Smyrna times., 1881-10-26
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
The public SC hools of New Castle county
have 100 teach ers.
The sweet potato crop, down the State.
has all been harvested, and is generally
good one.
People down thG~State complain of the
mail train on the Delaware Railroad. being
late nearly every morning.
Mr.. VIM. 'Cooch, of Glasgow, is expert
menting somewhat in tobacco this wear.
He expects to realize 5000 from one acre.
Mr.. James Lyle, coal and lumber mer-
chanta Newark, isshipping large quantities
of poplar wood to the pulp works Of
| Wilmington.
The Capital Hotel ut Dover, has been
i furnished by the new proprietor, John c.
! NOshell, i'll very complete manner and
! the bed rooms are all that any one could
ask in the comforts they afford The dim
! ing room which will seat over 100 persons
! is IL beautiful room which with their bright
new table ware presents very attractive
| appearance.
! On Tuesday an old gentleman was in
! Milford, says the PcniRSuidr NcWs, who
! WAS trying to exchange four tiVc-doliar
notes of the Delaware City Bank, IL recent
! State bank. The notes bore date of 1850.
and the owner had had them in his posses
sion about twenty years. They were n
/ part Of Il =" stocking hoard and had lost
more than their face value by idleness.
The Republicans are pleased at the
| effort now being made to harnonizc the
differences i'll the party in Wilmington.
! Without unity they can never succeed in
! electing their candidates. OF the voters
OF Wilmington they claim Il majority and
yet the Republicans for want Of harmony
have not been able to elect Mayor for
nine years, and but seldom able to elect
a majority of the City Council.
J. T. Budd is shutting up the eye of the
Morning NeIcs on the peach question. lie
is making the editor believe because the
germs are firm and close to the limb that
it is an untailing sign of II peach cr,,.3 he
coming season. If h.. has otnu on, :his
far i'll advance what the peach is going To
do, he Is good ways ahead OF Samuel
| Townsend, who ;tlGWS too much about It's
freaks to make any such rash predictions.
PROBABLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.-On
! Monday, two men, Jerry ScaDl0n and
Curtis Williams were in Dover attending
Il suit in relation to II boundary line over
which they mad had u great dea, Of con
tention, After going home, ABOUT dark,
Jerry ScanlOn Went to the house of Curtis
Williams armed with shot gun, called
Williams out and discharged the gun at
hini, the shot taking effect in the left
shoulder, making a probable fatal wound.
Immediately after shooting Williams.
scanlOn turned and discharged the other
barrel into his own body. He was after
ward found in ditch by Jas. Williams, a
brother of the man whom he had shot
DIR. Whitclcy now says that ncitherScanlon
nor his victim can recover. ScanlOn was
heard to say in Dover that he intended to
commit suicide.
Rev. Father Bradford administered the
last rites of the Church TO Scanlon yester-
day afternoon. He is believed to be in a
!. dying condition. Timothy ScanlOn. a
brother of Jerry, was in Dover, yesterday
and has stated i'll several conversations
that, i'll his opinion, his brother was and is
insane. This is borne out to cOnsidera-
bic extent by the statements of other per
sons who have known him intimately for
a number OF years past. All unite in as
cribing him az having been unprincipled
fierce, and the terror of the neighborhoOd
Numerous have been his acts of violence
although no life previous to this had been
made to tremblc in the balance by his act
lie was born in Ireland, is worth Il little
property, and has a wife and family
Williams is II respected, law-abiding citizen
not given to quarreliing, and was only
standing up for his just dues.
At 10 O'Clock last evening, Scanlon was
suffering from internal hemorrhages
Sheriff Lacey was at the house, but was
not allowed to move him by the attending
physician, on the ground that the removal
would kill him in less than an hour, he is
: conscious but rapidly sinking and says he
does not repent the deed. He acknowl.
, edges the shooting and said: Il killed
Curt. Williams, but ! am glad l did
not kill SaXton; he is Il poor old man, and
not worth shooting; he won't live long
anyhow"
1t transpires now that SaXton was in d
back room of the dwelling, when Scanlon
called for the purpose of killing him
! The attending physicians are somewhat
hopeful of Williams ultimate recovery
! : although he is in Il deeply critical condi-
ton.