Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-11-26
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


Three new dwellings are in progress of
erection at Wyoming
Miss Gertie Bunnell will give reading in
the city of New Castle, on Thanksgiving
night.
Bishop Simpson, will occupy the pulpit of
the NJ. E. church in Milford, on Sunday,
the 30th inst.
Supt. Groves has issued 81 certificates as
the result of his recent examinations held
at Georgetown and Seaford.
William O. Short has lost, by hog cholera,
on his farm near Georgetown, Is head of
swine that would average in weight 800 TBS.
per head.
John Mitchell, Milford colored man, on
Tuesday Of last week, drank a quart of
whiskey without taking the jug from his
mouth.
The annual meeting of the State Grange
of the Patrons of Husbandry, will be held
on the 9th, 10th and 18th of December at
Camden.
Harry Colclazer, of the Every Erening
} has been quite i'll for several days past, a
the residence of his father, Rev. II. Col
: clazer, of Seaford.
ADMITTED TO THE BAR.-James f. Ball
e who has been studying law with Charles b
d Lore, Esq, for the past three years, was ad
}. mitted to the bar at New Castle, Monday
- James II. MILKY. of Glendale, has sol
. his farm of eighty acres, to Mr.. Baker, {
70 coon fapT
of 100 acres of j. Reed for which he pal
$. $500.
= Archibald Satterield, who lived mes
= Bridgeville, stuck nail in his foot. That wa
n several weeks ago. lie died the other da
ID from blood poisoning, caused by the bit
w iron.
sp A revival Of remarkable character
~ going on at Whites Chapel, Lewes appoir
70 ment, Rev. W. L. England pastor. II
a meetings are not noisy, but exceeding
vi solemn and successful.
of Sussex teachers will attend tho coun
cal institute at Laural on December Sd, At
in 5th and 9th Addresses will be made
Superintendent Groves, Rev. G. A. Ph@bl
An j. L. Thompson and others.
as Although the Tramp Law passed by t
We, last Legislature, has been neglected in ma
vel cases to be enforced, it has had the efe
zee as many have noticed, of keeping
les State comparatively free of tramps
in w. FIsKE TOWNSEND DEAD.-A telegri
, is received from Lincoln, Neb., announces
les death at that place, Monday, of w. Fis
md Townsend, editor of the SUSSEX Journal a
an. late Clerk of the Peace for that county.
'he Sussex county's Levy Court commit
? of and the State Treasurer have compromiI
,us. on the county's Indebtedness to the Sta
The State claimed $4,000, but agrees
settle for $8,00034 Kent has settled
T. $1,000 claim for $1,000.
ter, Five prisoners were whipped by
tie. sheriff in the jail-yard at New Castle, Sal
! of day morning. They were all convicted
tua. the present term Of court, of larceny I
ion each received twenty lashes Two of tn
ers were white men from Philadelphia.
no The colored people of Wilmington
ped trying TO raise money for a church.
o. Thursday night they celebrated the F.
bod of the Passover, in National Hall.
i of lamb was roasted whole and the proceed
fan. which followed were of very cur
ssed nature. Friday night there was an
ieht plantation jubilee.
Iing BISHOP ScoTT's WIFE DEAp.-Mrs. S;
Scott, wife of Rev. Levi Scott, the Sc
nst Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Chu
as a died Tuesday morning, at the residenc
he her husband, near Odessa, in the 74th
the of her age. Her funeral will take plac
tha Friday next at one o'clock p. NJ, from
,,oo late residence, the services to be hel
Iaors the Union NJ. Z. Church, near Black
utSe' VERDICT OBTAINED.-A verdict for
:He 506 so was found last week in the [
nins Circuit Court Mt Baltimore, against
III Delaware State Fire and Marine Insur
70 Company of Wilmington. The plail
tIe were Day q Co., Henderson, Car
i@Scy county, Md. The suit was on a p
ioi issued to the above firm upon their sto
'hH goods, for the sum of 1920, and "
wsto were destroyed by fire, September 9Th,
ot the ATTACKING WILMINGTON. Wilr
with ton papers take offence at the writing
1rkey conceited snob who in reporting the BI
th us reception for the Chicago Inter. Ocean,
mt Of the following paragraph:
is has Nc one travelling for the first time
Our the railroad from philadelphia to Was
ormly ton can fail to notice the rickety, tn
oduct down aspect ofa little, old town wher
v feel train stops just over the Delaware lin
ot so is the first glimpse that Northern nlI
with his way 10 the capital, catches of tn
,ne in thrifty and shiftlosspess which were b
filed slavery. The town Is Wilmington
q yho home Of Senator Bayard and the tow
70 with the man with their decayed sugcesti,
bier at medieya4ism are admirably fitted to
other" aeHua4Ma