Smyrna times., 1881-08-31
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
Two men weft converted at Willard
Prides camp meeting,
Farmers are selling new corn for sew
cnty-five cents per bushel.
The main waiting room of the new de-
pot at Wilmington will be fifty feet square.
The Kent county grange societies held
II picnic at Camden camp grounds. last
Wednesday.
George " Massey, Esq, of Dover, has
been i'll with chills and fever, but is some
what recovered.
There are more cases of ''chills" in |
New Castle hundred, it is said, than were !
ever known there before.
John NJ. Appleton has taken out letters
testamentary upon the estate of AleXan- !
der NJ. Vail, late of St. Georges hundred.
1t is estimated that it will take fifty
bushels of peanuts to occupy the atten-
ton of the people between the races at
MiddletOwn fair.
The dry weather has cut the Jersey to-
lldlO crop SilOlt3 anu CSIllltIS lIOll IlldO
country are in Delaware Offering 50 per
ton for all they can get.
Mr.. W. y. Watts, of Blackbird hundred,
who was some weeks ago thrown from a
revolving hOrse-rake and severely injured,
is, we are glad to state, rapidly recover
ing.
Captain Thomas Draper has cleaned out
10 lot
and Lebanon this summer, and is now at
work digging Il canal just below the
wharf.
The Morning Meas says that plcuro-
pneumonia prevails among the cattle of
New Castle county and insists that an III
spector should be appointed to arrest the
contagious disease.
The printing of the laws enacted at the
last session of the Legislature has Just
been completed in the usual pamphlet
/ form, and will be distributed anon" ;hr
/ prothOnotarics of the three counti,., thu,
I next week.
The Delaware State Teachers Assocja-
ton elected the following officers: Pres-
/ dent, Rev. !. NJ. Williams; Vice Pres-
dents, :. J. Wiley, J. II. Groves and il. c.
Carpenter: Secretary James II. George
/ Treasurer, Miss =. VI. Fell
The Junior editor of the PeninSpiar .Nems
does not linl WebstrI'~ Dictionary large
enough for his use ami mas coined a new
word ''inconcatcnated." Will he please
tell us what he means by beautiful, but
inconcatenated sentences and we will be
better able to judge Of the force of his
criticism.
ROBBERY AT DOvER.-The State .Senti.
mel says: Wednesday night the back
hall door of the residence of Mr. George
Paris, on State street, was pried open by
thieves, who carried Off all the silverwarC
they could lay their hands on, and some
wearing apparel. They tried to get into
the safe, but failed.
Agents for new species of wheat are
operating in Pennsylvania and NAV turn
up in this county. The agent pretends t.
he taking orders for the article, and tn,
f purchaser is asked to sign paper purport
ing to be an "O'der," but which, if signed
. will soon turn up as note for $500 or $30t
on short time. Look out for them.
The brush on piece of recently-cleareC
land at Townsend caught fire on Wed
as to seriously threaten the destruction O
the village. This was only prevented b,
the timely eXertions of the citizens 1t
thought the brush was set on fire by som
mischievOus person.-MiddletoWn Trans
; cTipt
r The residence of William II. Dupont
! at Green Hill, near Wilmington, was dc
V stroyed by fire Wednesday night, tOgethe
1 with its valuable furniture Mr.. DupOn
: and his wife absent at Long Branch. Th
!, loss is estimated at 10000. There was IL
/, insurance on the furniture, and tn
: amount on the building, if any. is nc
4, known.
# Reginning Wednesday, the 24th, inst
h steamer BreakWater, will resume tr
e weekly trips between Lewes and Me-
York, leaving Pier 26 told number 81 foe
of Beech street, North River, MOnday
Wednesdays and Friday at p. NJ, an
= Lewes Tuesdays, Thursdays and SatuI
y days on arrival of train leaving Harrine
|. ton at 1915 F.. NJ
+ AGRICULTURAL FAIR RECORD.-Kent co
# Md, begins September the 18th; Middl,
Il town, Del, begins September the 10Th
d West Chester, Pa, begins September tn
: 22nd; Dover Del, begins September tn
Il 26th Oxford, Pa, begins September til
28th; ElktOn, Nd. begins October 4tf
IS York, Pa, begins October 4th; Bel Aai
? Md, begins October l1th.
+, Wilmington is properly congratulatin
!" itself that it is now almost entirely frC
from the smallpox. Through the precal
tiOns that have been taken the Board
Health have the disease well under COZ
troll, so that it would be difficult to fin
!" dozen cases within the city limits. VeI
many people have been kept away fro
= the city, and in this way many of Il
~ business houses have suffered by n fallr
~ ~ off in trade.
lg Miss Eva +. BrittOp, n girl Journalist,
fourteen summers, has taken WilmingtC
IT, by storm, As she edits the Hurricane tn
Is is i'll accordance with the general fitness
things. The journal of which Miss Eva
20 sole proprietor and editor is a MONTH
published at Charleston, South Carolin
III She is canvassing Wilmington for subscl
ne bers to her handsome little paper, and
of course meeting with encouragement
She is aiming for 10000.
ts Isaac Jones, Jr., one of our grain al
IN fruit commission merchants, says the Mi
dletown Transcript, is now shipping abo
O. J eight hundred baskets of peaches q d;
dis from this station. They are from Il
lis First district of Cecil county and prime
pally from that section of the distri
us known as "Grove Neck" The great
a part of this fruit is being shipped to Dove
where Richardson 4 Robbins are putin