Evening journal., 1889-11-27
A SENSATION AT poveR.
A Pearl Button Factory Started = Larg
Purchases of Poultry.


Purchases of Poultry.
Special Correspondence EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, Nov. 27.-Old Kent's to
have new industry p Smith & Co..
of Hazleville, Del, are about starting q
pearl button mandatory, where not only
pearl buttons are to be manufactured
but pearl chains and fancy pearl goods OF
every description as well.
Moses Rash, one OF the best known
men In West Dover hundred, was buried
yesterday. MFR. Rash was at one time
very wealthy land owner, but his
penchant for litigation, coupled with re-
verses, reduced his possessions in later
years.
Alonzo Clifton, popular young con-
tractor and builder of Dover, who has
been in Savannah for several months con-
Quoting some building operations, re-
turned home yesterday.
Miss Mary Boone is visiting in Phila-
delphia.
II may not be that an effort is being
made 20 place the Delaware Bay Oyster
crop on the some plane with Delaware'5 3
peach crop. But it certainly looks as
though the oystermen were making an
effort to climb up TO the peach growers
1t is well known that the peach crop
commences to get blighted every winter
shortly aftor the holidays and keep on
being 'blighted" until the crop is
gathered in such quantities that
the railroad can't move it, IL will be
remembered that the oyster crop has been
'blighted" twice this year. In the early
spring it was revived by the foods and
then again the storm that swept the bay
recently in the opinion of veteran oyster
men just finished the matter, and the
| Delaware bay oysters were smothered by
millions. Now when the season is at its
height come such men as Captain Mincie,
who says that the oyster crop of the bay
is not only wonderfully pacific, but that
the oysters themselves are fat and
healthy.
A sensation was created down here yes
terday when it was learned yesterd ay
afternoon that Detective Hutchins had
arrested Grant Johnson and William
Herring, of Milford, on the charge of rob
bing the depot at Stockley, Sussex
county. The robbery took place on
October 81, last and Detective Hutchins,
Who has been working on the case ever
since, finally traced the robbery to the
two men arrested. The surprise here was
occasioned by the fact that both the
the culprits are well connected and well
known here. At hearing before a JUS
tice in Georgetown, each WIS held in
$500 bail, which was afterwards reduced
to 5000, Herring gave bail, but Johnson,
at last accounts, was locked up.
The Kent County Farmers Institute
held an interesting meeting here Yester-
day afternoon. with J. Alexander Fulton,
ESQ, in the chair.
A. w. Slaymaker read an instructive
paper on the cultivation Of asparagus, and
the subject of the proper season OF
manuring the soil here was discussed at
length. The fall Of the year in the opin-
| ion of most the members was the proper
time for fertilizing. Several new mem
bers were received and the Institute ad
| iourned TO meet at FELTON, at the call oi
the chair.
Talk about poultry, there's just oceans
of it down here. The Messrs. Richardson
purchased 10000 pounds yesterday, tn,
largest one days purchase made il
twelve years. The prices paid are 0 cents
for ducks and II cents for turkeys.
The Republican Kent County Com
mittee met here yesterday, but what
they did could not be ascertained. Tn
State Capital Republican Club viii no
only elect officers next Monday night, bu
have a regular house arming and con
cert as well