Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-11-19

John Hockster, charged with illegal $
voting was put on trial in the New Castle i
Court yesterday. The trial of Sewell Star {
key, charged with rape, has been set for to- {
day. 7
Mayor Almond, of Wilmington, Monday, :
held Peter McMonegal in $1,000 bail to
answer for a murderous assault on John
ODonnell, bar-keeper at the Delaware
House.
The Middletown Transcript gives notice
that its roosters are not for sale. He has
decided to rest them until 1880 and is not
assured that they will not be too tired to
crow then.
The contract for laying the pavement and
putting the iron fence in front of the Post
Office in Dover has been awarded to a Mr..
Bradley at $l,l00. The work will COM
mencs soon.
DEATH OF BROTHER OF JUDGE HALL
Benjamin Hall, ESQ.,, brother of the late
Judge Hall, of Wilmington, died at Ger
mania, Wis, on October 3lst, in the SD |
year OF his age.
Governor Hall has officially proclaimed in |
the Democratic papers Thursday, the 9th |
inst, as a day of public thanksgiving and |
prayer. 1t is probable that the people at
large would like to observe the day also.
The semicentennial celebration at st.
Andrews 2. f. Church, in Wilmington, was
concluded Thursday. The Rev. w. II.
Gallagher preached the morning sermon.
On Wednesday evening Bishop Lee gave a
reception at his residence.
The ladies of the Episcopal Church in
Dover, work every night in the canning
factory of Richardson and Robbins in pick
ing raisins. They have already made over
$50 for the church in tiat way, and will
continue as long as Mr.. Richardson has any
raisins to pick.
The Euery Eccning states that about $4,000
hogs are butchered at the pork packing
establishments of that city, and the amount
of lard produced by Hart & Bro, amounts
to $4,000 pounds weekly, during the cold
weather They use up one thousand sacks
of salt per year.
Robert II. Lewes, merchant of Dover,
opposite the post office, has determined to
quit merchandising and commence farming
on the first of January next. Thomas
Gooding who has been clerk in the store of
} w. II. Hobson has contracted with Mr..
; Lewes to purchase his stock of goods
Sugar beets are being shipped from the
different stations along the line Of the Della
t ware railroad in large quantities. Several
} cars are loaded at Dover daily. Farmers in
l that locality say that there is no money in
t raising the beets at present prices The
= price will have to be raised from four to
e five dollars.
n Kendall Palmer, of Ongola, loaded a gun
O with two ounces of powder last week, and
Il fired at a flock of geese. The gun burst and
J., a piece of the barrel hit him in the forehead
crushing it in, and knocking out one of his
r eyes. He still lives but cannot recover
or Within day or two, ten pieces of bone have
5, been taken from his head.
er The PcnasEar Ncws says the hogs o.
IT Prime Hook Neck, near Milford, are dyine
es with Inflammation of the intestines. NJ. II
n Davis lost a very large one weighing 40Otbs
y on Saturday last. Joseph II. Draper ha
at lost ten and VIM. S. Clifton ten. Tn,
re proper remedy to prevent it is lower die
Iy with fruit or roots instead of corn.
He Wilmington is interested to learn that tn
T ma Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimor
n Railroad Company are taking steps toward
MS building big Union Depot in that city
m. m The new building will occupy the spac
yn between French and Poplar and Front an
3 e9 Water streets. Work of tearing down som
nd of the old buildings was begun Monday.
he New CASTLE CoURT.-The November teri
i,S, of court opened at New Castle on Monday
We Owing to the September term, the crimini
me list is not very long and the term may nc
ild be a long one. There were 81 persons
I'll 49,
ow in all, 35 of whom are detained for the MOI
is payment of fines and costs. There are "a
&C. cases for trial and II for argument.
me- There is growl from below that perso
no owning property in the State and livr
in elsewhere cannot gun on his own Lane
nat unless he pays license fee of S.. III
tai Milford hotel-keepers also complain tn
he the new law deprives them Of their be
les. customers-city sportsmen-wl1o have bee
,de in the habit heretofore of spending sever
,or, of the autumn weeks with them,
:ne According to the programme arrang,
by Superintendent Groves, the New Cast
," County Teachers Institute will meet
va 20 Middletown on the 10Th inst, and rema
e S in session four days. Notable among Il
w exercises will be new lecture by Preside
loe William II Purnell, of Delaware College,
'@ aaS "Portia, in the Merchant of Venice
an my instruction in etymology, by Profess
I ~ William A. Reynolds, and select reading
- Miss NJ. Anna Offley.
ice, A number of our contemporaries on t
lose Peninsula have been advertising a swine
ing, in the shape of an offer of building Il
the in Denver, Col, for one dollar. 1t is We
s to plain fraud, but there are always plenty
clip people ready to be taken in by such
The scheme as that offered by the " Denver La
,uld Company" We are glad to state that t
,ica swindlers have been arrested. The N
the York Post exposed the fraud.
me The following real estate was sold
Sheriff Pyle, on Wednesday last, at
hotel of Samuel Peacock, in Middleton
Farm of Thomas Tozier, situated n,
.,,o Blackbird Landing, containing 143 acr
Keens, Newbold e. Co., purchasers. Pr
,nth $l4,00.
Real estate of John McCrone, deceas
situated in Appoquinimk hundred. q
was containing $50 acres. Purchased by II.
Brady, Esq, of Chesapeake City, Nd,
:. $1,000.
In the case of William Allen, otherv
known as James Good, who has been in
pair awaiting trial for the murder of Pc
DENNY, Attorney General Gray entere
nolle prosequi in the New Castle CO
OUT Monday Old Perry Demby, was heater
death by crowd of young white m
was When four who we're supposed to have b
# in the crowd were arraigned last Spri
" Attorney General Pennington refused
land, prosecute AS the charges against Al
from were the same as those against the relea
four, Mr.. Gray could do nothing but fol
his predecessors example.
cbed A LIBEL SUIr.-George O'Byrne &
publishers of the Morning Herald, h