The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-08-13
A "Trip 70 lfehobeth.
BY PROF. AMBROSE s. OTTEY,


Here we saw the grandest frame resi-
dences Ln our way; also the finest bed Of
coIcombs we ever looked upon. Here
peaches, sweet potatoes and tomatoes were
the main crops; also We looked upon the
first pine forest.
At Harrington there Is a beautiful brick
building, one OF the best we beheld after
leaving Wilmington. After leaving Har-
rington we passed acre after acre Of
woods, principally made up Of the we'll
known scrub oak, which you generally
sec growing everywhere OH poor land. So
poor Is the land, some Of 1t, that even
weeds look unhealthy.
The town of HOu,ton was the next in
order, and here a blacksmith carries on
that business by the name of Armour, q
brother OF ex-Aldcrnan Armour, Of Ches-
ter. We became acquainted with him on
one of his trips to the above city The
truck patches after leaving here looked
sick and needed medicine. We thought
while riding along here, give us Gods
country" (Claymont) yet to live in.
Milford was our next stop, and here we
saw very large mill pond and at the sta
ton several hundred people, young and
Old, male and female. At the station
there were several hacks to convey passen.
gers to their various destinations. The
ears do not travel very fast after leaving
Harrington
After leaving Milford the brakeman
came in and lit the lamps, and in lighting
one IL was i'll moment all ablaZe, and the
passengers IN cOmmotion, and, as we have
seen on former occasions in time of dan.
ger, the women seemed to have tho coolest
heads and the men the biggest fools.
Things We're soon rghtcd and on we went,
soon arriving at Lincoln City, but it did
not look as popular in our eyes as the
name of Honest Old Abe
II was small place, and for twenty
acres OF some of the land below here we
wouldn't give one acre of some of Clay.
mont's land.
Glendale was the next stop, and here
we saw thousands Of cords of pine wood
piled up along tho road also we saw our
FIRST peach bas ket mandatory, where u
large shed had thousands of baskets in
piles at least ten feet high.
Here we saw for the first time for forty
years, he old charcoal pits, of which there
was quite large number, burning char.
coal. 1t reminded lis of the primitive
days, and made lis think that they were
behind the times. Some fine apple and
peach orchards were seen here, while
some OF the peach trees were Oh the DE-
cline, having the disease called the yell
lows. Georgetown, our next stop, % large
concourse of people was at the station,
awaiting the coming of the train. Here
we bought copy Of the Every Evening
of your city, giving five cents to the boy
for 1t, and he felt in all of his pockets for
change, but one cent was all he showed
up, and OF course we told him to keep the
rest. Who knows but what that boy was
playing sharp, when we think of trick
that we played on passenger on q train
at the Chester depot about forty years
ago.
In meadows and swamps at that time
there used to be u large number of owls,
that would light in the old trees there and
Sit ana watch for something to eat. So,
one evening, we got the gun and amuni.
ton, and went and shot three pretty good
sized ones and picked all the feathers off,
and the next day we went to the depot to
sell them to any one who wished to buy
The train came in soon, and when we
were walking up the platform, gentle
man stuck his head out of the window and
said: Here, boy, what: are those birds
"They are bull-head plovers." "What do
you want for them?" We told him.
They were worth one dollar and quarter
pair. he bought them, aud to this day
we laugh over the bull-headed plovers
Also as we were passing along we saw
three fish hawks sitting on the limbs of
dead tree, and this reminded us of the |
owls. We had passed now the best of the |
peach country, and we We're told by Mr.. |
Smith, brother of the Smith that takes |
very active part in politics in Sussex |
county on the Republican ticket, that the !
peaches now bore by the trees would in |
most cases be wormy, which we found out |
afterwards to be somewhat true The |
fruit looked fine, but when broken into
from one to five worms would be found. |
No wormy fruit for this chicken.
We arrived at Rehoboth about o'clock, |
and hunted up place to lay down our
weary body. We will give an account of |
our stay in our next letter.