Smyrna times., 1880-08-18
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Milton camp opened on Friday under |
the auspices of Rev. DIR. Shermer of the
Milton Methodist Protestant Church.
An independent paper is one like the
EUery EUeni1eg, that talks Democratic six
days in the week and is neutral on Sundays.
Garretson Salisbury, of Mispillion hun
dred, Kent, died few days ago aged sixty
years. He was member of the House Of
Representatives at Dover in 1877.
Persons from Delaware who visit Phila-
delphia find they must lay awake to fight
the voracious mosquitoes or be severely
peppered. They are glad to get home.
The Peninsula last week sent about l.
100000 baskets of peaches to market,
three.tifths going to New York and Boston,
the remainder to Baltimore or Philadel-
phia.
Rapid progress is being made in the
work of clearing Jones' creek of obstruc-
tions, and in few weeks Dover will have
the longneeded water communication with
Philadelphia.
In 1870 Wilmington was the forty-third
city in the matter of population in the
United States; by the new census it be-
comes the forty-second. Hartford, Conn.,,
takes No. 43.
Thirteen thousand visitors were at Bran.
dywine Summit Camp on Sunday. Every
procurable team in Wilmington was pressed
| into service and hundreds drove down from
Wilmington and Chester.
Yesterday afternoon, fire broke out in
| the woolen mills of James ii. Knowles
at New Castle. The fire was finally eX-
! tngushed by turning steam on 1t. 1t is
estimated that the loss was about 81 900.
In the opinion of the Newark Ledger the
Republicans of Delaware should nominate
Colonel Henry S. McComb, one of Whining
toms wealthy men, for Congress. George
w. Bush and Washington Jones are talked
of as possible candidates.
Richardson g. Robbins packed $4,000
cans of peaches in five days last week.
They were nearly all extras. This firm is
using only yellow peaches. 1t takes l,200
baskets daily to run them. They are also
packing largely of Bartlett pears, paying
from IS cents to 81 per basket for them.
II. II. Prettyman has sold out his inter
|
Henry L. Hynson. The paper will now be
conducted by Harris & Hynson and, while
independent in politics, will support Gar
field and Arthur. Mr.. Prettyman's future
is dimly described as one that will call him
to another sphere of labor which promises
larger rewards.
Bishop Scott writes from his home at
Odessa that he is sin fair general health
but very helpless" MY left hand and
forearm" he says, "are not only useless
but are greatly in my way. | cannot dress
or undress, or take my food, without help
: The last hymn in the Hymnal is much in
my mind;
"In age and fceblencss extreme
, Who shall helpless worm redcem?'
The folks Of Georgetown had a picnic tht
I other day, and one young man named Steelr
was playing the agreeable to a certain
! young lady. About the time he was con
graduating himself on his success, riva
q appeared on tho scene armed with a club
Q and in a phenomenaliy short time Nj
Steele was lying on the ground senseless
S with the scalp laid open to the skull. Tn
blow was so hard that the stick broke an,
+ a section of it struck lady on the arm
u with such force as to nearly break it.
o The Salem StuJcam says: "There's sanothe
Q citizen who, one Sunday not long ago, lat
O aside the fourth commandment with hi
weekday clothes, and went on a steamboa
excursion to Bombay Hook. On the boa
X there were two parties, one from Philade
l, phia the other from Delaware city, an
l. these getting into a fight, our Salem fren
?, didn't know which to fight for. At last
hof, ho ,ur
:; struck by either party. Taking off h
e coat, he exclaimed, Il fight with Delawar
Il City, because it's nearest Salem"
/. At the meeting of the State Teacher
d Association at RehobOth, on the 23rd inst
ID addresses will be made by President Pu
10 nell and Professor +. ID. Porter, of Delawal
?. College; Professor d. w. Harlan, Pro!essc
d, w. A. Reynolds, Professor S. j. Wiley, I'll
N Rev. J. NJ. Williams and E. D. Bach,
IS Wilmington, and by several other wel
IS known teachers. Professor w. NJ. Jefferie
L. of Delaware College, will read the report
II, committee on education. Chief Justi,
It, Comegys will lecture on Wednesday eve
ry ing. The exercise will close on Frida
n. the 9th instant.
- PEACH TRAINs-Nine peach trains a
SO
N The trains are made up of from 20 to
nj cars. The empty cars are brought dow
ri the road early in the morning and a
la dropped off at various stations. The fiji
re train up carries the peaches from the low
h Peninsula. The last or midnight ira
- cleans the siding, taking the fruit to Phi
delphia. The trains do not run on sche
of ule time, their movements being constant
as under the direction of the Wilmingt
be Office. The Wilmington Ne1cS, which h
looked into the matter, finds that t
'er machinery for marketing the most perit
he able of fruits works Systematically and vii
raj out a jolt.
oJ MURDERED IN Cold BLooD.-A Ne
oh Champions HIS Brothers Quarrel by Shoot
T;s His Antagonist.-A special Correspondent
IN. the Daily Ne,oS says: "On last Saturd
he evening, as several hack loads of color
no. people were returning from Bowers BeaC
his an alteration took place between Nj
70 Mosely, of Camden, and James Truitt,
on Dover. They were separated, and Mos,
700 had turned TO 60 towards his vehicle, wh
IN Thomas Truitt, brother Of James, jump
70 from hack, and, drawing a revolver, fir
,g four shots at Mosely, the last one TAXI
on effect in the forehead, just above the e
of and producing a wound from which he d
er in few hours. Truitt was arrested a
,er lodged in Dover Jail.
on The Kent county Democrats will M
es' Saturday elect delegates to the State c.
ces vention, which meets in Dover on Tuesd
et' August 24th. The county convention,
ave nominate county officers and candida
ia for the Legislature, will meet in Dover
TX September 2lst. There will be two sets
ow '', delegates composed of sixty each. I