The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-12

else outside of its back talk to Colonel
Johnston. Brother Gary seems to be
fighting mad
BROTHERS MoREAu Of the Middletown
Transcript, are riled at on comment on
them. They fairly shake the sand-burs
in their hair, and their fingers twich for
our scalp Go slow, boys, and do not
make yousofa laughing stock by get
ting SO mad Please correct the error
made in stating our 'preceptor in Cecil
county has already withdrawn his notes
and comments column from the cold
gaze Of an unapprecatiye audience
Your icy talk sends one long, cold chill
through our frame, and the pen drops
from our fingers.
The small boy with a single-bameled
gun and empty game bug is happy mr.
chin. Political wranglcs mar not his
solitary wanderinEs,-EtSion GdzeHe
But little game mar the solitary wan
behring's Of the youngster in this section.
BY accident one has to be carried home
in wagon, once in a while and the SER
vices of an undertaken is needed
One of the finest farms in Sussex coun-
ty will be sold for a very reasonable
price by the editor of this paper.-Bre0k-
Wdter Light.
Rather remarkable that an editor has
II farm for sale. A living is all the odi-
tors can get about this section, much less
a farm.
Our agreeable and entertaining friend
Oyster has been asked to rise from his
snug little bed. He is rather rcticent
and close-mouthed but very generous il
he can be induced TO shell out.-Eoston
Gdzette.
They are forced to shell out in this
town. They are close-mouthed, but with
little persuation in the way of a cold
chisel always opens their mouth.
The body of Will Carlton, author Of
"Oversthc Hills to the PoorhOuse," and
other poems, who committed suicide by
asphyxiating himself with illuminating
gas, was buried from an undertaking Cs-
but few people attended. The inter
mcnt was in the plot of the actors fund
in the Cemetery of the Evergreens.-
| Milford Chronicle.
You have caught-on to the wrong Will
This dead VIII Carlton, was an actor.
The poet is not dead yet. \ very cxcus
able mistake
Read this weeks poem in the Record
written by the late Helen Jackson Hunt
there is SO much truth in it.-Smy,no
RccOrd.
Wrong Helen Hunt Jackson is cor.
rect This is like your analysis hobby
wrong all over.
No town on the Peninsula has more
marriageable girls, with Tower young lcl.
| lows to fill the demand, than Lewis
BraktYtcr LgH
This town is not fu behind Lewis
The supply of young men, however, arc
nearly equal to the demand.
Benjamin Riggin, Il farmer who lives
near Scafurd, was arrested on THURSDAY
upon complaint of Austin Harrington
| EsQ., fur cruel treatment of Il bound boy
AGED about Il years, obtained from m
Orphans Home in Pa, through Rev Geo
Hail, Higgins iathcr-in-law. 1t was al
legged that the child was compelled to dc
a mans work. To sleep in barn anon.
rats and mice, to 90 without food an,
was repeatedly beaten with IL heavy
stick, During the hot weather he wOr,
only a straw hat and apron, leaving til,
most Of his body unprotected from thusu
Mrs. higgins, it is said gave the officer
Il severe tongue lushing and the boy toll,
him how she had beaten him with
knottcd club Riggin was convicted an,
fined and the boy given to Mr. Earring
ton, who took him to the Home TO
Fricndcss and destitute Children il
Wilmington. Driaw1rr DrmOcrdl
This woman should have been intro
duccd to the whipping post, and rcceiv
Il goodshogging. As she measured it on
it should be measured unto her.
On Friday last Steve Duffy, colore,
man from Lincoln, came to Milford an,
bought one ounce of corrosive sublimat
which he put in pint of gin and thor
took several drinks of the mix
ture, which he said had been recon
mpndcd to him as n remedy for kidne,
trouble. He was soon in the hands {
DIR. Dawson, who after several hours {
work got him in fit condition to sen
home. At last accounts he was improv
ing.-MltOrd Chronicle.
If Steve had taken a dose or two nor
we sincerely believe he would have bee
relieved of kidney, and all trouble, n
doubt but Steve will be careful what h
takes for the kidney trouble hereafter
Peaches are gradually nearing the enc
-LGuTd GdzC'ie.
What end? The end when they ccas
to be-
The time of county fairs draws O
apacc and the big pumpkins and grei
watermGlons just hump themselves
get on the first premium list.-MiddicioH
Transcript.
We do not admire the word "hump
but suppose Brother Moreau means
for good purpose.
. The trOtting mare Jennie, owned /
. John Clcndanicl, Of Glendale, and ovt
forty years old, died from unknow
causes few days ago.-Dc,uwure Dcm
l crm.
As Jennie, had attained a ripe age ft
Il horse, evidently she was tired of Twin
, Fodder saving has been very bus
=, past time with our farmers. Hands a
l receiving one dollar per day and boar
-Ldurd GU,eEc.
p This old custom has been done aw;
T. with in this section long ago The fln
| crs here even save the stalks
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