Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25

Mrs. Maria Lockerman died yesterday
week at Goidsborough, Talbot county,
I Md, aged 81 years.
A number of Somerset county oyster
men, assembled in convention on Tues
| day week ut Princess Anne, and adopted
amendments to present to the Legislature
On Wednesday week the dehd body
of coiored woman named Lizzie Perkins
} was found in pine thicket near Dunkirk,
Accomaek county, Va. It is supposed she
got drunk lay down and foe 10 death.
The new lighthouse ut the southern
entrance 10 Giinsateague bay has been
completed, ami Assistant Keeper Quillen
of the AssArpgu4 lighthouse put in
charge. Tile belt in the new lighthouse
weighs neatly 2,G90 pounds.
Reports irnm Ctincoteague and other
islands on the Atlnniic co'tet say TINT the
cattle and ponies .uii red severely during
the recent cold Weather Many Of them
persisted OH thl "iirshee amt along TIE
beach from cult; ~n,t i,nugil.
| c. Gundy Brown, in letter to the
| L)etdUdfean, now expresses the opinion
that the peach growers have been more
scared than hurt, and that "Wyoming will
be again, as in the past, the banner sta
tion for large shipments and good fruit"
large number of people, including
many of the leading citizens of Salisbury |
and Wicomico county, assembled at Barren |
Creek, yesterday week, to participate in |
the meetingof the proposed railroad. Ad- |
dresses were made by many prominent |
men.
Rev. S. N. Pilchard. once eompostor
in this office, now pastor of circuit at |
Stockton, Nd, has been the efficient head /
in the building of a neat NJ. Z. Church at |
Franklin City, Md. He was successful as
typo, and We hope he may be much
more SO as fisher of lnen.-LeInNGreaR
The situation may be summed M thus.
If remaining buds are not DESTROYED a
few orchards have full crops, others may
give partial yields; some trees NAV bear
few peaches in their tops bnt on an
average for the Peninsula one fourth
full crop is not possible. -Wilfa,6 Ne,cs.
John Morris, father of J. j. Morris OF
this town, and j. P. Morris Of Delnar.
died at his residence in Sussex county,
Del, Wednesday week at 8 O'Clock,
aged rs years. For about n year previ-
GUS to his death Mir. Morris was confined
to the honse, most of which timo he was
compelled to keep his bed. The remains !
We're Inferred TIL, rsday afternoon
SR,s'n,.. .ldeortiser.
Are s~ohts killed !! is tho question I
uoSt fr' frequently asked now. Wait until {
about tbs LIST of June next and every one {
will know more about it. The next three i
months is the most critical period with q
the peach crop. Those that are dead now i
will not have to be killed any more. If
one bud in 20 that set upon the trees last il
TALL produces peach the railroad com
pany will have all they can attend to-
D0ger Sentinel.
The bar at the mouth of Onancock u
creek is fast filling up and greatly i'm d
oedes navigation. Since Saturday week N
here has been fleet of dredging vessels a
n Chester river ut work night and day. 1t d
numbers from 40 to 100 vessels. It is | N
that from 100000 to $3.50 900 | il
II oysters have been thus illegally taken | al
nut of the river, and still the work goes | d
IN. The police sloop Compton is without il
ails at Guys Inn. One oyster steamer | d
8 aground at Poplar Island, another is at I'll
Baltimore on the railway for repairs, and d
he steamer Hamilton is at Annapolis. - L
Baltimore Sun. ~
In our last issue we expressed il as our
'elief, that all the peaches in Delaware
we're killed. Since that time, however,
We have been told by men of undoubted III
eracity that there were some peaches til
eft or that they found live buds in their "
richards, and had no doubt that there il
would be peaches in their orchards. We al
earn in this neighborhood, that E. o. n
Iccles has nearly full crop, and we d,
we're told by W. p Seward that in his
richard of 20 acres, be found but few
lead buds, and that he had full crop as
'et. Jacob G. Brown and @. Gundy
Grown claim to have crop, and predict
large crop next summer. While on the u
'ther hand, Dr. Henry Ridgely, Thomas
'ickering and other large growers do not
hink that they have any peaches.
rdredn. "
Deputy Sheriff Dunning on Monday m
rrested "Dr." Sylvester Harris on the y
harge of stealing horse and wagon in m
county, Md, last fall. 1t will
10 remembered thnt Harris is the negro Al,
Who was shot near Robbins few weeks u
go by the colored men he had "coniured,
nd tieeced. When arrested he WIS in 70
he loft at his father-in- laws, John Petty 81,
ohm, helpless and partially paralyzed or
rom his gunshot wounds. He claims r.
hat he traded for the horse and wagon, an AZ,
living in exchange priceless "eoniurer's pc
lass" which he got in South America, 81
nd which enabled him to locate lost and "a
idden treasures. Sheriff e. L. Austin of w
alisbury has gotten a requisition for the 81;
risoner and is expected to remove him no
the Wicomico Jail to day.-iSuSser pie
0arnGl, February 20M. "a