Smyrna times., 1880-05-12
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS

Commercial travellers are now Fostering
the Peninsula merchant.
The Milford Methodists have just paid
ST, 200 for a parsonage lot.
A Frederick dealer shipped seven car
loads of dried fruit from Milford on Thurs
day.
General Walker has approved of Colo.
mel w. G. Whiteley' list of census enumera.
tors.
Ex-senator james A. Bayard takes his
food regularly and is able to get down
stairs.
The Clio, the Odessa boat is now making
regular semi-weekly trips between Odessa
and Philadelphia.
The annual excursion of the Rshoboth
Beach Camp Meeting Association will take
place on the 29th instant
An Odessa man will serve Middletown
people with ice at one cent per pound dur
ing the coming warm season.
Georgetown people are canvassng the
Sussex County towns in relation to their
great Fourth of July celebration.
Rev. P. H. Rawlins and wife have gone On
a two weeks visit to Covington, KY, intend
ing to stop at Cincinnatti on the way.
Mrs Rachel Moore, wife of Jas. ".
Moore, one eff the oldest and most respected
citizens Of Odessa died on Monday last.
The Breakuatcr, a new iron steamship for
the Old Dominion Steamship Line, was
launched at Chester Pa, last Thursday.
State Treasurer Reynolds will pay of
$50, 900 of the Delaware debt on July l.
The bonds to be called in are Nos. 81 to
4 345 inclusive.
; Frank johnson Of Middletown, is now
training nine horses on the Association
! track, and many others will be trained
there during the coming summer.
! Governor Hall and family went to Wash
+ ton yesterdy and will spend the balance o
e this week in the Federal city. The Gov
t ernor will be at home on Monday.
y. The Dcla,oare Inquirer has another batcl
. Of notes about Georgetown's Fourth o
{ July celebration. George Alfred Town
o send will write poem for the occasion.
y George Hagany, otherwise "Slim Jim,
g the Philadelphian, has been held in 81 so
t, bail to answer for the robbery of w. N
d Kennard's store in Wilmington on tn
d twenty-ninth of last month.
The premium list of the Peninsula Agr
e. cultural and Pomelogical Association, 70
" 1880, will be sent out early in june
le Nearly $4,000 will be offered in premium
n for exhibits at the next fair.
a The Philadelphia Inquirer Of Monday
= says: Miss Lille Febger, daughter
II Colonel Febiger, and niece of Commc
- dore Febger, U. S. n, is to be marie
20 next month in Wilmington, Del"
ie Mr.. j. II. Marvel, near Milford, has sol
e- his entire blackberry and raspberry Gro
at to the Houston Canning Co., for cen
ly per quart the season through. Mr.. NJ. e:
to poets to deliver $4,000 quarts at least.
2n The Sunday School of the New Castle \
W +. Church will make an excursion to Bon
"a bay Hook on Wednesday, June I'd. I'll
- Methodist Sunday Schools of Delaware Gil
ha and Port Penn, will join the excursion.
he The Hon. Leander +. Riddle, form
&c. State Senator from New Castle county, an
IN a member Of the firm of James Riddl
is Son g. Co.. is suffering from the heme
ey rhage of the lungs at Nice, France, whe
De- he is travelling.
.aSS Wilmington now has eighty miles of t.
S"st ephone wires run into the Exchange offiC
VI Messages may be transmitted over a circU
,"o Of fifteen miles. There is also telephon
I connection between Wilmington and Dov
~ ef about fifty miles.
ad Mayor Almond, of Wilmington, Ia
J. week held Frank Mason and James Jordi
icy in $500 bail each to answer for vctimizi
ase passengers on the Philadelphia, Wilmir
ere ton and Baltimore Railroad by means
en- the three.card-monte game.
ng Grandfather" Ephriam Knowles,
oW Odessa, celebrated his one hundredth birt
sI .I day anniversary on Monday. One hundr
' Is and fifty friends gathered at the house
~ his granddaughter, where he lives, al
W 'nS entertained him all through the evenir
did 1t is said that the usual campmeeti
the under the auspices of the Rehoboth Bea
md Association will not be held this year.
lry lieu Of the campmeeting there will be
'ee' continued series Of religious meetings, und
ner charge of the preachers of the Dover Z
d." trict.
;on Georgetown is excited over a strap
iii animal that visits the town at night a
'on' chases the dogs. The DeLa,oare Inqta
rt ,ort describes it as about three feet high, W
on. fiery eyes, long, coalblacR hair, and a I
how Of graceful curve. 1t was lately seen
1o;r broad daylight by two ladies who W,
riding though grove. When approach,
it runs like a deer.
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