Smyrna times., 1878-10-02


rently reported, with the nomination of
the Greenbackers for Congress.
John C. Clark, of Red Lion hundred,
New Castle county, has filed petition in
bankruptcy and notified his creditors to a
meeting. His liabilities are $4,000.
Samuel Roberts announces through the
Gazette his declension of position on the
Temperance ticket. Dean, Appleton, Town
send and others have also withdrawn.
The Grand Stand at the Middletown Fair
has been enlarged to a seating capacity of
1900 to 1000. The stock exhibited will be
larger, it is said, than at any former exhibi-
ton.
Hon. Daniel NJ. Bates George II. Bates,
Esq, and Austin Harrington, ESQ, have
| associated for the general practice of the
law, under the firm,name of Bates & Har-
rington.
| Andrew Frazer, the Wilmington boy who
fell from tree on Sunday afternoon, the
22d inst, died from his injuries at the City
| Hospital, Wilmington, on Saturday morn.
ing last.
Z. NJ. Stotsenburg, Warren Garrett and
other well-known Wilming ngtonians are
about starting for Texas with the intention
of engaging in business there, probably in
raising stock.
| STRANGE THETT.-On Friday evening some
rogue slipped into the Union M. f. Church,
Wilmington, j. b. Mann, pastor, and stole
q small clock which hung against the wall
In the library room while prayer meeting
was in progress in an adjoining class room.
1t is stated that a season ticket to the
Dover fair costing $3.50 was so used as to
admit sixteen persons. If there were many
such industrious tickets in circulation, the
discrepancy between the crowds inside and
the admission fees can very well be ac-
| counted for.
DIED FROM HIS INJURIEs.-Andy Moore,
the colored man who was shot on Wednes.
day night last at New Castle by Israel
Loatman, died at the Almshouse Saturday
morning, from the injuries that lie received.
The difficulty arose over Loatmans wife,
The time used to be when the people
looked to the Wilmington papers for the
itemized daily news of the Peninsula, but
since they have almost vacated the field in
this particular, the people are looking to
the Philadelphia dailies, which are supply
ing this deficiency.
Sheriff Grubb, on Saturday last sold at
the hotel of Alexander Maxwell in St.
Georges hundred, two tracts of land in
said hundred, one containing 232 acres of
upland and ll2 acres Of marsh, the whole
of the property of George II. Foard to Jas.
NJ. Vandegrift for $l0,550.
Rev. ]. B. Mann says that the discipline
of the M. E. Church cannot now be en-.
forced, because the whole body has gone so
far away from the old landmarks that no
pastor would be sustained in such an effort.
| The Church is dominated by the world
IN such way that it has no independence
The Gazette, after praising Thurman's
views on the financial question and sneer-
at those of Senator Bayard and encouraging
i'll every way to the best of its ability, the
growth Of a greenback sentiment in Della
ware, now turns around and attacks the
Greenbackers for presuming to put a ticket
in the field.
Robert Milligan McLane, candidate for
Congress from Baltimore in Swann's dis.
trict, is a Delawarean by birth and now
seventy-three years old. His father, Hon.
Louis McLane, who was Secretary of the
Treasury and Secretary of State under
jackson, and twice Minister to Great
Britain, was one Of the most distinguished
sons delaware ever had.
A PICKPoCKET ARRESTED. D.-Detectiye VIM.
Legg arrested an old colored woman last
Saturday morning on the charge of pocket
picking. She was sitting alongside of q
lady at the P, W. e. R. r., Wilmington,
and seeing the lady place her pocket book
in her pocket, she soon distracted it.
After doing so she hastily left the room
with it in her possession.
All the Delaware and Eastern Shore
papers are growing about the new arrange
ment for the mails on the Delaware Rail
road. Freight inconvenience is also felt
1t is stated that unless some change shall
be made the oyster business at Cambridge
will be destroyed. Oysters shipped from
that point to New York are one day later
in reaching their market.
The Republicans of New Castle county
have nominated q ticket chiefly, it is be
lieved, with the view of giving Phil Clark
an opportunity to run for sheriff against
Mr.. Pyle, the Democratic nominee. Mr.
,, Clark is said to be very popular man, anG
as many Democrats are dissatisfied at the
Ring Rule" in their party on this sheriff
matter it is said that many of them will
vote for Mr.. Clark.
/ A NEwARKER TAKEN IN.-The Philadel
/ phia Sunday World says that James Carroll
= of Newark, Del, on Saturday wanted t.
0 buy horse, and he fell in with JOSEPH
r Sweeney, at Ninth and SAMSON streets
t Joseph played the "gyp" game on him fol
5 $50, consisting in showing him horse tha
he alleged was his, and getting deposit or
it. When Carroll to get it it was founc
to belong to some one else. Sweeny wal
held in $500 bail.
: FOUND DEAD.-The dead body of mar
e named William Mooney, or Mundy, wa
. found lying by the side of hay stack
" near Wilmington, on Sunday last, in al
. advanced stage of decomposition. Deceased
4 was q horseshoer by trade, but for lon.
r time had been addicted to the intemperatC
Q use OF liquor, and is supposed to have dice
r in drunken fit. He had been about Will
r mington for fifteen years, going there from
I Baltimore, where it is thought his wife il
g now living.
GREEN BACK TICKET.-Just % delegates
a met in New Castle on Saturday, and made
! out the following ticket for New Castle CO.
r State SenatorS-Albert H. Weld, Brandy
s wine Hd.; John Rumor, Christiana Hd.
;. RepreSentativeS-Benj. L. Kent, Whining
ton Hd. Jacob Satterthwaite, Mill Creel
!, Hd.; j. B. Henry, Red Lion, HID; Ander
J. son Smith, White Clay Creek HID; Geo
e W. Dickinson, New Castle Hd.; VIM
@ Andrew Hukill, St. Georges Hd.; Geo. d
q townsend, Appoquinimink Hid.