Smyrna times., 1879-11-12
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

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dead beat"
Theadore Tilton viii! lecture in Dover on
Thursday of next week.
Bishop Andrews will preside at the coming
Methodist conference at Dover.
The new iron bridge at Milton, over the
Broadk!in, is said to be failure.
Governor Hall has appointed ohm Massey
Justice of the Peace at Middletown.
Jerseymen are buying peach trees by the
vessel.load from Milford nurserymen.
100000 California salmon eggs will be dis.
tributod in and along the Delaware river.
Next Saturday Newark is to have %
mile walking match for that many dollars.
There will be changes in the schedule for |
passenger trains on the Delaware Railroad !
to-day.
The State Treasurer has given notice that
he will pay off $4,000 Of the States
Indebtedness in January.
There is brass band to every three hun.
dred personsin Newark. This estimate puts
Newark's population at 1900.
W. y. Brown, of Wyoming, is engaged in
! shipping sugar beets to the Delaware Sugar
Factory. He expects to ship about 250
! tons.
John w. C. Webb, of Milford, has made
! his mark in the big beet business by raising
one which "tips the beam at fourteen
pounds.
Professor E. D. Porter, of Delaware Col
lege, is a candidate for the position of
Superintendent of the United States Census
for Delaware.
P. w. Hall, Esq, has sold the Paige farm,
so acres in the suburbs of Milford to w. R.
Kenny, Esq, Of Cleveland, Ohio, for $4,000.
Mr.. X. expects to remove to it about the
first of the year.
Delaware is a small State, but almost
every other man you meet is an Ex-Governor,
ex-senator, or an ex.something else. Mr..
Way, Of the Middletown Transcript, is an
ception.-Salem Sunbeam.
Miss Zenophene Howard was found dead
in field near the Mount Pleasant Church,
being attacked with hemorrhage of the
subsequently unable to get up or call for
help.
THIRTr-TwO LIVES LosT.-The ship Lad,
Octario, from Delaware Breakwater for New
York, collided with the steamer Champion
: from New York for Charleston, striking the
: steamer amdship and sinking her in five
q minutes. 1t is rumored that thirtytwC
q lives were lost. The collision occurred 81
i miles off the capes at o'clock Saturda!
o morning The ship was badly damaged
o and was lowed to Philadelphia.
The Milford canning factory has put vi
!. $4,000 cans Of cooked pumpkins, since tn
. peaches and tomatoes season closed, ant
. could find market for many more, provided
g he could get the pumpkins. The stock il
- this vicinity is exhausted, but the farmer
If say he can have am quantity wante
next year at the prices lie has paid this
which is $500 ton. The pumpkin is cor
10 densed by cooking.-MJord Ners.
- MURDERoUs ASSAULT BY RoBBERs.-Mille
m loft, young merchant of Wilmington
= while on his way home quite early Saturda
- evening, was attacked in the street by tvs
80 highwaymen. They wrenched his pistC
from his hand and shot him in IL
M | Temple his dSSdlldUls lHeH TODDeu MIN
be twenty dollars, but were frightened Q
is before they could secure more boot
of Efforts to reach the ball by probing we
in unsuccessful. lofts condition is prec
ts, rious.
a. HEAVY SALEs-The Sheriff, on Frida
sold the following properties at the Lafa
cite Hotel, Wilmington
nd Farm of ]. Hilborn Jones, at Claymoi
IRIS purchased by George II. Bates, Esq,
nd attorney for Thomas L. Young of Philad
a phia, for $4,000.
1t Also the Price property, consisting oft
I'VE mills upon the Brandywins and q DWELL
The house on Market street. These prOpert
let. were all purchased by George II. Bates, F.
as attorney for j. L. Johnston, Esq,
Baltimore, at the following prices: Low
vas mills, $4,000; upper mills, $4,000, subj
J of to a mortgage Of $4,000. The dwell
md brought $4,000, subjected to a mortgage
was 5000.
Iiss
of $4,000 DAMAGEs-.Sdt against tic p.
3 Of O. B. r. r. Company.-The Baltimore Sun
ich NeagS says; Charles Bailey, minor, by
5 to next friend David Bailey, and Will
Padgett, also q minor. by his next friC
Robert F. Padgett have through Il
ant counsel, Benjamin Rosenheim, Esq, il
was tuted two suits, one in the City Court
a one in the Superior Court, each claim
eel $4,000 damages against the Philadelp
out Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad G.
~ od pany. :,
.. in August last they purchased ticket
Washington for Philadelphia. They
= =. proceeded as far as Magnolia, when
~ conductor. under the pretense that t
,vifa tickets were not good, elected them f
= ~ the train. This was between and o'cl
orca in the evening, and they were compelle
b;ob walk TO Havre de Grace, where they arr
snd. about l o'clock in the morning. W
-snt. walking to this point they were overta
ort,,. by a rAinstorm and their clothing bee
one thoroughly saturated, in consequence of
did tney were ,1nue,Su -, one WIN Tfomo
under the care of physician.
DIVER
GRACE CHURCH DEBT.-The peopl,
rtiaes Grace Church in Wilmington have
stimulated by the example of the SIN
a at NJ. Z. Church to pay off their debt,
during the past month the debt of Sc
'oupo has been shifted from the church tc
shoulders of individuals. The list
4 AZ tains 1Sl names of the young mem
,tten. and the aggregate amount of their
ok of tributlons was about $9,OOO. Inc adu
cts as contained Sc names representing cont
rticles tons amounting to about $5S,000: ms
a grand total, in round numbers, Of Sc
This amount cancels the entire church
range and leaves a small margin over.
The The largest individual subscription
leaves $12,5OO, and the smallest 81. There
) here 10 members who subscribed $1,000
at 10 On Friday night they met for a
left at lee meeting In the shape OF "tea
morn. ing" in the Sunday.school room o
at 10 church. Geo. w. Sparks, ESQ.,, pref
The and III. c. Conrad acting as secretary
laware chief address was by Bishop Simpson
regular shorter addresses ny hevs- Drs. Stey.
at 1855 Todd and Matlack. This church
4 train graduated on its splendid success IL
Clayton lation Of the church here IN rel