The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-07-14
Saturday, July IA, 1888.


"A large quarterly meeting of colored
folks was held at Iron Hill on Sunday
last.
Barton always has full stock OF
cigars and tobacco, in stock; also full
line of groceries.
Mr.. .---- Dayett of Cooch's Bridge,
purchased traction engine last week.
ITe is now prepared to do threshing.
We hope that our good correspond
cnts will not forget us now when the
weather is hot. Send us the news item.
Go see G. U. Choato if you are in
need of good cigars and tobacco. He
keeps an elegant stock always ON hands.
Most of the undergraduates of last
year have signified their intention to re-
turn to Delaware College in September
next.
subscriptions received for all Phila.
weekly and daily papers, also notions
ofall kinds constantly on hand at Fred
Choate's.
Miss Lizzie Strickland has reduced
all her millinery goods and asks tn at
all the ladies who wish to secure bar
gains call.
Improvements on the streets still
continue. The old bitches are graded
Nnd cobbled cutters are making the
town look city like.
Dr. G. w. Simmons and family who re-
sided at the East End, left town last week
for Elizabethtown, Kentucky, where he
will make his future home.
Found on the street P, w & B. r.
r. trunk check, "No. X. ZIG, from Bridge
VILE" The loser can have same by call
ing at this office, and paying expenses.
DIR. George d. Purinton, manager of
the Agricultural Experimental stations
was busy all this week securing the nee
essary implements and equipments for
the stations.
Let every business man send his job
printing to this office. What cannot be
done at the home Office will be prompt
ly executed at the Wilmington Printing
Company.
Yes, it is an indispntable fact, that
when person feels badly they need ice
cream to tone up their system. The
place to get it is at Mrs. S. A. Roach's
saloon, Main street.
Send lis the name of anybody that
thinks of going to College this fall, and
we.will hand it to President Raub, who
will be glad to correspond with any on
that is interested in the College or desires
information.
The erection of the buildings for the
the Agricultural Experiment Station at
Delaware College is progressing favor
ably. A large quantity of apparatus, fur
niture, and other equipments is already
on the ground.
Joseph It. Willis has opened shoot
ing gallery in the old foundry building.
Those wishing to try their skill as marks
men have only to call. One day of the
week will be set apart for ladies', who
wish to shoot.
Wheat harvest is over and the pros
pect for good crop is flatterng. The
rain Monday night materially assisted in
bringing the corn crop up to large one
and the farmers are happy. They are
protected you know.
Rev. james L. Nailandigham, d. D.,
started for New Lisbon, Ohio ON Tuesday
This is the birthplace Of Mr.. Vallandng
ham. The pulpit at Head Of Christiana
Church will be filled by Rev j. B. But
Ter the third Sunday in July, and by the
Rev. Geo. J Porter on the fourth Sunday.
The Loyal Temperance Legion of
Newark, will hold picnic in the grove of
S. NJ. Donnell, ON Thursday, July 10th
There will be exercises consisting of
speeches and singing and the Demorest
Silver Medal contest, beginning 2. a. m.
All are cordially invited, Mrs Chas. King,
Supt
1t sounds Ikea very rash statement
TO say that more than million tons of
water fell within the city limits between
$50 o'clock Monday afternoon and
o'clock Tuesday morning and yet such
is the fact. The rain gauge registered the
fall as 245 inches. The area of the city
is about 80 square miles. 4 1T is therefore
but simple arithmetic to show that with
such asteady, even rain, the total fall
within the city was nearly n million and
half tons, to be precise, 14I7 pa tons.
-Every Epening.
Coroner Ashbridge held an inquest in
the case of Pauline Wurster who died
in Philadelphia on Monday. DIR. Formal
made post norton examination and
found that peritonitis had caused death,
and that cherry stones had caused the
peritonits. The little tubelike appendix
suspended from the junction ofthe large
and small intestines, the use of which
psychologists have never been able to
discover was found oholSed up with
cherry stones. The lower end of it had
become liberated, and had also been rup-
tured by the pressure of the stones, and
the contents of the intestines, as we'll
the stones, escaped into the abdominal
cavity, producing violent inflammation.
The manner ofthe girls death is a war
ming to persons who make practice of
swallowing the seeds and stones of fruit.
A verdict of death from peritonitis was
given.
John Collins, a young man of 81