Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-03-18
THE PENINSULA.


THE PENLNsUIS.
The fruit growers of Accomack county,
Va, are to meet at Drummondtown on
the 29th instant to organize fruit grow
ers' association.
Klej Grange has a regularly organized
FIRE department which is well provided
with ladders, buckets, axes, &c, all nicely
painted and kept in building provided
for the purpose.
Sunday week porpoise, weighing from
four to 600 pounds, was washed on shore.
As it was the first one of any size that
had ever been landed hundreds of our
citizens were attracted TO the spot to view
the wonder. -BreakSoater Light.
1t is reported that the Pennsylvania
railroad contemplates making great i'm
proyements on the road between this
place and Harrington. 1t is stated they
will run Sunday trains to Rehoboth and
build an excursion house on Rehoboth
Bay.-Bredtsoater Light.
fredericksburg NJ. E. Circuit was divided
| at the late conference. fredericksburg, st.
Pauls and Chestnut Grove are made one
charge; Preston, Bethlehem and Friend
ship, another; Harmony is put in with
Potter's Landing, Concord and Bloomery
for another. fredericksburg Courier.
]. H. George, principal of the New
Castle public school, filed the pulpit OF
the Baptist Church there, during recent
illness of the pastor. Whereupon the
New Castle Star somewhat obscurely re-
marks that "the Baptists are very court
eous and considerate towards strangers.
The organization of the local assembly
of the Knights of Labor has not yet beer
completed owing to the non-arrival of th,
charter, which, however, is daily expected
as it is believed that the application wen
in before the recent order to call hal
for few weeks.-North East Star.
Mrs. Olivia Humphreys, wife of Ed
ward L. Humphreys and daughter o
Robert Dryden, died at o'clock Thurs
day morning at the residence of her fathe
in this town. The steadily failing healt
of Mrs. Humphreys has pointed to whG
has proven to be the inevitable result
The remains were inferred last Frida
} afternoon.-Salisbury AdgertiSer.
} David Il. Heathers committed suicid
, at Easton Sunday morning, by cuttin
= his throat with pocket-knife. He WI
about SO years old, Il money lender l
occupation and leaves widow and SC
aged IL. In the winter of 1884 !
Q became insane and was placed in Q
-, asylum for several months. Since the
he had shown symptoms of insanity
intervals.
Bishop Mallalieu while speaking
d Conference last week of the lamentab
g ignorance which prevails in some parts
q the southwest, said that upon one occ
sion candidate for admission into Il
l. ministry on trial in one of the 'front.'
IS states in answer to the question "Wt
D. is English grammar" replied, SIT is Ii
n unknown power of Almighty God viii
has never been discovered by man, but
4 sometimes seen bubbling up on the 81
face of the water. n-Cecii Democrat.
The delinquent lists returned to I
n- levy court is not so large as usual, tn,
"a being only about 1900, all told. II
list embraces not only true delinquen
al but errors of all kinds, including tn
m who have died, removed, and til
% assessed twice. The list in East Dove
% larger than that of any other hundr
containing about 4S0 names. The
II publicans got in their work of advis
Is, men not to pay taxes better arou
n Dover, hence, the large list from L
a. Dover hundred. DeldwdredR.
100 The appointment of Samuel E. Quill
= first assistant keeper at the Assateag
To- lighthouse to be the keeper of the Kill
ow Shoal light, has been revoked ~ his o
use request, and the second assistant, Will
on NJ. Parker, promoted n his stead. .
salary is $500 per annum. The I
Ier keeper is of Af.ican descent, and il
probable he will ere long experie
Il, uneasy lies the head that wears
me Gown" 1t is announced through
no newspapers that Elias j. Wilson has b
he rendered the position of second assist
nm at the Assateague lighthouse to fill
vacancy caused by the late promoti
ing Who is Mr.. Wilson? is now the all
the sorbing question. -Edstern ViTgiaiat
eh- The Sussex county grand jury is as
lows: Cedar Greek, John W. Hallett
one Samuel Hudson Broadkiln, John
on Robinson and John @. Thompson; M
the coke, Edward L. Hearn and Noah lisa
and ST.; North West Fork, Isaac b. Cot
wal and Catesby +. Rust Broad Or
der George MCGEE and Thomas Allen; L
' pu Creek, Louis Polite and Thomas BaC
the Dagsboro, William Z. Burton of NJ,
the samuel H. Layton baltlmore, jane
IL Laws and William S. McCabe; In
his River, Paynter Frame and Henry
. as Bennum Lewis and Rehoboth, Ebe
Tunnel and John Hood; Georgett
,u,r Isaac Conway and William j. Spi
SanffApI William Siau,NY,u,
con- Benjamin h. Hastings
llng George w. Moore died at his resid
bout in this town Monday week, aged 70 Y
nd He was raised near Morton, and
ooh his life between farming and mercha
own ing in small way at Leipsic and
reat- ford, moving from the latter plat
d 40 this town IL years ago; since that
/ it's he has been engaged in milling
,1o, wheel-wrighting. Mr.. Moore was o
,AoA of good and upright qualities. Thr,
de- out his life he has had TO battle v
With weak constitution, and has been
ility. cially enfeebled the past several
He leaves two grown children a
widow, sister of John NJ. Voshell.
Pfo- was buried this morning at Bethel
lone, Church, near Morton. ~ Smyrna
ween For the first time in over year, the
niles yard bell pealed forth on Wednesday
Ing on the carpenters and laborers to
that toll in the old yards. Mr.. Revelle o
,oly's the season on that day by laying the
-. new schooner. We hope to see t
'eOus three more yards start up before the
ssion | eloses.-MiJord Chronicle.
been Sturgeon fishing has proven pro
:. 4: business in the Delaware Bay and
IL ID will be greater number Of votes an
right engaged in this business this season
ever Several farmers and fishern
Cedar Neck will man boats and wo
seines for Mr.. Samuel Short Of ID
itself The men are paid SO much for eal
e,;,io taken, and as they can make about 10
S"i" as much at sturgeon fishing as they
rned. farming, they are anxious to gO.-A
bodv Chronicle of last toeek
,too Two factions are trying to run Tu
Church, near Milford and the diss
emed explains the rival announcements th
this ministers are to occupy the pulpit t
row morning. One faction announc
good the. Rev. J. 8. Willis will preach the
and puts forth the Rev. MIR. Paine. The
Chronicle oplnes that there will be
fun, as Mr.. Willis is the conferen
pointee and the thermometer is We
nous when he fails to keep up with the
!, sion.
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