Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-20
THE PENINS EL1.


pounds of peaches 10 car this ycar in
stead of 10000 pounds, the maximum
weight allowed last year. And vet the
agents are busy ali along the road
charging mp extra weight to the thrifty
peach men. 4NiidietOloR TRANSCRIPT.
George Kennedy has sold his mill
property ut Sassafras, Nd, to the pro-
jectors of the canal, mt present being sur
veyed, for $35, 900; Sl5, 900 is to be mid
in cash and $40, 900 in stock. He says he
loses nothing by the dam going out with
Friday evenings storm, because he had
sold the property before that time.--Mjd.
dtetonn Transcript.
Barnard, the large cvaporator on the
Delaware u Chesapeake railroad Mt
Greensboro, shook the foreign buyers mp
Mt Queen Anne's station on Thursday.
when he dropped down among them and
bought all the large orchards nj 50 cents
per basket, to supply his evaportors.
They cannot ship full car lond from
that station now outside of his shipments.
-DOoer Sentinel.
During the storm of Wednesday after
noon week the Red mill nearss Nassau took
iire and was totally destroyed. 1t is not
known what caused the fire, MS il was
not discovered until the roof was in a
full blaze, but it is thought the building
was struck by lightning. Mr.. II. o.
itannum bought the mill of Il. Register
OF this town for $l2, 200 and had almost
paid for it. The mill had been greatly
improved and considerable new machinery
put in, and the repairs and improvements
were completed only few days before
the fire. There was connected with the
flour mill large saw mill which was also
damaged beyond repair. The property
was only partly insured. hytakirater
Light.
An effort is being made to discover the
murderer of Antonio DE Baldo at North
East, in this county, last November by
identifying Antonio Nardello, the Italian
now in jail i'll Washington for the murder
of Rutanno, MS the murderer also of De
Baldo. II is said that Nardello boarded
with DE Baldo last November, and he and
De Baldo spent very much time together.
The last time De Baldo was seen alive
was On the 18th of November, and he was
then in company with Nardello. Soon
afterwards DE Baldo was found under the
snow dead, and in n short time Nardello
left North East. Cecil IVhig.
The Middletown 7auascript THINKS the
papers that criticised Prof. Wolf, barked
up the wrong tree; that it was the Iegis-
lnture that made the mistake in not max
ing arrangements to pay for printing the
analysis. Does not the IranScript know
that when the Legislature made law
compelling the manufacturers to pay $50
Tor each brand of phosphate analysed that
II was sufficient to enable the professor to
pay for publishing the sameg Five per
cent OF what he receives would pay every
paper in the State for publishing the
statement Mt their regular rates? And
docs the Transcript not know that several
papers made it SO hot for the professor
that he has decided to pay for his work i'm
the future S-iSmyrRa Record.
The Delaware Legislature mt its last SEES
sion appointed n State chemist, and passed
u law requiring all commercial fertilizers
used in the State TO be analyzed. The
purpose of the law was TO prevent
farmers from being imposed upon by pur-
chasing low grade brands under the belief
That they We're getting prime goods.
The law provided ample remuneration
to the chemist, but did not pro-
vide for paying the newspapers
for placing the result of the
analysis before the public. The chemist |
has made an analysis of all brands used |
in the State, but the newspapers gener-
ally refused to advertise il gratis. The
Delaware Legislature probably believed |
mat newspapers are run for glory. The |
Delaware Legislature failed to appreciate |
tlat newspapers advertising space il |
Just MS much n salable thing rs wheat or |
corn or potatoes. We hope the Della
ware Legislature will do better next time.
- ChestertO'on Iraa@lfpt.
There is an exhibition at Henry A.
Bro. 3 drug store, n curious skull which
no one yet has been able to classify. n
was found on the shore of Carpenters
Island in Chester river, and brought to
Easton by Captain Ed. Roberts, who saws
many OF the remaining bones are there and
ne intends to secure them. The skull ia
about ten inches in diameter measuring
from the protuberances on the Sides
!, Inc maxlliary bones are shaped like a
6ird's beak and extend ~ inches beyond
the skull. The whole resembles the head
of a huge bird, which, were it not for tbe
position of the eye-sockets that
point backwards, and the orrifice
for the spinal column at the base
Of the brain being so high, it might be
placed among that order of animals. The
bone is evidently modern, as small parti-
;ies OF dried flesh are seen attached to
certain processes. The upper Jaw was
y ll OF large teeth. Captain Roberts calls
= a modern Ichthyosaurus, which will
answer until We know better.-EastOn
GdSette.