Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-18
THE PENINSULA.

Edward Beck has planted 1000 peach
trees aud 10000 blackberry and %, 900
strawberry plants on his farm at Walkers
schoolhouse, Kent county, Md.
We have been annoyed by very
vicious and blood-thirsty crop of mos
quitoes for about two weeks, and they
seem to get larger and stronger all the
time BredksOater Light.
The contract for the new almshouse
building has been awarded to Mr.. Walter
II. Torbert for $l,S25. This building is
to be two story, 32x66, similar to the
one erected last year, which is used as
the women's department, while the one to
be erected will be assigned to the men.
1t is to be completed by the last of Sep
tember.-SuSseg Journal.
Robert Lewis, the colored man who
was taken to Princess Anne, Maryland,
Thursday last on n requisition from the
governor of that state on a serious charge
was, on his arrival at the place where the
crime was committed, found to be the
wrong man and he was released from
custody. On Saturday he returned to
Norfolk and was reinstated as brakemen
on the Virginia Beach railroad, where he
was employed at the time of his arrest
During n conversation with William
George Hill yesterday we were Informed
that he had taken pains to make care
full inquiry into the prospects of crop
by those who ship their fruit from
Clayton. He says that there will not he
one half MS many peaches shipped this
year from Clayton as there was last year.
He also had talk with MIR. Charles Il.
Moore, who has placed himself in posi-
ton to know, and he is of the opinion
that Mr.. Hills estimates high. Smyrna
RecOId.
The l7-year locusts have appeared in
several sections of this county and are
subjects of considerable curiosity. Con-
stable Tyre of Georgetown, while driving
to Milton, ON Thursday, was startled in
the long piece of woods near the Sand
Hills by peculiar noise that he tried in
vain to account for. He said it sounded
like the jingling Of sleigh bells and he
looked carefully over his carriage and
harness, hut found that the noise came not
from there. Upon arriving at Milton he
mentioned the incident--wondering what
the noise could have been-when he was
promptly informed that it was made by
the 17-year locusts. The squire very
naturally was not thinking of them, hay
ing heard nothing of their arrival in the
county, eOr9ettHDh Democrat.
The contract for the new bridge over
Jones' creek, Dover, has been awarded to
Hugh Euright, for s3,G27. The bridge is to
be of brick and stone, 40 feet wide, with
| three l2-feet arches.
The PrOhibitionist states that the Tenn
perunce Alliance has secured the services OF
the Rev. Jahu Dewitt Miller as orator AT
the Camden camp grounds on the Fourth OF
/ July, and they hope to have Gen. Neal Dow
Of Portland, Maine, there at that time
Everett, the assistant train dispatcher al
| Clayton, upon whom the responsibility fol
| the collision was placed by the jury Of in.
quest, is supposed to have left the State
| He has not been seen mt Clayton since the
| dnv Of the accident. MitltlietOion Tran.
script. .
captain Joseph Bonsall set out d young
| orchard last fall, and some of the trees have
| peaches on them now that promise to ma
ture. We saw specimen Monday thai
i looked very healthy. This is a new thinl
/ In peach culture, and shows that the cap
tain's land is good for peaches.-DOUei
i Sentinel.
The barge which brings the stone for fill
| ing up the gap between the two stone pier.
forming the Breakwater, was towed down
to the harbor Wednesday morning and pu
| IN position Tor dlschurglnR her cargo. Afte
| having thrown overheard about 300 tom
of stone II was discovered that she WA
leaking badly, and she was hastily towet
into the iron pier, where she almost imme
diately sank. carrying down with her abou
800 tons of stone. 1t is slid that her deck
| will have to be removed before the stop,
can be got out Of her.
The subject Of the long and much talke,
OF Bay Shore railroad, from Dover to Mil
ford, is again being agitated. Estimates o
the amount of fruit, grain and other freigh
that would be carried by 1t have been aske,
and given. Almost the whole Of the con
templated right of way has been donated
and the cost Of building this road OF only i
miles is put at only 1929 900. Intereste,
parties along the line of the proposed roat
would subscribe enough to build it, If the
were given an opportunity to do so.-Mil
ford Nei1s.
As was foreshadowed in these column
last week, Governor Stockley on SatuI
day reappointed Edwin II. Cochra
Of Middletown, clerk of the peac
for New Castle county for tn
term of five years. No candidate was eve
more strongly Endorsed for an appointmeI
! by the governor in this State than was Nj
! Cochran for reappointment to the place b
! has so satisfactorily filled for one term, an
the appointment has been received wit
general and hearty DECENTRALIZATION
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