Evening journal., 1893-09-28
NEWPORT SNEEDS NOW.
The Pretty Little Suburb
Must Have a Railway.
AN ADMIRABLE ROUTE PROPOSED.

! Ahfoukh Now Nahtio ana newport
where the Travel and Tramc That
ais Now Done would Alone Sup
port the RaiIway-The white shoot
ing Array.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
NEWPORT, Sept. %. These are the
days for rapid transit and good rail
way facilities In this line, so far as
facilities are concerned, the people Of
Newport are not considered. A person
who leaves here at 4.55 cannot get a
train to return by until 1915. But it Is
hoped that the day is not far distant
when an electric line will pass through
our pretty little town of more than
three quarters of thousand inhabitants
Someone will say, perhaps, that 1t never
will be built on account of the overhead
bridges, but there are few, IL any bridges
required from New Castle to Whining
ton. Let any line at all get the right of
way over the Wilmington streets, then
come out the Kennett pike to Richard
sons hill, and make short tunnel, come
right along to Newport, 90 through the
big culvert under the road here, go over
the Newport bridge, which is not turned
of twice in a month, into New Castle,
over the high bridge just beyond Tenth
street, New Castle, and right into Shaw.
town, where that enterprising lover OF
electricity, James B TOman, would be
only too happy 60 give free site for the
depot. These are solid facts and are
we'll worthy OF consideration.
And then at Newport there is an ex
tensive wood alongside Of which is
beautiful lake and by little expense a
grand picnic ground could be formed
here.
Ground is cheap and so is rent in New
port This station has the largest travel
of any between Wilmington aud the
Susquehanna river
Ground Needs Fertilizer But Not Acid
The fertilizer works operated by
Whann, Cranston and Co, have been
very busy all season and are at the
present time Around Newport there is
= grand country, yet, strange to say, the
crops are not what they should be The
fertilizer works give employment TO
some few men but it would be far better
II there was more fertilizer manufsc
tured and used than there is
In the opinion of several prominent farm
ers the acid is too strong for the land
IL burns everything up And when it is
considered how much more the horses do
relish western hay than they do hay
grown about here, this is an item They
use no fertilizer In the West and they
burn the manure. There is too much
acid in he phosphate which our farmers
use
Newport is as clean and as healthful a
town as can be found anywhere Among
its residents there are several live bust
ness men including Dr. Booth, NJ A., who
keeps well-appointed drug store aud
John Newbold, the enterprising lumber
dealer and coal merchant. There is one
thing that is objected to here and it is
that people from other places come here,
get drunk and fight This was the case
on Saturday night last.
How Edward white Shot His wife.
The wife Of Edward White. colored
who was shot by her husband on last
Saturday night is recovering daily. The
pair had been to the festival at the
upper church and had just returned
home be went to oil a self-coeking
revolver ana somehow it fell from 3
hand, but he caught Il vita the other
and shot was fired, the ball striking
| his wife on the shoulder and lodged in
the wall. DR.. Finn. of Wilmingt )n, was
called IN and dressed the wound She is
now able to do her household duties and
the wound Is healing The report that
Edward shot her in jealousy is untrue
Two young men went from here yester
day TO the woods near Christiana aud
succeeded in shooting eight aud five
squirrels respectively.
Big Representation at the Fair.
It is considered that Newport, for its
size, has sent the largest quota OF its res.
idents to the Worlds Fair of any
town in Delaware Among those Just
returned home or now stayin5 there are
Cashier Watson of the Newport bank, and
wife, John Mendinhall of the Marshall
Iron Company, and wife, ex-Postmaster
Charles Groom, Bank Director John Polk.
ex-Sherih Lewis Armstrong, Represen
tativsCrossau, Station Agent Washington
and family, Rev. A Mowbray. Mr. and
Mrs Stewart john Newbold aud family.
Operators Anderson aud Melvin, Pnnci-
pal OF the Public Schools Heran, and
JOAN NJ. Cranston and family
70 day Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Johnsou and Nr Miller left for the
white city. Altogether over sixty have
been there'up to the present
William Cole. who has been the past
summer at the Chapel, near Aberdeen,
I Nd, running an engine in canning
factory, has returned home The fac
/ tory I'M which he worked canned = 600
Gauss day There was a scarcity Of
/ tomatoes IN consequence Of something
eiiugiDg them There would then a
/ black spot about the size OF raspberry
I appear and the tomato would not ripen,
but rot He met Mr. Maxwell, who ran
the factory this year a. Keuton, aud he
said that better crop or finer toma
toes were never before in Delaware.
! The Marshall Iron Company's works
are running on full time. Bat the sheet
me- aud barmen are working this week
on 10 per cent reduction Although
this takes about 80 cents day of their
wages, yet they are stubborn enough
not to recognize the hard times and
| dullness iD trade Consequently they
accepted the reduction The mill en-
| ployes about seventy hands.
CHURCH CELEBRATION TOMORROW.
Sc Michael's Day VIII BE Appropriately
Observed in st. Michael's Church.