Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-10-27
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Prof. E. D. Tarr has taken charge of
Roxana school.
The beet sugar works at Riverside have
commenced operations.
Rev. j. Z. Mowbray of Frederick, is
strongly talked Of for Roxana Circuit
The Bright House, Rehoboth, has been
leased by Walter Burton for the next season. |
A Milford Gamer will put up 2,400 cans
of pumpkins after he finishes the tomato
crop.
Newark seems to have more politics to
the square inch than any other town in the
State.
The new NJ f. Church on Frankfort
Circuit will be dedicated some time next
month.
From Aaron Bakers residence, near
| Newark, can be seen four States-Delaware
Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey.
WE A. Woodcok has sold his property
on Lockerman street, Dover, to VIM.
Denney, Jr., Esq. Mr.. W. will remove to
the west.
The Teachers Institute for New Castle
county will be held in the College Oratory,
in Newark, on the Sd, 4th, 5th and 9th Of
November.
The will of General Torbert has been ad.
mitted to probate with Albert Curry as
executor. All his property, real and per-
sonal, is left to his wife.
Anthony Higgins, Esq, has been making
strong speeches against the Assessment law
and nobody steps in to defend that outra
geous piece of fraud and injustice.
Sickness last week brought about an af
fecting reunion between Lewes mother
and daughter who had been totally es.
tranged ever since the latter's marriage
nine years ago.
The first Philadelphia excursion of the
Junction & Breakwater Railroad, on Tues.
day, was a big affair. Three hundred
Sussex county girls went North to get their
fall bonnets and things,
MISSING CoLLECToR.-It is charged
that Charles H. D. Bedford, collector of
taxes for the lower district of Wilmington
is studiously keeping away from his office
to keep from receiving taxes.
Marriage bells rang merrily in Bridge
Vile on Tuesday, when Fred Galloway, of
Denver, Colorado, and Miss Mollie Il.
Layton, of the first named place, were
made one in the NJ. E. church by Rev. Mr.
Jones.
! DIvIDEND-The Directors of the Kent
, County Mutual Insurance Company met in
their Office, in Dover, on Wednesday, and
resolved to pay dividend of 20 per cent. +,
: providing the losses do not exceed $4,000 for
: the year.
, Amos G. and Albert Turner, near Milford,
, will dig this year from $500 to 1000 bushels
: of sweet potatoes. Their freight over the
: Junction & Breakwatsr road has some
seasons been as high as 500 on farm pro.
duce alone.
!; OUR CENsUs.-Delaware is the first State
to furnish official figures of the census of
" 1880. The population is set down at l46,.
0 654, of which Wilmington has AZ, 400, New
Castle county Including Wilmington IT,.
+ 746; Kent, 32,877; and Sussex, 37,03l.
$ The Morning Ners of Thursday published
;, a list of eighty.one licensed drinking houses,
1 and sixty.three unlicensed, making a total
Il of l44 places where liquor is sold, in the
Q city of Wimington-an average of one
t saloon to almost every 300 inhabitants.
/. Precautions are being taken by Mayor
Q Almond to prevent disturbances in Will.
d mington during the Republican parade
there tonight and the Democratic parade
s on Thursday night. Between two hundred
n and three hundred special officers will be
n qualified and a reward of $50 for "the
8 arrest and conviction of any person who
u may be caught in a manner calculated to
r incite to riot" will be offered.
SHERlFF's SALE.-On the 18th, Sheriff
|. Pyle sold at the hotel of Joseph Kidd, in
IS Delaware city, lot Of land in Port Penn,
the property of VIM. e Eliason, to John II
IT Rodney, ESQ.,, attorney, for $500. Also, al
the same time and place he sold the one.
}, sixth and one.fourth of another oue-sixth
}. in a wharf property in Delaware City, the
). property Of Anthony Reybold, to the same
n for $575.-MiddletO10n Transcript.
a Coon TEMPLARs.-The Grand Lodge o.
II Good Templars, met at Camden, on the
Is Goth inst. and elected the following officers
IS for the ensuing year, viz. G. w. c. T., Rev
A. w. Lightbourne, of Wyoming; G. w. e.
is Rev. l. T. Cooper, Camden; G. w. v. 7.
y Mrs. A. E. LoAand, Dover; G. w. S., w
); N. Brown, Wyoming; G. w. T., G. P
al Crouch, Dover G. w. /. S., Kate A. Brown
Wyoming; Grand Representative to r. w
=, G. l.. of the World, r. B. Mcdonnell, o
IL Wilmington; G. w. /. G., Edwin Pleasan
as ton, Little Creek 6. w. o. g., W. T, Kel
o. lum, Dover.
Ill When Mrs. Mary Smith, the gypsy wht
I'd robbed resident Of South Bethlehem, wa
as arrested in Wilmington, recently, she lef
90 $500 with the chief OF Police of that city a
II. security for her appearance when wanted
n, The Northampton county officials procured
d. a requisition for the women and went [,
rt Wilmington after her the other day, but M
d, gypsy could be found. The money, there
or fore, has been handed over TO Distric
e. Attorney Anstead, OF Northampton, and i
n will be forfeited unless the gypsy shout,
he put in an appearance at Easton on tn
70, second Wednesday in December.
he A. LIBEL SUIr.-0ne result of the cam
ne paign has eliminated in libel srit agains
as Henry w. Cannon, editor of the State Sent
ut net and chairman Of the Republican Stat
ty Committee. The suit is brought in behal
de Of Abraham g. Moore, late collector of take
re. for East Dover hundred, by his counsel
40 James i. Woolcot, Esq. The subject @
ly- the libel suit is the following words In re
rs, gard to the Little Election"I 1.-THE fo
nd lowing delinquents voted upon tax recent
from A. @. Moore, although Mr.. Moore Ia
,ot never paid the tax over to the county.
TO Mr., Moore claims to be prepared to sustai
tuH J.. - +. +