Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-05-24
ON THE PENINSULA.

Deen placed IN tne branuyWine AT winning
ton.
The first strawberries shipped from this
State this season went up from Laurel on
J Wednesday, May 18th.
There is movement for the organization
= of military company at Newark, Del. as a
part Off First Regiment, N G. D.
5 Bishop Coleman will deliver the baccalau-
reate sermon before the students Of Della
r ware College in the Oratory, June 18th.
J.E. Quinn and Lindsey McFarlane, of
Smyrna, will soon start paper in the town
of Clayton. Its name win be the Clayton
CaH.
Camdenshew hotel proprietor, George z.
Scuse, was married last week at the residence
of Abraham Pierson. to the latters daughter,
Roberta.
Five negroes and seven whites were pub
licly whipped at New Castle, Del, Saturday
afternoon, for larceny, highway robbery and
horse stealing.
A freight train, consisting of an engine and
ten cars, ran off the open draw into the river
at Laurel on Saturday night No one was
injured by the accident
The storehouse of Eli Harrington, occupied
by Honey & Co., at Harrington, was de-
stroyed by FIRE last week. The stock Of
goods was also burned.
The New Jersey Central Railroad is build
ing terminal facilities at Bayside, N. J., in
connection with the new Peninsular line
which runs to Bombay Hook.
The Philadelphia and Smyrna Transports
ton Company has purchased and rehtted an
other steamer for the carrying trade between
Smyrna and Philadelphia.
Harry MacMullen, a son of S. R. MacMul-
len, of Berlin, who is engaged in the service
of the Wicomico and Pocomoke railroad, was
shot and killed in Chicago last week by
yardmaster.
Hon. Charles H. Maull, lately appointed
an agent of the general land Office, left for
Duluth, MINI, where he will be stationed
for the future by the government. His fam
lily will remain in Lewes.
The four-masted schooner John B. Mann
ing, built for Captain Amos Birdshall and
others of Toms River N. J.,was successfully
launched from the Jackson & Shorp Com
pany's shipyard on Tuesday.
Alvin R. Morrison has been awarded the
contract by the New Castle County Levy
Court for the building ola drawbridge across
the Christiana Creek at Third street, in Will
mingtou. His bid was $495
The new fruit express ofthe Adams tx
press Company over the Delaware Railroad,
will leave Del1nar al 9 a m. and reaching
Wilmington by p. M, will deliver its
freight in Boston by daylight the next morn
| ing
Mrs. Clinton Long has taken the Douglass
House, Rehoboth, for the season. It will be
opened about June goth. It is reported that
William jefferson of the Virden House will
take out license for the season to sell liquor
there.
The widow of Dr. John H Parvis, who was
killed on the railroad crossing near Middle
town, has brought suit in the Superior Court
of New Castle county, against the railroad
company, for $4,000 damages, The case is
now on trial
Last season 100000 gallons of shucked
oysters were shipped from Oxford by rail
and nearly as many went by steamboat.
The freight on those that went by rail was
&c s.,fT he e1aa11 Coz
and $4,000 was paid for shocking them.
The oysters shipped in barrels in the shell
amounted to $4,000.
DR.. Shortledge, of the u S. Fish Commits
sion, has turned out young shad fry in the
Delaware rivers this week as follows Apo |
quinimink river, AL 376; Smyrna river, AL !
426; Leipsic river, 44s. 232; Jones river, 49,
40; Murderkill river, GAL, 226; Mispillion
river, 49s,476; Broadkill river, 22s,4oo; In
dian river, 500, 3Ss; making total of 1884,
600.
Wilbur Tatman, of Harrington, was arrested |
this week on the charge of seducing young
lady in Philadelphia. He was taken to that |
city where he compromised the case by mar
rying the girl, but on the next day deserted |
her; she. however, followed him to Harring- |
ton, and enforced her claim to support as his
wife, he giving bond in $1,000 for good be-
havior and maintenance.
The Manning complete will cost $500, 900.
"A new keel for Captain Williams will be
laid at once on the ways just vacated. The
new vessel will be christened the Job H.
Jackson, Jr.. in honor of the infant son of the
president of the Jackson & Sharp Company.
The other big schooner now building on
the ways for Captain Osborne, of Keyport N.
J., will be launched about July Ist.
The heaviest crop of king crabs has been
on this week that was ever known, the whole
shore being lined with them every tide.
Boys, at twenty-five cents per hundred, the
price paid for picking them up, made SIS per
tide. Farmers in the necks have hauled
thousands of them. They use them to com
post, besides they are said to make the best
of chicken and hog feed. Huge pens are
put up all along the shore and they are kept
in them for the factories which use them in
making hosphate.-Siate Sentinel.
Mrs. Sarah Carson, wife of Mr.. Carson, a
farmer residing just beyond the Dover Fair
Grounds, met with what is likely to prove a
fatal accident last Sunday morning. She
was drawing water from the well in the rear
of her home VIXEN the heavy sweep fell,
striking her on the head. Her husband
found her few moments afterward, lying by
the we'll unconscious with the blood ooziug
from large wound in the head. Medical
aid was summoned when it was discovered
that her skull was seriously fractured. De-
spite all the physicians could do it was re-
ported yesterday that she was in a critical