Milford chronicle., 1891-06-19
ON THE PENINSULA.

State Treasurer Burnite went to Whining
ton on Monday last and paid Troop B, d, n.
G., the $4,000 loaned by the last Legisla-
ture with which TO pay for the troops new
armory.
The new Methodist Church at Elsmere
near Wilmington. which has been ia course
ofconstTuction for the past few months, Will
be dedicated o. June 7Sth. The Rev. ]. ).
Willis will preach 10 the morning and the
Rev. W. W. W. Wilson in the evening,
DR.. A. B. slemons, of Delmar, died SID
denly Of apoplexy at o'clock Monday
morning He was on the street at the time
and fell IN front Of the store Of Speaker w.
T.. Sirnan. The deceased was prominent
man at his home and very highly esteemed.
He was s9years Of age.
The four-masted schooner. Florence c.
Magee, built by the Jackson and Sharp Com
pany for Champion & Magee, of Philade-
iphia, will be launched tomorrow at about
10 O'Clock This vessel is $50 feet long on
the keel, 40 feet beam and II feet depth Of
hold, with a feet poop to the forward
hatch. She will carry about 1850 tons OF
cargo.
Speaker VIM. L. Sirman's steam saw and
planning mill, and basket factory near Del
mar, were DESTROYED by FIRE on Wednesday
night of last week. There was no insurance
on the buildings or contents which were
totally destroyed. The loss will probably
be about 10000 The destruction Of the
mills throws a large number Of hands out OF
employment.
Seaford is to have paper, the first NUM-
Der of which will be issued toward the last
of June. It is TO be managed by George
Kay formerly of the SfsSet Republican and
will receive financial backing from Col VIM
H. Stevens, who is a candidate for the next
Democratic gubernatorial nomination. It
will be called Seafofd Meas and will be
Democratic from the start.
Sheriff Cole sold the following at the
County Building on Tuesday The Howard
Wilson farm, 73 acres near Lebanon. to
Nathaniel I.uff for 81, farm OF Henry
Fox. 2zJk acres in West Dover hundred, to
Joseph Burchenal for S17o; house and lot of
Walter S. Thompson, IN Cheswold, to 1. h.
George for $500; a vacant lot OF Andrew
Mitchell deceased, in Camden, to Alexander
Jackson for $500.
The city of New Castle is much excited
over the elopement of Fannie, the pretty
ifteen.year-old daughter of Joseph Bartlett
with John H. Reed, a prominent business
man. The girl left home presumably TO
visit relatives in Salem, N, j., but went 10
Delaware City where she met Reed, and the
couple proceeded to Wheeling W. va, ana
it is reported were married. Reed has wife
and child.
The lifeless body of VIM. Butcher of VII.
mington was found lying in the front room OF
his house early Tuesday morning ms
throat was cut Edward Butcher, brother
of the dead man, was found lying near the
corpse in a drunken stupor He was arrested
haa
his brothers death. The two brothers and
lanes Ouale and two Italians were
carousing in the house all night, The Coro-
ner is investigating.
The report ofthe trustees ofthe almshouse
for the year ending March 1, 1891, has JNst
been printed. From it we gather that the
number of inmates for the year was o.
which cost the county S7,923.76, including
the outside allowances which amounted TO
srS5A 70. From the report of the trustees
issued March l. 1870 the number OF inmates
was I2S, which cost the county that year
81, 300 .o2, including the outside allowances,
which amounted to SI84oc4. So that IL IS
costing nearly double to run this institution
what il did in 1870, considering the number
of inmates
Last week wound up the strawberry crop.
The growers have realized all the way from
Of fine size and flavor the berries have
carried well and prices have kept up all
through the season. Over three thousand
carloads Of Strawberries have passed over
the Delaware Railroad this season. Each
car would average $50 crates of 80 quartz
each, making $4,000 900 quarts The PICK
ing at ? cents per quart cost $3.50, 900. me
growers cleared al least cents quart, or
within fraction of million dollars. Ra5d-
berries and blackberries will soon follow,
Register of Willis Cooper has been petit
toned to set aside the will Of the late George
w. Cummins. of Smyrna. Under the terms
of the document the two daughters of the
deceased have a life use of the property and
at their death it reverts to nephews and
neices. The caveators, who are the four
children, want the estate to be equally
divided between them, The estate IS valued
at sIoo, 600. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, Sem
ator George Gray and n B. Smithers are
the attorneys for the will, and James L. Woi-
colt and Edward Ridgely represent the cav
Gators. The case will probably come up in
The Kent county Superior Court III the fall