Smyrna times., 1879-04-02
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Unemployed oystermen at Cambridge will
hire out to the farmers.
Tle third term of the scholastic year at
Delaware College VIII begin to-day.
A new line ofsteamors will Ia established
between Lewes and Philadelphia soon.
The next term of the U. S. District Court
will begin on April Sth in WILMINGTON.
Daaware's distorted S1ciey loses il
president in the death Of Clan:el Bates.
Salaries Of Methodist preachers have been
cut down twenty per cent. in some places
Milford business men are max ing arrange.
ments to establish \ steamboat Inc from
Milford to Philadelphia.
Mr.. Delaplaie McD lniel, President Of tho
Mccullough Iron Company, is lying very iii
at his residence IN Philadelphia.
Rev. Geo. r. Bri,tor left New Castle last
Saturday for Baltimore to remain one week
with his relatives there before gong to
New Orleans.
Governec Hall has laid the keel of a 400
ton coasting schooner. She will have a | IA
feet keel, be of 30 feet beam and 81 feet
hold-three masted.
The Milford Patrons Of iiu,handry have
passed a resolution ccnsuring the L~yi~la
ture for its action in regaI Id to the Fruit
Growers Railroad bill
GoITG To OREGoN.-A number Of bricklavers
of Wilmington left left Monday for Port
land, Oregon. hy way Of the Isthmns. They
have all obtained situltions at IS per day.
The Delaware State Agricultural Society
proposes 10 OTTER premiums for the hest lot
OF corn, wheat potatoes and beets, grown
on given amount of Land The premium
will tie announced this week
Rev. d. w. c. McIntire, who has been at
Wyoming for the past three years. and who
took a super.numerarv relation at the last
session of the Conference, will proceed
shortly 10 Drew Theological Seminary to
complete MS education.
The Old Dominion Steamship Company
have completeda a contrac: with John Roach
q Son, OF Chester, Pa, to | uild an iron screw
steamer to ply between New York and
Lewes, Del. She will be 22j feet long. 3j
feet beam and % feet depth of hold.
1t is understood that Governor Hall will
| remove Colonel w. Fiske Townsend from
the office of Clerk of the Peace in Sussex
some day this week. Charles G. Stocklev.
Px-speakcr of the House and one OF
Townsrnd's bondsmen, probably will be ap.
pointed to the office
The Town Commissioners Of Milford, have
voted not to have gas IN the street Emps
| in North Milford. The gas company offered
to furnish the gas for $500 per thousand
! feet, and the town thought that 50 - was
as much as the tax payers could afford
After April 18th oil will be used.
Saml Townsend and the editor of the
! Newark Ledger have been sending pappl
! bullets at each otheT and Samuel thought
he had got off a witty thing when he quoted
as scripture to the cliter the following
No coon shall enter the kingdom OF
! Heaven" The latter retOrts 10y quoting
that other passage which says, "No
drunkard shall enter the Kingdom OF
! Heaven" and says if Sam is not in this line
OF business, he ought to take down his
sign
DEATH OF EX. CHANCELLOR BATEs.-Hon.
Daniel N. Bates of Wilmington. Del. died
su uldrnly Thursday in Richmond. Va,
where he had been engaged several days in
an important railroad case Ha was about
so years of age. and was the son Of the Rev.
Mr.. Moore, of Snow Hill, Nd, his name by
birth being Daniel NJ. Moore. While he
was still youth his father, on his death-hed
consigned the care of his son to his friend
Hon. Martin W. Bates, distinguished
lawyer of Dover, who adopted him rs his
own son. He was educated at Dickinson
| College, was admitted to practice law, and
rose to the head Of his profession. lie held
the office Of United States district attorney
for Delaware under Mr. Buchanan's admin
stratiOn. and was member of the peace
convention which met in Washington lust
before the war. In 1868 Mr.. Bates was an
poiuted chancellor Of the State, and served
until 1873. His wife was sister of the
Mrs. Gov. Salisbury. His body reached
Wilmington on Saturday in charge of hi,
son Geo. II. Bates Esq. and was Inferred or
Monday. Mr.. Bates was a gentleman oI
very high character
LIST OF GRAND JuRoRs drawn for Tia,
April term, 1879: Duck Creek hundred
John w. Denuey, John II. Bewlev, Mat
thew Ford; Kenton-Martin Ford, \. II
Griffin, John II. Graham; Little Creek
Joseph II. Hopkins, Ephriam S. Garrison
East Dover--Dennis Learned, james L
smith; w. Dover-John Slay, John d
Voshell; North Murderkill-Robt. Frazer
VIM. Broadway, Edward Lord; S. Murder
kill-Wm. E. Greenley, Benjamin Gooden
Charles Rice; Mispillion-IIenry c. VOL
colt. Robert II. Smith, Martin Smith. Mi
furd--.Iohn A. Bickel, Garret l.. Uvnson
David Scott
List Of Petit Jurors; Duck Creek Id
Joseph Snow, JAS. p. Snow. james Dough
ten. Gideon Speakman; Kenton-- William
B Davis; Henry Pratt, Jr, Jas. s. NOVEL;
Little Creek-JOhn husbands, Jordan
Argo; East Dover-John w. Casson. r
Z. Walker, VIM. II. Dockstader, VIM. G
posiles; W. Dovcr--Spencer Scotten. JAS
+. Boyer; North Observation-Disclosures w
Lord, Jos. d. Greenwell, Chas. q. Temple
south MurlerkIl-John w. Cartee, sam
W. Darby, John w. Cooper, Lewis A Mel
VIM Mispillion-Jnhn NJ inner, Ro t. J
lfaughley, Pulaski Powell. Gei. D.. Ha ring
ton; Milford--Wm. +. Davis, John Wesley
Hall, Gibson Collins,