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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21
FORM B.



third grade certificates, in Sussex county.
FoRMB.
GRAMMAR.
I. Give synopsis Of the verb feed in both
voices and all the modes and lenses.
2. How do you teach Grammar in order
to make it practical?
4. Name the relative pronouns, and il
lustrate their use by examples.
Write composition containing at least
one hundred and fifty words. Subject eli
mate Of U. S.
s. Analyze:
When Freedom from her Mountain height,
Unfurled her standard to the air.
She tore the azure rode of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
HISTORY
!. Give an account of the Spanish explor-
atoms.
2. Describe the conquest of California.
g. Describe the character of the Virginia
colonists.
a. Give an account Of the Pacific railroad
and its value to the country.
s. What can you say of the public. lands
in the United States7
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
/. Why do not children need stiinulants,
such as coffee and tea?
2. What are the FIVE evil results of rapid
eating ?
3. Have you made Hyeiue an interesting
study If so, how have your
a. What is meant by the breathing ca
pacity7'
S, What can you say of the influence o
light on the body7
GEoGRAPHY.
!. What can you say of the Geography
Of Rrazil.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21

LAST Sunday was "Children's Day"
at the Avenue NJ. E. Church. In the
morning Rev. J. H. Wiley preached
a special discourse to the children, of
whom the audience was largely COM
posed. In the evening very pretty
special service was held, which was par
ticipated in by both the Avenue and
Chapel schools. The attendance was
quite large, despite the heat of the even
ing.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21

"CHILDREN's DAY" was observed
at Milford neck NJ. E. Church last
Sunday afternoon. Owing to the i'm
mense crowd which usually gathers
on such occasions stage and seats
were put up in the grOveto accommO-
date the people. The service was well
conducted and very pretty. Excellent
music was furnished by the M. E.
Church.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21

ON Saturday last the Steward estate
was closed up by trustee sale in front
Of the Dorsey House. The old home
stead on South Front-st, was bought
by daughter. Mrs. Geo. Ward, Of
Camden, N. J., for $4,000. The old
business stand on North Walnut-st,
occupied by Mrs. Annie Jump. was
bought by John w. Jump for 81 $40 90.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21

THE thunder storm which passed by
Milford last Monday afternoon, was
quite severe in the lower part of Cedar
Neck and along the beach extending
down as far as Hog Island" below
slaughters. At Slaughters the light
ming struck the tall flag pole near the
pool room, aud tore clean groove in
it from top to bottom, throwing splin-
tiers around fora distance of fifty feet.
Everyone on the beach felt the shock
more or less severely.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21
Teachers Examination.

Following will be found a form used in
the examination of teachers, for second and
third grade certificates, in Sussex county.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21
WORTH KNOWING.

MILE sHAKE a GeIIIngerIg.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21

THE editor of the Meas last week
described the glory Of these June
mornings in such rhapsOdical man
ner that we were induced to cut our
morning nap short aud take stroll
into the country. 1.-THE dawning day, "
and 1.-THE sunriseu and "the birds" are
all right, but "the flies and insects on
the wlngn robbed the occasion ofmuch
of its romance, and we are inclined to
be sorry that we were deluded into
furnishing an early breakfast for so
many "lively Insects"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21

THIS season has been one of low
prices for all kinds of fruit. Strawber-
ries were Improbable to the growers
and raspberries have opened at eight
cents for the first shipments from
Delaware. This indicates low prices
for blackberries and other small
fruits. If the same rule follows
through peach season, the returns
will not make our Peninsular people
feel very wealthy next fall. Much
depends upon the weather.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-21

]. What can you say Of The Geography
Of Brazil.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
SEPTEMBER CROP REPORT.
"A Reduction in the Percentage of Gener;
AVnI.or from, y, rp,nr 1J,,t;.

