Smyrna times., 1878-09-25
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Court meets in Georgetown Oct. If.

Court meets III Georgetown Oct. IL.
The horse disease is raging all down the
Necks in Kent and Sussex along the Della
ware shore and many horses have died of
it,
Robert Lewis, of FELTON,, was arrested on
Wednesday last by U. S. Marshal Mullen
on a charge Of selling liquor without pay
ing L. 5. tax. He was held in $500 bail
for his appearance at Court.
One day last week a needle one and a.
quarter inches in length was taken from
the right forearm OF Marian Cooper, dau.h-
ter Of Thomas b. Cooper, Of this county,
after having been in the arm for three
years.
Mr.. DeLamater, Of Milford, has few
young Eucalyptus trees TO dispose OF. He
procured the seed from Australia and has
raised the young trees. These trees are
reported to prevent maarial diseases, and
especially ague. The same gentleman has
also the largest castor oil plant ever grown
in this part of the country. 1t is eighteen
| feet high, six inches around the stalk, and
has leaves two feet in diameter.-Ntes
| At the foundry temperance meeting in
| Wilmington on Monday evening French
man declared that he had formerly been a
drunkard, and had ceased driking. Since
| that he said he had found these very times,
which so many are calling hard, the best
| times lie had ever known. That was a
| speech containing more wisdom, says the
| Ecery Ecentng, than all the speeches that
have been made in that city put together.
REPUBLICAN New CASTLE Co. NOMINATION.
| Except but in one or two Hundeds there
| nj ta1 in ID
publican nominations on Saturday. Mill
Creek is the only hundred that has nomi-
mated candidate for the Legislature
Abram Chandler. East Red Lion named
Edwin c. Reybold for Senator. No nomi.
nation election was held in st. George 5
hundred. With Pencader and Blackbird
hundreds yet to hear from, Philip r. Clark
Is set down as the nominee for Sheriff and
Thomas j. Bennett for Coroner.
SHERIFFs' SALEs-At the hotel of Alex
Maxwell, Middletown Saturday, Sept. 2Sth
real estate of George Foard situated in St
Georges Id.
At Newport, on Friday, Sept. 9th, real
estate Of Joseph S. Foreman, situated in
Christiana IId.
At New Castle, on Thursday, Sept. Goth
real estate Of John Bartholomew, situated
in New Castle lid.
In Camden, on Wednesday, Oct. 9th, rea
estate of Thos. b. Lewis situated in Nortl
, MurderkilI Hid.
: At FELTON,, on Wednesday, Oct. 3D. towi
. property Of VIM. II. Herring, situated il
! FELTON,.
> Pennington must be singing place, i
! what a correspondent Of the State SenttnC
says is strictly correct. "A choir of abou
q 400 voices met in the church on Sunda,
4 afternoon and filled the town with delight
). full musical strains As this about mum
+ bers the population of the little burgh, al
# the babies must have had a voice in thes
q musical strains"
:. MURDER IN MIDDLETOwN.-Early on Sur
o day morning in little suburb of Middle
e town, called Hamtown," terrible TRACED
&c occurred-a young colored man name
n George Draper killing John Wilson
another colored man, by blow with an a1
/ Between and o'clock, as Draper wa
H. cutting wood in the yard, Wilson cam
i, along and told him that he wanted him t
d put up the fence, and Draper replied that
"a would do so when he got ready. Afte
m telling him that he would do it before b
OF got ready, Wilson turned to walk ava,
e. when Draper called him black devil an
es declared that if he came on his premises h
IL would knock his head Off Wilson returne
I'd and dared him to do so, advancing towarc
re Draper with his hands in his pocket
IS, Draper then struck Wilson with the ak
to the instrument entering at the rigi
shoulder and cutting deep cash, runnir
as from the shoulder obliquely down to I'll
b. breast, cutting through the shoulder Dor
q and severing an artery. Only one bio
k was struck, and Wilson, staggering, turne
ce and walked away from his assailant, sayln
he :" Lord have mercy on me-" He wallle
an about 25 yards, when he fell and expire
le- almost instantly.
ne Draper Immediately went into Middl
II. town and surrendered himself to Constab
y, Rothwell, and, after the Coroner's inques
B. was committed to New Castle Jail.
80, Draper is young man 81 years old, h
been married year and worked for Rot
he A. Cochran. Wilson was 35 years old, We
lg, stout, and quarrelsome and overbearin
ay The murder seems to have been entire
unpremeditated.