Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-12-01

The Lewis Methodlsts a lot upon Whlch 10
erect parsonage. {
Wilmington is growing rapidly in the
Eastern section. Land that sold for five
dollars foot two years ago is now held at
$25 and $50.
food fish resembling in taste and
appearance the moss. bunker has appeared
in great numbers at Seaford. As many as
10000 per day have been caught there.
1t is pro posed that the Delaware Legsla.
ture. at the coming session, shall reduce
the interest of the State debt by the fund
ing of the loan in four per cent. bonds.
Heavy freight trains loaded with grain
are moving North over the Delaware road
daily. The number and length Of these
trains remind one of a lively peach season.
They are still surveying the proposed
route of that proposed railroad between .
Dover and Milford. That seems about the !
beginning and ending of this enterprise. /
In an advertisement in an old copy Of
the american I2epU6licau, published at George .
town on June IL, 1910, Houston's Mail
Line advertses the fare between that town
and Smyrna, so cts. and Wilmington at 50.
The Army anil Nary Journal of the 18th
inst contains an admirably written and
very lengthy review of the life of Gen.
Torbert by George Alfred Townsend, fol.
lowed 10y IA verbatum report of the addresses
delivered at the memorial services held in
Milford.
Scott Il Townsend editors of the Milford
! Chronicle, have dissolved partnership. the
change to take effect January LIST. After
! that date the paper will be conducted by
Townsend g. Corsa, who promise to enlarge
and improve their journal Mr.. COrsa was
the publisher Of the Nc,os and 1doertisrr five
or six years ago.
The annual meeting Of the Teachers
Institute of Sussex county will be held in
the Georgetown Court House this week.
There will probably be l2j teachers present.
The ladies will be entertained by private
families while the male members Of the
Institute will be provided for at either
hotel at one dollar per day.
ENTERPRIsE.-The Junction & Break
water railroad is putting Milford in the
position of q commercial metropolis by
running low rate excursions to it for the
opportunity of making purchases. The
Milford merchants, wide.a-wake to enter
prise, are spreading their advertisements
III the papers and competing for the trade.
} Says the PeninstLar NewS: "The cold
! weather the early part of this week was
almost as cool as brother Ellis proposition
to the Democratic voters of Delaware to lay
aside a tenth of their earnings during the
next two years to elect him to the United
J States Senate in 1883" Has our grave and
4 4 II, i
tithing as this?
To BE PRosECUTED.-George Spaulding, q
Greenback proselyte, is buSily engaged col
lecting evidence against the vote seller:
Y and buyers of Sussex county at the late
+. election with view to laying the same
e before the next Grand Jury. lie believe:
, the Greenback party's defeat is chargeabl'
9 to Democratic and Republican corruption
, -Gcoryeto,on Ia91er"r.
The Educational editor Of the .Sasse
Journal should invite the editor OF tn
4 PeninSul1r Ne,cs Junior if he is the guilt,
:. man down to the Institute and give him
= drilling in the daily exercise of the Associa
. ton. He seems to be la6Oring under tn
il impression that their purpose is to develO
@ great plans or make new discoveries i
~ science, rather than to learn proficiency i
a teaching " the young idea how to shoot.
u At Georgetown, the other day, SUISSE
= genius, John Willin by name, got up
- duck-shoOtlng match, from which he Rad
pocketful Of pennies. He had one due
,, only, but that duck he creased and tie
Il fifty wards from the scratch. He charge
y five cents a shot, the duck to go to tn
v person who should kill it, The due
= NOuldr't ko lyillo1 tbOu0h - shot &
le for half day, and in the end Willin &c
u mis- duck and the proceeds of the match.
~ Monday and Tuesday week were "Pou
III try Days in Dover. From early morn ii
late in the afternoon, wagons loaded wit
to poultry were to be found thronging Richart
Dr. son e. Robbins Canning factory, from
OF far below as Milford. This firm took in @
ne those two days $4,000 pounds of poutr
ny the vehicles loaded with poultry, formed
re line reaching down State street from ii
g factory to below the Court House. III
e, amount Of money disbursed on the tv
I'D days amounts to $4,000, and the firm vi
nd dispense during the season about $4,000
tie MARSHAL McMULLEN ARRESTS A Prom
nd NENT CITIZEN OF KENT CoUNTY.-On Satu
In day afternoon Marshal McMullen, wi
mr. Deputy A. l.. Ainscow, made a descent al
,rt captured Dr.. Royal S. Burdicl<, a we
Or. known and highly connected citizen
IRA Harrington. The facts resulting in Ii
or arrest are: Some time ago the doctor CT
~ lected for a widow and her children, $S
i'm pension money, her husband having di'
m. from wounds received in the late We
no The doctor it is alleged, kept half Of it
,tT violation of the statute which provides a {
nj. of $40 for such service. The woman mt
N, ried a man named John Hickman aft
aH her husbands death, and lived near Mifor
VS. The arrest of the doctor created considt
,ad able excitement when discovered. lie is
,av dentist and is highly connected. Jol
he Hickman was formerly of Felton,
lao Jforning Ne,cS.
NY PEACHES IN THE WINTER.-Mr. }.
'iSs Jolls, book keeper for Isaac Jones, j
'ne Middletown, received this week from
, ,s Pennsylvania man, seven Smock peach
ne which had been kept in their natural sta
hu for seventy.fve days, by some proc
net known only to the discoverer. The spe
mems looked firm and natural. and W.
i without any marks of decay. They We
lesV tasted by several persons, and there
,eh' some diversity of opinion in regard to t
. flavor Of the fruit. Jolls does not thi
rec they possess the true peach flavor, VIII
iee' others think they taste like Smock VIII
res just pulled from the tree. The gentleR1
; III who preserved the fruit writes Mr.. .IC
that he can keep the entire product of
---- orchard for sixty days at cost of 20 Gel
per basket, above expense Of labor.
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