Smyrna times., 1880-06-30
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Two schooners, of 900 tons burden are to
be built at Milford.
Thomas McConaughy, at Newark, isship-
ping iron ore to Baltimore.
Mr.. Z. R. Wilson, of New Castle county,
recently planted 800 tobacco plants.
Hiram Barber, of Milford, is putting a
new Is horse power engine in his mill.
The Casho Machine Company of Newark,
are unusually busy making and selling q
number of threshers.
Within n scope of seven miles of Mil
ford there are Eve canning establishments
and twenty-five fruit evaporators.
A Milford man has already manufactured
100000 tomato cans and during the sum.
mer he expects to mako 100000 more.
Mr.. II. Davis, of Milford, expects to run
seven fruit evaporators all the coming peach
season. He will locate at Middletown.
The crop Of peaches on the Peninsula
this year is placed at 100000 baskets-at
least half million more than last year.
Over so tents are taken already for the
Camden camp, and from present indications
the camp this year promises to be larger
than for many years.
Lord & Polk, the manufacturers of "Dia.
mond State Phosphate" are soon to con-
meet by telephone their Odessa office and
factory with their Middletown office.
The population of Newark will be about
1850, or an increase of nearly 400 over the
enumeration of 1870, when Newark and
Middletown were exactly the same, 9I5.
The Fourth will be observed on Saturday
the Sd at kits Hammock. The general
| feature of the day will be yacht race by
boats from Philadelphia and Wilmington.
The Milford Basket Company have sus-
| pended work on small fruit packages, and
are making arrangements to place in their
building a scroll saw, planning lathe and
moulding machine.
The STATE POPULATIoN.-It is estimated
that there is $4,000 population in the
State, which is an increase of 10000 over
the report of 1870 Wilmington's popula.
tion will be nearly $4,000.
A committee is now collecting money for
the enlargement and improvement of the
Delaware College oratory. 1t is thought
$1,000 will be necessary for the work, and
$4O0 of this has already been subscribed.
What will the Penins,tLr Ne,os man do
now, with Milford way down to 7 on the
list Of Pennsular towns. The census man
has played smash with his weekly boast
that Milford was the biggest city (?) on
the plains next to Wilmington, and in
many features not inferior to it.
New Castle has within the past decade
leaped ahead of Smyrna, Dover, Milford
and Salisbury and now ranks as the largest
place on the Peninsula, south of Whining
ton. The figures are
New S0
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FROM BALTIMORE ON BICYCLE-G. F
lIussey, secretary of the Baltimore Bicycle
Club, says Mondays Morning Nc,cs, arrived
in this city at noon of yesterday, havinG
come from Baltimore to 1avre-de.G Grace OF
a bicycle, thence by train to this city. Mr.
Hussey took circuitous route in cominl
} from Baltimore to Havre.de- Grace, anC
although the roads are hilly, he averaged
l6 miles an hour.
A SEVERE FALI.-At Bombay Hook OIL
last Sunday, j. Wesley Crossley, of Will
mington, while engaged in swinging fell t.
: the ground, cutting open his nose, although
; not breaking any bones. lie received som
, other flesh wounds on his head and fac
i and also hurt himself severely on tn
| breast There was no physician at hanc
and the injured man had to suffer until h
5 arrived home on the Susie Mccall, when b
5 was taken to his home in carriage.
: BoYToN's FLoAT.-Captain Boyton arr
: we'd at Fortescue Beach on Saturday morr
> ing last, thus concluding his float fror
: Philadelphia, which place he left at
E o'clock, Thursday afternoon. During tn
: trip he was driven back by the tide fc
some distance, having lost his anchor, an
+ continued drifting until picked up by tn
q steamer Vanderbilt. He says he encounte
= ed several sharks in the bay. Heremaine
at Fortescue until Thursday, during whic
! time he gave a number of exhibitions at tn
beach.
+. THE CLOUDS FOR HANCocK.-The Gazct
n man has vivid Imagination and is deve
oping "superb" qualities as an artist. Fl
occasionally turns his eyes Heavenwar
:, and here is his description of what met hi
= vision: Early last evening, as the clouC
. drifted in the sky, they made as usua
3 some very fantastic shapes. But one clou
!. was particularly noticeable, As it sale
~ along it struck against n great bank
white clouds in the western horizon, an
F' there formed itself into q complete hea
and bust of the next President, Gen. Hal
u Il cock. The broad shoulders, the noble bro
q and the expression of the face and a
were as plain and lfelike as if upon canvas
= The most remarkable thing and the reaso
it made such deep impression it was
Z picture Of imam on horse back,n
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