Smyrna times., 1880-08-04
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.


COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Milford cries for Il lookup.
Dover consumes ten tons of ice pcr week.
A string band has been organized at
Blackbild.
Hay fever has made its appearance about
Georgetown.
The camp Meeting at Milton w COM
mence August l3.
Tho roof of tho new court house ut Will
mington has been slated.
The "bloody murrain is killing cattle
down in Accomac county.
Several ramps have been lodged in
Dover Jail under the tramp act.
Col. Henry Protzschner prominent citi
zen Of Wilmington, died yesterday.
The Methodist Protestant Church at
Greenwood, wiz be dedicated Sunday,
August S.
The Grecnbackers of ST sex will hold a
meeting in Georgetown on Tuesday, the
lTth inst.
Bishop L , left Wilmington on Monday
| Tor Bar ITarbor, Maine, where he Wi pass
his vacation.
Gen. a. T. A. Torbert started on Thurs.
| dav morning for Colorado, TO be absent
about one month.
The towns along the Delaware road are
enivened as it were, by tramps going South
wrestle with the peaches.
Wilmington will get $4,000 of the $3J4.-
500 appropriated by Congress for 10 i'm
provement OF the Delaware river.
Company d, of Dover, has named i'-elf
the Hall Guards, in honor Of the Governor.
1t will give q Cape May excursion this
month.
The Newark Ledger says that the future
outlook of Delaware College grows brighter
every day. Applicants for aim sson are
being constantly received.
All the Wilmington Republican clubs are
preparing for the Republican ratification
, meeting tomorrow hight. Collector Ii:
, tranft is down one of the speakers.
Hon P. Gomez 5 a nephew Of Chic
) Justice Comegys committed suicide ii
Topeka, Kansas, on the 24th ult. The
body WIS taken St. Adams, VT, io
. burial.
Edward Jones, of Cedar Neck turned
:. pair Of horses into a field on Wednesda.
=; |, It, when a horse from aneighboring farm
/. jumped the fence and kicked one of then
/. to death.
= VIM. 2. Lord, ESQ.,, son Of Edward Lor,
:, of Camden, who hrs been practising law 70
; the past ten years in Salem, Oregon, hg
recently been made a judge in one OF tn
W courts of that State.
10 The Pcainsuirr Nc,cs makes it bad for tn
u people of that town who dc not subscrib
sS for 1t. 1t says TO them: "You cannot /
a truly good without it." What would
~ say oftnose who habitually read but do nc
- - subscribe?
it We hear, says the Transcript. that durin
n. the fruit season three lines Of barges will
rs run out OF APPOINTMENTS creek and or
10 out of Blackbird. 1t looks as though thel
il. would be no lack of shipping facilities it
I'd the growers this season.
~ Tilghman johnson and Constable WE
n C. Joseph were fined one dollar each ar
ha costs amounting 10 $37, for tresspassir
-, upon the property of Matilda j. lngrar
No.. of Dagsborough hundred, and removing
in. horse which belonged to plaintiff.
Is A little son of Michael Piper of Lncol
ey led tickling a mule with u straw, al
Us, when the mule had fin he'd giving /
ne opinion about the matter the boys no
BIS was broken, one eye put out and his who
gu countenanse generally dishsured.
all j. Frank Mancha was in Dover last wee
We, and sold 10 Theodore Cook lately fro
ses West Virginia, farm of about seven
ms. acres, situated about three miles North
Tor Dover, belonging TO A. Whitnack, for t.
MS thousand six hundred and fifty dollars
of
ing The Now Castle police recently made
the raid on tramps, who had been loiteri
,ar. around town and jugged nineteen of the
OF They were given hearing and allowed
hat hours in which TO get away, In default
in which they would be locked up for thi
the days. They went away.
ers The Dover correspondent of The Milf
be NcOs in speaking of the session of
18th Delaware Conference held there says 81
nts we'll dressed and decent appearance Of
hey colored brethren, who were in attendal
are ;'pon the conference and the respect
ad. or, crly and we'll behaved manner exhibi
sew. by them, while in Dover, deservedly v
ing the ocmmendation of all of our citiz
am. and showed an oxampis %sT;hh% " cT;hh% 70
age. initiated by some of our white bretaern
lis
lcs The only business transacted by
rsh, Republican State Central Committee q
pch ing lis session at DSver on Wednesday
nov was tho appointment of an execu. We c.
p :. miLtee stake change Of the york Of
ad. campaign. The committee is supposed
but Richard 4. Smith, Of New Castle couu
ost Isaac N. Mills, of Kent and Daniel BUR-
il is of Sussex. Plans for carrying on an agg
per sive campaign were discussed at length,
lind no action was taken with reference to
hey State Convention and no day fixed for
assembling.