Smyrna times., 1880-09-08
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Rail bird shooting around Mddletown is
reported good.
John Wanamakcr is making uniforms
for the Dover MALTA.
Two horses died in Milford Neck last
week of blind staggers.
A telephone line is being constructed be
tween Odessa and Middletown.
The Transcript says that Middlctown has
taken a new start in tho way of new build
ings.
Forty thousand baskets of peaches have
been used by Middletown evaporators this
season.
Two Crsield fishermen recently caught
a threehundred pound shark with a small
trout line.
The New Castle Presbytery will hold its
l4th instant.
Edmond C. Bennum, 9.year old was
crushed to death between two freight cars
at Georgetown, on Tuesday.
David L. Titus aged twenty.eight years,
was drowned while bathing in the Mspi-
lion, near Milford, the other day.
The Bright House, which closed on Mon.
day last, is said to have lost $1,000 for its
proprietor during the past season.
J. Simpson has purchased I25 acres Of
land at Delaware City, fronting the bay
shore, and will erect dry dock there.
A man employed in Milford foundry
slammed a door and caused heavy weight
TO fall upon him, inllicting severe and
painful wound in the face.
man with the courage to steal a mule
has been found in Sussex county. His
name is William b. Conaway, and he has
been held in $500 bail to answer.
"The Prize" is the name of new large,
luscious yellow peach discovered this year
by S. f. Shallcross, of New Castle county.
1t ripens directly after Crawford's late.
DR.. Maginnes charged John P. Morris, of
Georgetown, with forging his name to a
check for $500, and John p. has had a
, warrant issued for the doctor for defama.
ton of character.
. luO Junction ~ Drcdh hWil0T TallTOdu mas
paid some Of the claims arising from the
loss of baggage by the burning of baggage
car this season, and will pay the remaining
claims in a short time
A woman, known as "Aunt Jennie
Turner" died in Dover the other day, aged
about one hundred and ten years. She was
blind for a number of years. One of hel
daughters, aged seventy years, is now living
, in Dover.
The pENINsULAE FAIR.-On Tuesday, the
t 2lst instant, the seventh annual Peninsulal
Fair will open at Middletown and continue
for four days. Premiums are offered tt
, the amount Of $4,000. Entries for trials o
! speed will close today.
r REAL ESTATE SALE.-Catherine +. McCaul
(, ley, Administrators, sold the undivided
half interest of VIM. S. McCaulley, dec d
n in farm of lS9 acres, situated about TIVE
o miles west of Dover, at the Court House il
: Dover, yesterday, to Levi II. Miller, O
r Wilmington, for $4,000.
s Four boys while swimming in the Christi
/ ana river ut Wilmington, Sunday, wer
t fired upon by Capt. John w. Morton, of tn
n schooner Souder, who ordered them t.
Q keep away from his vessel All of then
|. were wounded, but only one, Harry Riley
G seriously. lie will probably lose an eye
Q Morton was held in $1,000 bail for his ar
n pearance at court
= The ?. w. & B. R. r. Company are erect
:, ing large tank house at the Delawar
= junction. Inside the house a large wei
has been sunk, twenty.feet in diameter
: which will constantly be kept pumped flu
e ,,ys,, ~, ,Eos
\ water, and also the numerous shifting er
g gines, engaged in shifting operations at tn
I junction freight yard.-Dela10arG Gazette.
g There was another accident on the Deli
!, ware & Chesapeake Railway last weel
n The down train Wednesday night ran owe
81 and killed another horse, at the same tim
y throwing the locomotive off the track an
sr wrecking it very badly 1t was with gres
20 difficulty that the track was cleared an
Of repaired in time for the Thursday mornin
6. train. This makes four horses which hav
" been killed ON the road in the past tw
rs weeks.
"a Small.p pox has made its appearance
so Wilmington. Dr. II. A. Brown sent nott
j. on Monday, TO Secretary Frazier, of tn
rs Board of Health, stating that two colore
a. children from Camden, who were at hous
ly on Gllpln avenue, aooVe lhncoln stree
NJ were down with the disease. DR.. j. !
Draper agrees with DR.. Brown that tf
CO cases are welLdeveloped smallpox case
! The children were at once removed to ii
II smallpox hospital.
- $4,000 FIRE IN MILFoRD.-Smith &c Hou
- toms large saw and grist mill, near I'll
depot, was discovered to be on fire abol
~ :" ii o'clock Saturday night, and was SOC
~ - burned TO the ground. The fire con
10 10 menced at the east end of the engine an
.e ae west of the boiler, and many express Il
~ belief that it was the work Of an incendiar
oS The mill and fixtures were all new, havir
- been erected only about ayear ago, and a
= totally destroyed. The loss on the mi
~ and its contents, consisting Of machiner
,a lumber and grain, will reach $4,000, Q
~, which there is an insurance of $1,000.
rs "The mills of the gods grind slowly, bI