Smyrna times., 1877-09-12
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

! COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
The new city council of Wilmington
stands - republicans and 9 democrats.
There are sixteen inmates in Dover iail.
Court commences the last week in October.
1t is stated that a paper to be called the
New Castle Times will be issued in that
town next Saturday.
Rhodes, the negro who killed Temple
near Wilmington, last Spring, is to be hung
at New Castle on Friday, 2lst.
1t is said that a thousand bushels of
oysters were taken from one bed on Jones
Creek on the first day Of this season.
The people of Seaford are complaining
about their high school taxes. 1t is SO easy
! and so natural to growl about taxes.
A man was found in cunning skiff one
morning last week at Augustine, near Port
Penn, with his gun lying by his side, shot
| dead.
The Bridgeville Fair will come off the
10th, 9th and 2Sth Of the present month.
1T promises to be great improvement over
| the last one.
Rev. Jas. w. Hoskins, formerly an Epis-
copal minister of Dover, died in Dorchester
CO., Md, last week. lie also used to preach
at Seaford and Laurel
The drying establishment of j. P. Holt.
near Magnolia, caught fire in some way one
day last week and was partially consumed.
lie is again operating it.
Reed-bird shooting is now the luxury of
Delaware City gunners. The marshes are
full OF them, and the law prohibiting the
slaughter of them ran out last week.
| Four separate delegations of Kent county
politicians went to Middletown to bore Gov.
| Cochran last week about the new Clerk of
the Peace to be appointed next Saturday
Big Frank staid in jail it is said longer
than he wanted to, waiting for Gov. Coch-
ran to pardon him, but the pardon was so
long coming that he got mad and went off
without it.
Frederick had sensation one day last
week. The town hall caught fire, but was
extnguished before much damage was
done. 1t is supposed to have been the
work OF an lncendiary.
On Monday week NJ II. Coates's resi-
dence, near Bridgeville, in Sussex, together
with all the household furniture, was
destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is
unknown; no insurance.
EvAPORATED FRrIT.-It is estimated that
about 10000 baskets of fruit have been
evaPorated on the Peninsula, producing
45O,OOO pounds of the cured produce, worth
at 3 cents pound-$67, 500.
The Middletown temperance workers
made a raid on Townsend last week. At
meeting there on Wednesday evening the
Methodist Church was crowded, and forty.
eight persons signed the pledge.
Big Frank went off with one of the KEYS
OF New Castle Jail. The Sheriff has the
other, but now, if bank burglar should
happen to be "jugged Frank could lust
hand him the key of the main door.
1t is stated that the return of Rev. Mr..
Haiderman, the cratic Baptist minister of
wilmington, has cut down Rev. Mr.
hramer's congregation considerably. Both
ministers preach Second Adventism.
The term Of William A. Moore, as Clerk
OF the Peace at Dover, expires next Satur.
day. There are four applicants for the
position, viz: William A. Moore, Presley
Spruance, Edmond Bailey and Robert
Raughley.
SERIOUS Academia man named VIM.
Marker, employed at the mills of J. Colby
Smith, at Willow Grove, south of Dover.
had his hand nearly sawed off bv a circular
saw one day last week 1t had to be
amputated.
ANOTHER HoTEL.-T. B. Merritt, pro-
pretor OF the U. S. Hotel in Wilmington,
the Gazette says, will build fine hotel at
Ocean City next season. This will make
| four hotels on the beach besides the excur.
! sion house.
The Milford Ne,os considers that farming
Is as much overdone as is any other bust.
ness, and protests that the government
snail not aid the cities to get rid of their
surplus population by setting the unem'
ployed up at farming.
Another boy has been shot by dragging
MS gun through bushes-a little fellow
named Woodrow, in Wilmington. 1t was
found necessary to amputate his hand
This is the third or fourth ac, ident of the
kind within two weeks.
CHURCH CONSIDERATION AT NEwPoRT.-
Bishop Lee, assisted by others of the Epis
copal clergy, consecrated a new Episcopal
Church at Newport, near Wilmington, las
Thursday. A very neat frame Chapel ha.
been built in the village.
The gayest inmate in Dover Jail il
Amanda "Coverdale," the magdalin from
this town sent there for vagrancy-to use
mild term. Sheseems to enjoy the notoriety
of being "jail bird, }" swears like trooper
and wants to join a circus.
, A Mr.. Mccartney, of Philadelphia, hal
bought out what there was left of tn,
Newark journal Office, and intends con
tinuing the paper under the name of tn,
Newark Ledger, the first number of which
will be issued next Saturday.
The town commissioners of Georgetown
had lawsuit recently with a citizen abou
lamp, and lost their case. IL made then
mad and they have refused to light tb,
street lamps, as if they run The town /,
! crafty their own personal spite.
s A SERIOUS CHARGE FOR CHURCH People
/ The Baptist Church in Baltimore Hid.
I Sussex CO., was destroyed by fire on Satur
I day the lst inst. The SUSSEX Journal saw
I, it was the work of an incendiary. Their
. has been considerable trouble among th,
i new and old School Baptists In that sec
s ton, and It is believed that some dissente
:, put the torch to the church, which was
"Campbleitep place Of worship.