Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-08-26
THE PENINSULA.

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THE PENINSULA.
Chestertowns straw board mill is run
ming again.
Peaches in this locality are, owing to
the excessive rains and damp weather,
badly rotting ON the trees. Harbeson
Hickman, who thought two weeks ago he
would be able to ship 1000 baskets from
one orchard, says now that he will do well
il he gets 20O.-Breaksoater Light.
Good Hope Council No. SOL, Royal
Arcanum, paid on Tuesday week, to the |
widow of the late William H. Meekins |
$4,000, which is the amount Of benefit
certificate held by him in that order.
Mrs. Meekins will also receive $4,000
each from the A. o. T. W., and the |
Heptasophs, making her beneficiary of
81 900. Cambridge Chronicle.
From 200 trees of Mountain Rose
variety in the orchard on Mr.. j. p. II.
Folks Howell's Point farm, under man
ngement of Mr.. w. II. Pennington, 1000
baskets have been picked. These peaches
cleared upward of 60 cents per basket,
and the probable yield of the 200 trees
will be more than 81 900. This is the
best turnout heard from to date Chss-
tert0toR Transcript
s. F. Hastings, living in the upper
part of the town, has very thrifty flock OF
ducks. A few days ago one of the ducks
| died suddenly, and Fieldy, desiring TO
know the cause of DEATH held an inquest
and made n post-mortem examination.
He was the coroner, jury and doctor, and
after using the knife freely, he discov-
cred gold dollar in the ducks throat,
and the jury decided that the duck died
of the gold fever Cri4feld Leader.
II. NJ. Cooper, the temperance candidate
for Representative in Congress, addressed
n meeting in the public hall Of the Odd
Fellows last evening. His remarks were
attentively listened to, but we do not be-
lieve the convictions of any of those pres
emit were changed. The whole thing seems
to be falling into Republican hands and
will be managed by them, unless there
! should be Republican tickets placed in
the field, which does not now appear
likely. Deia,0ars Democrat
| Monday morning week the large barn on
the farm of Il. b. Roberts, Esq, neal
Ingleside, tenanted by Samuel Blessley
was destroyed by fire, together with al
its contents, consisting Of 800 bushels Of
, | wheat, 800 bushels of oats, 60 tons Of
, timothy hay and lot of farming nipple
menta Tho fri was discovered about u
f. O'Clock but burned 30 rapidly that al
:. efforts to save the building OF content
l. were fruitless. The building was an i'm
mense ono, on the Pennsylvania plan
:, with granary, stable and shedding unde
one roof, The total loss will reacl
s s., 900, covered by insurance for SO, 100
n Nothing is known of the origin of the fire
, --Ctntre0ilie record.
10 Milford has one of the meanest men il
the State, few days ago he took tn
watch and chain and sewing machin
IS from poor woman who had been hi
n housekeeper for year past. He too
10 these articles from her without process q
" law simply went to her room in his ow
~ house and by force removed them. III
r. poor woman, who is widow, and Ia
" been trying to make his bachelor HON
comfortable, had been lying in her be
for three weeks suffering from an attac
;s of typhoid fever, and he charged her 81
for her board and the board of her nurst
u Secretary of State Causey interested hin
he self in the widows behalf and the resu
" was that the perpetrator of this act wa
10 compelled to give up watch, chain an
sewing machine. -Mi!f0rd Ne,cs
~ Three white prisoners escaped from on
3 of the upper cells of the Kent count
lie Jail, Monday week, by picking hole i
ar the wall and crawling through They Ii
themselves to the ground by blanket
They were A. p. Farmer, awaiting trir
1t for violation of the local option law, au
1, two Of the young pickpockets arrested
IN short time back at Colchester Beach. Th
= two pickpockets did the work of pickin
!" out. They were in cell next to IL
"a court honse up until Monday and the
"a had made hole on TINT side and nj
al douhtedly expected to go out Sunda
= night. On Sunday, however, they wei
DC removed to another cell, but by strict a
% tention to business they in short tin
D. made another hole, and crnwled out befol
N midnight. Monday. Wilbur Shriver toe
y. all three to Betterton with team whiC
was seemingly in readiness, where the
To- took an Ericsson steamer for Baltimore.
a CHeStertOlBa Transcript,
Probably the largest crowd of peop
ever assembled at Slaughter Beach W
that OF Thursday last, the third Thur
ga day in August known as Big Thursday
lie the day when everybody goes to the beac
n. The crowd was estimated to number fro
mo 3 900 to 5000 people People go fro
far and near those from distan
Gu usually assemble on Wednesday evenil
as and spend the night and greater porto
, a of the next day, while those from near
be points do not go till Thursday mornin
:, when goodly number Of the visitors
'u' the night before are tired-in many
ice stances drunk enough TO get away f
cts home" They are coming and going
ID all hours from Wednesday noon unt
Friday noon. If they were not contin
'h ally going az well as coming,
see would be impossible for all to Q
lily upon the beach. Fights were numeroI
m. and from midnight Wednesday till mi
- night Thursday no less than % fracas
N were celebrated The fakirs were out
ace full force, but they complain of peop
ish being harl-np, and therefore their dep
is datiOns were OF small account The ssh
- racket was played successfully, howey
'"'I bnt nobody could be induced to inv,
very heavy. Faro, sweat-cloth, and in fa
all manner Of gambling was ever open
anu those who desired that kind of anu
pod ment, but few only awaited themsely
sad Of this chance. Although many VIZ
n drunk, taken all III all, there never We
fewer disturbances on such day. Evel
'er body present speaks IN the highest ter
Of Of Mr., Short the owner Of the beach "A
hat hotel, and recognize his influence for %
,.,,, order during the day. This has beei
great season for Slaughter never since
an existence asa watering place have so ma
and people visited there as have this season