Smyrna times., 1878-12-04

wrecker, will be arraigned in the Ne" ia
Castle Court to-day. II
Major S. A. Macallister, of the First Fl
Regiment, Delaware volunteer militia, has q
prepared militia bill for our legislature h
The fifth dog has gone mad at New o
Castle since Major Dobb was bitten by the c
Newfoundland. Sixty dogs have been xii
led.
Dover is thinking that police force
would be be Just the thing now. The f
Legislature will assemble there soon now, ;
you know. 7
No one is allowed to hold converse with
the colored man Jones, now held as q wit
ness in New Castle Jail. " lnterviewcrs"
are not admitted.
Chief Justice Comegys will not address
the Sussex teachers at the Institute, which
meets at Lewes to-day. the Rev. Mr.
Bristor will take his place.
Fifty thousand gallons Of oil have been
taken from the stranded Norwegian bark
near Lewes Hose was run off to the beach
and the oil pumped through it into casks.
DEPUTY APPOINTED Worthy Chief
! Templar, Rev. A. d. Davis, has appointed |
Frank Whelcn District Deputy G. w. G. +. |
of the |. 0. of G. 7. for New Castle County. |
Lowe & Collins store at Little Creek |
| Landing, Kent county, was broken into !
on Thursday night Of last week and robbed /
of about one hundred dollars worth OF
goods
No stake was driven through the body of
the old suicide, Joab Cloud hat the body
was respectfully inferred along with copy
of his curious letter in the Brandywinc
Cemetery.
Miers r. Richards Il merchant doing
business for several years past near Lewes,
has bought q large steam mill at ST.
Mch@ls, and will remove to that town in
a few weeks.
5 Miss Gerte Bunnell SO delighted the
citizens of Lewis last week, that they
t handed over to her the whole gross receipts.
| She read before Is Milford audience last
l night in the interest Of the Presbyterian
t Church.
GONE TO CALIFoRNIA-Wm. II. Newton,
, Esq, and family sailed from New York on
: Saturday for San Francisco. Mr.. Newton is
> a son Of Hon. Albert O. Newton, of New
! Castle county, and a young gentleman Of
= fine scholarly attainments.
If SATURDAYS WHlrpIxG.-The only prisoner
e whipped at New Castle Saturday was an
5, old colOred man, named Robert Brainard,
e who was convicted Of stealing a saddle and
j. bridle from VIM. f. Eiiason. Ten lashes
i. were the extent of justice moeted out to
$ him and they were lightly laid on.
n Charles Jones, an insane young man q
Z years of age, 81 feet high, stout built, black
10 hair, small mustache, with 4 scar over his
III left eye, left home on Sunday night week
y Any one giving information of his where
abOuts will confer favor on John /. Jones
is Dover, Del.
HousE BURxED-Thc dwelling Of Phillip
5. Graham, living on the road from Nc
ae Donough to Port Penn, caught fire from
"a spark from a chimney on the morning 0
ey the Goth ult and burned to the ground, tC
1e gether with nearly all his furniture. Los
Oy about $4,000. Insured in the Kent Count
PS Mutual for 81 ,43O
TO KILLED HIS Own HoEsE-On Frda
in j. Hannum was driving his horse an
us cart along Second street in Wilmington
int and on going up the hill near West stree
he it began to back. After some effort to gt
we it up the hill and failing, IIannum seize
of a club and struck it a blow on the hcaC
his killing it instantly.
cry The present term of New Castle Cou
rs promises to be long and expensive on
A great number Of petty cases from Wi
'"k mingtOn will amount to a very little an
vas cost a great deal. Without WilmingtC
lth the court business of that county would
es- light and inexpensive, which is a goo
,ar argument in favor Of county division.
Of A FATAL LEAP.-Sunday morning yom
ner man named John Ryan, living with Mr..
in NJ. Ferris, near Edge Moor, went into w
our mington to attend church, and visit
mt friends. In the evening, accompanied by
on relative, he went to the depot to take t
Won $50 accommodation train north, but
5et. mistake got on the express, which was lat
the and which does not stop at Edge Mo-
the The train was going at a good rate of spe
scat as it passed the lat ter place, Ryan spra
ON. off striking the ground head first wi
cht great force. His neck was broken and
best was instantly killed.
ays, The Peninsular Ne,cS, until recently o
'eent of the most radical Republican papers, al
ing whose editor, DR.. Prettyman, had 10
m. pull at the federal teat and whose advoca
tryE now of /" solid south " in alliance with t
unit greenback element Of the North for I
Will sole purpose of defeating the Republica
ould causes the Wilmington RepuJhcdn to say
.'..;; "The Ne,cs certainly has the Greenba
ana fever bad. Who would have thought Il
dld the gifted and talented Prettyman wol
VINO have been found now stabbing the pa
erti- that fed and fattened him. Republics, i
MS said, are ungrateful, but here we hay
e re- proof that individuals are still more so.
lrst
,oice Samuel Townsend, the sage of Appoqu
and mink, has written letter to the M07
heir Herald against the selection of ChestertC
btors as the capital for new Peninsular 81
rtest (Which some one had suggested in
next saying that it was enough to excite the
|" of position Of all Delawareans to the sche
good To which the Centreville Observer says:
ks of "We think so too. We are opposed
each. Chestertown as the capital. Towns
com. ought to be the capital, and Sam. Towns
bath elected Governor for life. Until tha
their agreed upon you may count on our OPP
,etra. ton to the scheme, and when that is d
, par. we shall simply move into some OF
their State"
will THE DOBsoN CAsE.-No new deve
time ments are assured in the Dobson case,
pass there is rumor to the effect that Const
some Truman Rose is in possession of such
name formation rs leads him to doubt the 6
II the or at least, to modify the grade of
tmas. offence of Mrs. Dobson and her two allie
one accomplices, Vincent and Newcomb. J
hings Dodson was released on $1,000 bal
Saturday. C. B. Lore and Geo. Gray, Is
- it is said, have been employed to del
). Mrs. Dodson, and the young men Vim
,,inc and Newcombe. The negro Jones is W