Milford chronicle., 1885-07-17

despatch Oh Wednesday, announced
that they were all ION deck" in spite
of the heat, and ready TO start for New
York on Thursday, via Old Dominion
Line.
Howard Cooper, the colored man
who assaulted Miss Kate Gray on
April ,, in woods near her fathers
house, and about six miles from Tow
son, Md. was taken from the Jail on
Monday morning at l o'clock, and
hanged to tree few yards distant
from his cell.
There has been within few years
noticeable diminulion. d, G,Efsfis in rnls
cOuntryaid the New York legisla-
lure at its last session appropriated 50,
OOJ for the purpose of investigating
the cause of the decrease in that State,
The report declared that the persis-
tent working of the oyster territory
has had marked effect in diminish
ing the bivalves, and complained of the
Indifference shown by those engaged
in the trade.
Governor Stockley has made a re-
QUESTION on Governor Hill of New
York. for the return of Frank Mccoy,
alias big Frank" who was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in New
Castle Jail, December 1878, aud after
wards escaped The bank breaker
will be very closely Jailed, and such
precautions taken as TO make his es-
cape a more difficult experience than
the two times he has already succeeded
in getting out.
The Changers of the State will hold
a reunion and picnic at RehOboth,
July 22nd, 23rd and 24th. An invita-
ton has been extended to the patrons
of New Jersey and Maryland to parti-
cipate. Public meetings will be held
each day. Interesting lectures may
be expected from Mortimer White
head and others well known in the
State. Half of regular fare will be
charged on the Delaware Division.and
special rates will be given on the D.
NJ. & V. Railroad; tickets good for
three days. Board at the Bright and
Douglass Houses. $3.50 per day.
The soft crab is the ordinary blue
hard crab that has just shed its shell.
1t is then in an extremely sensitive
state. While in that state, and out OF
its element, if it can see lightning or
hear thunder, it almost instantly dies.
Whether on train. steamboat, or in
crates in the market, 20 per cent OF
the crabs are killed by a thunder
storm. But if they are put in an ice
house, and can only hear the slight
rumble of the thunder, we do not lose
so many. Every dealer in soft-shell
crabs, the minute lie sees the Sky over
east, bundles his crates of soft crab;
into his thickest ice-bOX, and until the
storm passes over, speculates upon hi;
probable loss by the rumbling thun
der.
A new daily paper TO be called thu
" Daily Conflict" will soon be pub
lished in Wilmington, to be conducted
by temperance people. The circulars
read as follows: lis special feature
will be the promotion Of the tempe
rance cause; religion, without bein!
sectarian; Sabbath observance gooC
and honest municipal and State gov
ernment; city and Peninsular lOca
news AMI a summary of fresh item
of general interest from all over tn,
country. It's editorials will be fearless
and uncompromising for morality il
every form and all that promotes tn
general welfare of its readers. 1t vii
be paper free from rum advertise
ments and every tempting snare, AM
devoid Of horrible details of murders
prize fights, &c. It will be in ever.
respect a safe paper for your children
to read"
The trustees of Delaware Colleg'
met at Dover on Monday, and twenty
one members of the board were pres
ent. After careful examination o
the merits of the respective candidate
and a full expression of opinion, ;
ballot for President of the College, wa
taken. It resulted in the choice o
DR.. Caldwell, and his election wa
made unanimous. His choice wal
probably in great measure due no
only to his high scholastic attain
ments, but also to the fact that he il
well-known throughout the territory
from which the college is expected t.
draw its patronage. He is conse
uuently better able at the presen
iuneture to secure the confidence anC
patronage the parents of young mer
than any stranger would be. The
board also elected Professor Chester t.
the char Of Physics and Agriculture
and the committee of seven was con
tinued to complete the reconstruction
OF the college curriculum. President
Caldwell is about 60 years Of age, {
ripe scholar, man of high character
and respected and beloved wherever
known. His present home is a
Smyrna. It's generally thought thai
his successor in the presiding elder
ship viii be the Rev. J. B. Quigg, now
pastor of the Smyrna charge.