Smyrna times., 1878-02-13
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Onad nave appeared IN the Dover
markets.
An insane department is to be added to
the Sussex almshouse.
Revivals appear to be going on in very
many of the churches on the Peninsula.
Mr.. N. B. Appleton is out as temper
anc6 candidate for sheriff for New Castle
county.
The property of the Delmarvia Manu-
featuring Co., at Middletown, is advertised
at sheriff sale.
One thousand channel crabs were taken
to Milford last week. Something unusual
this time of the year.
! The meeting of the Kent County Quar-,
t~rly Association Of Good Templars will be
held in the town of Magnolia, on the 2Sth
| inst.
PERsoNAL.-Messrs.W Wells and butcher.
il is announced, are coming down the
State on Monday, on their temperance
| tour.
Anthony Higgins, ESQ.,, has resigned the
position OF President of the Wilmington
Fibre Company, and Caesar A. Rodney sue
ceeds him.
The ladies connected with the NJ. +.
Church at Odessa will hold fair and festi-
val on the evenings of the goth, 2lst and
23I Of February.
a vote was taken in Democratic store
IN this county last week, when Hall had 10
votes, Cahall ii votes, and Williams 3
votes for Governor-Scntnci.
And now Milford has lost one of her
BARRIERS, l.. Pullman-he left in hurry and
forgot to tell any one he was going There
Is said to have been a woman in the case.
The Milford Building and Loan Associa.
ton has sold money AZ very low premium
for some time past. At their last meeting
on Tuesday night last money sold at 4! to
Al per cent. premium.
Mark D. Hickman and his wife. superin.
tendent and matron of the Holly Tree Inn,
; Wilmington, went up from Odessa on
Saturday, and were NJ their posts of duty
: on Monday in the Inn.
, Mr.. VIM. A. Scribncr has laid the keel
of the largest vessel ever built in Milford
She will bP 4 three masted schooner OF
/ 1000 tons burden. The keel is I4O feet
long, &c feet beam, depth Of hold, Is #.
e A mum sociable will be held at the NJ. f
Church, Newark, soon. You pay your ten
q cents and 90 in and get your supper with
. out further expense, but if you speak
\ word you will have to pay five cents more
0 The LAST PEACH CROp.-The State o
e Delaware shipped last season 3,O73,G2C
Q baskets Of peaches; 3I9.G7j baskets wtr,
t canned in the State. The growers realized
e fifty cents per basket, or nearly Sl,7O000C
c for the entire crop.
= On Tuesday, Jan. 2Sth, there was fellc,
e by J. B. Clampet and w. b. Ellingsworth
Esq, near Canterbury, white poplar tre
:. which measured five feet and five inches il
" diameter, and one hundred and one fee
= long from stump to tip.
Il Mr.. Fell (who failed last week in til
II spice busness) was Treasurer of the Episcc
pal fund of the Diocese of Delaware an
had in his possession $1,000 belonging I
e this fund Of the church. 1t is feared tn
y funds were invested with his business.
1t HAND OFF-John Graham, an employe
d in the Augustine mills, near Wilmington
it had his right hand caught in the machiner
p on Wednesday afternoon, and torn off t
ie the wrist. He was engaged in cleaning tn
le machinery when the accident happened.
., Last week while Edward Pleasanton W.
~ driving along the road near Cowgirl
r.. Corner, the body-bolt of his carriage brok
a throwing him out of the carriage an
10 breaking his right arm. This makes ii
pe fiIth time the same arm has been broker
or The TELEPHoNE.-Mr w. T. Westbrool
oe manager OF the Western Union Telegram
Company in Wilmington, has attached a
Of Edison telephone to the wire extendr
u, from the cOmpany's office to his resdenC
he at Third and Jefferson streets, and it is
of perfect working order.
II FRANCIS MURPHY.-Arrangeme ha,
~ been made with Francis Murphy to delv
"a. II temperance lecture in the Opera Hou
ipi this evening. 1t will be the only oppo
y" tunity that Wilmingtonians will have
as as hearing Mr.. Murphy, as he is engaged
NC at least year to come.
nd 1t is believed that over q thousand DO
ne tax voters will be returned delinquent
Tor this springs session of the Levy Court
t" Sussex. II the effort to deprive the colort
I'D population Of their votes, by the manipu
us tions of the Levy Court, reduces the ball
he to one party, many thousand dollars W
Ell be lost.
he The fur business down the State is g
,d. ceedingly dull this season. Muskrat ski
ne are only worth g cts; coon, 20 cts. fo
ng so cts. mink, GO cts. otter. $240; op,
III. sum, cts d. s. Thompson & Co.. of NJ
PSI. ford, have purchased so far $4,000 rahl
: skins, 1000 coons, GOO opossums and
otters.
ad
in. SAVED FROM THE WREck n
at Caulley, New Castle man, was saved frC
the the wreck of the Metropolis. He does r
IF. know how he was saved, but he has n &C
ell. siderable scratch on his head. lie
rye nounced his intention to start again
airy Brazil in the City Of Richmond, which sail
her on Monday.
;, fancy dress masquerading party v
is &c given by the young folks of FELTON, l.
an' Friday evening Thirty.thrse couples
r. full masquerade costume were upon
~ grand prominade, and the arrival Of la
;;u' guests swpled tho number participai
'".E almost to 100. full band of IA pie,
H. furnished the music.
,est A MODEL FOR THE PARIS EXHIBITION
ION Pusey, Jones & Company are construct
ior, a model light house, to be sent to the Pa
Evh;b;tion Tho modal consiefs Of N 49,.