Smyrna times., 1880-06-09
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

Wheat harvest has commenced down the
State. A heavy yield is promised.
The trustees of the Camden camp ground
have contracted to have the springs upon
the ground walled up with stone.
Lacy's friends at Frederica are most
sanguine of his success at the Democratic
County Convention for the office of sheriff.
butcher and "Mrs. Watson," who failed
to create a favorable sensation in Delaware,
about year ago, are now lecturing in
Nevada.
The Methodists of Bridgevile Circuit
contemplate holding camp meeting about
half way between Seaford and Bridgeville,
to commence August 9th.
Among the Democratic names mention
ed as Senators from New Castle county to
the State Senate are Messrs. Peter N. Bren-
nan, j. Parke Postles and James w. Ware.
The excursion given by the Georgetown
band to Ocean City on Thursday last was
not very literally patronzed in that vicinity.
Only four persons went from Milford and
one from Harrington.
! A three-year-old daughter of Archibald
| Thompson, of Brandywine Village, was
burned to death last Sunday by her cloth
ing catching fire from somo matches with
which she was playing.
Joel Prettyman, father Of DR.. j. S. Pret
| lyman, and grandfather Of II. Ii. Pretty
man, one of the editors of the PcninSIq
Nccs, died at his home in South Milford
about week since, aged 81 years.
FIRST SHIPMENT OF New PoTAToEs.-Last
week the first shipment of new potatoes
FROM Lewes to New York was made. The
| potatoes were from Eastern Virginia, and
were shipped on the Worcester road.
a Republican Ratification meeting will
be held in Wilmington this evening to en-
dorse the nomination of Garfield and
Arthurs. Anthony Higgins and Judge
Wales are expected to address the meeting.
Mr.. Christian Febiger has been chosen
to represent Delaware in the Republican
National Executive Committee Mr.. Febi.
ger is an earnest and active Republican
and gentlman of intelligence and ability.
During the five days beginning Tuesday
and ending Saturday the Wilmington cen
sus enumerators returned about 1876
names. Col. Whiteley has now advanced
his estimate OF the city's population from
$4,000 to $4,000.
I. Hope Caldwell, son of Rev. Mr.. Cald
well, of Wilmington, received the honors
of the valedictory at Carlisle, Dickinson
College. The honor is the greater as he
was the youngest of the class and not ye
twenty years of age.
A COOP ApPoINTMENT.-In appointing
Edwin r. Cochran, of Middletown, as Clerl
Of the Peace for New Castle county Gov
Hall has made an excellent selection ant
one which was asked at his hands by n,
less than three thousand citizens of tn
county. lie succeeds John p. Springer
who has held the office for number o
! years, and has been an unscrupulous part
: Zan.
f Professor James Law, Of Cornell Uni
< versity, Ithaca, New York, having bee
t applied to by committee of Milfor
+ Grange to give an opinion as to whethe
/ certain of j. S. Harringtons cattle ha
died of pleuro-pneumonia, concludes fror
the description Of symptoms that such wa
the case. lie advised that the most activ
Q measures be taken to stamp out the di
$ ease.
!. The ninetieth annual convention of III
S Protestant Episcopal Church in DclawaI
q convened at Laurel on Wednesday las
q Bishop Lee presiding. The sermon We
,s preached by Rev. d. d. Smith. The TO
n lowing delegates were elected to the gel
a eral conventions Clerical, Revs. Douglas
h Gordon, Little and Smith lay, S. Nj. Gu
q tis, George II. Bates, w. J. Fell and D
n Horace Burr.
WHO WILL IT BE?-The Democrat
n, nomination for Sheriff, for New Castle c
a Saturday next, promises to be decided
y lively. Mr. Ford is leaving no stone u
~ turned to secure the prize, and Mr.. Lyme
ID is going to win if he possibly can. III
~ sentiment in this city is unquestonably
favor of Mr.. Ford, and it looks as thous
Mr.. Lynch would have all he could do
r. pull through. 1t is generally concedt
L, that Lynch will carry the lower hundred
IL as he is very we'll known there and pole
OF heavy vote in that locality two years 40
; The appointment of Mr.. Cochran to Il
IN Clerkship Of the Peace is going to he
ID Ford. DAILY Ne,os.
e, ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN.-A night
ut two ago some miscreant atteml ted to wre,
at train on the p, w. & b. II. r., by placi
ne a large white oak sleeper in the catt
it guard at the Blue Ball crossing, she
I'd distance below Elkton. The Baltimo
1g train arriving in this city at 9:36 O'clo
is. struck the obstruction, but fortunately t
tn villains work was SO bunglingly perform
m that the conclusion threw the tie out Of t
he hole, and carried it forward some distan,
lis when it fell between the tracks and I
of train passed safely over it. This Blue B
sc crossing is getting to be q notorious pla,
as several unsuccessful train.wrecking
tempts have been made there in the past
S. Del. Gazette.
M DEATH OF DIR. L. C. DUNN1NG.-Hc !
II pres Fifteen Minutes Attcr Being Taken "
~ HemOrrhGJe.-On Monday evening, abe
'lu 1870 o'clock, DR.. Z. c. Dunning was TAX
ey with hemorrhage at his home, No. 7
up Market street, Wilmington. His alta
srs was so severe that his wife ran immediate
NJ to the Office of DR.. Maull. By the til
Nes DIR. Maull arrived at the bedside of
las Dunning, which was in very few minu
after the attack, the hemorrhage was
we copious that it was evident to the strick
RAJ man himself that death would ensue v,
'ou soon. DIR. Maull endeavored to check
les flow of blood, but his efforts were fruitlC
are The stricken man died fifteen minutes af
on being attacked. The deceased was b.
olu in Dover, son of Jas. A. Dunning, and
eP' educated in his profession at the Unvers
nie of Pennsylvania. lie was a captain in
~, First Delaware Cavalry, and was also an
leu sistant surgeon in the navy Of the Uni
OH States. In 1872 he resigned his post
P"' under the Government, to practice ms
cine. He married Miss Morris, q daugh
the of Sam'l Morris, Of Avondale, Chester
nor Pa, who, with little daughter, survi
, SO him.
its STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. The semiann
the meeting of the State Medical Society