Middletown transcript., 1886-03-26
Peninsula News.

Jacob Marshall and Thomas Duffel Q
Lewes caught over 600 pounds OF percl
March 16.
1t is said that over 1000 vessels an
chored in the harbor at the Breakwatel
during the last year.
The cost of the Breakwater at Lewes
nm To Tune, 1885, was S2,492, 1Oa.70, and o
the iron >ier at that point, 1885,, ,6l2.72.
Houses ve said to be very abundant
in Dover and that rents are dropping
Houses that rente,,1 for $40 month las
year are being offered 1t 20 this spring
The Breakgater L.<ah of Lewe'
says that the peaches in that community
are dead beyond a doubt, and that or
chards can be bought at the rate of % per
1000 trees.
William Wilson, sailor of Milton
who was supposed to have been lost on
the schooner Mary G. Trainer. returned
home week ago, and on last Sunday ne
was married to Miss Charlotte Conwell of
that town,
- Emory Scotten, who has just sold
his hotel at FELTON, to w. FL. Smoot OF
Milford, will open the Douglass House at
Rehoboth about June IL. In the mean
time he expects that the D., NJ, V. rail-
road will be extended to Rehoboth bay.
The Office of the Globe at Cambridge
was burned out early on Friday morning
last week. Messrs. Phillips & Thompson,
who owned the paper, lost everything ex-
cept S400, the amount Of an insurance
policy. The loss on the building was
$500.
Secretary of State Bayard, who owns
some land divided into building lots
at Clayton, last week instructed James
Spruance Of Smyrna, his agent, to give
one lot each to the M. E. and M. 2.
churches as sites for parsonages, and one
lot for public school.
j tis reported that DR.. J. 7. Thomp-
son who is proprietor OF the Delaware
House, Philadelphia, and who kept the
Bright House at Rehoboth during the
seasons of 1888 and 1884, will take possess
ion Of the Hotel Henlopen at the latter
place during tho coming summer.
Mrs Anderson of Marsh Market, in
the upper end of Accomac county, was
burned to death on Sunday while attempt
ing to put out the fire in her husbands
stubble field. Her husband was away
from home at the time, but the neighbors
that were attracted by her shriaks came
in time to save the house.
Hambrooks farm, situated on the
Choptank river, about two miles from
Cambridge, has been sold by Or. e. G.
Waters to Edward Prime and DR.. Henry
Nash of New York, $4,000. The farm
was formerly the home of the late John
Campbell Henry OF Dorchester county,
and is one of the most beautiful situations
on the river.
Northern capitalists have bought the
celebrated Mt. Prospect farm, lying in
Northampton county, from Captain John
2. L. Hopkins of Onancock for 10000.
The farm contains about 500 acres, and
fronts on the beautiful bay that lies be-
tween Cobb's Island and the main land.
The new proprietor's intend to put con-
siderable improvements on the farm, and
use it for shooting and summering pur-
poses.
There is dispute over the owner
ship Of the little church at Tub Mill, Mil
ford hundred, and on last Sunday a clash
had been anticipated between the con-
dening factions. It appears that the build
ing, in an unfinished state, had been
decided by certain members of the
M P. Church to the M. E. Conference,
which body completed it. The Rev.
Jonathan 8. Willis filled the pulpit last
Sunday. although preacher representing
the M. P. Church was present.
john Walls, hale old gentleman OF
S6 years, who lives in Indian River hun
dred, Sussex county. regularly celebrates
the anniversary of his birthday by gath
ering around him all his heirs, On the
18th instant there gathered at his home
thirty-Six children. orandob;I5ran o,d