Smyrna times., 1879-04-30
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
The ]. & B. road will be better equipped
this summer than ever before.
Thomas Tully of Houston drew $1,000 !
arrears of pensions" last Saturday.
DR.. Draper, of Wilmington, has declined
to serve on the State Board of Health.
Rev l. r. Cooper, D. D., OF Camden, is
very i'll, SO much so that his life is dispaired
Of
Warren Harper Of Wilmington has sold
over 200 of the chilled plows this spring,
mainly of the Oliver patent.
Seven little boys were taken from the Or.
phans Home in Philadelphia the other day
to farms around Georgetown.
Ex-Governor Ross, of this state, who frac
tured his thigh at Saratoga last summer,
has at last laid aside his crutches.
john Wesley Sorden, Edward Willy and
james Hill, all negroes, broke out of the
Georgetown Jail last Thursday night.
Six companies will begin trout fishing at
the Big Stone, on the Delaware, on May 6.
One seine measures l2j fathoms in length
On Wednesday afternoon a seven year
old son of Reuben Donovan, who resided
near Redden, on the j. & b. II. r., was
fatally burned.
The Temperance Association of Seaford
has engaged Miss Bunnell OF Philadelphia,
to read in Morrows Hall heXt Saturday
night, May 3, 1879.
An artesian well has been bored at Ocean
City. Good water was found at Il depth of
| so feet, and the well gives every indication
of being flowing one.
A 7O0.ton schooner will shortly be launch.
ell by W. n. Abbott & Co., of Milford. Two
weeks later l75.ton vessel and another of
7j-tOns will be put alloat
Ruel ITeisler, of Wilmington, was elected
| Superintendent OF the Eehoboth Camp
! Meeting Association. Three and half per
cent. is the tax fixed for this year.
Rev. f. Stubbs will deliver "A lecture on
the Hope of the TemperAnce Cause"
before the Ladies' Temperance Aid Society
in Wilmington tomorrow evening.
The finance committee of the Whining
ton city council have awarded the new city
loan Of $l45,000, al 1! per cent, to Il. l.
Robinson, Of WILMINGTON, at 81 per cent
Thomas w. Wilson has purchased oI
James L. lIeverin 20 acres of land, formerly
belonging to VIM. NJ Shakespeare. and
lying just above the mill pond upon tht
State road, at 500 per acre.
FIRE AT TowXsEND.-The granary anc
stable of Levi w. Lattomus, at Townsend
took fire on Thursday evening about 9.3l
O'clock, and was consumed, together will
a quantity Of hay, blades and corn.
The new post office at Dover is finished
and will be ready for inspection by tn
opinion is that the expense attendin, ii
erection, aggregated, reaches $4,000.
Dr. c. Il. Jehtris, Estrange Gould an,
Thomas Drein, o. Wilmington, will bull
new cottages at Rehoboth this season
Others will be erected. Jones & Ellegoo
will rebuild the burned pavilion at Lewe.
} On Wednesday last NJ. l.. W. Muse, c
Seaford, Del, while duck hunting acc
} dentally shot himself, and died in fe,
minutes. lie was the son Of Brigade
Gen. Muse and served in the 9th VIrgini
Cavalry.
John Salter, former Philadelphian, an
a painter by trade, was accidentally kille
in Delaware City, yesterday morning, L
falling from a scatiolding on which he W;
standing while engaged in painting a bull,
ing. lie resided in Wilmington.
r Newark greatest social event Of IL
5 season was celebrated on Thursday evenir
last the occasion being the marriage of NJ
@ Alfred A. Curtis to Miss Salie Lindse
I daughter Of Samuel Lindsey, Esq, residr
t near McClellandsyille, about two miles fro
/. Newark.
!, AMPUTATEp.-Sunday morning, Dl
n Draper, Kane and Maull amputated Il
arm of George Hastings, the conductor wi
- was severely wounded by the discharge of
gun at Dover. The arm was taken off
the shoulder, anu after the operation Il
patient rallied and seemed considerab
|. better.
- \ Milford merchant recently sold
:. pound lump Of butter. The purchas
II soon struck big peeled turnip in the mi
!, die Of the lump. The farmers wife vi
: had supplied the merchant defended hers,
:. by saying that she knew no good won
10 come Of the COW eating turnips, and to
n the old man so.
lie THE DELAWARE BAPTIST UNIoN.-T
lie ssmiannual meeting Of the Delaware Ba
W tist Union, an organization for the advanC
lie ment of the Baptist work which is compos
p. Of five delegates and the ministers of t
OF churches of the State of Delaware and D
at aware county, Pa, will hold its next me
i'll ing at Milford, on Tuesday and Wednesdi
ne May l3 and IA.
!, ROBBERY AT New CAsTLE-Some tiI
~ Friday night, burglary was committed
on the store of Joseph II. Callahad, oppos
Of the depot The robbery was effected
Il smashing the glass in the show window a
Of reaching in. The goods stolen amounted
,J value to about 5000, of which Sl25 was
nj shoes, the remainder of stolen goods bel
~. clothing and tobacco.
ill THE GEORGETOWN PRIsoS.-The Brc
on ,oatcr Light says The Court failed to inqu
IN into the condition and management of [
) a county Jail that the responsibility for
frequent escape Of prisoners might
us rightly placed. We once more charge Il
ice the jail is rotten or its management incc
in petent, and it is certainly the duty Of sor
th body in authority to find out whore
lat blame belongs.
,el ,er The real estate Of Anthony Reybold,
10 Red Lion hundred, containing about
acres, together with certain shares of pr
40 erty in Delaware City, were sold in n
,eJ rJ Castle, on Saturday, at Sheriffs sale, q
nI 'nI purchased by Barney Reybold for Sl4,z
mon m subject to mortgage and interest
W W'el amounting to about $4,000. This price
res about $4,000 better than that obtained
,.n ,an the same property some months ago.
six ID. b. Noll, late telegraph operator
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