Milford chronicle., 1902-05-16
MILTON NEWS.


Pierre, Martinique. with its 25, 900 in
labitants, should be destroyed, in COM y
paratively the twinkle of the eye, is al y
most iucomprehensible; almost too in T
credible for belief Not, perhaps. since Ct
the earthquake of I755 at Lisbon, which a
with the rising of the Tagus river, de-
stroyed 90, 900 persons in about five min n
utes, has the world been shocked with a c
so great as that at St. Pierre. An =
exception may possibly be made in the !,
Java eruption of 1880. We speak Of e
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, syn
OBVIOUSLY Their seismolOgy IS the
same. One is parent of the other. If a
Their. were no internal fires eating out c
the heart of the earth, there would be no
volcanoes and certainly no earthquakes.
What makes the St. Pierre calamity to
we, who are near by, is its contiguity to
ourselves. We, naturally, are Mortified
at disasters, suicides, and anything out of
the ordinary course, when they Decor
near us more so than when they are en-
shrouded in the glamour of distance.
The earthquake at Lisbon made the poet
Goethe an infdel, and actually there are
Many who have been led into the same I
strain of thought on account of the
Charleston disaster few years ago. /
However, this should not be. A country |
formed by volcanic upheaval, is liable to !
earthquakes or eruptions, or both This
is almost always the case, AMI when these
seismic disturbances occur in a country
like South Carolina, the cause may be
traced to volcanic region somewhere.
Truly such calamities are to be deplored;
but how are they to be prevent d ! There
is but little warning preceding their aw
full visitation and no one can know where
or how to seek safety. Deplorable as
o they are, we must abide the conse-
i qusnees,
: An old landmark, in the form of an
/ ged willow tree, has been broken off on
: TIL. bank along the eastern border of
: Lake Fanganzyki.
n Mr.. James Coverdale has completed
his school term in Indian River hundred
n and returned to Milton. Mr.. Coverdale
g is valuable acquisition to Millions pop
: ulace, both intellectually and otherwise,
v The dogwood is in blossom, aud really,
"a think | never have seen more than the
J. production of this spring. The honey
II suckle is also in evidence. Anyone who
10 saw Prof W. G. Fearing and Miss May
WEIGH, his niece, on last Saturday after
as noon, coming into town on Prof. Fear
n ingt open buggy, could not but admire
of tie beautiful combination of honey
n SICKLE and dogwood flowers. The bugg,
90 was covered over, and they, the Occu
90 pants. were enshrouded in the prelt.
is display. Indeed, it reminded the write
. Of the words of "Bob' Inge soil, deliv
,b cred over the dead body of his brother
,ts Ebon Observation-Disclosures they
nc rGcline beneath a wilderness of roses"
n The Queen Annes railroad is havin
a. the rotten ties removed along this route
of a nd replacing them with spruce ones.
looks from the short time the rotte
49, les have been doing duty, as tho Oh the
,aa are t of the celebrated Delawa1
isz white oak variety"
60 The Trust Safe aud Deposit COmpau,
Of Of Milton-a branch of the Sussex con
III pany-has, in lieu of the resignation
at Captain Frank Lacey, elected N.
re- White as his successor. The Board
lon low composed of the following director
no Charles H. Atkins Joseph L. Black, Isal
NO w. Nailor and N. w. White.
81 Mrs Susie B. Davidson will close h
ac- school at Williams on Friday.
70 A nice practice and quite &c nomiC
as to the town n is the hauling of dirt {
,bo the streets. Last Saturday there we
r from six to eight loads of sand swept
,re- and hauled off. In few months t
the off ials will hire gang of men to ha
Md other dirt on the streets. OF course {
sny 'liFt hauled mere comes from Inc n
,IIv Sides, away from the madden
tod crowds ignoble strife" It's connect
In with Milton soil may be contlminatir
Ger and hence it is necessary to remove
ON We are not making any objection; no
md deed Milton has plenty of none
ned "Let the band play !"
ase The trees in town are in full leaf; a
her although the weather is decidedly C
Of they present an attractive appearance.
Mr. Z. B. Atkins, artistic decorator, j
,uld been at work on the parlors of the M.
ong parsonage; also on the pretty buildi
20 is Of w. T. Veasey, on Chestnut street, {
p on las commenced to decorate the CO
re- iOrs and other portions of the NJ.
ex- Church.
lem. Mr.. William Mcgee, machinist, of V
lem mington, Del, and brother of Capt
isla- Charles Mcgee, of Philadelphia, and \
In May Mcgee, of this town, has been
said ting his sister and mother, Mrs. N
i an Mcgee. in Milton.
he Mr.. Asa Conwell and d. F. Atk
diff were Oh Sunday elected delegates to
mar tend the Sussex County Bible Soci
iftv- which meets at Lewes on Thursday.
the aforementioned meeting $40
raised and Mrs. L Chandler mad
life member of the Society.
Not, Steven Palmore has commenced
e As repair the schoolhouse at Migrants n
IN. a short distar ce from town.
,tion. Editor Wolfe, of the pilot" app
AMER to be attracting the attention of the
T. An tors of the cOunty,by his advocacy OF
-, - ~, removal of the county seat 10 lie,
port His stand taken, in substance, that Il
/ May and Milton are bound together by tit
dueed affinity and consequently is we'll cho
, s.uLr Let Rome how'll These editors ha
,tland got hold of Wolfe's trousers legs vet
s ser An itinerant photographer is eucan
1871 on the vacant ground near c. H. All
- store, west.
'"' ]. B. Morris and Thomas Jeffe
Della were elected delegates on Sunday to
,,'a " resent the Milton NJ. P Church al
Bible Convention, to be held at l.
saloon on Thursday.
, nspi p The "Milton Times" has purch
ted to new type, ard will appear in b
dress this week than heretofore. E
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