Milford chronicle., 1885-01-30

TIE Loan Exhibition and Bazaar
will be held on next Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, Feb. 4th and 5lh,
in Watson's building, South Milford,
Admission TO the Loan Exhibition
will he twenty five cents; but free to
the Bazaar, at which, OH the first floor
of the building will be sold aprons and
sun-bounets and general refreshments.
The Loan Exhibition will have fine
display from Africa, Central America,
South American States, Japan, China,
France, England and our own coun-
try. Most of the exhibits are notonly
great curiosities, but very oldand hand
some, and visitors will be well enter
tanned. Doors open at Z o'clock p. IN.
FISH will have a hard time of it
along our coast in the future. Factor
les for extracting their oil and work
ing the refuse up into phosphate, are
sprinkied along the Atlantic coast
from Maine to Georgia ; but the most
of them are located between Cape May
and Cape Hatteras. On Chincoteague
island there are several large factories;
two more are located at Lewes, and
the Porpoise Fishing Co. have their
headquarters at Cape May. Another
factory is mentioned for Lewes, and
the good people of that town are anx-
ious to escape this additional stencil;
but commerce and profit demand itso
It is no earthly use- for them to kick
ROBBED THEMSELVES. = We con
gratulate our oystermen upon Destroy
ing their occupation. They can look
upon Cand feeD the ruin they have
caused by their own rapaciiy. Last
summer, and at various other times,
the oystermen of the AIispilion, took
boat load after boat load Of foysters from
our creek beds and sold them to plant
ers up our bay shore BY this constant
ralling. the best bivalves were taken
from tile native beds and the spawn
ing season almost ruined. The result
of all of this work was, that when the
oyster season opened, the beds were de-
pleted in less than month, and tlie
size was so small that people refused
to purchase, as it was more trouble to
open them than they were worth. The
beds have but few of even this class Of
oysters left, and the Oys:ermen find
their vocation gone. 1t serves them
right, and we hope that they will find
out that il don't always pay to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg.
Fun is fun, if you don't pay too dear
for it land Willie Andrews, aged about
fourteen years, found out that there is
truth in this old aphorism, on Friday
last. He had been skating on the
lower lake that morning, and as the
morning mail train passed, he thought
il would be fun to catch on and ride
up the grade. The train usually runs
slow at this point; but its speed was
deceptive to young Andrews. He
caught the rear platform all right, but
in doing so, he was picked off of his
feet; not daring to let go, he was
dragged up the road several yards and
partly over the trestle bridge over the
mill race. until a snag caught his pants
which broke his bold on the car: He
fell through the trestle onto the ice in
the race, which was not strong enough
10 sustain the fall and the weight; the
current carried bim under the ice, bat
helping hands soon rescued him
Aside from braised shins, n cold bath
and a bad fright, he was all right
There is a severe law for jumping Of
and on trains while in motion by boys
and it should be en- forced.
CARELEssNEss Some weeks ago c
letter was dropped in the Milford post
Office without a stamp or any mark t.
indicate its destination. The post
master hung it up outside for two
weeks, hoping the writer would see it
then hearing that there was person
) oflhat name in Milton, he sent it there
Soon after he received a letter from
Seaford asking for the letter so he
sent to Milton procured the letter. anC
sent it to the postmaster at Seaford
telling him to deliver it to the party
and ask ifit was of any value. His
answer showed that it was all correct
and that the letter contained twelve
dollars in bills. The sender soon afte
called at Milford postofilce and com
= planned that letter had been lost con
tanning twelve dollars. Our genia
postmaster informed him that the let
ter had arrived at its destination, bu
that he owed him tV-s cents, which tn
> colored gentleman gladly handed owe:
Thousands of dollars are lost to tn
. people of this country every year b.
. carelessness in the direction Of letters
y Nine-tenths of it might be saved, be
sides an immense amount cf troubl
- and expense to the pOstofiice depart
. ment, ,ifsenders would have their nam
and address printed on the envelope
Such envelopes can be procured at th
printing Office for less than the retai
is price, and assure the delivery or retur
It of the letters. Not long ago, a lette
/ was posted in Milford for q lady i
London it went to England, fror
IS there to Glasgow, ,Scotlandi from ther
- to Paris, and, not being called for, wa
is returned to Milford, because the wr
ter's address was on the corner of til
l. envelope.
Moral! Don't pest letter withor
your name on the envelope.
d Better than she Expected,