Milford chronicle., 1888-07-27
ON THE PENINSULA.

The camp at Penrose Woods near Persons
Corner, commenced on Tuesday. Rev. J.
E. Kidney in charge. Sixty-fve tents are
erected on the ground. Mrs. v Downs has
the boarding tent, and Blackiston & Daniel
the bread tent.
Word comes from Lewes that the brig
Tenerife, from Havana, arrived at Delaware
Breakwater on Sunday last with two cases of
yellow fever on board which were admitted
to the hospital. One of the crew of the brig
died on the voyage, and one case of yellow
fever left at Havana
The hail storm before reported as having
occurred around Smyrna, caused a heavy
loss in both grain and fruit. Some of the
farmers state that because of it the yield of
wheat was insufficient to pay expenses
Orchards that promised extra large crops of
peaches have been cut short two-thirds.
E W. Miller, who will be remembered as
the young man who ran from Dover to
Smyrna in one hour aud twenty four min
utes on January 4th, 1885, will run a ten
mile race with Isaac Nekervis, Wilmington's
champion, on August Ist. The race will be
for a purse of $500 a side, and in all proba-
bility will take place at Poplar Grove race
track, near Smyrna,
Active work looking to the construction of
a new railroad to connect the Philadelphia
extension of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
with the Schuykill coal region is in progress
The road will be thirty miles in length. The
exact route has not been determined upon,
but it will go through the Conowingo valley
crossing the Susquehanua river at the mouth
OF the Conowingo creek, and thence through
Deer Creek valley
Mountain Rose, Early Crawfords and even
Reeves Favorite will be marketed from New
Castle county, and upper Kent this week
The orchards Of this section are prematuring
a very large proportion of their fruit Many
tress on which the leaves look a healthful
green, and in which there are no signs of
''yellows" but this premeturing fruit have
fruit now ripe that should not be so till after
the middle of August
The Talbot peach, berry and truck grow
ers, especially those who ship by water to |
Baltimore, are much interested in the Fruit /
and Produce Exchange now being estab- |
lished in Baltimore, aud are generally very /
favorable to doing business through that
medium. The steamboat companies, it is
said, object to delivering fruit and other pro-
duce at the exchange wharyes, as they all
have piersof their own on Light street.-BaI-
HNlore Sun.
While Charles Collins and wife were in
Georgetown last week their dwelling and
smoke-houses in Long, Neck Indian River
hundred,were burned. They left "Phila-
delphia boy in the field at work, aud it is
supposed by some that he set the buildings
on FIRE. The boy says a colored man with
gun went through the house aud set it on
FIRE. This story is not believed. Collins is
hard working man and had Just completed
his home. The loss will fall heavily on him,
as he had no insurance. He lost beside the
building, furniture and clothing, a lot Of
grain which was stored in the house
Journal.
The publisher of newspaper has one L
hing to sell and one thing to rent He has q
he columns to rent. Can any one inform us Il
why he should be expected to give away +
either one or the other7 He can do so if he II
chooses and he does, as a matter Of practi- s
al fact, furnish a space rent free. But it
ioes not follow that he ought to be expected e
o do it. It ought to be recognized as a con- :,
exactly as would the giving away y
# sugar or coffee by the grocerynan. But
tranee to sac it is not looked upon in that :,
ight at ALL yet everybody knows that tn ex-
stance of newspaper depends much on :,
he rent Of its space aud the sale of its paper
S the merchants success depends on selling a,
us goods instead ofgiving them away-Er. :.
The complaints made by the peach grow Il
IS of the western part Of New Jersey against W
he Centeal railroad Of New Jersey and the it
.ehigh Valley road were heard by the In it
erstate Commerce Commission at Long al
ranch Tuesday. Mr.. Bullock, who repre- 81
ented the growers, said that the railroad I
carrying New Jersey peaches to in
he New York market had combined so as IN
D keep up the rates aud that the peach cars b'
armed more money than any other kinds of 81
eight cars. The rate to New York from er
Remington and other towns in the New &C
srsey peach district is II cents per basket, til
lille apples are carried for less than cents 81
basket At the same rate it would cost
$50 to send basket of peaches from Cali m
'rnia to New York. In spite of this the tic
peaches are brought to New York Of
j refrigerator cars and sold as low as the its
ew Jersey fruit. da
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