Smyrna times., 1878-05-22
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


hold their next session at Laurel, this
week.
1t is said the present term of Court, at
New Castle, will cost the county $4,000 less
than the last term.
A large rock-fish was caught in the Della
ware opposite Pennsville, last Wednesday,
weighing 60 pounds.
Mr. Charles c. Coolbaugh, of Canterbury,
has received the contract from the Della
ware Railroad Company to build their new
grain depot at that place.
SO far ten salmon have been caught in
the Delaware this season, weighing from
| II to IA lbs. One caught last week at Bill
lingsport, by Daniel r. Davis, weighed 81
TBS, and sold for 80
SALES SET AslDE.-The sheriff sale of
properties Nos. and 3 of John NJ. Woods,
sold at Odessa March 2lst, were ordered to
be set aside by the Court for Irregularities
and inadequacy of price.
Moore and ballard who robbed McCul.
Tough & Co., shoe store in Wilmington two
or three weeks ago, were detected and
arrested in Philadelphia, and were yester-
day committed to New Castle Jail.
The Dover folks are turning telephonists.
| The Sentinel has one connected with w. B.
Smiths .iewelry store, and Mr.. Mancha has
one reaching over to the Court House, on
which was played game Of chess.
The impression now is that the peach
crop in the section around Wyoming will
be quite as large as it was last year, when
Wyoming was the banner station, shipping
more fruit than any other place on the line
of the road.
The excitement over the Holden. Lewis
affair at FELTON, has somewhat queted
down. On Friday all the parties went over
to Harrington where they INDUCED in a
series of law suits, each being held in from
500 to 5000 bail to keepthe peace.
The Milford Basket Co. sold all its evap.
grated fruit for 30 cents a pound. One OF
our citizens has Just sold out his evaporated
fruit at 80 cents. 1t is believed that the
! demand for this fruit this season will be
) much larger than ever before.-NecS.
4 On Thursday about II o'clock the store
Of j. c. Fennimore, in Leipsic, belonging tC
3 William Denney, jr., caught fire and was no
;. put out before the roof was nearly destroy
ed. 1t caught from defective hue Los
5 about 5000, which is covered by insurance
= | III thC AShC OOuutJ W
I Says the Susser .Jocrnql: Query If Mr.
!. Mancha's excursionsts only buy thei
a tickets from Canada to Dover and back
4 will they be able when they get back hom
q to tell what a splendid little State Della
|. ware is? Delaware, without Sussex,
r almost as bad as Shakespeare's Hamlet witt
q the part of the Prince left out.
Il Tha DoZo,r,re,n oopn,onts ,,,G,yoro J.
: about the crowds of men that stand aroun,
the church doors in Dover when the cor
3 gregations are coming out. 1t uses yer
!, plain language in describing the habit
y and says that young man wishing t
= escort lady home should sit with her, an
thus come out together, and not stan
y gaping at the door like an idiot.
le A correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA
IS Times, writing from Middletown, state
N there would be three and half millio
e, baskets of peaches shipped over the Del
ID ware railroad. Samuel Townsend write
le that this correspondent "must have som
TX private motive for Icing" He says thel
as will be light crop Of peaches, and if ii
u weather Of the past week continues, thei
IN may be none at all.
~ A New FRUIT DRYING FACToRY.-Milfol
10 is to have another large fruit drying factor
no 1t is now in process Of construction and
ss to be located on the lot formerly occupiC
no by the Alden Factory. The building is
All be Al x 60 feet, two stories high, and
have four of the largest sized Automat
dryers. Milford and vicinity now has t.
.st of these fruit curing factories and all a
is, doing well at the business.-Ne,0s.
10 10 A. NJ. Z. APPoINTMENTs.-The African
~ E. Conference which concluded its labo
ny in Philadelphia Thursday, made the folio
aI ing appointments for this State: Station
oi Wilmington, G. G. Felts; Smyrna, C.
y, Grun; Circuits, Frederick, P. Lowbe
~ Milford, J. S. Watson Laurel, A. G. Ian
ey Mount Friendship, Willis N. Bowma
I'e Crun Castle. to be supplied Camden,
ne Pritchard; Georgetown, j. w. Davis;
,nS ,nS missions, Wilmington is to be supplied.
EN-. A Position OF IoNoR.-Rev. j. II. W
art ley, a member of the graduating class
riz- Drew theological Seminary, and who,
g the recent session of the Wilmington CC
Ike ference was assigned to Townsend, DE-
cir has been chosen by the Seminary class
,ht deliver the class.address at the commen
md ment, and has gone to Madison, n. j.,
Gus that purpose. Mr.. Willey's theme is " I
of Humanists." The honor thus conferr
llts upon Mr.. Wiley is one OF which he
ned worthy, and the position one he will
yer with credit to the SeminaTy.-'H M'chc
'ost Comet.
er 'n THE BENNETT-MAY DUEL.-The accou
,om t". of the Bennett May duel fought on the
~ ~ of January, 1877. on the Md. & Del. r:
"~o ,e1o near Marydel, still fresh in the minds
~ w our readers, is now claimed to be imperie
na ,nS The surgeon DIR. Phillips says: 81
Ah int parties took their places and the word '
.o given to FIRE. The direction was to
~ at the word fire and not after the w
o ~ three. Almost instantly upon the W.
i tI Nav fred. One two, three followed q
.oat on1 Bennett, who pulled at his trigger q
AM an evidently with the best will in the wol
icy, ..y did not succeed in getting his weapon
'uAe He was baffled by the hardness or rat
IL. ~ stiffness of the lock. His second at Of
oano WIG interposed and claimed that as Bennettl
oee' ~ suffered his risk and disadvantage throl
~, no fault of his own, he was entitled
Ivy return shot at May. This being accord
o.. to the rules twas, Of course, allowed, {
,ess Bennett fired in the air and Mays life
av saved.
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