Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-23
THE PENINs ma.

At Easton, Thursday, Frank Seager, nm
omnibus driver for l.. w. Oovoy, bought
MI ounce of laudanum and took
half of il ms medicine for diafrhosa. flo
died from its effects nj . O'Clock al
| night. lie WIS 30 years old, and was q
strong, muscular man.
A Selbyville letter TO the SUSSEX Journal
says: SAT the present we have the GRO
qnet craze. II is INDUCED in by citizens
of all ages, sexes and ranks. Those who
are occupied with their several avocations
during the day, spend the entire evening
at this seemingly delightful exercise"
The WiGomieo county commissioners
have increased tho reward for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer or MUIR
dercrs OF Is. 4. Eversman $500. This
makes total reward of 800 $500
offered by the commissioners and 5000
by II brother of the murdered man.
II is reported that tho county commits
sioners will soon begin the erection of O
new bridge over Kont Island Narrows.
The new bridge will be nearer Chester
river than the present structure, which
! has been considered unsafe for some time.
The commissioners will erect strong
pile bridge, with draw, the cost of which
ia estimated at about 81 900. An effort
was made TO secure the co operation of
the commissioners of Talbot county, but
that hoard declined to assist in the erec-
ton of the bridge. = Ceatyt0ib ReG0rd
The strike MT the works of the McOul
Tough Iron Company ut this place still
continues, the sixth week closing to-day.
Nothing whatever has occurred since our
last issue to raise any hopes. The pnst
week has been marked with more quiet-
ness than any of its predecessors. No ad-
yances, propositions, or offers have been
made by either the company or the men.
More of the hands leh this week for other
fields of labor; the company's houses are
being vacated, and all indications point
10 no settlement in any manner. The
uIen who remain here are receiving Imam
cal assistance from other places, and
seem to he us determined rs ever not TO
go TO work until their grievances are
guaranteed 10 be satisfactorily adjusted.
Cecil North East Stp.
The EiiStegn Vifgthian furnishes a lively
report of a tornado that passed over
Onancock last Sunday night. Along its
track, which was from 80 to rs yards
wide, trees were uprooted, outhouses and
chimneys blown over and much other
damage done. Rather hard to credit is
the statement that on the Mount Prospect
farm the wind stripped fodder from the
stalks and ''shueked" ears of corn. Robert
Il. Hopkins stables were blown over,
Captain John p. L. Hopkins meat house
lifted bodily high in the air and set down
in the middle of the street % or 80 yards
away, heavy monument in Scott Hill
cemetery was blown down, the NJ. E.
church steeple lifted of and set down in
the street with its heavy bell unchanged,
Uncle Johnny Coleburn's cottage was
literally buried by fallen trees, some
of tho stone steps at Captain Thomas
Johnson's porch hurled to the
ground and broken to pieces,
Shepherd Horsey's house torn to
fragments and some of its heavy timbers
blown nearly o mile. Captain James M.
Oobb's barn and stables overturned and
some tonbstones in the Poulson family
burying ground broken off close TO the
earth. At the Ooleburn cottage, "Uncle
Johnny was around after the storm had
passed and informed of the damage done,
when he said that he had heard the wind
blowing and told his wife of it, but that
she had not heard it. Both OF the old peo-
pie seem 10 have slept soundly while the
storm was rigging and blowing down trees
on their house,