Smyrna times., 1877-03-14
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Thirteen divorce bills have been granted |
by this Legislature the last one being the |
Randall divorce.
Several farmers in the neighborhood of |
| Delaware City are about to remove to |
Florida to engage in orange growing.
| The House has passed the bill providing
for an Assistant Superintendent of public |
schools at a salary of 81 900 per annum.
There is a report that the two leading
dailies of Wilmington are going to consoli-
date, the Commercial and Ecery Erening, and
issue twocent daily.
Again the talk of constructing a narrow
gauge railway between Wilmington and
| New Castle is started, and books of sub
scription to the stock have been opened.
There is to be "a mission in the Catholic
Church at Dover, or what the Methodist
people would call a protracted meeting,
commencing the 2lst and lasting one week,
till Palm Sunday.
Tuesday afternoon, while colored man
was burning off the old sedge on the
meadows of Hon. j. P. Comegys, at Dover,
the fire communicated to stack of timothy
hay, in one corner of the lot, burning it to
the ground.
William A. Moore, Clerk of the Peace,
entertained the members of the Levy
Court at his house very handsomely last
, Wednesday evening. The true inwardness
of this affair is that Mr.. Moore is an appli-
cant for reappointment.
One day last week as a train on the
junction and Breakwater Railroad was
; coming into Milford, a horse in one of the
cars with two others) fell, or was thrown
from the car, seriously injuring him so that
) he will have to be killed.
f The ADJUTANT-GENERALsHIP.-There are
a number of applications to the Governor
! for the position of AdjutantGeneral of the
, State, which was resigned by the late Wm
Reynolds, just prior to his death. Among
the number is DR.. George Troupe Maxwell,
of New Castle, who is strongly urged.
r Thos. o. Culbreth, of Dover, also wants the
! place.
! The Middletown Transcript had box of
( wedding cake shipped to it last week, by
/ express, all the way from California from
j j. Fletcher Burris and wife. Mr.. B. is a
: young Middletowner, who went out there
last year and was made principal of a
school at $4,000 a year-and wife, The
r latter, however, is not furnished annually
T by the school.
!, Middletown is entitled to five town com.
i missioners, but at the town election on the
e 5th there was tie vote between two Of the
Il candidates, T. Massey and Geo. w. Wilson,
and as there is no provision in the town
charter for casting vote, in case of such an
event, neither could be declared elected
a and the town will have to make out with
n only four "town fathers"
BAD FOR SOME OF OUR LEGIsLAroRs.-Tht
n Dover Sentinel says:
" "If members of the General Assembly
IS a0W insist upon getting disgustingly drunk
and terribly disorderly, we beg them, fol
the sake Of the example, to conine the
d orgies to their own chambers. The con
duct of several of the members this session
e would disgrace the average hummer"
% bill has passed the State Senate t,
D. amend chapter % of volume ID, and re
duces the tax for State purposes on count,
assessments from ten cents on the 800 t.
g five cents on the 500. This bill is some
X what important one, as the tax at presen
al derived from this source amounts to some
~ thing more than 100000, which, under tn
x action of the bill, will be reduced to one
ar half.
CRUELTY TO A HoRsE.-Last Friday, il
:. Dover, Newman Linskey, pedlar, of tina
,. town, had hearing before Justice Dickson
FL charged, upon the oath of Thomas S
r. Clark, with overdriving and cruelty to
horse belonging to Clark and Battel
N, Under the act preventing cruelty
n animals, Justice Dickson fined the defenc
ne ant $50 and costs, which was prompt
1t paid.
at On Friday morning John A. Potter, c
Ie Little Creek Landing, had hearing befor
ar. Justice Dickson, in Dover charged wit
be stealing gold watch, the property of Z. Y
m, Donaldson, Baltimore drummer. 1t seen
nd that the parties were in bar room, an
pretty full, and in trying some slight.o
hand tricks, Potter played his part mo-
lis too well, for which he was held to bail i
1t 5000.
by POLITICAL AssAULT.-On Tuesday evenir
he last the Republicans of Bridgeville wei
is celebrating the Inauguration of Presidei
re- Hayes by torch-light procession, whe
az. they were hooted and assaulted by son
lat passionate Democrats. John r. Rckart
he demonstrated with them and advised the
his to behave themselves, whereupon he w
he assaulted and badly beaten by them
IS Milford NeOs.
ice AT a meeting of the Delaware Historic
ius Society, in Wilmington, last week, it W
no resolved that Mr.. Riddle be requested
Or prepare for this society paper commem
rative of the participation of the State
NIB. Delaware in the Centennial Expositio
of The subject of having meetings of Il
,he society in other towns in the State besid
out Wilmington was referred to a commit
ere for consideration.
Nv ~ There is said to be lively skirmi
'he ~, after the Postoffice in Dover. 1t is und
sy stood that Miss Fannie Smith, the Po
,v oF mistress, is going to resign; is going to {
~ "a well, we'll not say what, but she's goi
.a a. to quit the postoffice business and the 9
~; = plicants for her place are Andrew Smithe
,he Thos. Harper, David Clayton, Jas. Leth
- bury, John w. Forealxers and Henry :
he Cannon. So report says.
the POSTAL DIFFICULTY. p. w. &
tne Road have refused to carry the DELAYS
aen mail on their regular trains since Thursd
last. The Delaware mail is now thrown
we at the depot in this city from the 4.25
r of train going north, and remains here un
pei, the 5.42 train arrives when il goes on I
It is regular postal car, and is taken to Phi
sed delphia. The Delaware mail from Phi
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