Smyrna times., 1876-11-08
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


Richardson & Robbins of Dover last week
shipped about 1000 cans of goods direct to
Europe.
The Milford Nescs says: A reformed |
Episcopal Church would be very popular in |
Milford. The attention of Bishop Nichol- |
son is called to the fact.
The trimming store of Miss Eliza Baker,
in Odessa, was broken into by some thiev-
ish scoundrels on Thursday evening and
money and goods to the amount of sixty.
five dollars carried off.
Harrington is progressing in spite of the
hard times. Besides the elegant new
depot, now being erected, r. S. Downs,
Robert Cain and Ezekiel Fleming are all
building two-story houses.
The Milford Ne,os of Friday says The
balance of trade is now against Milford, as
we are buying more goods from the cities
than we are returning to them in sales of
produce. This leads to bankruptcy.
On Monday night week a young man
named Elliott attempted to cross the Della
ware railroad, near Laurel, ahead of the
night passenger train, and was struck by
the engine and almost instantly killed.
John OByrne was waylaid on Sixth street
Wilmington early last night and an attempt
made to assassinate him. He was knocked
down with a billy and badly, though not
seriously hurt. The assassin escaped.
"Sadie Bell" the Eastern Shore fast
trotter, created considerable excitement
among horse jockies while en- route from
Middletown to Accomac county, Va. Her
earning this season are said to be $500.
Uncle "Joby" Butterworth, a respected
old man of FELTON,, a lumberman, was in
the woods on Tuesday, 3lst ult., when,
somehow, a tree fell upon him, breaking
his arm and crushing his hand very badly.
The EGG TRADE-The eggs shipped from
Sussex county to New York and Philadel-
phia are said by our merchants to be of
twice as much value as all the grain sent
to market from the county !-MiItord Ne,cS
The Milford Glee Club, an old organiza-
tion, is again in training, and will give
entertainments during the season in Milford
and other towns on the Peninsula. Their
first entertainment will be given in Milford
on Friday evening next.
The grand stand on the Middletown
fair grounds came near being destroyed by
fire during the Democratic meeting held
there last week. A boy, smoking pipe,
set fire to some old paper ard stuff behind
it, and the flames were getting pretty fierce
when they were quenchsd.
Rev. J. B. Merritt, of Odessa, has sold
his farm at private sale in Rich Neck,
Queen Annes CO., Md, to John H. Evans
for $500 cash. This farm contains l0C
acres and is considered one of the most
productive farms in that county. Rev. Mr.
Merritt purchased it several years ago foI
$6,0O0.
Last Friday the scholars of the public
schools of Dover, under the management
of F. A. Williams, consisting of two car.
loads, attended the Centennial. Quite q
number of the parents of the pupils, and
other citizens, accompanied the excursion
as escorts. The fare was 81 for children
and $l.50 for adults accompanyin;
children.
The new brick depot at Harrington now
under construction is to be 80 by 70 feet
! with piazzas eight feet wide on the front
J and back of the building. 1t will be divi
ded into five rooms, as follows: ticke
Office, telegraph Office, ladies' and gents
waiting room, restaurant and kitchen
, The bricks will be laid in black morter ant
the roof of slate.
ANOTHER FIRE NEAR MILFoRD.-The larg
r new dwelling house of Jefferson Roe, tw
l miles north Of Milford, was burnt o.
7 Saturday night, the 2Sth inst. 1t COS
$1,000, was built two years ago and recent
b, vacated. The tenant lived in an olde
house some two hundred yards distant
3 Mr.. Roe and family were on visit Nortl
y and it is not known how much insuranc
!. there is on it. 1t is believed to be insured
:. however, for $1,000. There were no good
in the house except $50 bushels OF cor
E stored there a day or two previous to tn
= fire.
l. ESCAPED FROM JAIL.-Between and
$ o'clock last Friday morning four prisoner
Thomas Lawson, Henry Parker, Augustl
Painter and Jack Gordon, the frst-name
o white, and the others colored, escape
e from Jail at Georgetown. They had bee
q aided during the night by outside partie
10 who broke the fastenings on the outsiC
y gate, and when the prisoners were let in
IL the yard the next morning they easi
70 forced it open. Parker and Painter we
sc recaptursd in the fields and Lawson in Il
'e woods, near town, shortly after the
ID escape. Gorden is at large. Lawson is
Ut for nine months for burglary; he robb,
a the stations at Georgetown, Nassau al
OF Glendale, and q jewelry store at Milfor
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