Smyrna times., 1880-11-10
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Bridgevills has ten stores.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Bridgevills has ten stores.
They are selling cleo margarine for butter
in Lewis.
George Alfred Townsend is writing the
life of Gen. Torbert.
DR.. George Troupe Maxwell, recently of
Wilmington, has permanently located in
Florida.
Dean Brothers wooden factory at Stanton,
has been sold to Thomas Schofeld, of Man
ayunk, Pa.
"Tissue ballots were to be seen in
Sussex last week, but it is admitted that
they were not used.
Delawares State Treasurer will redeem
$4,000 worth of bonds on the first three
days of the new year.
Rev. S. D. Hall, of Seaford, has decided
to accept the call to the rectorship of
Denton P. E. church.
Rev. w. A. Alexander, Of Pequa, Pa,
has accepted the pastorate of the Middle
town Presbyterian church.
The story that Gen. Torbert was murder
ed by wreckers is again talked over in
Milford, and there seems to be some people
who believe it,
Mary P. Walker has been granted letters
of administration upon the estate of her
late husband, Ezekiel E. Walker of Apo.
quinimink hundred.
Defeat does not depress Mrs. Holson, of
49,
day night, each weighing thirteen pounds,
and named them Hancock and English.
The Legislature will have its hands full
of divorce business again, this Winter.
fearful eyes and winning smiles will plead
for freedom and an opportunity to try it
again,
Mr.. A. P. Crockett recently sold two
calves OF Devon stock, one of which at ten
weeks old weighed 800, and the other at
nine weeks old, 2S2.
| The Breaka0ater Light says: the election
here has been boon to many. Over 81. 900
alone has been spent here and it helped to
pay taxes, buy new hats and coats, while
many old store bills have been settled.
GONE MAD OVER DEFEAT.-It is stated
that John Aaron, son Of Powell Aaron OF
West Dover Hundred, Kent county, has
lost his mind, owing to the defeat OF his
father who was a candidate at the late cleo
ton.
The Rev. George r. Bristor, well known
as a popular Methodist minister. was mar
ried on Tuesday last to Miss Tasker, oil
Philadelphia, a grand. daughter of the late
Thomas Tasker, of the we'll known firm oil
Morris, Tasker d Co.
Because the Morning NeUS said that Gar
field owes nothing whatever to Grant and
his friends, and spoke slightingly of the
latter as the "Grant clique" and third term
coterie," the Sentinel pitches into the Neo,
in a castigating vein.
Joseph McCafferty, Inspector of the
tenth ward, Wilmington, was arrested
Saturday, on a charge of receiving the vot'
of an alleged fraudulent negro voter named
Matthews. Commissioner Smith held hin
in $500 for Court. Joseph L. Carpenter
Jr., became security.
The Sunday Mirror, of WILMINGTON say
that what had done more than anything
else to kill the Democratic party, locally, i
its toadyism to and recognition of tn
rowdy element-natural born roughs 70
instance-and that the sooner it sits dow
on these ruffians the better for it.
The Haven wooden mills at Milford
were destroyed by fire Tuesday night week
together with the machinery and larg
stock of Jerseys. The mill was owned b
Peter F. Caussy, and operated by a Nj
Carpenter, Of Conn. The fire originated i
an overheatsd furnace; the loss will not b
far from $4,000. The building was insure
in the Kent County Mutual Insuranc
Company, for $1,000.
OFFICIAL VoTE OF KENT COUNTY..-W
give on our first page the official vote {
New Castle and Sussex counties. The 70
lowing is the vote of Kent: