Smyrna times., 1880-01-07
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

tlnues good.
A Methodist Protestant Church is TO be
organized in Milford.
Quite fleet of foreign vessels is at the
Breakwatsr awaiting orders.
The Court of Errors and Appeals for this
State met i'll Dover yesterday.
There were SS7 deaths in Wilmington
last year, 4G more than in 1878. /
A new Life Saving station is soon to be
built on the the beach in front of Lewes. |
Ex-Governor Ponder has gone into a new !
business addressing Sunday school gather.
ings.
The Wilmington police made 2,3l4 arrests
during the last year. 7l6Nere for drunken.
ness.
During 1879, 269 houses were erected in
Wilmington. There were 323 in the pre-
ceeding year
Dover gas has been reduced in price to
! $2.43 thousand feet. In 1867 gas in that
town cost SIC thousand.
| William Masden, a thirteen.vear.old
: Lewlsville, Sussex boy, was thrown from "A
horse and killed a few days ago.
Rev. Il. w. Todd, presiding elder of
Dover District, NJ. E. Church, has been
quite i'll at his residence in Dover.
The WILMINGTON City hallway Company
yesterday declared dividend Of 10 cents
per share, the first in fifteen years.
The Deer Park Hotel at Newark has been
sold through James Ii. Ray & Co., to John
}. Dougherty, of this city for $4,000.
Capt. Rich, Superintendent of the Life
Saving Stations, il now putting his men
through the night drill along the Delaware
coast
There is revival in iron mining at
Chestnut Hill, near Newark. Pits that
have been idle for seven years are now
being worked.
Purnell johnson, son Of the late Ge@rge
johnson, of Pennington, who went West
twenty years ago. has come back to live in
Delaware the rest Of his days.
John NJ. Macklem, of Wilmington, has
| announced himself as a Democratic candi
; date for the Sheritfalty nomination. This
; is the first announcement made.
Agents ofthe Delaware Railroad Company
have been getting the views Of land owners
t and business men along the line Of the Pre-
/: posed road from Dover To Lewes
. The Milford Basket Co., will in a shor
/. time commence the manufacture Of straw
f berry bskets. About sixty men and womer
|. will be employed during the Winter.
. Messrs. Richardson & Robbins, Dover
. poultry packers have, SO far paid GU
D $4,000 for poultry and expect to pa
:, to pay $4,000 before the season closes.
n Messrs Curtis & Bro, of Newark are rur
q ning their paper mill to its full capacity i
e. order to replenish tho stock destroyed b
St the burning Of Megargee's Bros warehous,
ID in Philadelphia.
IL Evaporated peaches are now wholssalein
ne in Philadelphia at from 80 to IS cents ft
Of pared and Is to 81 cents for impaired.
re strikes US that this is profitable way
IN manage at least a part of peach crop.
% Reviewing the improvements in Wilmin
T., ton for the last decade, the Gazette says tn
- the population has increased 10000 sin
~ 1870. Then the city had 30,S4l inhabitan
~ and now the estimate gives it 46, 1000. I'll
~ city has 1l2 manufactures, Is pub
- schools, 81 churches and g. stores
nd A PETITION TO DEMONSTRATIONS a
re- being circulated in Georgetown and 9th
places in Sussex asking Congress to pc
Senator Bayard's resolution providing
sy the abolition and repeal of the compulso
hg legal tender power now given to the treasu
-hs notes of the United States. They are bel
NE numerously signed.
Ihe Insurance Commissioner John R. McF
OF ESQ.,, has been making an examination IL
the the condition of the Delaware State +
oy and Marine Insurance Company and by I
ner books Of the company it is demonstrat
req that its available assets do not exec
by $3l ,3S3.l7, while its risks foot up in va
Of $2,l62,S43. No comment is necessary
mes view of this to show how unstable is
1o!- financial condition of the comps
eel Nobody can now be deceived by it, g
1Iss people who insure in it will have to do
ne with the rottenness Of the concern in
oy view.-GeOrgetO,on Inquirer.
mic MERMAID AT LEwEs.-Dr. Knowles
fnll Lewes had 'em" bad last week. He
the seen a Mermaid which he describes as be
the about the size of an ordinary six year
boy, and 10 the waist or middle of
AVE body resembled a boy in every particu
sub He says that its head, face, neck, arms
ines bust as well as its hair was perfect in app
es." ance to that of a human being. III
eel: we're no fingers on the hands, but cot
!. G. moppy hair like the frizzled end of VIII
bone, supplied their place. The lower
next tien Of the body from the middle or W
and downward resemoied thatot shark, the
L.. 4 - l. 1, -
lar to that on the hands. 1t was LEFT
liam shore by the tide.
WI" .n The Changers of Delaware have organ
80, 10 a Mutual Fire Insurance Company for
-, benefit of the members in this State.
LsxI II. Bancroft, of Camden, has been cleo
10 10 = President, and VIM. Dean of News
III 10 Secretary. Each Grange has a member
tne acts as agent and surveys and values
l;aoS property, and only members of the Ora
' ~: can have their property insured in the c
'loHS pany. The officers act without any sal
con and it only costs 81 for the policy-this
y ~ being divided between the agent and Sc
a., tary. When the company meets wit
-. loss, an assessment is made upon the N
!. - bers in proportion to the amount insu
-, The risks are confined exclusively to {
~, houses and buildings. This plan of in
r., r. ance has been tried in several cases and
lOEcs | .,.oo.as
ssary iiieV WIN liuo" '"0O0'' ''''""''''
COM PEACHES AND BERRIEs.-Ths annua
have port of the Directors of the P, w.
and R. r., for the year ending October 81,
the recently issued by President Hinck
for gives the following comparative table 81
the ing the peach and berry shipments
et of the road together with the revenue der
ID to therefrona, for the past thirteen years
adel. CARS OF CARS OF TOT.
ar nupprre ppxyu