Smyrna times., 1881-10-19
County and State Items.

The Sussex Teachers Institute will meet
at Milton in December.
Repairs to cost $500 are being put upon
the Presbyterian Church at Milford
DIR. Samuel Creadiclk has purchased the
Williams pear orchard, 1G acres Of land,
adjoining Dover, for 1900.
The amount of evaporated apples packed
within radius of few miles of Milford
this year, is about sixty tons.
The excursion of the Presbyterian Sab
bath School of Dover, to the Geological
Garden, will be made to-day.
A funeral in Sussex was postponed and
the body placed in church over night be-
cause the grave was found too short.
The Newark & Delaware City railroad |
was sold to the p W. & 3. road on Thurs !
day and will be operated by that road.
The plaque factory at Frankford, which
does a business of $780, 900 year, is seek
ing to establish similar works at George
town.
The Old Dominion Steamship Company
are carrying large increase of passengers
over last year. 1t is pleasant route to
New York.
The Delaware troops upon arriving at
the landing, near Yorktown, were march
ed to their camp mile and II half distant
through the sand.
Rev. |. ID. Johnson, pastor of Milford
Neck NJ +. Church was agreeably sur
prised by generous donation, on We'd
nesday evening last.
! Mr.. John J. Nivison has sold his farm
near Dover, to Col. Geo. w. Whitaker, for
! 7,750. The farm contains l05 acres and
adjoins Col. Whitaker
Rev. 4. X. Stephenson, is holding II
series of revival meetings, at the Union
NJ. L. Church, near Blackbird, and is meet
ing with marked success.
The disiilery at Harrington mas convpi-
ted nearly 5000 bushels OF apples into
brandy tins season making - Cox crnmcnt
tax of 5000 and State tax of 800.
Revs. John l.. McKim, OF Burlington,
y. j., and J. Pleasent0n DulIamcl, OF
Philadelphia, both DclawarcanS, have
sent their SONS to Delaware College to be
educated.
l
Wilmington, Patrick Hickey, who had
pleaded guilty to illegal voting, was SEN
fenced to two months Imprisonment, 500
fine and costs.
All the election cases in the United
, States District Court ut Wilmington. have
been continued to next January, ON ac-
count of a scarcity of jurors. Up to this
time there have been no convictions.
5 The government contract for raising the
vessels wrecked inside the Delaware
Breakwatcr III the storm of October, 1878
has Just been completed. The hull;s, ten
in number, were towcd out to sea and
: sunk.
e Joseph W. II. Watson, grand master o
the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free anC
e Accepted Masons of Delaware, has beer
S chosen by that body to represent the State
n Masonic fraternity at the Yorktown cen
y tennial.
5, The Middletown transcript has gone t.
It moralizing. 1t says "ThOse who empty
If coal ashes in the streets near their owl
V dwellings will get it all back again whcl
r the dry times comes and the summc
z, winds begin to blow. They cast thei
l. ashes upon the street, and it will return
D to them after many days. We have triet
s it and know what we are talking about.
II In the pilotage struggle of the Delawar
river, before the United States Distric
-, Court of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Della
Il ware pilots got III the first lick that counts
n as Judge Butler decided that pilOtage fee
r. may be collected under Delawares recen
20 pilOtage law. The Ledger feels ugly unde
PC this decision and threatens the Delaware
,n ans with an act Of Congress that wi
n settle them.
l9 Gov Hall has appointed Joseph Bul
~ chenal, of Fredcrica, PrOthOnatary fC
81 Kent county, in place of John ID. BurtO
70 whose term expired on Saturday. Their
NJ were no other applicants, as it was fe
IN from the close intimacy between til
II Governor and Mr.. Burchenal, who aI
III neighbors and friends, that it would |
nc useless. The late incumbent has mad
nc an efficient officer.
On The annual report of H. G. COnrat
he actuary, has been received. The showin
ng for the year is satisfactory, but the coll
'e- hard Winter interferred much with Il
ed schools. The teachers provided hay
les proved efficient. New schools were opel
M ed in New Castle and Kent countie
ne ber ofpupils, 1897; decrease, 257. Amour
ret expended to teachers, 81 ,791.1S.
- Twenty-Five cases appear upon the tri
lie list of the United States Circuit Coul
a .: which opened on Tuesday, but it is prob
{, Bile that there will be but two jury tria
raj one an ejectment case, ii. f. Hepburn
ior Pennsylvania VS.. Elizabeth Fisher of Ke
me county. The suit is upon the title
ms certain land now in the possession of Il
IN defendant in Kenton hundred, being
-hd part of the noted "Tilghman tract"
has Charles Allison, drummer, was befo
j. Mayor Almond, of Wilmington, Thursd
charged with causing a disturbance in
on railroad car. He was fined. Lawy
'er- Harry Sharpley, who appeared for t
en- defense, demanded an itemized bill of COS
The demand irritated Mr.. Almond, w
on said: Harry Sharpley, whatever y
md have against me spit it out now and her
A moment later, in talking of the manT
lei of n mans arrest, Mr.. Almond, sal
ler, "YOu commit breach of the peace; Y
strike anybody and I'll have you arrest
the damn quick"
c to
use. Inc otdte sentinel III speaking OF 10
lam manufacturers says: POSSIBLY no ent
4 to prise ohers greaCer Inducements ootn
the people and capitalists than silk cult
hia, ana manufacture: ms Is comparativ
on new industry in this country, but it's s
him cessini WORKING IN New Jersey shows
it can be successfully run here. The
Iity, coons can be. raised by the women,
l.. II N