a Reduction in the Percentage of General
Average from Former Months.
Washington dispatch: The Septem-
Der crop report makes the general average
OF corn u, a reduction of nearly ) points;
OF winter wheat when harvested 80. 4, a
decrease from 81 OH July ]; of spring
wheat S..!, an increase from Sl.3 in
August. This makes the general average
of all wheat SIG. The general condition
of oats is 80, instead of 81. last month; of
rye, SIG; of barley, 9S.9 instead of co. 6;
OF buckwheat, 92.l instead of !j.2; of
tobacco, 49,, a reduction from Sill The
percentage of stock hogs available for fat
tening is 1O1; condition, 9S.
The corn crop is a week late in a large
proportion of its breadth. In the Ohio
valley and lake region there has Leon O
marked reduction of condition during the
last month from drought following the
heavy rains of early summer. In Ohio
and Indiana there was previous injury to
bottom land crods by floods. In Michigan
and Wisconsin the effects of drought and
other Influences are most in jurious. There
is complaint of drought west of the Missis-
sippi, too late in the SEASON for serious re-
duction. West of the Missouri conditions
have been more favorable than in any
other part of the country and the crop is
very large.
The condition of spring wheat is re-
ported higher than in August in the
northern portion of tho belt and slightly
lower in. Iowa and Nebraska. as follows:
Wisconsin, 93; Minnesota, So; Iowa, 81;
Nebraska, IS; Dakota, 63. The local rates
of yield in Dakota are extremely variable,
ranging from one to twenty bushels IN
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
IIONORS TO GEN. GRANT.

A Notable Celebration at Fort Leaven-
worth. Kan.-I Imposing Ceremonies.
The statue of Gen. Grant was unveiled
at Fort ~Leavenworth, Kan last Saturday,
Excursions had arrived from the adjoin-
ing States Of Missouri and Nebraska, and
the city was taxed to its utmost to en-
terrain the thousands Of visitors.
The occasion IS IL lie Il holiday. The
public buildings in the city were suitably
decorated, and from each staff on the front
foated the National colors. The special
trains which were to carry the people to
the fort, where the government troops
were drawn up to receive them, entered,
and the procession formed and marched to
the grounds at the fort, where the monu-
ment stands. There the troops were
massed around the yelled figure. Behind
them We're stationed the Il. A. R. posts
and uniformed societies.
The Rev. E. F. Holland, chaplain of the
department of the G. A.. R. in Kansas,
opened the ceremonies with prayer.
Brig.-Gen. Wesley Merritt, U. S. A.,
commanding the department IF the
Missouri, reviewed the work OF tho Grant
monument committee, of which he is
president, and explained how the cost of
the tribute had been betrayed by public
subscriptions taken in all parts of the
country.
Then, while the Sixth regiment band
played the national air, the General step
ped forward and, amid the applause
of the multitude, unveiled the statue.
Is the veil fell to the ground there was
revealed to tho spectators q statue OF i'm
posing design and artistic execution. 1t
consists of a bronze military figure of hero
ic size and nine feet high upon a polished
granite pedestal Of equal height. The
left foot is slightly advanced, and the left
hand holds a paper of official appearance,
toward which the right foreiinger is point
Ing. A SLOUGH hat covers the head. The
figure is draped in q long military coat
the cape being thrown pack over the
shoulders. The pedestal of the statue is a
monolith four feet sluare and five feet
high, the top being encircled with a
wreath of bay leaves in relief. On the
front is a tablet inscribed with the names
of the battles in which Grant was engaged.
Tho rear of the monolith bears equestrian
figures of Grant and his aids-de-camp in
relief.
After the sta the was unveiled orations
were delivered by Senator Ingalls, of Kan
sas, Gen. c. W. Blair of Topeka, and the
Rev. Henry Smith, chaplain of the post at
L~eavenworth. Maj. William Warner of
Kansas City, eX-commander of the G. A..
H., was on the program, but private
business in Washington prevented his
being present,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
NuEcClcd News.

