Milford chronicle., 1885-05-01
OUR STATE ITEMS.

John H. Layton was appointed las
week postmaster at Frankford, Suisse,
f county.
Six thousand bushels of oysters wer,
taken in two days from a Kent IslanC
bed two and a half acres in extent.
The Milton telephone line to George.
town cost several hundred dollars. II
was sold at public sale recently for
$50 so.
Thomas Wilson has bought the Pos
ties farm in st. Jones' Neck, Kent
county, from r. J. Lowe for S6,50O. II
contains 153 acres.
by special arrangement the Sunday
edition of the New York Tribunen
will reach Dover on the Norfolk ex-
press train every Sunday morning.
Stock Law and stock law elections
make it lively for the farmers of Sus-
sex county. These elections are held
in districts where they are behind the
times.
The GumbOro and Georgetown mail
route goes begging for want of car
rier' The contractor took it at fig
lre for which no one was willing to
carry the mail
John T. Watson,a veteran of the late
war,died at Harbeson, Sussex county
April %, aged about forty years. His
wife receives a pension of twenty dol
ars per month. i
Mrs. Mary CroasdaIe, wife of the late
assI .sS, Henry Croasdale, who was at one q
t t, 4 fiiltv ES to pr of the P. E. Church at II
iii iii Of II p whicmne, died at Snow Hill "
., i.ll and lill5 that every every 90 years. 7
o US ,iwould interferttA.. line object and pTo-
u s''l' ais pleasant tour through the c6un-
try and unite to promote the welfare Of th1 60
Irish people. a $50 of TO
cl..e!S. Inc Fflnoe art Is said that a relative
his had perpetrated the robbery.
Very little wheat is raised in Gum Er,
rough hundred, but large yield of ne
rn and potatoes is expected. The
iort Brothers are planting largely of gel
rn' n'having turned under many acres
marsh. for
lanes Lord Graham, a druggist Of gan cul'
mden, was married April 2lst to ot ,
IS Elma, daughter of John Jenkins. s
North MurderkiIl hundred. The in O
pile were united by the Friends wer
emony. Del.
he annual excursion of the Penip- T. I
'r Press Association will oeeur Is We
ut the goth of June. The route is "Pg, a,
under consideration and will he nlan,
ounced by the executive commit best
IN week or two. r.
is said that the demand for in slant
5ed facilities has determined the sci a.
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk %, g..
road to lay 2SOO feet of new side SONS
and build a cOmmodious pass- like b
r station at Delmar. We
e increase in the demand on the two b
supply of Dover, has made i, 'ner e,
'sary for the town to sink another D;na ,a', =
1t will be sunk to depth of 275 The
stopping with a bottom of coarse are thu
y sand, and the water will equal needle,
with which the town is now sun. Onl
The well will be 20 feet in diam and oc'
with an eight-inch wall laid in Del'. (
1t, and will cost about $500. oui",,' 1a,oS
reat deal of new land along the house
loke swamp is being planted in Mr.
his spring. Lime is being used day nif
It deal on these low lands and II hr.
two-fold beneficial effect. II nave 10 10
the land wonderfully in produe. wit" ~
rn, and it also improves tbe at.
eric condition of the noirbbor-
1t does not merely dry and sTRAV
n the soil but it has the same ee Spring il
the air. The fertility and sa- Oer OF a
Of these lower hundreds ofsus- ''s.,ls a'.sa.i0i
'e been much improved by lime. Janet Of
wife ofex-Coroner w. w. VIII is a cons
ing about three miles from and man
was seriously if not fatally merit
lst Monday. She was living in few titles
the fire place when bor at.44. tuting tn
ited and aIn,oat - - eio.ii- Robert G
: ,rso =, 80 Ssi'ie she tributes q
:, - - iisnS oiaze. She kias, +" vii
d and ran to the well where hearts
shter' who was aroused by her piece Of N
lnd her trying to put out the position ol
b water Before the flames rne Band
ingnished, however, her cloth ana ana other g
,odI, .sS ,y.'. rs-s ''iisu ahu ribbon w
ueu "iliose an over work. Bu
lions in til,