Daily Republican., 1884-08-15
ON THE WING.
FROM WELLINGTON TO THE
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Special Correspondence Of the Republican.
RoxANA, Angus. 13, 1884.-On
Tuesday morning the 18th instant, We
left Wilmington on the 8. SO q. m. train
over the Delaware Railrad, bound for
Harrington. The trip was in q meas
ure uneventful, with the exception of .
little excitement caused by q man who
wished to get of at Kirkwood, hut forgot
all about Il until he was ct least milo
below that place and the train running
at rate Of 80 miles an hour, when he
jumped up and made q rush
for the door He would undoubtedly
have jumped off. and possibly killed
himself had he not been restrained BY
the conductor.
The train was halted, hut before 1t
came to a stand still he sprang to the
ground and rolled head over heels,
while q bundle he carried few some
twenty feet distant. He, however,
managed to gather himself up and
limped away.
A large evsporator was In full ope-
ration at Townsend, while number of
wagons were standing loaded with
n the yield of peaches Is as good all
through the State as 1t is along the
Railroad the crop will be enormous.
The trees seem to be breaking down
with fruit, and were it notfor the facill-
ties afforded for disposing of 1t, thou
sands OF baskets would undoubtedly
20 to waste. Some of the orchards are
filled with "plucks" gathering the de-
licious fruit, while at every station
cars are waiting to take 1t away.
There are great many tramps along
the road, and at one place just above
Clayton there was an encampment OF
some twenty or thiray who had large
fire cooking something that looked like
q chicken, stolen most probably from
some farmers hen roost.
The fences have been In a great
measure removed for many miles below
Dover, and their place supplied with
hedges, while nearly every station has
q handsome flower garden, giving them
a beautiful and home like appearance.
The farmers in many places along the
route are getting ready to SOW their
wheat, and some are already breaking
the ground. The corn, az a general
have had q good effect upon 1t.
There were wagons loaded with
peaches at Wyoming, Viola, FELTON,,
and in fact at almost every station
along the road, 1t was peaches, peaches.
A large new evaporator has been built
at Viola, and several new buildings arc
being erected. At FELTON, there is
large basket factory, and a number of
hands were busy. In fact it seems as
though the peach crop is the great
handspring that starts all other busi-
ness in motion, and it would indeed be
a sorry day if it should fail.
At Harrington we changed cars and
took the d. M. & V. Railroad for Selby-
vile. All the houses in Harrington
are frame, but 1t seems to be o pros
porous, go-ahead place, and several
new houses are being built, while a
saw mill is busy preparing boards for
mere.
AT Houston, the first station on this
road, there is q large canning estab-
lishinent known as the Houston Pack.
ling Company. AT this place there
were several wagons loaded with green
corn, while a number Of women were
seated under shed husking II. As
, soon as the husks are remove !, IL is
passed into the factory, where it is
run through a machine that removes
the grain from the cob. A large store
house adjoining was filled with boxes
of canned berries. ready for ship
ment.
Milford is a busy little place, and
has five evaporators in full operation,
} two of which have canneries connected
with them. There is also a saw mill
near the station, and those places no
, , doubt furnish employment to hum
dreds and act as mainsprings to the
business of the town.
A short distance from the station a
numbe of cars were being loaded with
peaches from wagons, and it is sur
prising to see the number of baskets of
fruit each of these small wagons will
carry. A relic of the past is still visible
) in the old time well-sweep, consisting
of an upright post, with a long pole on
top swinging in crotch. At one end
OF this another pole is attached, which
hangs down with bucket at the lower
end, while weight of some kind is
generally attached to the extreme end
of the sweep to assist in raising the
bucket of water.
The little village of Lincoln also has
a saw mill, turning into boards and
planks the trees which for many years
have stood as monarchs of the forest.
Between Harrington and Georgetown
there are a numb ber of hrick-yatis, and
1t is probable that before many years
the present wooden structures willin a
great measure be- supplanted by more
modern ones of brick. The country for
many miles along the road seems an
almost unhroken forest, aud there is
plenty of room for some of the toiling
millions in our large cities to come
here and make for themselves q home
and habitation, which will IN q few
|! years be surrounded with all the COM
forts and many of the luxuries Of life
In the vicinity of Stockley there
were large piles of charcoal, indicating
that the manufacture of that useful ar
tiole is one of the industries of that
i section. At Millshoro there Is large
box factory, and from the piles Of
timber in the vicinity, it seemed as
though IL was able TO make all the boxes
used In Sussex.
! Frankford seems as though the rail-
road had infused new life into it, and
1t is now busy, bustling little place.
Selbyville was reached about 2 O'Clock,
and your correspondent, with an appe-
tite that made him feel as
though he could devour horse,
stepped from the train with the irten-
| ton of raiding the nearest hotel, but
changed his mind when he fonud that
there was no hotel or place where he
could be accommodated in the town.
His thoughts instinctively turned to-
ward Roxana, where some twenty five
years ago he had spent some time very
pleasantly. He was not long in finding
a mau with carriage, who agreed to
take him as a passenger, and after a
pleasant ride of some four or five miles
reached this quie, little place.
w. II. L.
Something New for the l.adaes.