NUMBER Of merchants of Berlin have
signed q memorial addresse Ct to Bismarck
in which charges of impolitenoss md gen
eral mismanagement are made against Mr..
Edwards, the United States consul at Ber-
lin. Many merchants are not in sympathy
with these characterizations.
PATRICK DELANEY, implicated in the
PaGnix murders and now in prison, writes
TO a prominent official at Dublin Castle,
piteously claiming his release from prison
MS a reward for giving evidence for the
London Times before the Parnen commits
sion.
II is claimed by the wholesale oyster
men that oyster planters have sustained
n loss of from s. 1910, 900 to $4,000, 900 by
reason of the late storm, and that some of
them have been forced out of business an
into bankruptcy.
DURING the past few days twelve per-
sons have died from trichinosis In the
town Of Eisleben, Prussian Saxony,
Eighteen others are dying from the same
disease.
A COMMITTEE of G. A.. r. men has been
appointed to investigate charges against Tia
management of the Pacific coast bran.l. If
the national home for veteran sold;~rs Il;
Santa Monica, Cal.
HE president has recognized Frelresco
Bruni as consul of Italy for Idaho, &on-
tana, Wyoming, Dakota and numerous
othcr states and territories, to reside at
Denver.
BOTH whites and blacks have been arm
ing in Newton county, Miss, but matters
ore quieting down and no outbreak is ex-
pected.
THE president has appointed Benjamin
Il. Miller Of Maryland Milan inspector.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
n Bogus Earl Called Down.


Oswald Riddle Miles, alias Leonard Nor
ris, earl of Durham, earl of Chester, was
arrested at Fargo a few days since by In
spector Mitchell, of Scotland Yard, for a
forgery Of el5, 900 On Woodal & Co.,
brokers, Of London, committed ..bout the
18th of July. The self styled earl arrived
at Fargo about five weeks ago, bearing
forged letters Of introduction from Van
uerbilt and numerous influential men and
members of clubs in New Yr5l. and Eng
land. He passed hlmselff Of as o brother
OF the earl of Durham, of England, an I'M
der graduate of Oxford, aud said that he
was travelling in America for pleasure in
cognlto under the name of Leonarl Nor
rIs. Ihe earl scattered his money broad
cast. he stopped at q leading hotel, reg
lstering as Hon. Leonard Morris, England.
and III a very short time was a hale fellow
we'll met by a score or more.
Money fairly flowed, and no
One was allowed to contribute
a cent while in the earl's company. His
ban account seemed unlimited. He had
deposited a couple of thousand with the
landlord at a hotel aud had left consider
able mounts elsewhere. He had some in
the Red River bank, and was SO polite aud
obliging, SO English, you know, that his
followers were soon reckoned by the score.
When confronted by Inspector Mitchell,
OF Scotland Yard, accompanied by Officer
Cleary, of st. Paul, and B. Woodall,
son of The head of the firm on whom the
forgery had been made, he wilted, ad-
mltted his guilt, and accompanied the Off
GERS. Inspector Mitchell left London a
month behind the forger, who was a clerk
III a banking house. He first got track Of
him~in New York City, next in Chicago,
where it is said he committed another
forgery, then in Minneapolis, whence he
came to Fargo.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
Crop Comparisons in the West.

From official statements issued by the
department at Washington this summary
IS taken: The west has the greatest area
Of nnoccupied lands. Ntlnnesota's quota
is 1876 per cent. and Dakota's 96. There
is 3O.S per cent. of the farm area unused IN
Minnesota and GIG per cent. in Dakota.
The middle western states section is the
corn belt, extending from Ohio to Kansas.
Minnesota only grows II acres of corn in
every 1000 acres, but raises 30.S bushels
per acre. Dakota has S acres in 1000, and
the yield is 27.5 per acre. Minnesota is in
the wheat belt. In every 1000 acres of
land 81 acres are devoted TO wheat, and the
yield is 1876 bushels per aero. Dakota
sows Al acres in every 1000 to wheat and
gets 1876 bushels per acre. The average
wheat acreage III the United States is 90
acres in 1000 Of land surface, and the av-
erago yield is 1873 bushels per acre. The
wheat states In number of acres planted
to each LOCO acres are, Indiana, 12l; Ohio,
1902; iowa, 70; Illinois. GS; Minnesota, 81.
The highest yield per acre is Colorado,
1876 bushels per acre, and the lowest is
Florida, with Al bushels per acre. Min
ncsota sows 80 acres in every 1,0OO to oats,
md raises 3i.3 bushels per acre; Dakota 10
acres i'll each 1000 and gets a yield of 31.5
bushels. Illinois and Iowa are the great
est oats states. The greatest yield of oats
is in Washington, with 1913 bushels per
acre, and the smallest acreage is in North
Carolina with only l0.l bushels per acre.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
Silver in PENNSYLVANIA.

