Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1879-10-22
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

nome on the ZOLn lDSL.
Barnum's Show relieved the Peninsula of
about $4,000 in hard cash.
Milford sells this season 10000 pounds of
evaporated peaches worth $4,000.
Jabez C. Shockly, of Milford while eating
oysters, found $50 pearl. SO it is said
Times are Frightening up in Seaford
Fourteen marriages are on the books for
the coming Winter.
The Sussex county Grand Jury, out of
tifty-nine bills of indictment found thirty
nine true bills, ignoring twenty.
A gentleman has been prospecting around
New Castle for site for a ship yard, and |
various other enterprises are in prospect
The dredging machine is making a good |
navigable stream Of the upper part OF the
Mispillion by deepening it to seven feet.
Ten Delaware vessels arrived in Phla-
delphia on Saturday. This was perhaps the
| largest ever known before in any one day.
Ex,Congressman LoAand and John Jump,
of Milford, had a street encounter in that
| place an Sunday. Neither was much hurt.
There is a rumor floating around to the
effect that a newspaper will soon be started
In Frankford-as sinking fund, probably.
Two sons of ]. Poulson Chandler, of
Chrstana hundred, were recently bitten
by a rabid dog, belonging to one of the
young men.
With the death of the 1T. Rev. William
II. Nottingham, Episcopal Bishop of Mary
! I l. ~, +Io e
living bishops.
The Newark Ledger says the water in
White Clay Creek has been lower during
the past two weeks than it has been for
thirty-tive years.
Miss Addie P Hazard having secured
situation in the Music School of Miss
Tilghman, at Middletown, has declined
returning to Seaford.
Canned tomatoes are worth 10 cents a
dozen more than at the opening of the
season, and the Gamers are consequently
forty per cent. happier than they were.
5 Sportsmen are bagging large numbers Of
English or graysnipe on the Delaware shore
, men killed - one afternoon Of last week.
: Sussex county has grown so moral that its
) Courts did up the whole business for the
past six months in three days; and had
| plenty Of leisure, too, while performing the
! service.
!. W. $. Vaules, telegraph operator, of
: Milford, has run loop wire from the depot
= to his dwelling, so that he can remain with
his family of evenings and attend to the
| duties of his Office Mt the same time.
Messrs. Richardson & Robbins will com
; mence manufacturing plum pudding again
this week. Their orders for this article are
: 3 already large. Mr.. Chambers Of Dover i,
y y to pack all kinds Of meats and poultry thi;
! Fall.
If Purnell Maull, on his farm near Milton
" has just dug his third crop of Early Rost
L potatoes. They were grown upon the same
n patch of ground as the other crops and arr
Of about as large and well formed as those o
E. the first and second digging.
\, Governor Hall attended the meeting 0
It the Governors of the Thirteen Origina
n States in Philadelphia last week. Their
is were only nine States represented. Their
r were no representatives present from New
Hampshire, Georgia or New York.
RS fisherman Morgan" Dovers favorit
le trotter, won second money last week a
ng Rittersville Park, Pa, in the 2.2S race
ID Morgan's" time was 2.309. "Dora wa
a the winner of the race. Morgan" trOt
ne this week at Belmont Park, Phia.
GO Flour has gone up two dollars a barre
and the higher it goes the more peopl
ne shout about better times. The man VIII
of has flour to buy and no grain to sell can
IL, exactly grasp this " great improvement i
.el the times" but we guess it's all right.
~ Jonathan II. Mllman, of Georgetown
=, was brought before Esquire Thompson,
- ~ that place, charged with offering $50 I
", have the buildings on the Bridgeville Fa
- grounds set on fire. The charge was NJ
81 sustained and Millman was discharged.
lei The wires of the U. s. Signal Service frol
~ Cape Henlopen to the Virginia line col
- Meeting the life saving stations, are su
nS pended from the Western Union pol
81, along the Delaware and junction & Breal
IA IA water Railroads to Rehoboth, where ii
~ line will run straight down the ocean shor
yer The shooting season is rapidly approac
he ing but it is believed that those gunne
nj who expect to have good shooting down Il
'rd State will be compelled to own or hire the
an shooting grounds. The farmers who raj
eX- birds are beginning to think that the bir
Its as we'll as the chickens belong to them.
ad
YER The Autumn of the year shows its boun
vas this Autumn but such season of beauty
me humanity is seldom blessed with. II
n misanthrope who dares to sing =" II
the melancholy days have come, the saddest
I'M the year," in these bright and genial day
lad should be transported to the most inhC
The pitabe of shores and the dreariest
9 climates.
CHI,
csc ANOTHER TELEGRAPH WIRE-Gover
ment workmen are stretching on 4
the Western Union poles another wire leadi
-ew from Philadelphia to Rehoboth, and fro
was there it will run across Rehoboth bay Sou
the to the life.saving stations already built al
the those to be erected along the coast. Hollt
He iron tubes for posts are to be used on t
the beach. This wire will be used exclusive
he by the life.saving and signal servi
ny. branches of the Government.
- y !" AN EDITORIAL CHANGE.-Ths Milo
oSs Nea0S of Saturday says Harry II. Pret
r@, man, son of the proprietor of this journ
NO. and for ten years past in the intern
Revenue Service of the United States,
tba resigned his position as Deputy Collect
az and will assume charge of this paper
wy the first of December, at which time
'rt present editor and proprietor will retire
H., H., the shadows of private life The paper W
ri. continue to be independent in all thin
'om anu neu'f"i III "o''s'
-, negro was lodged in Jail at Dover
J Saturday for attempting to enter {
anS sleeping.room of Mrs. Motif, near Slau4
.on, ter's Station, on Friday night. 1t see
I Haa that the husband of Mrs. Motif was call
NJ NJ suddenly away to Canada, to attend t
4uy funeral of u brother, leaving friend hol
eIo with his wife. The friend came to Do,
%. and spent the night, and the negro, W
;op. was employed on the farm, attempted
'h enter the room through n window. NJ