Smyrna times., 1880-07-14
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE AIEMS.
A good rain visited Milford last night and
Seaford the night before
The Methodists Of Frederick are erecting |
a spire upon their church cditicc.
Rev. 4. $. Bastian has resigned the pas.
torate Of the Baptist Church, Milford.
Mrs. Thomas b. Willis, of Dover, was
seriously gored by COW on Monday last.
Middlctown this year will resume her
place as the peach emporium OF the PENN
sula.
This promises to be the banner year for
the Camden camp. There will be l2j
tents.
Cantclopcs are coming in Wilmington
from Sussex county. They retail at $l.25
per basket.
The Citizens National Bank Of Middle
town has declared dividend Of four per
cent. the past six months.
by the official returns tho population Of
Kent county is shown to be -, 79G--an in
crease Of 2,992 in ten years.
Rev. Charles Hill, pastor of A~bury NJ T.
Church, Wilmington, was unable t. fill his
pulpit Sunday, through illness.
The Georgetown hYq;rr says that more
than $1,000 was spent there by the visitors
to the celebration last Saturday.
1t is said that Rosenbaum, Of the Brci,
Hotel, Georgetown, sold 10000 glasses of
/ beer on cclebration day at ten cents glass.
Many of the pastors Of the Methodist
Congregations of the Peninsula are being
granted seasons for rest and recupcrAtion.
The basket,makers at Hazel & Pennewil's
factory, Dover, who have been getting one
cent per basket, struck for |! cents on
Wednesday.
A Grcenback club was formed in George
town, on Thursday last, and the projectors
say that similar clubs will be formed
throughout Sussex.
The directors of the State far met in
Dover on Tuesday and arranged the pro-
gramme OF the races. The purses for the
Dover races foot up $500.
Joseph Thompson, a lad of Is, was COM
mtted to Georgetown Jail on Wednesday,
charged with setting fire to an uninhabited
fishing shanty at Ocean View.
The Wilmington Young Mems Garfield
and Arthur Club have secured Institute
Hall for the coming campaign. The price
paid is stated at about $500.
The Rehoboth camp meeting began or
Tuesday. Over thirty tents are already
occupied, and the prospect is that severa
more will be erected the last Of this week
The Dover fruit canncrs are buying The
, fruit at 80 cents basket. Whole orchard
r arc bought at time, many preferring t.
sell at so cents rather than run the risks 0
an uncertain market.
The town commissioners Of Middletown
have decided to adopt dog registry ordi
. nance similar to that recently put in fore
at Smyrna. Male dogs will be taxed on
3 dollar and female dogs two dollars.
= Rev. G. r. Bristor arrived in Wilmington
y on Saturday, from New Orleans. lie onl
e stopped for short time and went on t
i Philadelphia, where he will fill the pulpi
? of Spring Garden Church through the Sum
mer
e Rachel Turner, of Middleford, Sussex,
Q proven by the census to be the oldest pc
son on the Peninsula. She is colore
r woman, in the possession of her facultie
y y Her age is lis years, the youngest of he
twenty.one children being 55.
y NEWSPAPER CHAxGE.-Mr. Emerson, on
d of the propretors of the Daily Nc,cs of Wi
Y, mington, has severed his connection wit
10 that paper, and will devote his whole tin
n to the Denton Union. j. r. Pennypackt
d succeeds him.
il DIsAGREEs.-Samuel sownsend, Esq,
% leading peach grower, does not agree wit
q the report of the Eocyy Evcning on the crc
i of peaches, and estimates that there will
Ia only 100000 baskets of peaches shippC
% over the Delaware road instead of 1851 81
il baskets, as stated in the estimate of thi
IN paper.
:" Protestant Episcopal CHURCHEs.-lt
= stated that in the Protestant EpiscOp
% churches of the Diocese OF Delaware du
c ing the past year 293 persons have bee
~ y. baptisod and l54 have been confirme
=: 40 The present number Of COMMITMENTS
VI 1857. There are also 800 Sunday scho
80 teachers and 2,S7l scholars. The tot
!" contributions amounted to $25, ,35l.46.
ne In 1886 there were twelve newspape
90 published on the Peninsula, now there a
to about So Cecil has 1, Kent 3, Que,
ny Anne's ., Talbot 4, Caroline 5, Dorchest
or 4, Somerset 4, Wicomico ., Worcester
Accomac, Va, l, Sussex 5, Kent 4, NJ
no Castle, including the city of Wilmington,
he But four of these are dailies, and are pu
es' lished in the city of Wilmington. All t
re- rest are weekly publications.-pntOn Un'
m A STRANGE GAsE.-A man named Baya
rul P Burns who has been figuring largely
he Milford for the past year as merchant
ID. been getting into trouble, as narrated
les the DAILY Nc,cS:
nd In Philadelphia, on Saturday, case "
ut heard Of an old employe against his form
ID. employer. Several years ago the firm
to Bayard Burns q Co. was in existence a
ess had u. N. David employed as salesmi
re- The firm failed and Dayid commenced bu
in ness in firm known as =. NJ. David &
er, Burns was employed by the firm as sal
,at man, Lately the firm missed goods to [
elk amount OF two thousand dollars aud
mn investigation it was found that Burns b
been shipping them to different points
ch his own name. He confessed that he h
he shipped 1922 worth to Milford, and had
oily ceived money from other points. He '
given hearing before Magistrate Pole,
un Saturday and held for further arraini
ment OH Saturday next.