Daily Republican., 1886-07-20
PENINSULA POINTS,

Oats nave been harvested this week.
The crop is the largest known for years.
Wicomico County watermelons will
make their appearance this week.
Presiding Elder Thomas o. Ayers.
now living at Deuton, will soon move
TO Harrington, In this State.
There are three crops which, despite
tne unfavoroble conditions existing.
appear this week to be remarkably pro.
hnc,-tramps, peddlers and mosquitoes.
Mr.. Cornelius T. Burton, aged about
~ years, died at bis home in Lewes.
ihursday night. He was q carpenter
by trade and an excellent citizen.
Threshing has been delayed by the
rains. Wheat, where 1t was properly
put In In well.pre pared ground, has
turned out fair crop
Attorney General Paynter is slowly
recovering strength, and though the
nature or his disease forbids active ex-
ercise for time, his physician SAYS he
will soon be able to be out.
James Collins, colored, of Port De-
rosit, found Jerry Dites, colored, and
MRS. Collins In suspicious circumstances
on sunday afternoon, whereupon he at
tackled Dites with an axe, woupdinp
him horribly in the eft side.
One of the prisoners at the George.
town jail attempted to escape last Mon
DAY. He got as far as the top of ths
all yard wall. but being discovered.
jumped back into the yard instead OF
into the street.
Eight colored m On employed nv Co,
Showell, of Showell's, Md. struck for
higher wages last week, whereupon the
Colonel Immediately drove them from
the farm and hired other hands. THE
Colonel makes short work of strikes.
The unknown man who was drowned
IN the canal near Hsvre de Grace on
last Friday has been found to be Stephen
Johnson OF North East. He WAS about
or years OF age and left widow. His
remains have been sent home.
j. 4. Faucet, of Georgetown, has
bought the peach crops of Colonel L.
Showell and e Jacobs of Show ellis, Md.
For the former, which will yield about
81, 600 baskets, he paid $500, and for the
latter, which will yield about 1000 bas.
kets. he paid $500.
Duffield Savage, Of fDrummondtown.
Va, has Irish potatoes of immense
size; some Of them are ten inches In
circumference and about seven incb&
long. From one barrel of seed pota-
toes planted by Mr., Savage he has
already dug 161 barrels.
B. w. Warren Of Georgetown chal-
lenRes the State to beat him in oats
From seven bushels sowing he expects
TO raise 3CO bushels. The growth is
very vigorous, and in some instances as
hjgh as four straws bearing 300 oats
have sprung from q single seed.
Some farm ers in lower Sussex have
abandoned their corn crops entirely,
deem ing II more profitable to allow tho
neids to grow up in grass than to at
tempt to cultivate them, now that the
grass has gotten 80 far ahead of the
corn. Even where the corn has sue
ceeded in sprouting and coming up it'll
has been swallowed up during the wet
weather by the grass and weeds.
One day last week George S. Woolley,
or Chesapeake City, had occasion to
erect bsrbed wire fence through an
enclosure In which he pastured four
valuable colts. The colts not having
become familiar with the fence all ran
against 1t soon afterwards and were all
more or less injured, 30 much so that
Drs. wallace and Karsner were called
upon to sew up their wounds A large
piece of flesh was entirely severed from
the breast of one of the animals.
The difference in growing a good crop
of wheat over poor one could not be |
better illustrated than by the crops of |
two farmers in the Neck. One of Them
raised 26 bushels per acre and the other
IL bushels per acre. The profit OF the |
first mentioned, clear of everything,
was 30. 60 per acre; while the II -bushei ]
farmer had just 10 cents per acre left to |
pay interest on land aud taxes. The
only way to raise crops successfully, in
view of the low prices, is to force the
land-till less and raise more.