Smyrna times., 1881-06-29
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
The term of the Sussex County Court,
adjourned last Spring through fear of the
! smallpox, opens ON July 18th.
According to late census bulletin,
this State, in 1880, had five acres in tObac-
co and produced 1853 pounds.
Mrs. Arab Conrad widow of ex- Council
man Aaron Conrad, and mother of II. c.
Conrad, Esq, of the Morning NecS died
at ll.3O Monday night.
If hints and inuendoes mean ANYTHING
the members of the Billee Taylor Opera
Troupe must have played some queer
pranks at Lewes last week.
Raspberries are going to the city mar
kets from the Peninsula in great numbers.
The shipments will be heavy this week to
Philadelphia and New York.
Lower Sussex, and Worcester county.
Md, shipped three car loads of spring
chickens to New York, by way of the Old
Dominion line, one day last week
| Some sarcastic individual in Philadel-
| phia has written to the Dover DeLdwdredn
asking that its influence be used to reduce
the fare on the street cars in that city
The Philadelphia Board of Port War
dens, at meeting held last week, refused
to renew the license of a pilot who shall
have a license under our State laws.
At Magnolia the NJ. f. Society have
| provided q comfortable and commodious
parsonage for their new pastor, furnished
1t neatly and made very auspiciOus
beginning as new and separate work
The handsome young women of Milton
have lent themselves to mercenary
scheme to inveigle the unsuspecting into
a twenty-five cent lunch in Lavnia grove
on the glorious Fourth. Two ministers
and a doctor are pushing the thing
through.
John Taylor of Downs Chapel, Kent
county, was attacked by three colored
men while driving home Il few nights
since. He whipped his horse up and
escaped, but found that a blow aimed at
his breast with some sharp instrument
had made long cash through his coat and
shirt and really cut through a book in his
pocket
FIRE AT GEoRGETOwN--On Thursday
afternoon the large farmhouse and resi-
dence of William Tam, situated in the
suburbs of the town, caught fire from a
defective fue, and was entirely destroyed.
Loss, about $1,000; insurance, $1,000 in
the Farmers Mutual Company, of Will
mington. The furniture was saved in a
damaged condition, and the building
might have been saved but for the absence
of any apparatus with which to fight the
fire.
THE REPUBLICAN UNPLEAsANTNEss.-
The Morning Ne'Us says: both sides to
the late unpleasantness in the Republican
party of Wilmington agree that the best
way to form city executive committee is
for each ward to elect its own members.
There is delightful harmony all around
upon this subject but each side is back
ward about popping the question. The
old committee was a cumbersom absurdity
and the sooner the plan of forming it is
thrown overheard the better. This every
Republican recognizes"
HOMICIDE IN WILMINGTON,-JOseD
MOwbray, a tramp from Baltimore, deman-
ded food at the Holly Tree House Friday.
AS he was drunk, the proprietor ordered
him out. He then picked up brick and
struck James Guinty, an Assistant at the
hotel, inflicting wounds from which the
victim died in a few minutes afterward.
Mowbray is under arrest Mowbray is a
: paper hanger by trade, though recently
he has been sharpening saws to make his
living. He is about 40 years old, and is
n large burly fellow. He is dissolute
man, and has been tramp for o long
time. Guinty, the murdered man, was
widOwer, about 40 years of age
Mr.. Hickman and all others who knew
him give him an excellent character.
They said he was man who would do
nobody an injury.
THE LATEST APPOINTMENTS by THE
Observation-Disclosures Hall has made the
following appointments:
John G. Stockley, Smyrna, Paris +. Car
Isle, Frederica, Charles G. Stockley.
y Georgetown, Trustees for Delaware Col
lege. -..s ..,,..., ..s..... .
j. Park Postles, Wilmington, Adjutant
General with the rank of Brigadier Gen
eral 2h s43 ~ ~
Henry Collision, Dover, Quarter Master
General with rank of Brigadier General.
! David n. Marvel, Georgetown, Inspec-
tor General, with rank of Brigadier Gen
j, Charles T.. Anderson, Middletown. Com
missary with rank of Colonel.
n VIM. @. Fountain, Dover, Commissary
with rank of Colonel
Geo. w S. Nicholson, Seaford, Commits
sary with rank ofColonel. lif i#aH 5aa
Walter Cummins, Wilmington, Aid de-
} Camp with rank of Colonel
: J. Alexander Fulton, Dover, Abide
: Camp with rank Of Colonel {
Z John Ponder, Milton, Aid-de- Camp with
rank of Colonel45 sh8 Il sid 4 Elf
!. Benjamin f. Townsend, Wilmington.
! Pilot Commissioner in place of Homer
Barry, deceased q 3ssa 'flsssp
III It. Henry Dewey, New York, Commis-
sioner of Deeds for Delaware iisl fFHs8
,ll Edward II. Corey, New York, Coinmis-
} sjoner of Deeds for Delaware.
I'll r. l.. Ashurst' Philadelphia, Commis-
I sionef Of Deeds for Delaware. W