Daily Republican., 1885-08-17
Peufmaular Points.

F6nIm0uAoT FOhMhos
Rev. r. w. Todd, Of Snow Hill. Md.
is not enjoying good health, and his
pulpit is filled by his son George W..
Todd.
The railroad bridges on the road from
Harrington to Wilmington are being
rep aired and strengthened.
Mr.. Howard Cantwell, q farmer liv.
ing near Elkton, owDs grade Jersey
heifer 16 months old which Is giving
milk without ever having had calf
A crusade against Sunday traffic has
been inaugurated In Newark. Ii is 3B|
measure successful, but the attempt
to prohibit the sale Of Sunday news.
papers has failed.
The Milford News says there are|
more peaches In that vicinity than was
thought month ago. There are few
orchards that will not have from fair
10 full crops.
Ex- President Purnell of Delaware
Col ege has moved from Newark to the
City, Md, where he will assume the
presidency of the Frederick City Fe-
| male Seminary, an established and
hourishing Institution devoted to the
higher education OF woman.
L Aoo Poooh bihuO 10 bOW WCil
way. One of the Ericsson steam boats
passed through the chesapeake * Della.
ware Canal on Monday night with 49,
900 baskets on board. Owing to the June
!, rail- there will not be more than one
J third of full crop in the orchards In
the southern part of this county, but
!, what fruit there is is of unusually fine
Iquality.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company y
have sunk an artesian we'll at Delmar
800 feet, to supply their engines with
water, and it Is said they will soon
2 have one at Dover and one st George.
town.
John e. Wilson recently, while dig
; ging in the bank OF gully on his farm
on Red Hill, found cluster of ten
!. viper's eggs. They are not quite az
= large as partridge eggs, which they
! much resemble, and are stuck together
in cluster like bunch of grapes. The
old viper which laid the eggs was
u found near them and was killed. On
:. opening one of the eggs it was found tc
c0htHfn a fully developed snake about
eight Inches long.
Fl In about two weeks the steel tracks
of the B. g. o. will be laid from Chester
to the Susquehanna. About five mile
. are already laid from the Susquehanns
bridge, eastward, and the tine iror
, bridge at Wilma, 62 feet above the waite
. and 157 feet long, is finished, and train
have run over it. The bridge is a beau
s tiful structure, and com pares favorabl,
with the finished bridge over the grea
North East.
The foundations for the permanen
q beacon on the east end of the Break
water are nearly ready for the super
Il Nxsx lau ht1n
II we'll, 25 feet in diameter has bee
re driven through the rock to low waite
lie level. The workmen have gradual
l. filled this with successive layers c
y, concrete, and the result is the equivs
re lent of a solid rock Is feet deep, Q,
le tending into every nook and creviC
% and grasping all the surrounding roc
TX with hands of stcne. 1t is made
I'D stay and will doubtless last as long a
Is the pile itself
70, A hack driver of Elkton has adopte
,ir what seems to be novel manner {
en- Ihitching his horse when it, is left stant
a. ling near the depot, where it is liable
be frightened at the passing traius. ii
makes crupper ON the end OF a sto,
= rope, which he passes over the animal
u tail, and then passes the other end {
no the rope through one of the turret
As and the ring of the bridle bit, and tie
-; it TO the hitching post in an ordinar
~ manner. When the horse atternp pts
rs break loose he finds to his amazsmel
that If ne persists he will pull his ia
~ out of joint and pretty soon desists ar
~; becomes quiet
II The residents Of Kits Ham moe
ne DEL, Walter Maginnss and Robe
VI night, with their wives attempted ,
'eIrrach Bowers Beach in sEiE q
ck Thursday evening. They were caugl
in u storm, and are supposed TO ha'
on been drowned. A body was wash;
III ashore near the Hammock on the II
flowing morning, which is as yet u
identified.