Conne!lsville, Pa, special says: VIVA
is said to be Il valuable find of silver ore
has been discovered in the mountains near
this place by a man named Joseph Avring-
ton. Arlington has interested a company
of Connellsville capitalists in the matter.
a great deal Of excitement exists and pros
pecters swarm the mountains in the hope
of iinjing other deposits.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
a Woo. Grouers, Aa.oc,.,,o.

The wool growers of Deuel. county bs7e
formed an association to be known as the
'sDanei County Wool Growers association.
Tor the purpose OF encouraging farmers to
g., into tho sheep industry more extern
slvel.r, and TO make o better home market
for thor wool. They propose to store all
their wool III one warehouse and to have
buyers come and buy, instead of shipping
tc commission men, as they have done
q sstufore. Tho following Officers were
c:seted: G. II. Sheppard. president,
Aitinont; M F. Greeley, treasurer, Clear
Ia . The next annual meeting will be.
We held the lat Wednesday in March.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
Valuable Salt Beds Discovered Near Bis

Valuable Salt Beds Discovered Near Bis
marck.
Tit discovery of a bed of rock salt in
Burleigh county has occasloned no little
excitement, and prospectors are quietly
preparing for an early start toward the field
where the discovery is supposed to have
been made. The bed was found by Charles
Chamberlain, a farmer, who noticed n
Willie substance on the grass in the viciui-
y of a small hill. At first he thought
he had struck an alkali bed, but
upon tasting a large piece of very heavy
substance he Was satisfied that it was salt.
Tho piece which he found weighed thirteen
pounds. Chamberlain will not give the
location of his find, but says it is in Bur-
leigh county, within twenty mi; es of Bis
marck. The salt is of a superior quality,
and Chamberlain declares that the supply
is in~exhaustible.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20

There is no change in the London
strike situation. The leaders say they
are better able to stay out now than any at
time since the beginning of the movement.
subscriptions are coming in freely from
city. country and the colonies.
The Australians have specially shown
practical sympathy for London. In Vic
toria 10000 have been collected, and
from Now South Wales -, 900 more have
been cabled. The negotiations for an adj
Justnent of the o rike continue.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
An Epidemic of Scarlet Fever

Pittsburg u'a.) dispatch: There is an
epidemic of scarf t fever in the Colored
Orphans Home on Greenwood street, ALLIE
gheny. One of tho children became i'll
ahont a week ago, and the attending physi-
clan ordered its removal 10 the hospital de-
partment. More cases developed, and
now the patients number twenty-six. The
matter has been reported to the board Of
health, and steps will be taken to have
the patients removed from the institution.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
Eastern Collicry Fire,

The fire in the Delaware and Hudson
~colliery at Oliphant, Penn, is more ser1-
GUS than at first supposed, and the prob
abilities are that it will lake weeks,
possibly months, before it eau be extin-
guished and the mines placed in working
order again. Over 1000 men and boys
have been thrown out Of employment, and
business is partly paralyzed in Oliphant
by their enforced idleness.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
MussulmHns and Hindoos at War.

FHH "I1HOOS AZ War.
A Simla dispatch says: During the celebra-
tion of a religious festival at Rontak the
Mussulnans and Hindoos became involved
in religious disputes which led to riotine.
The police were compelled to interfere to
stop the fighting, but before they succeeded
many of the rioters were shot by the off.
GERS. The Mussulmans at Delhi, forty-two
miles north west of Kontak, are organizing
to avenge the insults put upon them by
the Hindoos.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
"A Decayinr Race.

