Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-09-01
PENINSULA POINTS.

W. N. Ransom, of Denton, Nd.
shipped peaches last week for which hi
received MS high as Sc per basket.
K. e. Jackson, Of Salisbury, last
week received $500 for 1000 water
melons sent to Baston.
Croakers, the finest fab that come
along the bay shore, are so plentiful a.
10 sell, In Milford, for six cents dozsp
Oysters from Mis- pillion creek are re-
tn ling in Milford market at SO ceats
per bushel.
The Kent County Mutual Insurance
Company WAS fortunate in sustaining
no losses by the Laurel fire, contrary
to the first published report.
The Delaware State Fair which will
be held at Dover during the last week
In Septem Der promises to. be the finest
exhibition that has ever been held.
Through the efforts of Congressma 81
Lore, tho Postmaster General has or
dered post office established at Browne-
vile la Mispillion hundred.
There WAS q collision on the New York
Philadelphia and Norfolk railloa be
tween two engines, on tbs side track at
Delmar, on W ed nesday. No one was
hurt.
A Tenn perance Reform Club, consist
| ing of about twelve members, was
formed at Milford on Wednesday ever-
| ing OF last week. Another meeting was
held Tuesday night.
| Peache, are being shipped from
Dover station quite lively. 1t is said
that more peaches are being shipped
from this depot than OF Wyoming so far
this year. 1t appears that peaches are
turning out better Than the bes; prophets
| expected.
Robert H. Davis 8 Son, of Milford
started their evaporators on apples on
Tuesday. They are paying eight and
ten cents per basket for apples and get
ting all they want. They give employ
ment to about twenty hands.
| There is q story told OF man making
500 COO off tract of land in the
cypress swamps in Delaware and Mary
land. The cypress IL converted into
shingles, and the logs are frequently
found many feet below the surface of
the ground.
Ship building is about commencing
again at Milton, after au interval OF
two years. j. B. Dorman, of the Draw
Bridge, Is already getting the lum Der
for his schooner, and Ex-Governor
Ponder, having recently sold two
vessels, will, it is reported, soon build
another.
Yankee captains always make the
heart Of the truckers around Lewes glad
and their purses fat. An last weel
wagon load after wagon load Of small
fruit and vegetables have found theil
way to the beach and thence to tn,
great feet that lay protected behind tn,
Breakwater.
j. ID, Malcolm, proprietor of Contra
MIL one and q half miles from Moor
ton, cut this year two and half tons o
timothy hay from three acres. Hi
wheat last year was treated to phos
phate and after wheat harvest the lan(
received good coat of stable manure
1t pays to manure literally.
Sincs the goth inst, the law permit
the catching OF oysters from the creeks
and many persons with boats and tong
are now on their way to capture tn
bivalves 1t is feared that the suppl.
is short. If so, 1t is hopsd that here
after the law may be amended 80 as Il
give the oysters month or more &c
growth.
D. Refs started his factory at Milfor
the middle of last week and is now rur
i. ming full tims en- tomatoes, Hehss pu
in new process tub and in other way
, increased the capacity OF his factory
/ He employs about 1850 hands Mr.. Rel
has fine location, and by filling in hs
made land enough to give him plent
, OF room about his buildings, and II
claimed q swamp that was an eyesol
to the town and injurious TO health.
The Frederick correspondent Of th
Milford Chronicle says: During th
present week we paid brief visit I
, Rev. j. s. Willis Glendale Farm
and brought home with us basket {
moss delicious straw berries. They wer
of the "Cum oerland Triumph" variety
and were large, sweet aud toothsom,
There is fine prospect for third crOI
l as the vines are full of blossoms, an
1 unless they are nipped by the frost th
| berries will mature some time in Octt
' Der.
Q Dana's factory at Milford commence
on tomatoes on Monday and by th
, m :ddle of the week was In full bias
| Mr.. D. furnished his growers with see
= of i'm proved var ieties aud his tomato
, are very nice. The wet weather dot
l not appear to have affected them,
\ they are flrmer than comm on. The ia
4 tory employs one hundred women an
It thirty or forty other bands. Everythir
# In the way of labor-saving machinel
: will be found there. They have put I
it about 1000 cans Of peaches.
The Teachers Institute which assen
" bled at Rshoboth last week was not
) any means a success. 1t would see
that something shou be done to revi
the interest which formerly characte
d lied their meetings. But the scant 9
r. tendance Is due perhaps more to &
J. fact that reduced rates could not be @
" tanned either over the railroad or at t
e hotels, than any lack OF interest on I
|, part of the teachers.
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