The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-14
NEW CASTLE NEWS
What In Transpirina 10 the Pretty Town
on the Delaware.

OF the Republican.
New CASTLE. Sep. IA.
The REPUBLICAN herewith publishes
another eseay on Nav Castle. The
render must not crlticise too harshly,
as 1t must be remembered that an
eleven.year-old girl wrote 1t and in the
opinion of several II does the little
Mics considerable credit.
New Castle Is situated on the Della
ware river. II has fine harbor for
shipping purposes and an excellent
river front for manufacturing pur-
posee. Among its manufacturing es.
Establishments are the Delaware Iron
Works. the Triton Cotton Mills. the
WOODEN Mills and the VIZ. Lea and
Sons Company's mills. The Iron
Works are the largest tube works In
the country. New Castle has many
on Water street which was built in
1857 by William Penn and IN which hs
lived. tho town hall. the Academy
built In 1900. Emmanuel Church. the
Court House now occupied by the
Mayors Office. post office, Magistrate
Janvier. Company ii, u. n. G., other
club rooms and the meeting room Of
tho Board OF Education and Trustees
of the Commons.
Tho Spottswood mansion contains
several old relics highly priced by the
family. left to them BY General Jack.
son and Miss May Washington Finck.
The first school teacher In New Cas-
tie was Everett Peterson who had 25
pupils In 1867. In 1910 there were 100
houses here and now the population ia
over 1900. The Emmanuel was the
first church built here at present
IGt W
built here In 1910. Fort Cussimir was
built In 1851 by the Dutch soldiers.
New Castle had a shipysrd for time.
land In launching OF a large ship 1t met
with an accident which financially
ruined the company.
Fort Cassimir was built between
Chestnut and Harmony streets Just
above Front. 1t was Jasper bankers
who came here from Sweden In 1876
and looked from this battery. Re-
turning home he wrote In his diary in
this fashion. 1.-THE town is situated
upon a point which extends out with
10 sandy beach. affordlng a good land
ling place. / will say about seventy
years ago they were In the habit Of
llashlng women in this very town OF
New Castle.
Punishment Is still melted out to
criminals In New Castle with tho lash
and pIllory.. And while most other
States consider 1t barbarous 1t will
undoubtedly prevail here for many
years to come. The soil surrounding
New Castle is of the most fertile kind.
Crops of every description can be pro.
iduced in abundance. Considering its
fine water front and its fertility OF the
surrounding country. its excellent
climate, there Is no reason why New
Castle should not be one of the most
lnourishing and prosperous cities In
the Union. CARRIE PEpRIcK.
The Republicans OF New Castle hun.
bred will hold meeting tomorrow
evening at $50 O'Clock in the Delaware
.Hou5e. over Topkis' store. for the pur
pose Of getting into shape to fall into
line this fall behind Maine by forming
a Republican club.
A special meeting OF City Couuc II
will be held this evening for this pur.
pose of considering the dog law. By
the way 1t worked lust year 1t has been
voted as being dead letter. Tho PEG
pie do not object to paying for regis
tering their dogs. but they do kate to
SEQ half of the money go to the clerk
of the council when the clerk has q
liked salary and gets other pickings
also.
There Is q section In the ordinance
where IL states that person Is liable
TO fine of So for harboring an uEreg-
'istert dog. One-half OF the line goes
to the informer. SO II this section o.
the ordinance ie enforced the boys Will
make a good round sum and SO will
the city.
Democrats and Republicans will be
lon the alert tomorrow US 1t is the first
In f.Nr ntGatf a I n l.
fair registration gentleman no matter
who Ia on top.
George Williams, colored, the other
day while digging in his garden found
AN American cent bearing date OF 1874.
lie values the prize highly.
j. Ii. King has pear tree In his gar.
den which Is curiosity. There is such
Ia large crop Of fruit on 1t that he tied
the branches up with ropes and placed
ian nrbor under it and yet the branches
ARE hanging down. 1t was computed
yesterday that there are twenty-five
baskets OF pears on the tree. Some OF
the fruit measure foot in circumfer-
'ence.
1t was reported here last evening
that Ebe Bull, ST., who went under an
operation at the homeopathic Hos
pitul in Wilmington Is getting along
very nrely. AT. bull lor years has
been under the care OF physicians here
and in Philadelphia, so no finally de-
termined TO run the risk Of an opera
tion and try anu be- cured.
The gan6 of base bail tomorrow be.
tween the home club and the Crescent
of Philadelphia promises TO be an In.
teresting one.
Robert Montgomery left this morn
ing for Dover where he will contest in
the 100 yards dash.
Alfred Ponzo. colored. has been com.
mittod to jail here by Magistrate Fer
gueson OF Mlddletown on the charge
of assault with intent to kill. 1t is
understood that Ponzo assaulted an
other colored man and then drew re-
NJ nj at "a