Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-27
Pen,psuia Poanss.

L ThrmeEM arc uUb Ou bbEih0 NJ tuIb
time In Kent County. They are busy
boycottias the ground they expect to
Any quantity of small fruit plants
are being set this spring in Kent and
Sussex Counties. There 10 more money
and more work for everybody in fruit
than in grain.
. Peas and early potatoes are up.
n l. G. Lofiaud, Of Dover, has butchered |
his famous Chester White hog that was
lon exhibition ut the State Fair. His
weight was over 900 pounds.
| More herring were caught this week |
ut North East than could be disposed
Of. As many as three hundred thou /
Shad are likewise plentiful. Herring
d bring % to 30 cents per 100 on the shore
and shad $40.
ii Robbins circus, which showed at
Milford on Tuesday and Dover on Wed
, nesday, Ia said TO have been . very tame
, affair, q gang Of professional beats
D travelling with them, several parties in
! Milford being taken in by the sharpers.
II The soft crab, for which Indian river
: is so justly famous, will soon be abun.
8 dant, now that the weather has become
III warm, and the erabbere are busiiy en-
III gagged in getting ready for business.
4 This Is an important industry In that
q portion of the county and is exceedingly
9 remunerative. with the outlay of small
q capital.
Il The assessment for Kent County
= amounts to S14 .613,012. Real estate,
ISL 1856, 508; personal property, 81 ,005,-
r IA, and poll, 81, 241 300.
nj On Monday last 800, 900 herring were
caught at one haul at Carpenters Point
u on the North East river. Those in
d Icharge of the ssine state that In their
Iopinion fully hundred thousand were
l. released from the seine. owing to their
1t inability to land them.
rtI Anumber of carrier pigeons from
at Philadelphia will shortly be liberated
Of at Elkton in order to test their capacity
of as path. finders and also their powers oil
endurance. IT the pigeons are equal tc
the task they will soon find their way
IT. back to Philadelphia.
d. The warm weather has started tn,
be asparagus. Some growers have COM
20 menced cutting, and Iext week II 1
keeps warm the cutting will he general
This 10 one week earlier than last year
The prospects for q good crop O
peaches in Wicumico County, Nd, ar,
promising, aud indeed much bettel
ers than usual. All orchards that are pro
or. tected are full, and those exposed prom
trees this season has been very large
IL is estimated that about 200, 600 peacf
trees have been planted.
A large pine tree on the grounds o
I'D. W, Ralph, near Laurel, measure
Thirty four feet in circumference thre
feet from the ground. 1t is q gian
Of of the forest, being several feet highe
ctr than the trees by which 1t Is surround
rth ed.
ak. One OF Pinkerton's detectives spen
et. sew eral days in Chesapeake City las
lzy week investigating the morder of VIM
Green, alias BILLY the Joker" withou
MT discovering any clue that would lead t
the detection Of the murderer.
ni' Sussex, instead OF being full of ma
laria and i'll health as many thinh
appears to be almost q land Of per
-, Ipetual youth where few people di,
according to the returns Kent come
a next on the list with q pretty clean bill
but New Castle with her IL 33 per cen
,aat seems to be very much farther ahes
trail in the record of mortality than is usu
In such returns.
ear Messrs. J. B. Dorman and A.
nth Robinson of the Drawbridge, al
Charles Fl. Atkins, W. B. Tomlinst
InH and d. R. Burton Of Milton, are makil
the preparations to plant extensive oyst
beds In Delaware Bay, at the mouth
a a on Broadkiln creek. The bivalves houril
in those waters, and the prospect Is tn
lin few years they will be more abu
dant there than for long time.
Singerly's pulp works at Elkton we
,o not running on Thursday last on q
count of the breaking Of the large dri
ear ing belt, which is the means of cor
municating the power from the engi
eep to the shafting which drives tine m
chinery. For some unexplained reas
the belt broke in two pieces and had
be replaced by one from Providen
.ck. Mill, which will be used until q ne
Q to one can be obtained.
Mr.. o. ID. Foulks living on the Nor
East river, was surprised one morni
last week to discover that some pers
aim or persons had dug hole on his prer
loon ses ten feet deep and about twelve 4
,ist- square. They had moved several pa
sive nels of fence and 1t Is supposed th
md were after buried treasure.
tingI The road bed and tracks Of the D.
the & V. railroad are said TO be In bet
eco condition than ever before. The qua
by q tity of freight transported is rapit
rom increasing and the number OF pass
dis gers Is weekly becoming greater. W
! the the promised improvements in the ru
W ere ming of trains and the greater conve
had fences offered the travelling public,
ime: coming season will doubtless prove
odd, most remunerative one.
;hfult It has been long time since
chesapeake bay and river have been
crowded with fish as they are this ys
Herring have come into those wal
tison in immense schools;t ;they are seen fr
flour the river banks rippling the water, 9
ehts; their back fms sticking out Of it; Il
ents. can be dipped up In scoop nets from
city ends OF the wharves; they crowd 1
the large mesh shAd gilling nets, VIII
have to be cleared OF them. Sci
haulers are using only large-sized m
seine, SO that herring may escape;
Rare, yet such immense numbers are Ian,
- ln on the shores at every haul that u
faui cannot be handled properly. They
20 for anything down rs low as ten ce
Der hundred. Shad are also numsr
and the price lower than for mi
Iyears, as they have been sold there
nd a. low as Sc and 81 per hundred.
reefs,
srfectI What q grand, great country this
maoe with It's vast territory, Its big riv
its pretty women, and its Veni
IVici cure-Salvation Oil.
Third The Whipping Post.
nne William r. Long, of the REPUf
ell As tCAH, received q letter on Mon
np orning, from g. M. Brsdfeld, ID.
tRacorder of the Medical Jurisprudt