Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
THE PEkIkS UL4.

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The PEHINS ULA.
One OF the Republican candidates for
sheriff is charged by the Middletown
Transcript with writing poetry.
Elijah Register of Lswes, has purcb ased
of K. jackson & Co., Salisbury, the
schooner S A. White, for 1880.
Middletown bas bills receivable to the
amount OF 81 1863 33 and 10 bonded debt.
Last years tax rate WAS 40 cents on the
800.
A. Pullen Of Milford is reported to have
a copper cent dated 1873, which was
found in a vacant lot near town some two
years ago.
Petitions are being circulated in
Wicomico county praying the legislature
to enact liquor Law like the one in force
in Delaware.
The New Castle Star reports that Mayor
Black has forbidden the sale OF The 0Wl |
under penalty OF immediate arrest aud |
imprisonment.
A petition to the legislature has been
numerously signed throughout Cecil |
county, asking the striking out of the
word "cider" wherever it appears in the
local option law.
a delegation from Centreville and other
points on the Chester river visited Wash
ington last week to urge upon Congress
the advisability of appropristing $50, 600,
to be expended in deepening Corsica
creek from Centreyille landing to its
mouth.
on the farm OF George g. f3tockes lives
oolorsd woman named Louisa Robins
and her husband, who had two children.
One day last week, while the sldest OF
the two little ones was putting on his
stockings, the younger one, an infant,
orept around and began pulling at its
brothers. clothing, which so annoyed the
boy that he picked up piece Of brick
and hit the infant crack on the head
which caused its death. - SnoU Hill
Messenger.
Jones, Drake & Co., of New York, sue
eeed Smith, Usher & Co. at Port Deposit
ss contractors for getting out the stone
for the new bridge of the Baltimore &
Ohio extension acroas the 5usquehanna
a. Havre de Grace. Owing to the IN
| favorable weather and other causes
Smith, Usher Il Co accomplished but
little the past winter, and have now sold
out to Jones, Drake x Co. The contract
is very large one, embracing all the cut
and rough stone for the piers and abut-
ments.
superintendentsWiiliams and rrent r
expect TO get through visiting the schoolp
OF Sussex By the 10Th Of March. Immedi
ately afterwsrd they will commence b I'D
ing educational meetings in several
towns in the county. Georgetown will
not be overlooked as the superiutepdenta
hope to urge our people up to the point
of building new school house MIR
Williams says nearly every town of any
prominence las better school house
IL an Georgetown.-Su Journal.
At the annual election of town com
missiouers, held at Port Deposit on Mon
day, the following ticket was elected
job R Bond 2lg woes, Lawrence R
HaCahe 1853, Robert C. Hopkins 1856
Wesley w. Reynolds lis, Wesley W
M'cke 1sS, I5a,ah W Burlin, Jr., 176
Adam Peoples III, An opposition ticke
we5 run, which polled about SO votss
John K, Bond vas on both tickets. J0hr
Nj. MoClenahan, W. W. Hopkins auC
William +. Way OF the old board de
clinei reelection.
A pew steamboat line to be known a
the Nanticvks Transportation Coppab,
Dorchester county, has been incotpur ste'
at Cambridge. The capital stock i
$50 ,000. The company h's orggr 2 4
! with William Spry Sherman, pres'd n
aud William Spry 5h rman, Ssmu'l Ii
Woodland and LAWN A Ilsv Of Dor
chester county aud 7 II ward Dali .
Baltimore, as directors. The staame
i William E CLARK has bssp roha'ed o
I the Choptsnk rteamboat Company, ar,
+ after undergoing thorough repairs vii
t ply on the Nanticoke and Honga rivers
3 The late robberies in that town led tn
Middletown Transcript to Issue the follow
ing notice to burglars: Don't blow th
door off our fire proof. 1t is an orns
mental FIRE proof and cost us $Sj. Ther
is nothing in it but trade dollar and
n 26 cent bit with hole in it. II you fin
q 1t locked turn the knob of the combins
tion around twice 10 the right and stO
(. at the figure 10, then turn once to tb
Il left and stop at the figure 30. II yc
I can't get It open, come TO onr house an
. call us up. For gracious sake, don
v blow it open and tear things up an
I leave an unpleasant Odor OF guupowder /
4 the sanctum.
t During heavy gale Saturday aflel
8 noon the aloop Frazee, owned by jaime
n Hubbard OF Cambridge, and commando
y by Harrison Whea,l'y, WAS cspsized i
v the Choptauk river, nearly opposit
g Oyster Shell Point. Whestley aud th
J., crew clung to the rigging and wer
g rescued by boat from the shore. Th
If sloOp was partly loaded with oysters en-
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v above the water, and she lies in thet trsc
!, generally taken by the steamers. Til
N off GERS of the Ida and Chop'ank wei
uotified OF tl,s location OF The vessel b
" fore leaving Cambridge thi1 morning.
!. is thought the vessel cal he raised
} baltimore Sun.
n Dr. Hollsway, James w Evans, q
IA and Mr. Layton Of Bishopyille, Md, wel
if to Ne@ YORK Tuesday es tosee Pre- ID a
ii McCfeady about iLe projected rai!rOa
y from Selbyville to Bishopville The
a were accompanied by Col. ] L Mape
who introduced them to the railros
officials. They had pleasant trip an
SEEM we'll satisfied with their intervie
L. with Mr.. McCready. After occurring IL
necessary amount Of subscription the
y will again visit New York and the
hUtlOu Will Dt thhtu tu0 CUl
3, struotion Of the road. The train thi
"a now lies over at Selbyville will start fro
OF Bishopville 1t ia understood that III
n short line will bring considerable trsff
* to the main line.-Susser Journal,
al At the close of the grabbing season
70 last year, gentleman OF Queenstown
70 left number OF crabs in his crab bo,
IS and anchored 1t out In the creek, havir
le no idea that they would live, but fe
10 days ago, the wind and tide broke IL
.e box loose from its mooring and washed
le ashore, and on investigation it was four
ie that the crabs, although frozen in the ic
+ were still alive. They were thawed o,
ns and turned loose in the creek. This
y contrary to the understanding of IL
is nature of crabs, as 1t has heretofore bst
'h regarded that crabs exposed to ha
~ weather would die, and the scarcity
3D. crabs in seasons after hard winter hi
been attributed mainly to the co
no weather. .-CsntrtUiHe Observer.