Smyrna times., 1878-06-26
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
DR.. Isaac w. X. Handy, PRESBYTERIAN
minister well known on the Peninsula,
died on Friday last in Philadelphia.
Rev J. NJ Williams, A. NJ, President
elect of Wesleyan Female College, reached
Wilmington on Monday with his family.
A Fair and Festival will be held at Town
send on the evenings of July ID and 3d,
under the auspices of the Mite Society of
the NJ. +. Church.
On Tuesday of last week the stores of
Clayton Wllds and f. b. Rice in Middle
town, were both entered by prying open
the doors with Jimmy" Loss triEing.
IT CAN BE DoNE.-If our people will do
it, they can make our county as free from
crime as Kent and Sussex, and our iails as
free from criminals. Set your faces against
crime and whisky eXcesses, and you can do
1t. You are as good as the people of lower
Delaware Wilmington Gazette.
Delaware will not send professed lobby
| ist and gambler to represent her in Con.
gress. Certainly not; neither will she send
a dimijohn there to loaf about the House
unable to talk to gentleman because of
the detestable smell of whisky.-Ga=ct
Now you are talking, friend Johnson.
SALE OF ROLLING MILL PEoPERrY.-The
sheritf's sale of the personal property of
the j. Marshall Rolling Mill Company, of
| Newport, last week, was well attended, and
the machinery sold for $4,000. As the ap.
prasement was $l7,000 the price obtained
is regarded as very fair for forced sale
DDr e Al
Camp, which commences on July 18th have
been awarded as follows: Bread and pro
vision, Melvin Brothers of Frederick, for
$l45; food pen to Minnor & farrell. for
$50. and the boarding tent to S. G.. Simkins
for $50. About 80 tents were contracted
for, which is the same number nearly as
usual at Spring Branch.
DROWNING OF Two LITTLE BoYs.-Two
boys, Franklin 3. Corson, aged years, and
Willie Nickers, aged years, were drowned
at Wilmington, in the Christiana river, the
former on Thursday and the latter on
Saturday. Both were cases of accidental
drowning; the boys having fallen into the
stream while playing along its bank, and,
being unable to swim, were drowned.
THE PEACH CRoP.-A correspondent in
yesterdays E0ery Eveaiag gives the latest
estimate of this crop as follows: Laurel,
where the largest quantity will be shipped
from, 100000 baskets; Bridgevile where
over a quarter of a million baskets were
shipped last year, l2,000 along the juno
ton Il Breakwater r. r. one quarter of a
crop; including all the feeders to the
main line 100000 baskets from the Pen.
insula.
WANTS FAIR Playa PENNSYLVANIA paper
in speaking Of strawberries says that the
small berries are invariably crowded to the
bottom, while the large ones peep out from
the top of the box. 1t says: . Let some
one produce variety where every berry
has an equal show. If there are anv small
ones let them be seen; let the strawberry
/, , bulldozing be done away with. Give us a
variety that knows how to do fair things
: one in which the large berries are not
always on top"
, \ FULL RIPE PEACH.-Able Spence oil
/, Greenwood left full ripe peach at this
office on Thursday last, grown on a seed
l ling tree from Hales Early. 1t measured
S six inches in circumference weighed 2
; ounces and was highly colored. The tree
0 has about basket full on it. and one fourtl
2 of them are now ripe. The tree is now 81,
| years old. 1t ripens about three weeks
!. ahead of Hales, and two weeks ahead oil
the Beatrice. In appearance it resemble:
/ the Hale, but does not rot.-lNItord Nclcs
MILFORD News ITEMs.-" One dollar
basket" is now the speculative price asked
= for peaches delived at the railway station
At Georgetown they are offering so cts. pc
basket.
> The appropriation bill as passed by Con
gress has $4,000 for survey of the Miss
pillion River.
: Our peach growers are getting to be dis
/ couraged. Most of the fruit that hum
: upon the trees two weeks ago is gone, an,
= now it begins to look as though Ken
6 County would have no peaches of any &C
= count. In Eastern Sussex the promise is
:. little BETTER but even there the crop will b
. very small.
y A TALE OF THREE CITIEs.-1 TIlasnqto
: Father AJductS HIS Boy from tie .nothcr an
h Tries to Sell Him.-rhe attention of th
It Society to Protect Children from Cruelt
10 was directed few days ago by the secretar
10 of the Delaware Society for the Preventio
a. of Cruelty of Animals to a remarkable cas-
D. of child abduction. Norris C. Pass, wit
Ie his wife and child, Robert Lee Pass,
y, graceful, handsome boy, little over thre
n years of age, named after the Confederat
s, chieftain, resided until lately in Wilmins
le ton. The husband became dissolute an
ID went away from his home. In Februar
g last he stole secretly by night to Mrs. Pas
ic house and stole her beautiful boy. Tn
a agonzed mother, who realized intutiveI
I'd who the abductor was, enlisted her frienC
in search for the child, but unavailingly.
IS, The discovery of the boy was, howeve
e. made in a curious manner recently in Ne
at York. Secretary Fellows. of the Ne
I'll Society to Protect Children from Cruelt
le heard that a man had offered to sell fC
10 $500 little boy of notable beauty. II
or took measures which frustrated the atteml
en- of the man who proved to be Pass. ri
ir secretary secured possession of the chill
is and notified Secretary Crew, of the Phil
%. delphia society. Mrs. Pass, who now +
sides on Mount Vernon street, abo,
'st Twenty-second, in this city, made af1idav
", for writ of habeas corpus to regain custoC
ut of the kidnapped boy, and it will be fc
We warded to New York, whereupon the lit
m fellow will be restored to his mother.
in. PhiLd. Times.