Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-25

PENINSULA POINTS.

The light frost on Monday morning
did very little damage.
Wheat is very rank this year. The
crop Of straw will be very large.
The indications are that the present
week will be a heavy week for straw
berries over the Delaware Railroad.
The unknown" peach pest has not
done any damage as yet to New Castle
peach orchards.
The entire furniture OF the Douglass
House at Rehoboth will be SOLD on
Thursday next, May 81.
The crop of early cherries will be
very large il they mature without rot
ting.
The Wyoming military company ia
making preparations to celebrate Dec
ocratioa Day on grand scale.
A dude, who was walking in Anna
polls between two ladies, caused street
urchin to remark that "there ami
much ham in that sandwich"
John Cannon Short, of near George
to n, has a field of wheat three feet six
inches tall. which is just beginning to
head.
Corn planted on low, swampy land,
In Sussex, il suffering from che effects
OF the recent cool, damp weather, and
In some places is rotting badly.
The town tax rate at Milford has been
fixed at q cents on the one hundred dol.
lars, which will net the treasury, clear
of collection and delinquents, ABOUT
I$2. 500.
An effort is being made to establish q
Newspaper and family periodical al
Millington. The new sheet, 10 be called
"The Millington News" will be under
| the management of four editors, who
will bring out the first issue about
August LIST, and monthly thereafter for
awhile.
DIR. E. o. Shakespeare, formerly OF
Dover, special commissioner appointed
by President Cleveland to investigate
the cholera in Spain, will probably sal
for home about June 1st He hal
finished his labors, aud has prepared 6
report which will be presented to tn,
President.
1t is tie purpose of the State Contra
COMMITTEE of the Temperance party t,
nominate at the State Convention
Icalled for June 22d, candidates iol
lGovernor and Representative in Con
gress. At that meeting the temperance
sentiment of the State will decide wba
,lthey will do and for what they viii
ask.
A mseting of the members of thu
lSussex Bar last Monday evening dis
Iclosed the fact tdat opinions were in g
very mixed condition as TO who should
receive the appointment of Judge in
place of the late Hon. W. G. Whiteley
Nothing like unaGim!ty could be pro-
,cured, and the meeting was indefinitely
adjourned.
Easton ID going TO have a grand In
dependence Day celebration. The
Gazette says it is to be no modern OF
Ecommon affair, but ian old time non
political, patriotic bombast," will
taIget-shooting and ether things mixed
10. AS the Fourth of July comes OF
lSunday the celebration will take place
on the following day.
Il The Sussex County Almshouse farm
!, contains $50 acres, aud is stocked will
six cows, three yoke of oxen, ten heaC
of young cattle, d nineteen sheep and TIVE
pairs of mules. Last year they RAISED
345 bushels of VIII cat from fifteen acres
IL 400 bushels of corn, 600 bushels o
oats and plenty of vegetables. Nearl!
coo pounds OF pork were sailed down
They expect to make the nstitutlol
J self supporting in few years.
"Did you ever see or know of sue
| weather." asks some one. 1t Is unusus
and rarely occurs, but still worse hs
r been known. In 1885, the old peopl
re ,ollect, that there we've forty days {
p IrAiny weather, when the sun neve
!, ishone. 1t is known IS the wet ell
. little OF no corn was raised, and ths
Ibid not mature 30 that 1t made goo
, meal. Corn is said to have been 81 pc
bushel before The crop of 1887 wa
e raised.
A mass of bones, supposed TO be thos
+ OF Indians, have been discovered on tn
e Ibanks of the Choptank river, in Dor
d chester County, Md. a remarkabl
@ feature of the discovery is the fact ths
q lin ali the skulls found the teeth al
n perfect and without q blemish. TIL
/, lbones are in some instances immens'
oIwhile indications point TO au India
oIbarying ground, the great mass of bodi'
Z nearthed give rise TO the theory thu
e ltley are Indian warriors who fell
|, battle and were buried in heap. I'll
t, bank il also giving out large maril
-Isaells md other fossils of interest
q o 4olopists