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.r.dresday Afternoon. April %, 1885,
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Coin Soutb NSr $50 11.57 A. NJ, 4.4O $685. 1882. NJ
county and State Items
,,,,mrd will organize a Law and
order Society
.,vberry patches are in bloom,
,n5 the yield will be large
n.,.wars towns south of Wyoming
n T'hay have an afternoon mail.
r.o Knauff organ factory, Newark's
lnV ;odnstry. is in active operation.
wo.L on WilmingtOn's new post
.Hice and custom house will be begun
Cd May lst'
orsu Isaacs, aged years, of Mil
~ was bitten by a dog and is in a
critical condition.
The New Castle Levy Court has
.iyen s28, 900 for the support of the
Soor for next year.
The Delaware Society for the Pre-
,ention of cruelty to animals, wants
400 legislative appropriation.
Tho bi0 shad catch is said to be
",stbing unprecedented this season.
Tav the shadder never grow less.
lanes Smith aud Bayard Boiles,
18th colored, of White Clay Greek
SUndred. have been drawn as Oyer
and Terminer jurors.
George H. Daniels will receive five
l.sbes and serve one months impris-
"nment in Georgetown Jail, for steal
ng a so cent chicken.
Word has been received at Dover
tbat Mrs. ]. Frank Mancha is to be
married at Petersburg, Va, to gen
leman named Porter.
Farmers around Middletown say if
ooe.tenth of the buds now on the
Daacb.trees mature, this years crop
viii be unprecedently large.
In Delaware the increase in acreage
oftoboceo has been from four to 20
scres and the increase in tobacco rails
al from 1878 to 29,6S0 pounds.
The House has passed bill forbid
ding the sale of tobacco to boys under
Is Years of age, unless they have a
written order from their parents.
Bshop Coleman has gone to the
diocese of Albany and Massachusetts,
where be will remain 10 or u days,
administering the rite of confirmation.
The April term of the Sussex county
e0ufb WAS uClu l10b WCORs
Polk and William Polk have each been
fined $50 and sentenced to one years
Imprisonment for assault.
Rev. Alexis DUPONT Coleman has
Organized base ball team for the
coming season. 1t is composed of most
Ofthe players of last years Dauntless
team and is strong nine.
With corn at IS cents, wheat $1.25
aud potatoes s1.4O per bushel, the
farmers enter upon their spring work
with brighter prospects than they
have had for several years.
Judge Houston gave a supper to his
brethren of the bench and the members
Of the bar Of Sussex county at the res
dence Of his nephew, Robert G. Hous-
ton, ESQ.,, in Georgetown Friday.
A feature of the Republican mayor
atty contest in Wilmington, is the
efforts Ofthe candidates, DR.. Evan G.
ShOrtlidge, Stansbury J. Wiley, and
Samuel H. Baynard, to capture the
eOlOred vote.
The town council of Cambridge, Md,
visited Milford last week and carefully
inspected the electric system. They
are negotiating with Mr.. VIM. T. John
son, to put in an electric light plant
and water.wOrks.
Representative Rickards has amend
ed his bill making it a misdemeanor
punishable by.heavy fine, for any person
in Milford to act as prOcurer or prOcu-
Fess Of girls for immoral purposes, to
SPply to the whole state.
The engagement Of Prof. James H.
George of Camden, Del, and Miss
Ophelia Rogers Burrows, of Woodbury.
n. j., is announced. The wedding
will take place at the residence Of the
BRIDES brother, May IA.
Senators Houston, Moore and Ross
bring dOleful reports of damage to the
Sussex peach crop from a frost Of Sun
day week. They report having exam
ined hundreds of buds and blossoms
and finding them all dead.
HOTEL FIRE AT DAGsBORO.-Fire
al DagsbOrO, Sussex county, Wednes-
day night destroyed the Clayton House
occupied by Derrick & Hazard, the
Red Mems Hall and a stOTe-hOuse.
Loss s., 900, insurance partial.
The Milford dog tax is now a law,
having passed the Senate and House,
and goes into effect May 10, this year.
II requires that the owners of dogs
shall pay an annual tax of one dollar
on males and two dollars on females.
DELAWARE PENsIONs.-Original pen
SONS have been issued to James John
son, Clementine, Scott, George H.
Dougherty an increase of pensions to
John T. Dent, and an original widows
pension to Aldine T. Buer, of this
state.
Samuel Armstrong, one Of the lar
sest peach growers of Kent county,
says the prospects for a crop this year
we're never better, and that the trees
now have five times as many blossoms
upon them as they can hold if they
mature.
This is terrible. A local in Will
ningtOn paper refers to ex-Sheriff
All en- as having provided ratiOns for
426O3 dogs" at 20 cents, $8.52O.6O.
Oh my. But then the reporter
wrote It days" and the cOmpositOr
tried TO improve on it and made it