One feature of the late indian reports
worth considering is the fact that at nearly
every agency the number of deaths are
greater than the number of births. The
Indian population is not added to by i'm
migration Il a mathematician can easily
figure out from these statistics thnt il viii
not be long before the noble red man, like
the vast buffalo, is no more. He will not
disappear in time to give the generations
OF this century an opportunity to get all
his land, but those to come will be ready
Tor them. One agent remarked that it
means the survival of t @ ~tittc.t. and per-
hare some of the best indians will live
through the severe crowding that is in
store for them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
Evnding the restriction Laws,

Five Chinese attempted to cross the
American line at Tia Junna the other day,
but two were caught and turned back,
The other three eluded the officers and
took a train for San Diego, CAL, where
they were promptly arrested. They are
supposed to be members of a gang of
Chinese laborers taken from San Fran
cisco some weeks since to develop the
Real Deal Castillo mining district. They
ma the boldness to come up the regular
routes of travel. Opportunities for Chin
ese to pass freely between the two coun-
tries are not lacking. With the present
force it i; impossible to guard more than
the principal highways, leaving hundreds
OF miles OF frontier crossed by numerous
trains and leaving a number Of inhabited
ranches entirely unprotected.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
a Political Straw III the North.

All the republican legislative conven-
tlons thus far held, says u North Dakota
paper, have instructed the nominees for
Hon. Gilbert A. Pierce for the Unit ed
states senate. The endorsement of the
ex-governor is earnest and enthusiastic
10 be one of the first senator's from the
great state of North Dakota is a laudable
ambition, in the attainment of which the
republican friends Of Gov. Pierce, OF
every side, wish Linn success.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
Dakota W. c. T. U.

The eighth annual convention of the
"oman' Christian Temperance Union of
k convened at Yankton for a ses-
hlon OF four days. Two hundred ladies
.efe present. Much business of impo :
lance was transacted. The territori.l
Union was dissolved and North and Sonth
Dakota unions organized.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
"A Swedish Anniversary.

All over the United State citizens of
Swedish birth and parentage celebrated the
18th. Just $50 years ago, on September
II, 1893, the first Swedish olony sailed IN
the Delaware river and landed at a point
on the Jersey shore. These earliest Swed-
ISL settlers IN America came to this coun-
try as a result OF the encouragement Given
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
johnny Comes Marching Homo

Johnny Hannegan, the e1-county COM
missioner of Cook county, Ill, accused of
boodling, who ran away from Chicago two
years ago to escape prosecution, has re-
turEed from Cnnada. He walked into
Judge Horizons d,urt aud asked tn t he be
allowed to give bail tor future hearing.
The jI ige held him in 81, 900 bail.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
An Engineer Killed and Two Persons Ser
iOuSly Iniured.

At Washington, a serious collision
occurred on the Baltimore e. Poto.
mao railroad Oh the eastern out.
skirts of the city between a Freight and
passenger train, resulting in the killing Of
the engineer of the passenger. train and
badly injuring the fireman and one brake
of the freight train. Tha accident
occurred between the navy yard tunnel
and the eastern branch bridge. Owing to
a previous wreck on the road only one
track could be used, and In this ~instan, o
notice was given to each engineer to look
out for the other. About a dnzen nassAn-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20

II is hard for a naughty man ever to
forgive n who has caught him in a
fault, and whom he knows he has rea-
son to complain of him; his resentment
never subsidies until he .hasraegained
the advantage he has lost, and found
means to make the other do him equal
wrong,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
a Prosperous Company.

Tho Western Union directors have de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend of
II per cent. The S ntelnent for the quar-
ter ending September Both estimates the
net revenue at S1.750 900, the largest in
years, and leaves a surplus after paving
dividends of S4G2,6 l5. The total surplus
is 50, O74, DIG.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-09-20
The Banner Wheat co,,tv

IL looks at this writing as if Richland
county wonld be t e banner wheat county
o. o North Dakota this year. John Miller's
o,ooo acres are panning out twenty bush
els to the acre. Some fields are RUNNING
as-hlgh as twentv-six bus els.