Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-07-09

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CLAThoFT, fuly 7-The public road
have been Ovg hauled once more, IN,
old and the neF way OF mendIne them
was made use Of. Whatever some ppo
pie do, they do for the best, and vet the
best Of people are misled rome times,
Mr.. William and George Casey will
take the cake for having the finest fields
Of corn in Claymont. Mr.. Lot Cloud
viii carry the h nor for the county.
We saw few days ago, on the farm
Of Mr.. John Marion, OF Concord Town
ship, field of timothy, that will cut
two and-a-hali tons OF hay to the acre,
II is hoped that the above gentleman
will keep their digestion right, eat plenty,
and get as n.uch exercise and fresh air
as they Gao, so that they may live long
and have happy life, is the wish of your
humble servant.
The cherry crop Is about over, the
yield was lair, and the price medium.
There is something wrong that better
prices are not r ceiVed for the above fruit,
Those having them to sell, or those buy
ing, act as though they wanted little of
G God advice.
Mr.. ]. B sco:t,who was quiet seriously
hurt a few days ago, IL able to bs about
once more.
Mr.. Josiah Bacon, Of Claymont, has
jersey COW that made him IS pounds of
butter In one week, on trial 1his is
hard to beat
One of the strangest things OF the pres
emit time is to see Rev. Samuel Hance,
who is in his 9lst year, and his brother
Andrew, who is two years younger, sit
ting in the same pew at Sloan Church,
nearly every Sunday morning Mr. Der
riekson, father of the well known gen
tlemen. William and Albert Derricksou,
who is IN his seth year, sits In the next
seat. People say time is short, and yet
90 seconds make minute, 90 minutes in
an hour, 10 hours fromIrislng TO going to
bed. Yet If ones heart is aching all the
while, heaven knows that little of time
seems long enough All the above are
men who seem to be cheerful, and this
may account for them living long On
Sunday morning last, 10 probationers
were taken into full membership ny the
pastor, the Rev. R. McIlvane Five of
these were baptlsed. These were the con
verte OF the late pastor, Rev. VIM. Il.
Smith, last winter.
The fourth was celebrated here by
few Of our marksmen having q g. ootlng
friend, Joseph Forward, who broke 20 out
of 81 clay pigeons; the first II he broke
straight. he would have broken all II he
hadn't missed them. Well Joseph, a
friend in need is a friend indeed" Next
on the list Is Albert Edward, VINO also
got away with 20 GU. of 81 Albert is q
good shot, but he has q cold hand; he
also has a warm heart, and his body har.
bors good eoul. Next on the list IL our
esteemed friend and brother, Jesse
hopes, who carried the honor of II out
of ~. Well jesse is not as fat rs he
was, as he hadn't been eating much mush
and milk lately, this may account for not
breaking them all The last is Frank
Vernon, who showed good marksman-
ship by breaking II out of q. Well, the
only excuse we have for Frank is this,
that he dou't belong to himself, but to
his wife, as everybody knows that every
married man Is what bis wife makes him.
Mr.. William Vernon made for the
fourth 500 quarts Of ice cream. William
is one Of our busiest Of men, accommaE-
ing, makes good cream, enjoys II tie
fun, but he can do no more than he can;
and by US keeping our mouth shut we
will catch no flies.
A picnic was held in Vernon's Grove,
on the above occasion, from North Ches-
ter.
Leonard, the large mastiff dog of Mr. j.
Kent Worthington, ran through a NOV
ing freight train the other day and came
near being killed. VETO,