Smyrna times., 1881-08-24
Conntv and State Items

County ana oCaIo 1IG1lA9'
porcb fishing in the Delaware is very
good at present
Twenty-Five deaths occurred IN VIII
mingtOn last week
Roth the canning factories in Dover are
nntting up peaches this week heavy.
1IiddIetovnm nmanufacturedin into ice cream
nearly 800 gallons i'll July all" "0o''
1000 thus far in August
7 Henry Vests saw mil near "uh-
-, Sms:ex county. was burned to the
DT rcund ON Tuesday night of last week
Farmers about Wilmington say they
will not have more than half a crop OF
corn on account of the long continued
drought.
About 80 hands are employed in fruit
rreserving establishments in and about
Milford. and there will soon he demand
for 500 more.
William Stewart has been committed to
the NeW Castle Jail to answer at the next
term of court for capital crime, Miss
Josephine Reed being the complainant.
The distillers of Sussex county are pre-
naring for operations. The mills have
Started and cider is being prepared for the
still. 1t is estimated that there will be
about fifty stills in operation.
The members of the late General Assem-
biz will have u reunion on the 23d inst.
At the time mentioned they will go TO
Cbincoteague. and on Wednesday they
will return and go to RehobOth.
A man. who gave his name as William
Call. of Philadelphia, tried to cut his
throat in Wilmington on Sunday. He
was suffering from delirium tremens. He
Is now at the New Castle Almshouse.
Ifthe old saying that a large crop of
cedar berries is a sign of hard winter Is
any criterion. the coming wiEter will be
unusual ia its severity. as the cedai berry
crop is tremendous-W Wford Chronicle.
The members of Old Swedes' Church,
Wilmington. have decided to secure the
services Of ii rector, and Il committee with
that object in view has been appointed.
Tle church is part of Trinity parish.
The body of Stephen Stats, cOlOred was
found in the Christiana at Wilmington,
Monday morning. Stats dropped one of
his shoes from wharf and in reaching
down to secure it he fell in and was
drowned.
The Delaware State Fire and Marine
Insurance Company has at last succumbed
and given up the attempt to pFOlOng an
existence which ought to have been termi-
mated by the action of our Insurance
Department long ago.
The Deldwdrcdn is ahead on weather
items. 1t says that on Saturday week,
some apples in the yard of Jas. S. Moore,
that were lying in the sun, the thermOme-
ter l03 were roasted as much as if they
had been in an oven. That will do for
this season.
Kent county is already agitated over
the appointment of Il clerk of the peace
though the present incumbent's term does
not expire for more than Il year. Two OF
the most prominent applicants are from
this section, Chas. II. Register and ].
Frank Wilds.
The Morning Ne,cs says The story now
going the rounds to the effect that Sam
townsend, of Townsend, New Castle
county, Delaware. recently, upon hearing
OF the scheme to bisect his pea patch with
ashlp canal. swOre Il new "cuss'' word
boiled down from fourteen different Ian
guages, is untrue. The word in question
Is OF Choctaw extraction.
The offer of the National Dredging Com
pany tC grade q street from Christianf
avenue to the Christiana river, Whining
Ton and also to grade Fourth street, ex
lending from the Brandywine river to the
Delaware. for the sum Of $13,0 900, has beer
accepted by the Council The streets ar,
70 be filled TO the height of the river bank
and to be one hundred feet wide each
Last March, Mr.. Thomas B. Coursev
obtained 20 carp from Washington ant
PGI them INTO his private pond at Sprn:
9iLS. A few days ago he drew off tn,
water 10 clean the pond and caught sOmt
the carp to note their growth. III
Iouhd one which measured 13 inches il
!ength and was four inches broad. weigh
ing one pound and two Ounces.-1fIf0r,
Chronicle.
a big stone and frame barn Oh the fa,,,
IN Cmistiana hundred, that is tenanted h,
aaron X. Woodward, was DESTROYED h,
hre on Saturday night. Loss. $5.OO0
uninsured. Woodward is the man VIII
n 1874, shot and killed the lad Georg
Lukens for stealing chestnuts from orc 2 ?
As trees. He was tried for the homicid
aud acquitted. At the fire. Assistan
Engineer Lukens and Ezra Lukens. chi1
ufector of Wilmington's WeccacOe Con
Pany, both brothers of the victim of Woof
wards shot, were present and assisted i
preventing the spread of the flames. Tn
Hre was attributed to incendiarism,
DEATH OF TWO MINISTERS. Rev. Franci
p 29gley, a member of the Wilmingto
~ =. Conference, died at his home q
sopewell, Md, on Sunday last with
TnPncatlon M of malarial and typhoid feye,
3uigiey was the son of Rev. Georg
s.Qmglcs ....sl -.d WAS admitted to this con
nIOse rIIrense at the sessions of 1880. having com
r. Eoseu MS studies at the Drew Seminary
ana Tas n. educated at Pennington Seminar,
~ s r1cklnson College, and gave prornis
Most brilliant record in the ministry
Franher lhnsrrled Miss Emma Il. Smith q
ipsns Philadelphia, who with n,
buried ; ;cnnd, survives him. He will h
eemetol in tne Wilmington and Brandvwin,
The at Wilmington, to-day.
ho. . nev' ~ D. J.: Il. Bender, q supplv Nom
assoo. "a ss....:..iisigton II. L. Conference
the tbnT,lted naaed with the Rev. Julius Dodd q,
Sent tptIIrcnester, Md, circuit, having beer
nsnere na' to supply the place of Rev. w
kewarl VINO was transferred TO th,
Of bra,~s sohierence, died Oh Fridav Ioa
DAYS M N.eyer, after an illness of thre
br the NJ. ~. bender has been Ia the minla.rr
from tbpp p'Ss NJ SIX Or seven years IT,
principle oe sseand was at one time Ss,;n V;a