Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-06-26
OUR STATE ITEMS.

have cleared $4,000 from thirty acres
of strawberries.
Preliminary steps are being taken
to erect a permanent lighthouse on the
east end of the Breakwater.
The Delaware Railroad Company
declares a semi-annual dividend of 8
per cent. on the capital stock.
The trustees of Delaware College
have elected DR.. G. w. Marshall, of
Milford, as trustee in place Of the late
Rev. James McIntire.
The commissioners of the George
town public school offer their bonds
for sale to the amount of $4,000, bear
ing FIVE per cent. interest.
TN. Williams and Rev. L. H. Jack
son delivered masonic addresses at the
conservation of the new Masonic Hall,
in Dover, on the oath. A banquet was
given in the evening at the Capital
Hotel.
On Tuesday morning John Smith,
q well digger, while being let down
well he was digging for Chas. J. Bysrd
near North East, was overcome by
nOxious gas; fell from the bucket and
was dead when rescued. A candle
lowered into the well was extinguished
by the gas at twelve feet from the sur
face. The well was 65 feet deep,
Benjamin E. Armstrong son of the
late Poulson Armstrong, a wealthy
farmer of Christiana hundred, COM
miited suicide on Tuesday morning.
He was a cripple, thirty-six years of
age. Since the death of his father.two
months ago, he has been subject to fits
of melancholy, and, finally, in des-
pOndent mood took his own life.
Last Tuesday Daniel Lyons, of Do
yer, attempted to abduct his daughter
who has been for several years living
at Mr.. AtkinsOn's, to whose family
she had become greatly attached. In
the afternoon he saw her on LoOck-
erman street, and going up to her
he put his arm around her waist and
started to go down the street Not
wanting to 60 home with her father
she began to cry and it was only by
the interference of some of the citi-
zens that she was released.
Attorney-General Stockton and AS
sistant Acknowledgement johnson, for
New Jersey, and Governor Stockley
and Acknowledgement Paynter, for
Delaware, held a conference in Phila-
delphia on Monday, June 10, at which
the recent fishery troubles between
the two States were discussed. The |
following agreement was arrived at |
with the understanding that it shall
remain in force until the United States
Supreme Court passes finally upon the
Jurisdiction of the respective States
oyer the river and bay
"Fishermen of each State shall keep
to their own side of the channel of |
Delaware Bay, the channel itself to be |
open to fishermen of both States, and |
the suits commenced in the United |
States Court to be abandoned. Within
the twelve mile circle the question of
Jurisdiction shall remain as it is until
the United States Injunction is raised
The point where the river ends and
the bay begins is TO be determined by
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the two
States"
Secretary Bayard, who has been
counsel for Delaware in the Supreme
Court proceedings, will be succeeded
by Senator Gray.
B. F. G. Rothwell, living near
Smyrna, has been clearing his farm of
white oak stumps by the use of dyDa-
mite. They were as tough and strong
as when the trees were cut and offered
that resistance which the explosive
courts and which delights the dyna-
inter. The chief test was a stump
which measured five feet across its top
with immense roots the size Of Ordi- S
nary trees. The proper boring was
made and twenty-fOur cartridges, !
twelve pounds, inserted under its CEN j
ire. A much less quantity would have g
but the desire was to blow !
the big stump to pieces, otherwise it !
would be as much in the way out of b
The ground as in it. Considerable fl
was experienced by the a
visitors in getting at a safe or, as some =
lad tia respectable" distance, though
Iome found at a distance of 500 feet e
alling roots and Jumps of dirt coming
Town uncomfortably near to them. 4
With such a charge the stump was of A,
course torn TO fragments, and pieces in
$50 pounds thrown from $50 to
0 200 feet in the air. The spectators 4,
we're pleased, as much with seeing the h,
Jumps that would have been an OBJ CT
truction to field culture for twenty pc
ears removed, as in the qualification o'
n seeing the wonderful force of this A'
Explosive. OI
LAST Saturday the colOred people
ad a grand picnic near Warwick,
I'd. They got along very well to- n
ether till the middle of the afternoon, ~
vhen intoxication and jealousy h,
rOught on fight. Abe Wilson, one ev
the managers, tried to quiet the en- an
lged gang, but they at once set upon Pc
i'm with clubs, pistols, blackjacks and sid
lzors. Abe retreated under fire, but lol
as soon captured by two men who -
ED him while one Ben COursey, of ~
ecilton, hacked his face with razor. ne
uring the time,shots were being fired col
almost every direction, and several
n off with bullets in their bodies. ion
s murderOus as the scene was, it was WI
1t without an amusing incident. sol