Smyrna times., 1880-08-25
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

On Saturday the Seaford Index entered
upon its fourth volume, with better pros.
poets than ever.
Only ten persons could be scraped to.
gether to hold u Greenback meeting at
Georgetown last Tuesday.
Having dug out its creek Dover will this
week put on a steamer the Water Witch, to
ply between that place and Bowers Beach.
Charles K. Turtle, of Georgetown, has
started for Colorado, with a serious idea of
permanently locating in the Centennial
State.
Another centenarian in good health
Sophia Hansey, of Indian River Hundred
aged los years-has been discovered in
Sussex county.
Rev. ]. A. Lyons, of the Catholic Church
of Holy Cross, Dover, has been appointed
to take charge of the congregations at
Elkton and Newark.
Mrs. Butler has sold her property on
State street, Dover occupied by Mr.. |. N.
| Mills, to Mr.. Samuel Hall of Frederick, for
$3.50; possession to be given the lst day
of April, 1881.
The Republicans of East Dover Hundred
made a temporary organization of their
/ club on Wednesday evening by calling 4.
B. Smithers, Esq, to the Chair, and making
P. Burnett Secretary.
The Seaford Indcr, on beginning its
fourth year, philosOphically romarks that ii
takes money as well as time to establish O
newspaper, and that it would like to see
the two ingredients little equitably mixed
Mrs. Martha P. Read, who has offered tc
contribute $4,000 for the erection of ?
E. Church in Nice, France, as a memorial
of her husband, is a resident of Wilmington
She is a sister of Admiral Dahlgren who
lived in Wilmington forty years ago. Mrs
Reads husband recently died in Nice.
This years catalogue of Delaware Colleg'
has Just been issued. 1t is pamphlet o.
twenty.six pages, containing the usual in
formation about the college, and setting
forth the advantages of the institution
The under graduates number fifty.two, anC
F the names are given of seven residen
graduates.
Mr.. J. Thomas Budd, land agent of tn
P. w. Il B. r. R., is trying to purchase 70
an emigration society 10000 acres of LIANT
at Bombay Hook, but we arc informed tina
t the land owners are holding for figures tina
/ the company consider too high, and tn
: scheme may fall through. If the lam
could be purchased, 400 families of Msr
D nonites would settle upon it at onee.--hiC
J dleto,on Transcript.
t, ! The State Central Committee has calle
l a State Convention of the Republican part
s to be held at Dover on Thursday the I'd c
; September, for the purpose of nominating
j.. candidate for Congress and three Presider
. tial electors. New Castle county will
represented by Is delegates, Kent by AZ
: and Sussex by 42-l60 in all. This ca
# will render it necessary to hold the Reput
:. lican primaries on Saturday next, the 2St
instant.
/, Dennis McFadden, about sixty years {
- age while assisting George Goldsborougl
J. mis- son.in.law, in threshing wheat nes
It Townsend, the other day, had one of b
:. arms caught in some part Of the machiner
= Of the thresher. All the bones from th
elbow to the wrist were crushed and all th
flesh and sinews from the entire inns
4 side Of that part of the arm were mangle
Is and torn away, leaving the hand ju
# depending by the outer flesh and skin.
<. A THIRF ON THE DEL. r. R.-As DR.. Cha
q d. Green was returning to Kirkwood Q
4 last Saturday evenings train, an agresab
young man sitting beside him, purloins
y his satchel of surgical instruments, takir
s. it to the water closet, not being able
of open it in his haste, slit it open under Il
10 flap and distracted from it surgical instr
ments worth over $l25 to any surgeon u
derstanding their use. The DR.. knows Il
y young mans face, and il would prevent b
g exposure by returning the instrument
la Other articles in the satchsl were left u
/. touched.
J" FEDERAL AND STATR CONFLICT IN DBL
to WARE Wilmington, Del, Aug. 23.-Justi
Harlan, of the Supreme Court, after CO
W. sultation with Justice Miller, has issued
Q. writ of error to the Supreme Court of Il
to United States in the case Of William Nsi
ri colored, convicted at the last term of Il
~ State court here for outrage on the pers'
80 of Mrs. Margaret GOsser. 1t will be remeI
es bered that at the time of the trial
-s Higgins, counsel for Neal, asked that 4
at case be removed to the United States C
"A cult Court, on the gronnd that negroes we
prohibited by the State laws from sergi
20 on juries. The court decided that no su
N. prohibition existed, and Neal was trie
ar found guilty and sentenced to be hang
OH Friday next. As Attorney General CIR
- and Chief Justice Coraegys have reoo
n mended respite, there Is no doubt b
that il will ha OranLad -.-,.s Z ,,,,,.. q