Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1877-06-29
LOCAL NEWS.


NEW potatoes are selling at $1.5O
bushel.
Mrs ROBERTS at "Cedar Beach" has
20 h. baby.
SEA TROUT have been more plenty
during this week.
AN Elephant will be in Milford on the
4th. He is native.
THERE are no mosquitoes in this To-
cality so far this season.
THE weather is hot but seasonable
Frequent showers keep vegetation grow
ing luxuriously.
PEACH BASKETS from Michigan are
offered in Middletown, by the car load,
at $50 per thousand.
M. d. LANIBoRN has been appointed
Postmaster at Rehoboth Beach in place
Of DIR. Dawson resigned.
RED RAsPBERRIEs are selling at high
prices in the cities. Brandywine being
15 cents pint. This pays.
FREDERICK and Milton are both en-
Enthusiastically in favor of the imme diate
construction of the Bay Shore Railroad.
A LARGE supply of Rockets, and 9TH
committee for use on the evening of the
4th.
THE Church Hill Union Sunday School
will have picnic entertainment in Van
VOrst's grove on Saturday afternoon,
July 9Th.
NAVAL BATTLE.-Part of the enter
tainment for the Fourth will be q naval
battle on New Lake between two first
class frigates.
Mr.. REESE, on the old Pemberton Cliff
ton farm, has eight acres in melons. He
will be able to ship thirty tons if his
crop yields we'll.
THE Middletown Academy was struck
by lightning, on Tuesday evening last.
and set on fire, but was soon extinguish-
ed. No one hurt.
1T has been decided to hold no camp
meeting at Spring Branch, but Harring-
ton is considering the propTiety of hold
ing one at the old place.
HON. JAMES WILLIAMS purchased at
sheritf's sale, on Tuesday last, farm of
293 acres, near Kenton, with 5000 peach
trees thereon, all for the sum of $1675.
HARRINGTON is now entirely cleansed
of small pox. There have been no new
cases for three weeks, and those who
have had it have recovered and cleaned
up.
THE disposition to retain as much of
the fruit crop at home as possible is in
creasing, and numerous large evapora-
tors will be ready for the coming peach
crop.
MILFoRD's money making propensi-
ties will be subordinate to her patriotism
nf Vnl I,a
result is that business will be suspended
on that day.
REsIaN.-All Federal Office holders
are notified by the President to resign
their places on all political committees.
They are to become public servants and
nothing else.
RAsPBERRIEs sell so high that the
evaporaters cannot afford to cure them.
There will consequently be very few
9vaporated or dried raspberries on the
market next year.
ANTHONY HIGGINS ESQ. sailed yes
terday in the steamer Ohio from Phila-
delphia for Liverpool. He proposes to
spend two months in Great Britain for
the benefit of his health.
REV. GEORGE BRADFORD will preach
in the school house at Harrington on
u. d.
M. The citizens of the town and vicin-
ity are invited to attend.
FARMERS who don't take the papers
are selling their wheat at ST So No
reader of the News AND ADVERTISER
will sell at this price in haste. 1t is now
worth $500 in Philadelphia.
IT seems that the Trustees of the Aims
house of this county (Kent) have had to
n fN, 1,
house when they have 81 500 more this
year than last year allowed by the coun-
ty.
The disposition among farmers is to
get their wheat to market early, belize
wing they will obtain better prices there
by. They ought in our judgment to hold
it back unless it will clear them $1.75
per bushel,
BARRELS are manufactured by ma
chinery, on large scale at frankfort
in Sussex county. We will be Obliged to
our correspondent in that town for full
account of the factory and the cost and
quality of the barrels.
DIED.-On Saturday last Joseph Dick
erson, son of Josiah Dickerson, living
near Williamsville, Kent county. He
had been in delicate health for some time,
but died suddenly and unexpectedly
while sitting in the doorway.
THE DEBT ON THE DOVER CONFER
ENCE ACADEMY Last week at the
commencement exercises. Committee
of three from each District in the Will
mington Conference was appointed to
raise the sum of $40, 900, payable in five
annual payments.
THE Chapel will give an excursion on
next Tuesday week, July 10, by rail to
Lewes and then trip by steamer around
Cape May, giving a view of the Della
ware Breakwater and points of interest
on Cape Island. Fare for the round
trip from Milford, ST..
JOHN J. Rosa ESQ. Master of the
State Grange is erecting two large evap-
orators on his fine fruit farm near this
town. One is 1.-THE Grier Machine''
and the other The Automatic The
capacity of his factory will be about $50
baskets of green peaches per day.
THE branch railroad to be laid along
our wharves by the j. 81 B. Co. meets
with the appreciation of some of the
managers of that line, and it is suggested
that the Company will build it provided
Milford business men will subscribe the
money to the stock of the Company.
THE HARRINGTON AND QUEENSTOWN
RAILRoAD.-If Baltimore ever proposes