Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-05-31
ON THE PENINSULA.


Clerk WIN. A. Gum has awarded theprint-
ing of the House Journal to the Estate Sen
final, - Dover.
The sturgeon fisherman have moved up
the river from Bowers. They are having
a good season.
new boat to be called the George W.
Childs will be built by the surviving pilots
of the missing boat f. Turley.
The Smyrna Creamy is paying out 81, 200
per month for milk. They make from 800
to 400 pounds of butter daily.
The Leipsic Creamery is all ready %
operations. They are only waiting the
arrival Of the machinery to begin work.
Ex-Secretary Bayard will be married June
II at St. Johns church. Washington, to Miss
Clymer young and wealthy lady of that
city.
The fredericksburg Courier says that Car
oline county now seems to have the best
prospect for full crop of peaches of any
county on the Peninsula
It is reported that Father Connolly, of
Easton Md, will succeed Father Graf as
pastor of the Dover church. The latter
preached his farewell sermon on Sunday
last
Shipments of Strawberries over the Della
ware road up to last Saturday, amounted to
$50 carloads from this Peninsula. This week
the shipments have averaged about sixty
carloads each day.
Insurance adjusters were at FELTON, Friday
viewing the ruins of the cannery burned
there the Sunday previous. All that remains
is huge heap of tin covered with the re-
mains of the tin roof.
Sixteen thoroughbred Jersey cows arrived
at Delaware City last week for Henry Hig-
gins who will make a specially of Jersey
cattle. Higgins intends to establish one of
the finest diaries in the State.
Chief Justice Comegys, Mrs. Roudebush
of Milford and John r. Nicholson, Esq, will
occupy cottages at Rehoboth this summer.
The families of Charles Heisler of Philadel-
phia, and Charles Treat will summer there.
Laurel is to haye an industrial parade on
the 4th of July, including the militia and
secret societies of the town. The Laurel
Military Band, assisted by fife and drum
corps of Wilmington, will furnish music
This promises to be one of the graudest cele-
brations ever witnessed in the history of this
town.
The saw, planning and lathing mill of the
Dagsboro Manufacturing Co., was destroyed
by FIRE about a O'Clock last Thursday morn
ing. Loss about So 900; no insurance: origin
of FIRE unknown. The members of the COM
panY are +. B. Rggin, P. c. Wingate, George
I.aield, NJ. c. Campbell and Walter Helm
In the suit of Mrs. Henrietta V. Parvis,
who sued the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Company for $50 900
damages for killing her husband (Dr. John
H, Parvis), near Middletown, in March,
1888, the jury in the Superior Court at Viii
mington were discharged Tuesday night, |
being unable to agree. Ten of the jurors
favored giving the plaintiff SIC, 900 damages.
Mr.. J. c. Johnson OF Geoe town, has inven- |
ted a patent pipe car coupler by the use of
which an engineer or fireman can couple |
or uncouple by single pull if desirable, or
one car can be uncoupled at time just as
the circumstances require. A patent will be
applied for. One of the conductors on the |
D. NJ. & v. Railroad says Mr.. Johnson's |
invention beats anything he ever saw
Sussex Journal.
Colonel George W. Marshall issued on
Saturday general order designating Com
panies A, c, F and H as the first battalion |
of Delaware infantry, and detailing Lieu
tenant colonel A. S. Kirk to command the
battalion. Acknowledgement Kenny has
announced the appointment of General T.
F. Armstrong, Colonel Marshall and Lieu
tenant o. D. Robinson as State board of
examiners, who will meet at the Clayton
House on June sd for organization and such
other business as may be brought before
them.
The managers OF the Camden Union Camp
Ground met last week. They appointed
committee to correspond with the National
Camp Meeting Association, and request them
to hold camp under the auspices of that
A majority Of the managers
are opposed to holding camp under the
regulations of the NJ. E. Church, and conse-
quently there will be no camp unless the
National Association takes hold of the mat
ter. There is, however, some talk of social
camp being held on the grounds.
The cases in the Circuit Court for Talbot
on the part of the state to forfeit the
of certain social clubs OF the ground
of misuse and non-use of charter privileges
have failed, the defendant clubs being sus-
tanned by the yerdicts Of the juries. A full
bench, Judges Robinson, Wilkes and Stump,
ruled that for club to dispense liquors to
its members is not sale in the sense in
which the term is used in the local option
law. The State's-Attorney will carry the
matter to the Court of Appeals on writ
error. !