Smyrna times., 1877-11-14
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Two Milford sportsmen bagged. ono 70
and the other ca partridges in one day.
recently.
The Delmarvia fruit drying establish.
ment' ut Mlddletown, is to be sold on the
2lst inst. for non-payment of taxes.
LARGE YIELD.-The Seaford Tader is in.
formed that eX-Gov. Ross has raised OH
bushels OF Snow Flake potatoes on one.
sixth of an acre of land.
Charles E. Anderson of Middletown
announces himself as a candidate for sheritf
IN 1878, subject to the consideration of the
! Democratic Convention
Elias Russell, living near Frcderica, owns
a hFiirr which is only nine months old.
that gives three quarts of COOL milk per
day, and has never had a calf
SHERIFFs SALR-Sheriif Grubb. on Mon.
day week, sold the farm of Benjamin Loyd.
OF st. Georges Hundred, to a Thomas p
Mattock, of Chester CO., Pa. for $500
a correspondent of Erery Ere.i,1 oaI
Conmcrctol states that Gen Torbrrt will
soon be superseded at Paris, bat that he
Will 6e retained in the Consular service.
Rev. j. II. Caldwell, of Dover. will lee.
tLre IN the Presbyterian Church in Ken.
nedyrllle, on Tuesday evening. Nov. 20
Proceeds for the benefit of the Sunday
School.
Henry r. Diaper, near Wyoming, pulled
70 pumpkins from a volunteer vine in his
| cornheld, this year, the nine largest of
which weighed 236 pounds; the whole of
them, 366 lbs.
The efforts to catch the robbers of Mr..
Connor's store at FELTON, have proved un.
avalllng. A portion of their plumber was
found on the Canterbury road, indicating
their line OF travel.
DR.. R. NJ. Waldrop, gentleman of high
standing and Influence in Gporgia, and
son-ln-law of Rev. j. II. Caldwell, OF Dover.
dled at his home in that State on the 81
inst, after a weeks illness.
STORE ROBBED IN SussEx.-The store Of
NJ. ii. Z. Wilson, at Johnson's Cross Roads.
IN the neighbOrhood of Seaford, was entered
last Thursday night and robbed of money.
boots, shoes, &c. Loss not known.
Chas. Griffin, an industrious Young color.
ed man near Camden, had saved up enough
money to build himself Il house. and had
purchased the lumber, but few nights AGO
the whole pile was consumed hy fire.
Henry Abrams, of Wilmington. was
Knocked down and robbed at his own gate
on Shlpiey Street on Monday night week.
lie lost $50 watch and $34 in money, and
was knocked insensible into the bargain.
No arrests.
large sturgeon was caught in the mill
pond OF Jas. Rawlins at Middleford,
village between Seaford and Georgetown
one day last week. 1t weighed IS lbs
when cleaned. Some of the people thought
1t was a whale
Edmond Bailey, of Canterbury, the head
Office seeker of lower Kent, wants to he
Register OF Wills, in as much as he didn't
get the Clerk Of the Peace's offices. J.C
Pennewill, the present Register is anxious
for reappointment.
SALE OF THoRorGH-BRED SrocK-L. p
McD1well Of Middletown has lust returned
from Southern Ohio with fine lot of Short
Horn Durham cattle, which he viii! offer At
public sale on the Fair grounds there. on
Saturday next, at l O'clock, P NJ.
The Local Preachers Association of
Wilmington Conference, will hold u Semi
annual session at Marydel, commencing on
Friday evening 10th, Saturday 18th and
Sunday 18th. Essays, sermons and other
appropriate exercises, will occupy the time.
APPOINTED MIssIoNARY.-Miss BERTHE
Houston, daughter of Rev. j. l.. Houston.
a Methodist minister now of Wilmington.
has accepted the position of a missionary at
Ning-po, China, under the PRESBYTERIAN
Board of Missions. Miss Houston will
leave Tor her destination in the course of
two weeks.
The subscriptions to the fund for the start.
ing OF the agricultural fair grounds at Dover
now amount to $4,000 and it is promised
to organize the society surely on the 4th of
December. But $4,000 is not making
much headway in raising funds for an or. |
ganization that is to cost $4,000. The |
organization seems to hang fire.
HANDS BADLY BURNED.-Joseph G. Brown,
teller of the Odessa Bank, was very badly
burned about the hands one day last week |
lie Was cleaning pair of kid gloves, and |
putting them on his hands poured benzine
over them, and was rubbing his hands |
together when the vapors arising iynited |
from lamp on the stand, and before the |
gloves could be torn off the hands were
burned in huge blisters.
"AEAN,- -AC mop gwen In w wilmington |
one night last week by an association of |
young men known as the Pine Knot Asso. |
citation, Thomas Leay, who was some |
what intoxicated, took cup Of hot coffee |
from waiter and threw it in the face of |
Frank B. Grubb, scalding him in painful |
manner. He had been refused the coffee |
until after the ladies were served and it
made him mad.
Bro FIRE.-The celebrated Garret snuff |
mills, about IL miles above Wilmington, |
were totally consumed by fire last Saturday |
morning between and 3 o'clock. This is |
the second time these mills have been con. |
sumed within the last ten years. The loss |
is immense. The mills are two in number |
joined close together, one of which had |
only been completed some four or five years |
ago, and was built in such substantial |
manner that it was considered fireproof. |
The supposltion is that the fire was caused |
by the heating of some machinery in the |
upper story. Il is said that the new addi. |
tion to the mill, with its machinery cost
the firm not less than $4,000, and the old |
mill was valued at $4,000, which with the
stock which was on hand it is supposed |
would run the total loss up to nearly $780,.
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