Smyrna times., 1879-11-05
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


New Castle court commences on Nov. |
18th.
Milford will commence the canning of
poultry this winter.
The steamer ABcmarle from Lewes to New
York is driving good trade.
The licenses or permits issued to non
resident gunners cost So each.
Harrington's two distileries have used
up 10000 bushels of apples this year
Georgetown proposes to run an excursion
train to the Bayard reception.
The oil painting man recently visited
Newark and sold 81 chrome to a lady for
$50.
The firm of Conner & Clifton, of FELTON,,
having dissolved, Mr.. Conner will continue
the business.
The Teachers Institute for New Castle
| County will commence at Middletown on
/ the 18th inst.
1t is said that the negro Republicans in
! Wilmington are organizing for the cam
paign of 1880.
The Teachers Institute of Kent county
will be held in Milford on Dec. 10th, 18th,
18th and 18th.
Mrs. Elizibeth Hall, who was n church
member for seventy years, died at Ocean
View, Sussex, a few t!ays ago.
The Breakwater and Frankfort and
Worcester roads are now doing a larger
freight business than for eight months past.
Geo. Pyle, a Wilmington machinist, it is
said, claims to have invented a machine
which will turn out two horseshoes a
second.
Rev. D. B. Raffensperger, Of philadel
J phia. declined the unanimous call pre-
sented to him by the Presbyterian Church
of Milford.
+ little daughter of James. II. Seeney
, janitor Of the United States court-rOoms a
; Wilmington, was burned to death Sunday
I whilst her parents were at church.
+ Three Sussex steam saw.mills were de
strOyed by fire during the last week.
Veasey's, in kehoboth Hundred English
: in Gumboro, and Days, near Georgetown
r Governor Hail. on last Wednesday, ap
) pointed A. 2. Sorden, Esq, Justice of tn
Peace for Mispillion Hundred, to reside a
t Harrington, in lieu of Esquire B. Fleming
e resigned.
!. In that cheap excursion to Phladelphi
# last week four hundred Sussex countian
participated and carried away with ther
}. at least $4,000 more in cash than the
brought back.
t. George Warren, residing near Frederic;
n while taking his dinner at the Capitc
\. Hotel, Dover, on last Thursday, came nea
al choking to death by getting a quarter {
N beef lodged in his throat.
>. The drying and canning of fruit an
= vegetables has been so profitable during tn
= past season that many of the factories al
). to be enlarged for next season, if there is
-, -, fair prospect for fruit crop.
IS Rev. Kensey Johns Stewart, D. D.,
ne Lewes, who was the Greenback candida
le for Governor, is said to have been oficiatir
a as an Episcopal clergyman A years, long
IN than any other clergyman in this dioces
at Milton, in Sussex, is getting to be ii
at head ship building town of the Peninsul
as six-hundred. schooner, the Fam
ng KINNEY, has Just been launched, and
It. eight. hundred. ton one will take her fiji
it bath in few days.
KIT Tilghman banner, house painter,
?? 5l2 Walnut street, Wilmington, fell fro
he a scaffold fifty-two feet to the ground VIII
cir painting Joseph H. Bonds residence,
his Browntown on last Thursday afternoc
ng His injuries were serious.
is ay The Peninsular Ne,os advises the you
inn. men from the country to go to the city
nj better their condition and in the next ISIS
The says: at is an exceedingly strange fact IL
The editors of country journals will devote tn
,sn. papers to the service of cities"
" The frescoers are still at work putt
on the fancy touches in the main room
lese Middletown's new NJ. Z. church. 7
u VI! brick-work of the spire is nearly complet
!: The building will hardly be ready for sci
Ahs ces before the middle of December
lar Mr.. Isaac Adkins, of Milford, for
eht last five years clerk to the Collector Of
out ternal Revenue of the Peninsula distr
tVer has been appointed Deputy Collector
? as New Castle and Kent counties, to succ,
up II. H. Prettyman, who resigned, to tt
.eeP effect December LIST.
the The Editor Of the Middletown Transc
hese wants the news, and insists that by DO
arty card or person, he should be informed
cnal the particulars when anybody dies, {
the married, buys or sells farm, runs aw
ID OF breaks limb or shoots a book agent.
hing promises any person who will bring
j on such information that he may put his
ared on his table and read his axchangas