhly suGc. ssini, bnt the finger will
" nelthei nselui nor ornamental during |
'he pHiauce OF ms ne.
Captain Prettyman White. with b;s
little a year old sou drove down to tbs
landing at De ia Island Friday moynina
aud out to the and Of the wharT. whicb
extends for quarter of a mile into ths
sound. Leaving his child in the bngav
he unbitehed his horse and tiad q t6As
post. Turning around he was harr;SaS
10 see the wind blowing tha osrr;ana
with the child in II. over the adoa ~ ~
pier. He sprang toward it, but too late