Smyrna times., 1880-04-14
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


A large number of building improve
ments are being made in Wilmington.
Bishop Scotts condition gives alarm to
his family. He is obliged to remain at
rest.
Ira Warren, Lswss sailor, was drowned |
from the schooner -Four Sisters the other
day.
1t is said that Frederick Douglass will
lecture in Odessa the last week of this
month.
Fifty.four eases will be tried at the Sussex
Court, which convened at Georgetown on
Monday.
Bishop Becker will lecture on the "In.
fallibility of the Pope" at Dover next Sum.
day evening.
More than 5000 have already been sub.
scribsd to the fund of George Fourth
of July celebration.
S. w. Halls caAnery, of Frsdsriea, has a
full force of workmSn making cans for this
years tomato crop.
The peach crop in the lower peninsula of
Delaware is reported to be almost ruined by
the frOsts of the last few nights.
A Milford dispatch says: We shall net
have peaches enough fer our home con-
sumption, as they are all killsd-whOle
orchards entirely destroyed.
N. Lank, ship builder, of Frederick, has
the keel laid for a large three-mast
schooner for Governor Hall & Son, to be
called the Thomas +. Bayard.
S. F. Shallcross, one of the largest peach
growers, said Monday that his entire crep
of peaches had been destroyed by the white
frosts and chill winds of Sunday night.
A few days since, four carpenters, Bsnja
min Y. Cannon, Henry c. Lord, Alphonso
Lord and Mark Jones, fell fourteen feet
frOm a scaffeld at the new NJ. f. Church at
Greenwood, Sussex county, all boing more
or less hurt.
1t is reported that the mills of the Nc.
Cullough Iron Company both in Whining.
ton and Nerth East, Md, have closed. The
old Ferry Rolling Mill of the Diamond
State Iron Company has also suspended
work, it is said, on the account of the
decline.
Subscriptions to stock for the extension
sion of the junction & Brsakwater railroad
are being solicited in Milford. The pro.
posed extension will run along the ship
\
mile. $1,000 is required to secure its con.
struction
, MORE SALMON IN THE DELAwARE.-ThG
r New Jersey Fish Commissioners have
3 placed 100000 California and 10000 Allan
5 tic Salmon in the Delaware. And in few
! days 10000 land locked salmon will bG
placed in the cold lakes in the northern
q part of New Jersey.
l Mr.. Pusey, of Wilmington, has decidedly
j, the coolest thing out for the Summer. 4
. fair estimate puts the contents Of his ict
i houses at PennOck's dam at 10000 tons
i This at Sc ton (having made sale at thes,
!. fgurss) would give him $4,000, safe t
d count his profits at $4,000.
! Lsmuel Malone, Of the Salisbury Adpertisc
/ has selected the Clayton House, Whining
4 ton, az ths place for holding the next meet
. ing of the Psninsular Press Association
a date of meeting, April 81, P. NJ. Tn
programme includes, dinner at 6, msetiRI
. at 7, adjournment at ten or thsrsabout.
Ex.Sssrstary of State Grubb says that hi
k libel suit against the Wilmington Republca
q will be called at the next term Of court
d William C. Spruancs and George H. Bate
: are his counsel. The Msssrs. Vernon, pre-
!. pristors of the Republican, have been sum
a moAsd to appear at New Castle on May II
= Samuel Paisley, MilfOrds oldest inhab
a taRt, has just died at the age of 85. II
: was a lover and collector Of books, bsin
d specially fond Of standard fiction. Tn
s. PeninsuLar Nc0S says that for 25 years h
IT lived alone and absorbed in his books. H
r wrote considerable verse under the nom d
n plume of /" Brutus."
:. Gen. A. T. A. TOrbsrt, President of tn
il Silver Cord Combination Mining Co., lei
Milford ON Wednesday last for Lsadvll'
Col, and other points West We are in
% formed that the company of which he
n president owns three mines located in Co
$ orado and NsVada, and are now preparin
q to operate thsm.-Ne,cs.
Il The P. w. & B. Railroad officials say tina
d the opposition from Baltimore will not
r. built soon, certainly not this year. Pres
o. dent Hinckley says before ground coul
20 be broken in the state of Delaware to cor
= struct a new road, the Legislature of tn
ID State would be necessary, and that bod
10 will not meet until nsxt December"
ma Mrs. Lingo, the widow Of Captain BENZ
ae min Lingo, of Lswes, was frightened I
!" death the other day. She had never bee
sr a witness in court and when she received
"a summons to appear in the suit of the sstat
IN Of the late Ira Kelly against Peter Warrin
ton she was so scared as to provoke paral
80 sis. She was about so years of age.
Last week the stock of store goods Of v
H. Hobson, Dover, were sold by Sheri
ed Dunn under execution process, and we
CO purchased by his city creditors for aboI
de three thousand dollars. 1t is said that Il
k. creditors have reseld the goods to Mrs
al. II. Hobson, and that the business will
rk continued in her name at the old stand.
Rev. Henry Colclazsr, of Georgetown, b
hg answered the conference roll call for
nd consecutive years. He was the pastor
ne Bishop Andrews, who gave him his Ia
ae appointment in Michigan; was a preach
ge when Bishop Foster was born, and 81
'es cssded Bishop Scott, when he was called
es. the Episcepacy, as paster of Union churc
we Philadelphia.
ect Ihs Irustses OF the POOR Ter ouss
nd county report 80 persons admitted to t
almshouss in the past year, and during I
,ur same time 2 births, Q deaths and 80
ith charges. The number of inmates at I
for close Of the year was 80. The expenses
bread for the year amounted to $5,85l :.
.ess The expense for bread for the support
inmates was S65.0l.
Immisrants appear to be coming into t
s. Psninsnla ia goodly numbers. Ssvs
les. accsssioAs to the population of Klej Gran
len the new Drsxsl settlement, were ma
,ss. during last week. They consisted Of Iri
,ar. families just from the old country. T
the Grange, as its name implies, is an agrie
40 tural settlement, the country round abe
ire, being good peach land.
iea A New PAPER.-Ths temperance folks
al Wilmington, through the medium of /
sen NJ. S. r. A., will sndsavor again to cond,