Middletown transcript., 1894-01-20
PENINSULA NEWS.

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PENINSULA NEWS.
a Gathered Here and There and Con
densed for Ready Reading.
III A fox hunt at Hares Corner was tn
S event Of Thursday
Ill The Delaware Iron works will start up
a- next Monday in all departments. The Fri
toncotion mills will also resume.
n AS result of the last peach season ths
z National banks of Milford and Seaford
. have declared semi-annual dividends oi
8 per cent.
: Secretary Carlisle has appointed
b pointed F. s. Dunlap Superintendent Of
( Construction, at Reedy Island Quarantine
Station. vice Simeon Lord. declined.
There is now every indication that the
Q New Castle and Wilmington Electric Rail-
r way alll soon be in progress of construction
5 and ready for operation by early summer.
The three bodies of Charles A. Hill and
: his twin babies, the latter aged II months.
were buried in one grave at Wilmington on
, Monday. All had suffered for want of food
and fuel
Prof. George A. Steele, of the Elkton,
Academy, has taught school for ten years
and not missed day and has never been
late. Is there teacher on this peninsula
can match that
II Stx telegraph stations on the Delaware
Railroad were last week discontinued and
the operators dischargkRb 1t is said more
are TO follow. The company is using the
pruning knife in every direction.
| Senator Anthony Higgins was guest at
the annual dinner of the Yale Alumni of
Washington, D.. c., Wednesday evening,
at the Arlington Hotel. and responded to
the toast, "The Future of Yale"
A small unoccupied tenant house on the
farm of W. Arthur Mitchell, near Elkton,
was on fire last Monday. The flames were |
extinguished before much damage was |
done. A tramp slept there the previous
night.
Joseph Muir, of Fairmount, lately made
a shipment of terrapin to London, England.
Old Somerset is becoming famous on ac-
count of her salt water products. The goods
were shipped to Ambassador Thomas +.
Bayard.
Cards have been issued announcing the
marriage Of Miss w. Ida Larrimore, of
Centreyille, to Rev. II. Clay Turner, of
Clayton, Delaware. The ceremony will
take place in the M. E. Church, Centre
vile, on January 23d. +
William Craig, a prominent farmer resid- !.
ing near Port Deposit, died at his home on
wednesday of last week in the 18th year of
his age. He leaves a widow and several
children. His funeral was held on Sunday 1,
Interement at Gales Chapel.
The contest for the Chestertown postmas- !
tership increases daily in interest. The heat :
of the fight has centered around three men,
while others are waiting for the lightning
to strike them. The leaders are hopelessly
divided regarding the matter. =
DIR. Edward O. Shakespeare, of Philadel-
phia, former Delawarean, has been ap- h
pointed by President Cleveland, one of the d
delegates to represent the United States at n
The International Sanitary Congress, which Il
meets in Paris, January oath. ls
The marriage has been announced of b
L. J. Allen, assistant engineer of the Della v
ware Division, with headquarters at Clay pl
on and Miss Annie B. Hargous, on We'd p
iesday, January oath. The ceremony will | D
axe place at Trinity Episcopal Church, at in
Trenton, NJ. n
St
Gamers are making contracts with farm
rs in Talbot County, Nd, for acres of :.
omatoes and sugar corn for next summers o.
Sc in the packing houses on the basis of j,
10 ton for corn and 81 a ton for tomatoes
hese are unusually good prices, and will
lduce much larger acreage of these pro-
ucts than usual.
A mad dog created great excitement in
lkton, on Sunday, before it was killed, but ]
OF until after it had bitten number of Me
ther dogs, which have been killed also. at
he mad dog no doubt came from VIII We,
ington, Del, twenty miles from here, as an,
bore collar with the name ofD. McDon- far
d. Rising Sun, Del, suberb-of Whining ger
q, upon u. life
The oyster crop on the Delaware side of nu'
e Delaware bay is complete failure. All ad'
the oyster boats, about seventy-fve in iar
lmber are laid up and the ovstermo,, % his
t.of employment The oysters have VII
en- destroyed by small insect, which I
res hole in the she'll. Ths oyster soon
ss after being attacked by this insect. 1
Says the Milford News: Almost every ned
'mer OF this section who has sheep is bee
xious to be rid of them. We note from the
agricultural exchanges that the same is Met
e OF other sections of the United States, had
e proposition of the Wilson tariff bill to Sho
nit wool free has caused the sheep to be was
ked upon BY farmers as almost worthless, dice
he following were the appointments Of yea
nth class postofices of Delaware. made oou'
President Cleveland this week; J.W. osn I
ggett, Cooch's Bridge, New Castle County 5ne
Mary e. Cooch, resigned; D. J. Barwick, e.. ou
Sussex county, vice B. T. Her o'a'
8, removed; WI. Eliason, Mt. Pleasant
Castle County, vice ]. F. Eliason,
loved.
he house ofHenry Johnson, colored. FIR
u Millington, was burned to the ground
nday night and two Of his children-ai tt
and girl, aged respectively s and road
rs-perished Johnson had gone. to a flow
,hbors house and his wife was out whe
hing for sick woman, while their two entil
dren were left at home. 1t is supposed cars,
upset the lamp aud thereby set the 11.0s
Sc on fire. The charred bodies of the ton
children were found in the ruins. diree
,senb Fr.v;aaf r..s.-.. -.,, sony
ed farmer and prominent Republican - -
outh M1rderk i'll hundred, was stricken 49, 49,
J. paralysis Sunday noon and died at .s''
i. He attended church in the morning s.N' .ps
went to his stable just before dinner. .AD.. !.
lg absent SO long his family instituted ne =
arch and found him appaently dead. su.p
ica1 aid was given and his true condi- .'ouo
ascsrtained, He was about " years ,nl'n' y