Smyrna times., 1879-12-03
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

The New Castle Court is in its fourth /
week and the end is not yet.
Col. Fiske Townsend was buried at Glen,
wood, Iowa, the home of his brother.
The new NJ. Z, Church near Bowers
Beach will he dedicated Dec Eth. Preach |
ing at 10 A. NJ. by Rev. j. s. Willis.
James Cooper who resides near Milford,
received 81 1856 from Uncle Sans exchequer
recently, in the shape of back pension.
T. w. B. Turner, of Nassau, on the j. &:
B. Railroad SUSSEX county, shipped this
Fall, sixty barrels Of sweet potatoes to
London, England.
A correspondent of the Delarareqn COM
plains that there are two lawyers in Sussex
county that have practiced their profession
for four years without taking out license.
HARRINGTON IMPRovMENTs.--Fran
Bros, are putting up factory adjoining the
Messrs. Hanley's new mill for the purpose
of manufacturing peach crates, baskets,
| &c.
There are now confined in the jail at
| Dover, fourteen inmates. two white and
twelve colored being less than have been
in our Jail at any one time before for the
past year.
The first term of this school year at the
Wesleyan Female College, Wilmington,
closing, Dec. 9Th, bad an increase of fifty
per cent. Of boarders over the corresponding
term Of last year.
Bishop Simpson, of Philadelphia, preach
ed in Milford Sunday. An excursion train
was run on the j. & B. Railroad, to allow
persons living along the line of the road an
opportunity to hear him.
Richardson & Robbins, of Dover, paid out
in three days last week, $4,000 for poultry
which they are now putting up, employing
two hundred men, women and children,
Some wagons came as far as 40 miles.
The march of improvement in Sussex
county still continues. pier is to b
erected at Franklin City one hundred and
) forty feet long, also platform for freight
one hundred and twenty five feet long,
, On Tuesday night week, while Mrs
James G. NAPLES was going down the celia
steps of her dwelling house in Dover, sh'
missed her footing and fell breaking he
, arm at the wrist, cutting her face badly, anC
1 otherwise severely injuring herself.
1t is said of two of Milfords flares
! bellies " who were appointed a committee t,
solicit donations for the NJ. E. festival tina
a they exchanged a kiss for tea and sugar 70
. the affair with o close listed sceptical stor
a keeper, who bantered them to do it.
John Curry, court crier for the Unite,
States Courts of Wilmington district, VIII
died on Saturday, served through the wa
f ASA member Of the First Delaware Regimen
4 and was wounded at Antietam. He wa
4 Coroner of New Castle county in 1866.
T II. II. Prettynian, Deputy Collector c
. Internal Revenue for Delaware, has n
;, signed, and this week takes charge Of hi
= fathers paper the PsninsuLqr Ne,Os, publish
! ed at Milford. |. L. Adkins, clerk in tn
= Office, succeeds Mr.. Prettymen, as Deput
= Collector.
Is Two hundred boys Of Wilmington
u Public School, No. |, are about to send
q petition to the School Board asking thi
u the fifteen minutes recess at each session {
p the school be done away with. They argu
IS that the fifteen minutes hardly give thei
"a time to get out of doors, ana they ha
q rather sit the thing out and have the qua
d. ter of an hour cut from the end of th
session.
h A meeting Of law students was held o
N Tuesday evening last, in the State Librar.
e. Dover, for the purpose of organising soc
" ETY. and establishing Moot Court.
* r. Kenney was elected President and Il.
N White, Secretary of the Society, and G..
t. Williamson, sheriff, and Percy Fowler, pr
thopotory of the Court. James Z, Vallejo
ls Esq, was appointed Judge for the first Sc
a. sion, when argpmept viii be heard on
BY question TO DO submitted by n. B. Snither
a. ESQ.