Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-01-26

COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS.
Twenty probationers were received in
Grace NJ. E. Church OIL Sunday.
d. S. Thompson & Son, of Milford last
week, shipped north 10000 rabbit skins.
Dover ia getting ready for the Legislative
ball-the social event of the winter-on
February %.
IL. H. Colclazer, late of the Every Eveninq,
is at present on the Baltimore Gazette, doing
editorial work
Cambridge expects the pleasure of enter.
tanning the Wilmington Conference during
its session of 1882.
Delaware has now six posts of the Grand
Army in the State, with the prospect OF
more in the near future.
The Middletown transcript SAYS that in
the lower part of New Castle county the
feeling in favor of county division is very
decided.
Sussex Republicans are after u full assess.
ment. in Baltimore hundred alone two
hundred additional voters are said to have
been put upon the list.
The name of Rodney Station, on the
junction & Breakwatsr Railroad, has been
changed to Bennum's." The original
name was Gravelly Hill.
Rev. j. L. Estlin, pastor Of the Reformed
Episcopal Church of the Covenant, VII.
nington, has rendered his resignation to
the vestry of the church.
1t is intimated that the old charter of
the once proposed milford and Bay Shore
Line Railroad" will be busted off for use
10y rival of the Delaware RAILROAD Co.
Delaware colored people will hold con.
vention in Dover on February 10th, with a
view of inducing the Legislature TO pass
bill for the advancement Of colored edu.
| cation.
| At late meeting of the committee on
music attached to the NJ. f. Church, of
Odessa, Miss Maggie S. Williams was unani.
mously elected organist, vice Miss Belle J.
Appleton, rsagned.
James Morris, comcal fellow of FELTON,,
offered to bet one year's work that he can
eat hogs head and one peck Of turnips
at each and every meal during the day for
the term of one week.
A. ID. Postles, young man OF promise
and some reputation as an slocutionist,
died at the residence Of his father, James
II. Postles, four miles north Of Milford,
Monday night, aged about % years.
VT
OF Now Castle county from the old TO the
new Court on Thursday last. The Register
Of Wills had $50 volumes to move. The
documents were packed in boxes,
Mr., Cuykendall, one of the fruit growers
near Milford, has sold all the live buds on
his peach trees, that may come to perfect
peaches, to Mr.. Alex. Pullen, for box Of
cigars. Mr.. c. has no faith in the peach
crop.
The ice blockade this winter has inter
fered with freights from the Peninsula
Nothing could be shipped by water and the
: railroad has not carried the usual auantit,
. of freight. Farmers cannot realize from
their grain.
The order of the Mayor of Wilmington
prohibiting the opening Of cigar stores OF
3 Sunday has been generally obsyed for tive
or three Sundays, but unless the matter i
closely guarded, says the NetcS, the nuisanc,
D will be renewed.
The marriage license question is agair
before the Legislature, and the preacher
, ask that, instead of the present raatrimon
s ial tax and such om.foolery, no bon,
v shall be exactsd and that the license fe
shall not exceed one dollar.
l. The semiannual meeting of the Rehc
$ both Beach Association was held at Wi
I mington on last Wednesday. The improve
. msnt committee was authorized to lay ne,
y board walks at the grounds, and the pre-
e ject of building new hotel was talke
}. over.
. The old market house at New Castle wa
sold on Monday Of last week to Gsorg
IL Whitfield, for $37, and the building is bein
a torn down and moved away. 1t was bui
70 in 1922. A movement toward the erectio
no of a new market house has already bee
made.
le Brandy" and "Stump," two Quake
.e City dogs, chswed one another up at tn
n Schuetzsn Park, near Wilmington, o
:. Monday, the spectators being PHILADELPHIA
Il bloods. The bets were to l on Brand
but in the end Stump used up his enem
and was counted the victor. About sc
20 changed hands.
"a The Susser Journal says: The Repub
:, cans are again hocking to Mr.. Daniel La
n' tons Office and that he means mischief
TX the Democratic party. Depend upon
at every negro over twenty one in the ceun
-. will next year be upon the assessment Ii
=, and, unless he is fsloD, will vote. If K
~ many white Democrats are of as deli
" qusnts the COUNTY will 60 Republican.
nj Conrad of the Daily Ne,os has gone in
:, the mule business. He was at Backbil
70 this morning purchasing a drove for Il
De newspaper Bureau. One Of the mules W
Is. be mailed to Croasdale of the Erery Eveni
nr for private use another TO the Dover Del
sOarean, where it will supply long felt nee'
" while the remainder will be retained in Il
In NetOs office, in Wilmington to get suppl
CHI ments on items OF more than usual pub
w interest.
:" OF the twenty one members of the De-
NC ware House of Representatives II we
er born in the Diamond State, two in Pen
an sylvania, one in Maryland and one in I'm
:, land. Two members have lived more thi
'"' seventy years and ten others more thu
rs. City. All the Senators we're born in Del
nd ware. One Senator is over sixty years oil
IN four others over forty. OF the thirty me-
:, bers eleven are Methodists, three Prest
!. terians, three Friends, three Episcopslia
al and one is a Baptist.
The DIAMOND COURsE.-Those WilniT
no tonians who have long been praying for
be. .i.s ~ aptarta In m arfo shat sh all nora ii;