Smyrna times., 1880-11-03
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

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w. w. Cannon, of Middletown has EN-.
darked in the grain business at Massey's, Md.
There is considerable ferment in the
Wilmington School Board on the text book
question.
The next annual meeting of the Sussex
County Teachers Institute will be held at
Georgetown during the first week in Deem
Der.
Charles K Lands, the founder of Vine
land, has been prospecting down the PENN
sula, and it is said that he intends to build
a town somewhere between the bays.
On Sunday two horses of Mr.. John T.
Johnsons who lives on the Frederick road
while in the field ran violently into q barbed
wire fence and badly tore and cut them
selves.
Our sorghum manufacturers down the
country, are about ceasing operations. The
acreage and yield has been larger than
usual, and this crop seems to be regaining
something of its former popularity.
The body of Henry Bleyer, an ex.city
councilman of Wilmington, who myster-
iously disappeared about two weeks ago,
was found in the Brandywine river Sunday.
1t is thought that he was foully dealt with.
The firm of W. NJ. Ross & Co., phosphate
manufacturers, seaford, has dissolved part.
nership. Ex.Gov. Ross retiring from the
firm. The business will be conducted by
his three sons under the firm name, w. NJ.
Ross & Co., as before.
The dwelling house on the farm of Man.
love ,. Wilson, on the Choptank road near
Middletown, occupied by George F. Wilson,
caught fire from the chimney, Monday
week, and was consumed. The loss will
reach $4,000; no insurance.
The State Sentinel has overhauled the
accounts of Kent county, and finds that
the startling amount of $S4,566.2l taxes
due the county has not been returned by
the tax collectors. The DeLararean denies
the correctness of the figures.
The Superior Court at Georgetown
granted liquor licenses to VIM. ii. Smoot,
South Milford, Geo. w. Male, Slaughter
Beach and James II. Melvin, Laurel.
Licenses were refused to b. B. Wharton,
Dagsboro; James P. Parvis, Bridgeville
and Levi P, Lynch, Lewes,
The TRUE INwARDNEss.-H. II. Colclazer
is the candidate understood to be promised
the Senate clerkship, and this accounts for
his suddenly and strenously advocating
Democratic principles when it was a great
surprise that he had any at all to advo
cate.-Ne,0S and Adoertiser.
Jacob Hooker, rich middle aged farmer
of Baltimore hundred, Sussex, met with q
violent death the other day. By the
sudden starting Of wagon to which he wa
fastening a log Of wood his head was caugh
between the wheels and the bedpiece anC
crushed, death being instantaneous.
Governor Hall has just launched another
three-masted schooner, Of $50 tons, a
Frederick. This makes thirty.three vessel,
owned solely and in part by Mr.. Hall
They range from 100 to l,lO0 tons, tn,
aggregate tonnage being 1920. Thirty
two of them were built in Delaware, b.
Delaware mechanics, out of Delaware whit
oak.
An item from the Georgetown Iaqstrer
| Clerk of the Peace Tomlinson has made on
, and forwarded to the. election officers O
each hundred lists of persons convicted O
felony in Sussex county and who conse
r quently have no right to vote. The list
embrace all such convicts for a period O
twenty-five years past. There are seventy
3 four in all, most Of whom are black. Som
, of the number are dead and others hav
! moved beyond the state.
JURoRs.-The following are the iuyme
3 from the three lower hundreds of Ne
0 Castle county:
t St. Georges William N. Wilson, Wiliar
: R. Cochrane, John B. Vandegrift.
AppoquiniminkM acomb Clayton, Davi
n Smith.
Black bird-Barney Donnelly, Jas. Prio
Second Panel.-Appoquinimink-John "
6 Naudain, William II. Ratledge.
b Observation-Disclosures G. Prior, Abel Sivi
r St. Georges-Thomas J. Houston, Jam,
e Gray.