Smyrna times., 1878-12-25
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

About $1,000 have been expended in re.
pairs on the Sussex County Almshouse.
Wilmington dogs are food for powder
since Sedgwick's death.
On January lst Bishop Scott and Dr.
Dashiell will dedicate Millions new NJ. f.
Church.
George Sedgwick, the hydrophobia vic
tim, was buried in West Wilmington on
Thursday.
The Haven Wooden Mills, Milford, have
closed for the winter, and about 25 work
men are thus thrown out of employment.
Mr.. Eli 7. Layton, overseer at the Kent
County Aims House, slaughtered last week
46 head of hogs, which weighed 1888
! pounds, or an average OF 3Ol pounds.
According to the Wilmington Repu6H-
can there are three hundred unlicensed
liquor houses in that City. No wonder the
| Whisky Ring cries for protection.
| The FELTON, entertainment will prove a
! failure, because the Seminary Hall cannot
be had for the purpose. The cause of the
refusal was that the play, Griffith Gaunt,"
is considered immoral.
The engineers who made a survey Of the
| Mispillion Creek report the expense of i'm.
proving the creek as follows: Removing
shoals $3.0O0 improvements at entrance OF
creek $1,000; a total Of $1,000.
The United States District Court in VIII.
mington had the Golden Grove libel suit
before it. The amount involved is $4,000
and the case very likely will go to the
Superior Court for a final decision.
The State Treasurer and the Auditor of
| Accounts have forwarded their reports to
the Governor, through the Secretary of
State, Hon. Ignatius G. Grubb. The re-
ports will not be published until after the
Inauguration, when they will, as usual, be
submitted to the Legislature.
The gentlemen owning " "Fairview Park -
farm have sold it to Hiram Smith and sons,
of Canada, for $S.000 There are 80 acres
in the farm. There were lis acres in the
farm originally, but 35 acres were sold off
to the Fairview Park Association. The
farm was sold through the agency of j. F.
Mancha.-iSentinel.
1t is pretty well known that the band ot
negro thieves who robbed Mr.. Cooks store
have been engaged in the desperate crime:
of burning the barns and dwellings near
FELTON,, and the sheriff of the county i:
hunting for them. There is some talk al
FELTON, of forming a vigilance committee
and if any Of these rascals should be caught
it would go pretty hard with them.
The Inauguration of Governor Hall
which occurs on the Dist of January, will
probably be brilliant Inauguration. Ar
rangements are being made for the enter
tainment of the guests of the occasion
4 The two militia companies of Wilmington
under the command of Major Samuel A
Macalister, will he present during the day
and, of course, will add very greatly to tn
" ecldt of the occasion. In the evening
d grand inaugural hop will be given in tn
D, Court House Hail.
A SHOOTING AFFAIR.-On Thursday,
:, shooting affair occurred at Harringto
:. which fortunately caused only Sigh
!, wOunding Of one of the parties. Edwar
!; Mileham and his wife had some dOmesti
!, trouble which her brother named Booth wa
6 into. When Mileham came home o
:. Thursday, finding Booth in his house tall
~ ing to his wife he became greatly incenseC
" High words followed. Both men drew r,
% volvers and fired at one another, which r.
- suited in Mileham being shot in the arm
l The Merchants Of Milford do not fe,
st very amiabe toward the managers of til
of }. d b. X. r. Co., because Of the fact thi
re it is running cheap excursion trains
a Philadelphia, and inducing the people
III go there and spend their money for Chris
y mas and winter supplies instead of speen'
Ye ing it at home, where it will return to the'
lr again in payment for eggs, butter, poulttr
RS ETC.. etc, which the town people requlr
to They think that the tendency IN the Gil
Us direction is already too strong for the goo
of tho country. and that If the people II
er tend TO do their shopping in Philadelph
al the sooner the merchants here pull U
ne stakes and 90 off to the city the bette
n The truth is that the country has got to
,e onIy a tail to the great city kite, and ever
:. body is beginning to discover the fact.-
til MiLford Nevs.