Milford chronicle., 1889-10-25
ON THE PENINSULA.

The new Methodist Episcopal Church at
Bndgeyille will be dedicated on November
srd.
E. B. Emory, of Centreville, Md, has sold
his a-year-old iiley, Happy Bee, for 5000,
the highest price paid for horse on the PEN
insula.
The land damages in full of the proposed
Odessa and Biiddletown railroad will amount
to SS,7Io. as assessed by committee ap-
pointed for that purpose.
c. H. Treat is arranging to start up the
Sussex Manufacturing Company on a larger
scale with big syndicate to back it. He
says the machinery is expected to arrive this
week.
DR.. O'Connell, Special Examiner of the
Pension Office at Washington, D. c., whose
late headquarters were at Philadelphia, Pa,
established headquarters at Georgetown this
week, with Sussex county as his field of op-
Grafton.
The next meeting of the Kent County Po-
mona Grange will be held in Milford on Oc-
tober 81. A large attendance is expected,
and addresses will be made by the officers
of the Delaware Agricultural Experimental
Station.
Mr.. Treat says that under the law of "a
persons to whom the CHI. Treat Manufac-
turing Company is indebted for labor have
prior liens, and that it will be well for such
creditors to hand their claims to ]. r. Bacon,
Esq, for record.
The good templsrs in this State number
eight lodges and 274 members. The report
Of the grand secretary at the meeting Of the
Grand Lodge at Dover on Wednesday last,
showed a decrease of one lodge and eight
members during the last year.
DR.. S. R. Waters, clerk to the Maryland
State tax commissioner, announces the fol-
lowing tax rates for the Peninsula counties
of that State Caroline, eaK Cecil, OK !;
Dorchester, S5K Kent, ss Queen Anne's,
81 Somerset 81 Talbot, 73 Wicomico,
97H, and Worcester, So cents on each SIoo
of assessed value. The State tax rate is IN
cents on the SIoo.
Hog cholera is epidemic at Middletown
and Odessa and the country adjacent. For
weeks it has been prevalent in its worst
from, and scores Of animals are dying.
William F. Shallcross has written to Sec
retary Rusk of the Department of Agricult.
ure asking if there was any way in which
hogs could be quarautined. The |
reply was that there was not, aud the use of
lime as disinfectant was recommended.
At a recent meeting Of the Rehoboth
Beach Association, the following committee
vas appointed to confer with General r. R.
Senney in regard to the requirement of a
ract Of land at Rehoboth for encampment
DR., Charles R. Jefferies, Samuel
?. Belts, George Russell, William R. Drein
md William Bright. The directors were
to make the necessary improve
nents at the beach to protect the property
rom storms. It was stated that several new
ottages will be erected for next season.
AT Law OVER BERRIEs.-A referee trial
ver some berries created considerable ex-
itement in Georgetown recently. The
rial, which was that of David Calhoun ofl
,oneord, against Franklin S. Kimport, of
,annon, was held before Squire Thompson.
he defendant bought the plaintiffs crop of
lackberries on contract for cents a quart.
.tter berries went down in prices he refused
} receive them. Calhoun sued for $500.
he verdict was SIS2 in favor of Calhoun.
iat sum being the estimated value ofcrop of
erries left in patch. There were seven wit
esses for plaintiff and eleven for defendant.
Journal.