Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-27
THE PENINSULA.

THE PENINSULA.
A Baltimore party has purchased James
J. Ross peach crop ut Seuford, estimated |
1t from 5000 to 10000 baskets, for 65
cents basket, delivered at the depot. -
The north-bound passenger train on the
Delaware Il Chesapeake road Thursday
struck an empty lime car stand
ing ON the siding at Queen Anne station
and wrecked it. The locomotive was also
badly damaged. None of the passengers
sustained injury. The empty car had been
run too far down the siding.
At late meeting of the almshouse
board of Dorchester county, the president
refused to put pending motion to n
vote for the reason, which he very frankly
and ingeniously stated, that he was sop
posed to the motion, and there is a
majority in favor of 1t, therefore l shall
not put it, FoderdtSburg Courier.
A well was driven 219 feet at Waterloo,
the new resort at the mouth of Broadlilin
creek last week, and failed to find good |
water. The well is without doubt the |
deepest on the Peninsula The we'll is |
about 100 yards from the bay shore, but |
not more than 200 yards from the well |
and much nearer the shore, elegant water
has been found at depth of eight feet.
-BreakHdte, Li9ht.
The Rev. L. o. Ayrcs says in recent
letter SIN my opinion, the modern camp
| meeting is the result of the combined
| action + two forces-t the picnic and the
love Of money It is plain TO me that the
great body OF the church does not want
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God and reaching and converting sinners.
Unless they can he reformed they had
better be dropped and the sooner the
better"
As the Old Point express No. "a bound
north with party OF eXcursionists from
Old Point Comfort, Va, was passing
| Costen's station, on the New York, Phila.
dolphin & Norfolkr ailrnad Tuestlay,weck,
Annie Barnes, II colorcd woman, who was
crossing the track dropped her lint. She
attempted 10 pick il up and was struck
by the engine aud instantly killed. Her
head was completely torn OIL At the
time the train was running at the rate OF
40 miles I'M hour. Salisbury AdDertiser.
John ID. Lynch died Mt his residence in
Franklord Wednesday week,aged GS years.
The deceased was n successfnl farmer aud
IL man highly respected by all who knew
him. For the past few years he has been
greatly afflicted but up to the hour of his
death he bore his terrible suiferings with
patience and fortitude. He leaves several
children, among whom are Caleb Lynch
, George Lynch and Mrs. G. z. Bartlng OF
Georgetown. The funeral exercises were
held on Thursday and We're largely
attended. -lfldtrare DemOcrat.
;
Lightning is sometimes MS surprising
for what it does not do MS for what il
does do. On the East Neck Island farm,
belonging to Major 4. b. Hynson, upon
which MIR. james Beck resides, n large
, walnut tree, standing near the bnrn, was
: struck by lightning on last Thursday
and completely shivered from tho
, branches to tile ground. The
surprising part is that under The
] tree when it was struck were six or eight
horses, not one of which was injured, A
| lot of iron lying under the tree w,,s
thrown violently to quite distance. The
shock WINS felt SO sensibly Mt the house
! 200 yards away, that Mr.. Beck Thought
the house was struck. man who was
j digging well 100 feet away, and who
y very preceptibly also ChfStertOirh
$ Transcript.
q The much talked of ship canal is nov
i an assured fact. Last week parties were
d i'll town who are personally interested il
the matter and the Rtc0Id man sought al
interview with one of the gentlemen
/, whose name is d. w. Fairchild. MIR. +
!. informed us that the syndicate wni
d already formed and the contrae
for building the canal was made ; tina
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t, through the several properties in thi
e section and that this work had beer
Il mostly accomplished in other places
= The contractors are Ferguson
y Fairchild of New York, the latter gentle
d man being the person We had the CONVEX
III sution with. He said thut seven hrg
n dredging machines are now being con
ie structed, and early next spring work i
N this section would be commenced j.
ts earnest. Entrance TO the Delaware Ba
a. will be made Just below Mr.. Dirickson'
rs property on bombay Hook Island.
ia Smyrna RfcOFa.
10 The marriage Of State Superintendent
y Williams will be genuine surprise I
III almost every one iii this State, and Il
es seems to be i'll a fair way to profit by it i
n more ways than one. He authorizes I
to state that some time ngo when Clerk
the Peace G. j. Hall was badgering lii
about getting married he replied that /
was going TO be, whereupon the gcni
of clerk offered to wager him a 800 purlt
nv suit of furniture that he would not |
no married within year. The state supe
Ge intendent accepted the wager I'M
1s takes this method of notifying the inte
is ested party that tits time to pay up. "
~ also learn that Mr.. ii. Clay Jones is
or for n 1926 suit Of Clothes and Prof. jam
10. fl, Groves for fine silk hat. That
ms right, friend Williams, they have all lii
cir their fun Mt your expense, so now NAL
le- them pay for it. What's i'll store for Il
lin IetHandFedH 7 We heard a threshing
Inc that so Smyrna Rcc0lI. lhe Del
for ardr6dH had announced that Mr.. William
an will lecture at Rehoboth on Tuesday eve
lie ing on "Forty years. courship, or what
nrt know about the girls
for A curious incident occurred on Il
nd farm of Mr.. Charles Ellwanger. ne
The Whiteleysburg, Caroline county, Il
10. other day which proved that Mr.. i
IVY wanger is n sincere believer as well as
'un protesting Christian. Some sparks from
the steam thresher set fire to n pile of strt
it near the barn, in which his entire whe
no. crop was stored, and for short time
will was feared that the building was doom
the to destruction, but although it caught fl
be in several places, it was saved by t
ght exertions of the men present. When
osi- fire was etfectually put out and all dang
one over, Mr.. Ellwanger, who during the
element had been lost sight of, emery
from the barn. He seemed deeply move
and related, with tears of gratitude in
lde. eyes, that he had retired to the barn VIII
one the fire began and prayed to the Lord
nh IN save his property to his family, and IL
The he firmly believed his supplication b
sely been heard, and that the men had be
M inst aided in their work by Divine interc
in sion. The men then remembered I'll
during the progress of the fire the wi
had suddenly changed. Many of til,
] at were stricken at the revelation, and
the Iieyed with their employer that no hum