The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20

DOWN Slate IIemS.
Whiteman's Grove near Newark was thu
scene of harvest home yesterday which
was attended by at least 2500 persons. Dr.
S. c. Swallow. Prohibition candidate fol
Governor Of Pennsylvania, made an ad-
dress.
The nsxt speaker was Samuel Dickey
of Albion, Michigan. chairman of the Ma.
tional Prohibition committee. His ad-
dress was received with marked atten.
tion.
The last speaker was the Rev. G. H
Mead, of Brooklyn. N. Y. He kept the
large audience in the best of humor.
Mr. and Mrs. Beveridge, the Gospel tenn
perance singers, onlivened the occasion
with many songs.
An important meeting of colored people
is in progress at Delaware State College
for colored students, near Dover. 1t COM
prises the Washington and Delaware Sum
ner Institute, auxiliary to the Itinerate
Club movement which assists probation
ers in the conferences.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee has Issued call for State Convention
to convene at Dover September 18, for the
purpose of selecting candidates for Con-
aress State Treasurer and Auditor of 40
counts.
Tho tin cutters at Richardson & Rob.
bins canning establishment will start to
work on Monday next, and the can makers
will follow in two weeks.
WatermelOns are 80 plentiful In Sussex
county that they are being sold in Seaford
at ono cent each.
Del koreki was yesterday held under
$500 bail at Wilmington for stabbing
Frank Hcmebi about two weeks ago.
Delmar's new canning factory at Will
mington, with a capacity of 10000 cans a
day, began operations yesterday.
Nezt Sunday will be "Blg Sunday" at
the Tow nssnd colored camp.
Georgetown, Del. August IA club
Is being organized to build handsome
club house between Oak Orchard and In
dian River inlet. Several Wilmingtonians
are interested in the movement, and the
bulk of he money necessary to the success
of the project has been subscribed. The
house will be thoroughly modern in Its
appointments, and the club will be purely
social in character and its memb bership
composed Of prominent men from all parts
of 6he State. When the building is COM
pleted and tho club thoroughly organized
steam launch will be run between the
and inlet are famous for the opportuni-
ties which they afford anglers, and, In
winter there is no better cunning on the
Peninsula than right in that section.
Georgetown, Del, August 19-Tomor-
row delegates will be elected In Kent and
Sussex counties to the state convention to
bo held in Dover on Thursday next in
obedience to the call issued on Friday of
last week. The call for the Union Rspub-
licnn convention has been issued but tho
convention will not be held until Tuesday
August 30. So that the convention held
on Thursday next will be nearly week
hafnNo hn othnp ~ finn
lIewes. Del, August l0.-The camp at
Rehoboth continues with increasing In
terest, and the attendance this week has
been tho largest since the establishment
of the camp four years ago. The singing
has been very attractive and the preach
ing of high order. Tho Rev. r. Z. Courssy,
j. r. anBurka!ow, H. G. Turner, Il. II.
Tabler, +. f. Carpenter and w. L. White
have been in attendance and rendered eff
cient service The services for the promo.
tion of Scriplural holiness were especially
Epworth League day were instructive and
greatly appreciated DR.. I. l.. Wood and
Others have been engaged to preach on
Sunday. The camp will close with the
Sunday evening service.
Among the arrivals at the Delaware
Breakwater today was the British steam
er Queen Louise, after voyage from Iloilo
in the far-oH Philippines. She will remain
at the Breakwater for orders. While
stsaming along in latitude 81 55 west the
steamer passed mud hopper with "l2F'
painted in white letters upon its sido.
Milford, Del, August 49, Tomatoes
are as yet only being brought to market in
small quantities, and they are small of
size and unevenly ripened. 1t is scarcely
probable that the cannaries will begin
their pack before Monday, and the general
opinion is the crop will be very short.
A fishing party consisting of John j.
Rosa. Theodore Middleton, Jacob Rosa
Alexander Rosa and Wesley Bennett,
went out in tho bay to the fishing grounds
off Hog Island on Tuesday last, and caught |
about 300 trout and sea bass
Oysterrnen report the byalve1 this sea.
son as being not only large and lusciously
fat, but plentiful as we'll. The usual sum-
mer dep1 p1edalions on the oys'er beds have
not been perpetrated this year as formerly,
and the oysters will consequently be more
abundant. The season opens on September
|.
The Atlantic Refinery have taken pos
session of their lot south Of the railroad,
and are putting in position their i'm mense
oil tank, whose capacity is 10000 gallons,
They will fill this by pipo llno direct from
ears, the pump being located on their lot.
From the large storage tank the surround.
ng country, It's contemplated, will be
supplied with Illuminating oil.