Milford chronicle., 1888-05-11
ON THE PENINSULA.

I NdnbulkdloW, AT AdknOldf IN place ol r.
Stout, whose term had expired, and Walter
E. Killen, Of FELTON,, in lieu Of Peter Crea-
dick, resigned.
The Dutch bark Jane Meichers, Captain
Hemmes, from Rotterdam to Philadelphia,
laden with cement and empty petroleum bar
rels, struck on Fenwick's Island Shoal at a.
m Wednesday The wrecking steamer North
America went to render assistance, but was
too late, as the bark had gotten of without
assistance.
While Mrs. Moses Nicholson, of Snow Hill.
Nd, was lighting FIRE with the aid of coal
oil on Sunday last, an explosion occurred
| iguiting her clothing. Her husband and
daughter were painfully burned while assist
ing in extinguishing the flames. The mother
was horribly burned, and died in a few hours
in terrible agony.
DR.. r. c. Moore and Miss Alice, daughter
of Alexander H. Wilson, OF Smyrna, were
married last Sunday evening in that town by
the Rev. W. S. Robinson. Another mar
riage in Smyrna was that of Elmer Z. Tay-
lor Junior member of the C. W. Taylor Com
pany, aud Miss Juliet c. Wright on Tuesday
night of last week, at ST. Paul's Episcopal
Church by the Rev. Mr. Mock
Florence Butler of Georgetown, the 5-year-
old daughter of the late Benjamin f. But
Ter, captain of Company D, srd Regiment,
Delaware Volunteers has been granted pen
sion Of seventeen dollars per month, com
mencing Feb 10Th, 1855, and to be paid her
until she reaches the age Of 10 years. The
sum now due her, and which will be paid
her guardian in short time, is about $3.50
A meeting of the directors of the Lewes
Pier and Transportation Company was held
in the office of DR.. H. r. Burton. Monday
evening. The contract to build the pier
was awarded to W. H. Virden for $3.50.
rhe pier is to be 1000 feet long, goo feet of it
to be 10 feet wide, and 100 feet on the outer
end to be 81 feet wide. The plans were
furnished by the Rev f. R. Armstrong. The
pier is to be finished within sixty days from
date
The dwelling and outbuildings on the
farm Of VIM. c. Satterfeld near Cedar Grove
Church, were entirely destroyed by FIRE on
Friday afternoon of last week. All the farm
implements, including new reaper, the
property Of the tenant, together with GOO
bushels OF corn and 5000 sheaves of blade
fodder were totally destroyed Loss on
buildings about $4,000; loss on implements
and machinery, about $500. Major Hurd is
the tenant OH the farm.
The extent Of the business done BY the c.
H. Treat Manufacturing Company is realized
by few of our citizens. They have Just
shipped a car load ofberry baskets aud crates
to Scotland, the second this year, and they
advertise their business on the Continental
Commercial Sheets in German, French and
Spanish. Last week Mr. Treat visited Con-
gresham Scott's large farm at Cape Charles
City, description of which has been given in
our columns, and sold them their barrels and
crates for this year,-Susse-r Journal.
Delaware College received a portion of the
appropriation of SIS 600, which has for some
months created such a dissension in the
board of trustees George G. Evans, of that
place, the secretary Of the board, has re-
ceiyed from the comptroller of the U. S.
Treasury, Judge Durham, formal notice to
the effect that the account for two quarters
due the college had been settled and that
the third soon will be, thus emitting the in
stitution through its proper officer to draw
on the treasury for SII,25o of the total all
nual appropriation
The premium list of the first annual exhi- |
bition of the Peninsula Horticultural Society
to be held in the Opera House, Wilmington,
IS, 70 and 2I, will soon be ready
for distribution. The managers feel assured |
of the success of the exhibition, and they /
have selected prominent ladies as a floral
committee, with Mrs Caleb Churchman as
Every afternoon and evening dur
ing the exhibition Professor Mark Hassler's
celebrated orchestra will furnish music
There will be large list ofpremiums offered
for the fresh fruits and flowers ranging all
he way from SIoo to S.. The indications
are that the exhibition will be one of the
best of the kind ever held in this part of the
country adjoining Meas.
William NJ. Singerly, proprietor of the
Record, and of the extensive
pulp and paper works in Cecil county, hav-
ng abandoned his idea of using the Holly
dall' property as a truck farm, has, through
Shoekley & Smith, real estate agents, pur-
,hased properties situated on the Little Elk
liver, about two miles from Elkton, for that
purpose. He paid Frederick H. Racine
'4,ooo for IoS acres, improved by dwelling
iouse and buildings, and DR.. H. H. Mitchell
3, 900 for sixty acres of pasture land adjoin-
NC the other. He will keep his standard
red horses that are now in Elkton and at
lexington, Kentucky, on the property,
where he will erect a dwelling house for the
uperintendent of the stock R. T. c. Crouch,
nd suitable buildings for the horses.
on Sunday night last one of the members
# the family of the late Moses K. Ford, who
eside near Slaughter's Station, was awakened
y the odor of burning clothing. Hastily
investigating he found that it proceeded from
he room Of Miss Elizabeth Ford, and dis
overed that several articles in different parts
+ the room were on FIRE. These were easily :
but the family were Mortified
o find in the same room the dead body Of |
Iiss Ford, she having committed suicide by
angiug. Deceased was about As years Of
&c, and since her fathers death about year I
go, has shown unmistakable signs of an
Unbalanced mind She was devotedly at
lched to her parent, and brooded over his
'ss continually. A coroner's inquest was /
eld Monday, and verdict in accordance
18th the above facts rendered.
Hoods Sarsaparilla ispeculiar to itself and
iperior to all other preparations in strength,
aud medicinal merit.