Smyrna times., 1878-06-12
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Good crops Of all kinds are expected in
Sussex.
Ex-Marshall Damn has gone to North
Carolina prospecting for gold.
Immigration from the North to the
lower Peninsula is steadily increasing.
Sussex county boasts of a field of orchard
grass, in which the grass is feet ) inches
high.
1t is said that there is not a good wheat
thresher anywhere in the vicinity of George
town.
The NJ. +. Church at Camden is being
thoroughly renovated inside, and the out
side will be painted.
John K. Mote, Pencader Hundred, has
a gray Durham cow that gives 24 quarts of
milk a day, and makes Is pounds of butter
a week.
J. S. Patric, a greenbacker" and an ad.
herent of the Democracy, will hold joint
discussion on the merits Of their respective
parties in Seaford this evening.
Mr.. Runyon Toms who is to be the sue.
| cessor of Mr.. Fountain as proprietor Of the
Douglass House, Rehoboeh City, is from
Trenton, N. j., and was keeper of large
hotel in that place.
There are this year ~ persons growing
! sugar beets with a view of contending for
the prizes offered by the Commissioners in
Kent county-more than there are in either
of the other counties.
Rev. VIM. P. Davis sprung a collection
on the Dover congregation on Sunday in
aid of the Conference Academy, and got a
collection of S200-one tenth of the
amount assessed to the Wilmington Con-
ference.
The FIRST PEACHEs.-The first shipment
Of peaches through Wilmington took place
Saturday night, car load being shipped
via the P. w. a. B. r. r., from West Point,
Virginia, to New York. The peaches were
small but of good quality.
Odessa bears off the palm in avoirdupois
ten men that pull down the scales at
$3.50 tbs., ten pounds more than the long
ton. The heaviest man of the lot weighs
800 pounds. The same town boasts some
we'll kept women, but not SO numerous as
the men.
Mr.. Mancha has sold the farm of Mr.
John c. Pennewill, situated on the Little
Creek Landing road, and one mile from
Dover, to Rev. Charles +. Peake, of New
York, for $7,500-150 acres at $50 per acre
Mr.. Peake is from Mohawk Valley, n. Y
The farm is purchased as a home for hi:
parents.
CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBIA.-Sincet the death
of the little boy Corson, in Wilmington
from hydrophobia, there has been consid
cradle uneasiness about this disease. SAM
Townsend claims to have a recipe bought
by his father 20 years ago from a German
doctor, then in Appoquinimink Hundred
} that has not failed when the pills were
J taken in time to prevent hydrOphobia. HI
has supplied a great many with them.
THE WORTHLESS CURs.-The dog excite
ment still continues in Wilmington and thu
public sentiment remains as strong as i
was several days ago. In that city ther,
are probably $500 dogs, only about 400 o
, which are registered. The city ordinanc
authorizes all dogs not registered to bt
impounded, killed and buried, and ther
is considerable stir, especially among tn
, lower classes who have sometimes three o
! four dogs, when the family has hardly tn
means of support.
Q A FULL VoTE.-At the vote on Satul
Y day in Wilmington for Democratic cand
dates for Sheriff and Coroner, the vote wa
2 500 more than the party ever polled at
!. general election. The vote of the part,
t two years ago in Christana Hid. was 90
t while last Saturday it was 400. In the Sec
t Ond Ward at the last city election the vote
S Republican and Democratic combined, onl
n reached 3S2, while at the nomination Of
s Saturday the vote reached 500, nearly twic
f as many voters as there are in the Who'll
= ward.