Daily Republican., 1885-09-05
DoWnthe Peninsula
PROM wIlMINGTON TO LAUREL
-AURyEX COUNTY nOsQUI.
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TOES.
|C0L0RED CAMP MEETING.
Last Saturday representative Of the
REPUBLICAN,, wearied with constant
toll, left this city on the 1885 p. m.
train over the Delaware Railroad for
Laurel, Sussex County, to spend . few
days with friends and enjoy o n eed ed
rest. In passing through new Castle
and Kent counties IL was noticed that
| the corn, 60 far rs could be seen, was
very poor, and in many places not
more than two feet high. Just below /
IMiddletown o number Of men were at
work on the wreck Of the previous day,
and a bad wreck IT was, as number of |
cars were turned completely over,
| where they had rolled down the em.
bankmenf, while grain and peaches |
were scattered on every hand.
The usual monotony Of long ride on
| the cars was varied by the omnipresent
news agent. who scarcely seemed to
have passed through the cars with one
article, before he was back with Anoth
or, and from the quantity and variety
Of his stock in trade, he mi ust have had
nearly o whole store with him. At AL
most every station there was number
of wagons loaded with peaches, but
very few evaporators were In operation.
At Wyoming there is a large frame
building, used by the Fruit Exchange|
for buying and selling fruit.
This 10 q great advantage both TO
buyers and sellers, Ms 1t enables the
first to secure the best fruit, and the
latter to obtain the highest prices.
i n. VsrGsa
principal cities, who are kept advised
By telegraph of the prices OF peaches in
the different places, and they are thus
prepared to bid good prices for all the
fruit offered AT Viola there is o large
building being constructed, but no one
seemed TO know what 1t Is Intended for.
u pom making inquiry OF one OF the
train hands, he repliel that IL was
either for store or a hotel, he did not
know which, but he did know that they
had been working At 1t about two years,
land painted the wood work as fast as
lshey finished 1t.
The greater part OF the fodd 81 In this
sestion Ia topped and stripped, and the
farmers are already plowing the ground
and getting 1t ready for wheat. A delay.
tcalsed by waiting for The express to pass,
made the train about twenty minutes
4
i reach the station at Laurel until 4
lo'clook, where the scribe found Mr.. O.
}, liz. Ellis, who formerly resided In this
!. lefty, but returned to Sussex County
about two years ago, waiting for him.
= IDr, Hitch, another transient resident ol
~, Wilmington, was also standing on the
J platform, but he don't look like the
same man who left here few months
since an invalid, as he is now AZ hearty
{ looking person ~ can be found. He II
a engaged In practicing medicine, but Ii
also in the fruit evaporating business
a and full description Of his establish
ment will appear some day next week
}, A short time was spentin Laurel, ano
, ithen Mr.. Ellis started with his guest u
- drive out to his residence, distance O
Ie some seven or eight miles.
The ride was delightful, and as TN
Ioarriaqe rolled over the sandy roads
Through pine thickets, or past com
Portable farm houses, the scribe felt
though he was enjoying new lie,
freedom from toll and care. Corn 1s tn
great staple In this section, and Prov
idepce seems to have smiled upon tn
farmers, az they report having had
good season, while the corn reports II
IN itself an excellent crop. Large quaint
a ties of peaches and berries are als
'C' raised aud shipped, and on every han
e. there are immense peach orchard
n while thousands Of young trees
)U coming on for the future. There
, some splendid houses along the roa
O but the majority of the dwellings
constructed more for comfort th'
style.
the ride was the pestileDt mosquito'
which came In brigades, divisions a
whole armies They were small, 1t
ltrue, but they understood their busin.
as we'll az though they had served
seven years apprenticeship. They &
me not sing like decent mosquitoes gen
=, ally do, and 1t is probable that 80 mu
all of them Is taken up with the bitter tn
there is not room for q music box.
'ui fact they seemed to be all bitter, aAd
A jthey we're wise enough to sos that tn
victim WAS stranger, every one OF
rascals sAemed anxious TO taste MIN
ascertain whether or not they ns
him. just as 1t was growing dark .
Ellis halted his team In front OF pia
hut very comfortable house, and
formed his visitor that he was 1T hol
lSupper was read y, and in few mint
all sat down to a bounteous repast
which the scribe's favorites, chic
OTIS, an corn bread, were leading factor
lch The evening s was nHuT spvI, wben m the e Wis
75Iwas shown to comfortable ro
where he was lulled TO sleep by
music Of myriads of insects In the I
around the house, who sang and CHI
ed the livelong night. A part ol
next morning WAS spent Ia wall
over Mr.. Ella fields aud looking at
crops that are still growing IN
AFTERNOON the carriage WAS again
ready. and a camp meeting, oondu
,lbv the A, NJ. P. Church, in Calho
WOOL woods. one and quarter
lali from Concord, n,,ss was fro@ ors' Mr Ellis
and dsncs, and was reached in .soou about
hour, but it was found that there
fully as many white people as Co
on the grounds, while the wooos
some distance on every hand
filled with vehicles, In which Pc
had come, some OF them from .
distance.
There were twenty seven tents o
around, all occupied by colored pa
while lnauy others countenteo I
cent selves In carts and wagons. A &C
preacher was working hard TO 81
CS III prayer meeting previous to the re
rded while sgs anS i%,ss tse
lac work of the Lawd." The preache
was trying to start tbs meeting
odtill l"Coms ye sinners, poor and needy,
etc la decidedly nasal twang, but as
saints or sinners came forward W
and him he declared that he wouldn
o+or; any longer to carry on the meetlnf