Milford chronicle., 1885-01-30
OUR STATE ITEMS.

Norfolk.
The annual meeting of the stOcl
holders of the Delaware State Fair As
sociation, will be held in Dover, Thur:
day, February 5th.
! Assistant Superintendent Carpente
had forty applicants for teachers Gel
tificates before him at his examination
held at Georgetown.
The Committee on Commerce, of th
House of Representatives, have decide
10 report in favor of making Lewe:
Sussex county, a port of entry.
At the executors sale of the prop
erty ofD. James Price, deceased. Thurs
day, near Brenford, J. NJ. Boyd, auc
tioneer, a pair of mules, u years old
sold for S279; horses, from SlOG to $3.50
cattle from S33 to $50, and clover hay
SIS per ton.
David J. Cummings, of Smyrna. has
purchased 200 barrels of spoiled fish il
Philadelphia and has composted the
fish TO use as a fertilizer in the spring
A former application of the same kind
of manure was found to be very bene
fr'al to his peach trees.
The serG1aders of Roxaua, who were
Tired into rew weeks ago by tie Lay
tons of that huLIred and who brought
suit for damages, i.re not only suffer
ing from their shot Wounds. but have
also been sued themselves for violating
the law in the use of guns in their ser
enade. Several are bound over to ap
pear at court.
Kenton is once more alive on the
graded school question, and like most
all good causes it gains strength by ag-
itation. 1t is in the shape this time o
Il petition, by the people, to the Legis-
lature to give them the lawful right to
raise by taxation a sum, not exceeding
sixteen hundred dollars. to build
u suitable house in Kenton and grade
the school.
A free entertainment will be given
in the NJ e. Church, at Gumboro. on
Saturday, January 3lst inst, at 80 p.
m. to advance the interests of the pub
lie schools at that place. The pro-
gramme includes a lecture on "The
Value Of a Book" by Rev. w. J. Du-
hadaway, Select Readings by DR.. J. c.
LittletOn, of Pittsville, Md, and james
II. Locates, Of GumborO, and music by
the choir.
Chief Justice Comegys has built
new ice house this winter He first
lug hole in the ground sixteen feet
ieep. This he filled in about four feet
ieep with oyster shells for drainage.
Then he laid in his oak logs, six square
'r heXagon. The logs were eight
inches 50 uare and sawed on two sides
Che house stands about four to six feet
bove ground. 1t is thought that the
jhiefJustice has a house that will keep
ce without any doubt.
Joseph Levels, the only prisoner in
he Sussex tyjail, was released last
I0nday week, his term expiring on
hat day. Immediately upon getting
mt he made his way to FrankfOrd, his
primer residence, and that evening
roke into the house of James Evans
ear there, stealing a pocketbooz con-
aiming one dollar and sixty-one cents
nd valuable papers. On Tuesday he
'as arrested and again lodged in Jail,
ne pocketbook, papers and fifty cents
the money being recovered.
DROWNED. - Daniel c. PennewiII.
5ed nineteen years, member of the
liddle class at the Conference Acad-
ny,was drowned about seven o'clock
thursday evening, January %, while
Eating on Shakespeare's mill pond
ear Dover. His body was recovered
about an hour. The young man
as a son of Simeon Pennewill. of
reenwOod, and a brother of james
ennewill, Esq, of Dover. He had
zen student at the Conference Acad-
ny for several years, and was very
'pular among his fellow students and
her friends in that community.
Curtis Cannon, an employee on the
rm of John n. Wright. met with a
ocking accident one day last week.
e was on his way home from Sea
rd, and being intoxicated, fell from
5 vehicle when short distance from I,
wn,and, getting caught between the
'ingle tree and shafts, was dragged t
that position all the way home, a
stance of about seven miles. He was
nised in a terrible manner, and DR..
fferson who was called in, says about r
o pounds of flesh were ground from !
J body while he was being dragged
er the highway. It is thought he
Il die.-Sussex Journal. =
rhe Game Protective Association
Id a meeting in Dover on Tuesday,
len committee was appointed to
We the whole game laws of the State Z
lnged so as to suit both the farmers
I the sportsmen. The present laws
{ neither. The Association is in a
condition financially. Over
prairie chickens have been turned l.
in the two lower counties. Some a
The members of the Association
nix there is not sufficient cover for
m. We think they will do well
ng our marshes and low lands. Sew
thousand partridges will be pur- e
sed and turned loose shortly, al y
ugh there are thousands ofnativc "
tridges not killed this fall.--Senti-
yer's Sarsaparilla wonderfully inn p
res the complexion, and brings to u
and young the bloom of health. /.
purifier Of blood it has no equal.