Milford chronicle., 1891-07-03
ON THE PENINSULA.

John Colt was appointed janitor Of the
State House BY Governor Reynolds on We'd
nesday morning. Thomas Young and Sam
uel Solomon were also applicants for the
position.
AT Bowers Beach, the Fourth of July. the
proprietor announces as an attraction a bi
bali in the evening and an open camp fire
by the Grand Army Post Of Magnolia For
the more peaceful and quietly inclined Fred
erica offers days entertainment
The Clayton base ball team defeated the
Dover team on Saturday last by a score of
20 to I in six inning contest The game
was one-sided one and was devoid Of inter
est The batteries we're Fleming aud She'll
drake for the former and Butler and West
for the latter.
On Wednesday of last week some party
unknown who wanted to be revenged put
Paris green on the field in which some cattle
were pasturing on William K. Cochran's
farm near Middletown. -Four valuable heif-
ers died from poison and four more are
seriously sick.
It is announced that civil service examin-
atoms for the Railway Mail Service will be
held in Baltimore on August 9th and in Phil
adelphia on August 9Th, next. These are
the points at which Delawareans are ex-
pected to be examined. 1t is stated that
there is a great demand for railway postal
clerks The qualifications are good health
good memory and industry.
Daniel Hartnett, who disappeared after his
release from Dover Jail on Thursday Of last
week and who was supposed TO have gone
away with the colored woman Jennie Sud
ler has returned to his fathers farm, He is
apparently disguised with the notoriety he
has achieved and promises to forsake his
dusky sweetheart and stay at home in the
future. He returned home on Thursday |
evening and went to work with his father on
Friday morning.
FRUIT NoTEs.-Minos Conoway's receipts |
from half acre of strawberries were 5000. ]
d. +, Burton from y of an acre S5I4. Five |
rows OF Bubachs in a small garden netted |
Miss Beers $50. Strawberries paid all grow
ers good prices this year. -Raspberries came |
into market IN small quantities last week,
selling at 10 cents per quart. This week
they have been plentiful aud the prices have
been good.-There will be large crop Ofhuc-
kleberries, the bushes being loaded. They
will soon be ripe.-SeH5iHek.
One of the most serious and disastrous
that ever visited the CITY Of
Wilmington occurred on Sunday last when
The South Side rolling mills of the Diamond
State Iron Company went up in smoke at a
loss of about $3.50, ooo The buildings de-
stroyed were eight in number covered an
area Of nearly four acres of ground while
hree buildings on the opposite side of the
street were greatly damaged. The FIRE was
discovered about $50 p, m. and ragged for
wo hours in all its fury. The iremen were
early on the scene but the buildings, which
we're all frame aud burned like finder, were
doomed before anything could be done to-
ward extinguishing the flames. Two FIRE
men were hurt while fighting the flames by
,eing thrown from the top Of a house but ,
will recover. By the destruction of these ,
Mills hundreds of laboring men are thrown
ut Of employment. It will only be tempo j
airy, however, as it is the intention of the :
ompany to rebuild them at once.
A motion Of importance to all the peach +
TOwers of the Eastern Shore Of Maryland Il
nd Delaware has been made before the H. S
srstate Commerce Commission. Counsel S
u the Pennsylvania Railroad Company have S
loved for a reheariug ofthe famous peach &
ases. Last year, il will be remembered by P
Il persons interested in the peach trade, t.
iere was a long and stubborn fight made g
gainst the Pennsylvania and other railroad
lmpauies transporting peaches from Della
are and the Eastern Shore of MARYLAND to d
orthern markets for reduced rates. better d
hrs aud more facilities. The growers were o.
presented before the Interstate Commerce
by the Delaware State Grange
I'd the Boston Board of trade The peach
towers won their case, and the railroads
ere compelled by a decree of the commits ~
on to reduce the rates, to provide cars es- l
ecially fitted up for the carrying of peaches, b
Id to provide them in ample numbers The "a
,mpanies obeyed the order The Pennsyl. ia
mia railroad, in its motion for a rehearing 10
the case, set forth that it had, at great ex- &C
,nse, provided cars specially fitted up with Ta
elyes, ETC., and in large abundance. In u
ew Of the great expense to which this COM Ia
my has been put, it asks that the order re-
icing the rate of transportation be rescin- III
(, AS the company would otherwise suffer an
s., especially as the Pennsylvania was the IS
ly company to provide peach cars, the II
her railroads never having paid it their op
ota Of the money expended in fitting up n
e cars. The commission reserved its de- u
ion The effort of the company to restore
2 old rates-coming, as it does, at the open
: of one of the heaviest peach seasons
er known on the Eastern ShOre-will prob re
ly meet with even iercer opposition from M
growers than last wear ia