Middletown transcript., 1878-04-27
State News.

Laurel, it is said, is improving rapidly.
Smyrna is having frequent temperance meet
ings
State papers are all silent on the peach ques-
ton this week
Camp meeting at Spring Branch, commenc-
ing July 18th.
Kent county farmers will soon have their
corn crop in the ground.
Mrs. NJ G. Collins of Smyrna, leaves that
town on Monday for Ireland.
The watering places are getting ready for
the early seeker of health and recreation.
A Sussex county correspondent ofthe Gazette
nominates Samuel Townsend for the next Gov
crnor.
VIM H. Doblc & Son, will give grand
opening at the Hares Corner hotel on the 7th
Of May.
Smyrna had a concert on Wednesday night
Prices Ochestra Of this town furnished the
music.
A New York man is prospecting in this
State for a suitable farm on which be proposes
to raise tea.
Mr.. Joseph Hoffecker, late editor of the
Smyrna Times is improving iu health though
yet unable to walk.
Lewes is to have grand May day celebra-
ton this year. Special trains are to run to
carry the people to that village
On Thursday Of last week the Republicans
of Kent county met in convention at Dover,
and quietly and peacefully laid the corpse
away.
John Wilkinson and VIM. McAfee, of Smyr-
na, and Iavid Jones, of Kenton, have each
been fined $50 and cost for selling liquor with
out license.
Sunday last Wilmington man attempted
to shake off this mortal colt in the waters of
the Christiana but a spectator hauled him out
by an unroma ntic boat-hook.
The wheat crop all over the State never
looked better than it does at this time 1t is
consoling to know that if we have no peaches
We will have some wheat.
We learn from the Smyrna Times that A.
Price Griffith has sold Miss Susan Elliss farm
of % acres, in New Castle county, between
Smyrna and Blackbird, to R. H. Civilian, of
N. y, for $3.50, cash.
The well-known Maryland and Delaware
Ship Canal project, which has claimed the at
tention of several Legislatures in this State, is
now receiving notice in the city Of Baltimore,
where proposition has been made in the City
Couucil to extend municipal aid to the pro-
posed canal.
We published several weeks since the verdict
of the jury in Philadelphia awarding the
widow Of Jacob p Boyer, formerly Of this
town, the sum of Sl2, 900 damages against the
Reading R. R. for running into a street car
and killing her husband who was passenger
therein. The R. R. company applied for a
new trial, but last week after a hearing was
overruIed by the court, but the award was re-
duced by the court from $l2, 900 to $40, OOO,-
Smyrna Times.
A BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT-A suit of
breach of promise has been entered in the Su-
perior Court Of Kent county, by Mrs Dilworth,
a widow, formerly of Mill Creek Hd., but now
residing in Wilmington, against John Peo-
pies, cashier of the Union National Bank,
Wilmington. The amount of damages is laid
at SIS, 600. The case will probably be tried at
the May term of court, and Mr.. Peoples has
retained Chas B. Lore and VIM. Spruance,
Esqs., as his counsel.
On Thursday last Charles E. Foxwell, pro-
prietor Of the Smyrna Hotel, died very unex-
pectedly after few hours illness. He had had
several severe attacks of heart disease in the
past year or two, and though not in robust
health, arose that morning as well as usual,
and was a corpse at the setting Of the sun on
the same day. "Charlie," as he was familiar
ly called, lived perhaps without an enemy,
and one SO good natured and genial, could not
but be everywhere liked. His greatest char
acteristic was generosity. It is said no one
ever applied to his table for meal and was
denied, whether he had the money or not and
his losses from his good heartedness were con-
siderable 1t is not known who will be his
successor yet, but most probably P. s. Col
Inns, Jr., who has had the principal charge Of
the house for the past year.-SHlyrna Times of
Wednesday.
The Easton Ledger says wheat is heading in
some fields of that section