Smyrna times., 1881-02-09
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.

1t is proposed to establish State Fish
Commission in this State.
Miss Gertie Bunnell will read in Middle
town Hall, tomorrow evening.
Sleighing, scarlet fever and the measles
are engaging the attention of Georgetown
people.
Chancellor Salisbury says he has not
ventursd an extra;judcal opinion on the
liquor laws.
Grave fears are entertained that the par.
tridges have been killed by the cold wealth
er and snow.
Rev. Joseph Robinson, pastor of the NJ.
E. Church, Camden, has been sick for
several weeks.
A Sussex county man has applied to the
Legislature for u divorce ION the ground
that his wife is lazy"
The Levy Court Of Sussex county has
elected George w. Draper chairman, and
Cyrus Ward county treasurer.
John A. Forbes, of Dover, has patented
a can soldering machine, by which both
ends of q can are put in at one operation.
Sussex county empbatically says she
doesn't want any change in the game law,
except she wants hawk law, and that's all.
Mayor Almond. of Wilmington, Thurs.
day, held William Guthrie in $1,000 bail to
answer a charge of assault with intent to
commit rape.
Register Biggs has granted letters tesla.
mentary upon the estate Of the late Thomas
F. Plummer, to Henry c. Robinson, the
administrator.
Dover, Seaford. FELTON,, and other towns
complain that burglars are altogether too
numerous for q State that contains three
good, solid whipping-p posts.
A man who left Illinois last October for
Sussex county has arrived at Georgetown,
having walked all the way, and he says
never slept under shelter once during the
entire tramp.
All the capital stock required, $25, 600
for the construction Of the Front and Union
Streets Railway in Wilmington has beer
subscribed and work on the road shortly
will be begun.
The BreaklOater Light says the Ocean fol
miles and miles, or beyond the reach of th'
telescope from the top of Henlopen light
house, appeared last week as an intermin
able field of ice.
r. L.
EVeaing reports al the food supply running
low, money scarce, and no marriages in th
town this winter" They are having hare
times down there, indeed.
The Legislature will be asked to appro
pirate $3.50 toward the erection of monu
ment at Cowpsns, South Carolina. TIL
request comes from Senator Bayard I
Speaker Williams Of the House.
! Georgetown and Sussex generally is muc
excited over the Philadelphia Times articl
q about the cIuelties practiced toward boun
beys, and the Journal devetes about tw
columns to contradicting the story, an
wants the Times to investigate its invest
g gator.
| Several persons walked across the mout
: Of Delaware Bay, from Cape May to Lewe
!. few days since, One Of them, a gre,
d two hundred FOUNDER, said they occupie
n four hours in the trip, and found the ice
h solid as rock. The journey from Chino
league Island TO the mainland has also bee
y successfully made.
IS 1t fell to the luck Of i. C. Vandsgrii
II Esq, TO prosecute the first criminal case
"a the new Wilmington Court House. NJ
Vandegrift, says the Morning Ne,0s is one
70 the youngest members Of the bar, but
a. gentleman gifted with intelligence and trl
ls worth, and destined to rise. The manas
M ment Of his first case Monday would sure
!. suggest this.
Or A PATENT CAsE.-Jutlge Bradford, of u
lie United States Court, has just filed his
"a cision in the patent CASE Of ]. f. Wilt,
Philadelphia, VS.. g. s. (iri<r, of Milfor
" II ID the Judges decision that Grisr b
q. infrnged upon Willis patent In makil
in and using certain form of fruit dryer, al
10 tho Court accordingly orders that an
10 junction be issued, restraining 0rier fro
a fuithsr using the apparatus in questio
50 The case was argued in November la
in Judge George P. Fisher appearing for Grit
AMI Worth Osgood, Of Now York for Wi