Milford chronicle., 1889-01-25
ON THE PENINSULA.

1 InGIE Will DC a 4JNAA A~oNnNAA %+et~sNe--~
held at Georgetown on Saturday, January 20.
Several cases Of tuberculosis have been
discovered in a herd Of cattle near Whining
ton.
There will be a local teachers institute
held at Georgetown on Saturday, January
goth.
Senator Higgins was teedered a very pleas
ent reception at Dover last Wednesday night
by the Capitol Club.
Richard W. Roseubaum of Georgetown,
has accepted a position in the New York
post office and is now in that city.
v. Smith, a local preacher in the NJ E.
Conference, is an applicant under the new
administration for the postmastership oi
Smyrna.
Colonel Geo. W. Marshall assumed for.
NAL command Of the First Regt. Infantry OF
Del, last ruesdap and published his orders
to that effect
The report Of the P. W. & B., railroad for
the year ending October 81, 1888, shows tnat
the Cambridge and Seaford branch was run
at a loss Of $4,000
The report of the P W. & B. railroad for
the year ending October 81, 1888, shows that
the Cambridge and Seaford branch was run
| at loss OF 4I4 iooo'
Kent county is represented in the Samoan
expedition by one Of her brave sons who Is
an officer of marines on board the U. ,.
man of war Vandalia.
It is reported that new National Bank
with a capital stock of $4,000 viii soon be
started in Easton Ex-ComptrOller J. Frank
Turner will be president
Paynter Frame, the we'll Unknown fruit
grower of Sussex, says that peach buds are
not swelling to an alarming extent. The
cool nights arrests their growth.
Paynter Frame, the well-known fruit
grower Of Sussex, says that peach buds are
not swelling 10 an alarming extent. The
cool nights arrests their growth,
The First National Bank of Seaford has
declared a dividend Of 4 per cent for the last
six months and placed $4,000 to the surplus
fund which now amounts to S55,Ooo
Custus Hopkins, ,colored, of Dagsboro hun
dred was committed to jail last week by
| iSouire Belts of AIilsboro for attempting to
outrage the person of Laura C. Ingram, col"
cred
The governor and his entire stat will at
tend the State Fencible's Fall on February
A. in Philadelphia, and they will be accom-
panied by delegation of the members oi
the assembly.
The Rev. W. B. Gordon, for several years
rector of St. Peters P Z. Church, Smyrna,
VINO has been acting as missionary bishop to
! Mexico for the past two or three years. mas
decided to return to the United States.
The Philadelphia and Smyrna Transports
tieu Company held its annual meeting on
Tuesday of last week at Smyrna and re-
elected the old officers. A dividend OF pei
centum was declared out Of the net earnings
of the year.
The Kent County Game Protective Asso
citation held its annual meeting in Dover or
Thursday. January 18TH. The report O
President Jakes showed that the association
was in a fourishing condition The ole
board of officers were reelected.
The Index announces the death ofsMrs
Henrietta Barr Pennington, mother OF con
gressman J. B. Pennington, at her home OF
fhe Green, on wednesday night oflast week
aged 81 years. She was inferred in the Pres
byterian Cemetery Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Henrietta Barr Pennington, mother o
Congressman Pennington, died at her SON
residence in Dover Wednesday night, Ibtf
inst. She was In her Sad year. Mrs. Pen
ington fell some time ago and dislocated ne
thigh, and this probably hastened her death
The Smyrna hotel has been again sold
making the third time within few months
the two succeeding Gues having been multi
fed by the court on account OF some irresu
larities. 1t has been purchased by Garret
Foxwell, an heir Of the property, for $4,000
this price being lower than both OF the pre-
yious sales.
4 meeting of Lewes business men wa
held recently to take steps TO induce Con
eress to proceed with the work of connect
ing Rehoboth and Delaware bays. This /
the first step towards the new Chesapeak
and Delaware canal, and the Legislature o
this State as well as Congress is appealed t
to help the project.
IKE Rev John Warthman, pastor Of tn
Harrington Methodist Church, is one Of tn
heirs to the property which John Warthma
left when he died in Philadelphia IN tn
} early part of the present century. Inc ls'
: ter during his lifetime made investments Il
the wild woods of Pennsylvania, at which
: now known as Centre county, Pa, The trac
is known as the "Warthman Tract and con
r tanning thousands ofacres of valuable timbe
and coal land, estimated to be worth severa
millions of dollars The heirs have stron
hope ofproving their claims
The stockholders ofthe Middletown cream
cry regard their enterprise as very impoi
tant adjunct to their farming Interests
According to a statement made IN the iran
sc,-ibf one farmer stated he could show fror
+ his books sales amounting to $I,o5o from
: cows, and feels he can do better The cream
cry altogether has paid to farmers since
started about SIS, 900, and the year is not u
I get, Surely this is good showing and on
, that ought to arouse the energies and bus
ness pride of our farming community aroun
! Milford towards the cousummation OF ou
proposed creamery project.