Smyrna times., 1882-09-27
County and State Items.

Middletown is to have a grand ball
during the latter part of October.
Typhoid fever Of mild type is disa-
greeably prevalent in Wilmington.
Seventeen new dwelling houses are
now in progress of erection in Newark.
Biggs, Clayton & Co., of Middletown,
have packed 10000 cans of peaches
this season.
Mrs. Emma Dill, Of Milton, has OBJ
tanned divorce from her husband who
lives in Philadelphia.
New Castle Presbytery will meet in
the FIRST Presbyterian church, Newark,
on the first Tuesday of October.
A Middletown man remarked the
other day at the Fair, that he had
realized 500 per acre from his peach
crop.
Lank & Co. are laying in Scribner's
shipyard the keel of q 900 ton vessel,
which will be built for Philadelphia
parties.
Rev. J. B. Merritt's farm near Cow
gill's Corner, produced 200 baskets
Crawford's late peaches from 2S2 trees
on three acres.
Samuel A. Macallister has been APP
pointed supervisor of elections for the
district of Delaware, vice Joshua $.
Valentine deceased.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold a Convention ut Dover
on October Sd and 4th. Miss Frances
Willard will be present.
The total population of Delaware is
146,60S, of which 26,4SS are cOlored.
The voting population is p ,447, native !;
4,455 foreign, and 6,396 cOlOred.
Jacob Prettyman has sold his farm
of $50 acres of arabic land two and a.
half miles from Frederick, Del, to
Frederick Hopkins, for $1,000.
John Pilling, of Newark, has been
chosen chairman of the New Castle
county Republican Committee, in place
of George w. Stone, who resigned.
The two canning fectories of Milford
are working in tomatoes, and are
putting up 600 tons per day and en-
plOy 400 hands, composed of men,
women and children.
James Flanagan and Il companion,
both supposed to be in an intoxicated
condition, went rowing on the Brandy
wine, Wednesday. The boat capsiZcd
and Flanagan was drowned.
The directors of the Breakwater &
Frankford railroad have elected n. l..
McCreedy as president of the road to
succeed Chas. c. Stockley, resigned,
and Elisha Cannon as director.
Typhoid fever has been alarmingly
prevalent in Milford during the past
few weeks, and several cases have re-
suited fatally. Some thirty persons
have been afflicted with the disease.
Col. c. p. Ramsdell, formerly OF
Wyoming, died at his home in Centra-
liza, near Richmond, Va, on last Satur-
day morning. Mr.. Ramsdell was mar
ried to the only sister Of Rev. A. d.
Davis, was native of New York, has
been u citizen of Va, for the past thir
teen years, where he has held the
position of United States Marshall for
the eight years previous to his death
Brown, Hanson & Co., of Wyoming
have the largest fruit evapOratOr in the
world, the capacity of which is from
l 800 to 1000 baskets of fruit per day
They expect to pack 60 tons of evapo
rated peaches this season, and vii
probably do so; but we hear of few
evapOratOrs and Gamers, who in speak
ing of their seasons products, lie a
easily and gracefully as fishermen
Milford Neics.
On Wednesday last at the Bricl
Granary, Mr.. A. McNair evapOratct
200 baskets of Smock and Saliva,
peaches in 20 hours and 55 minutes
with Phillips machine He cOmmen
ced with an empty evapaorator, an,
left it empty when the 200 basket wer
completed. Only two trays of frui
were scorched, and none burned. Thi
is the very best record yet made
J Milford Nelrs.
Several members of the Baptists A.
sociation of this State met in tn
Baptist church, in Dover, Thursda
afternoon for the examination of ReV
IL. Trait, the new pastor of that churcl
In the evening, Rev. Il. b. Cook,
E Baptist church, Wilmington, preache
+ the ordination sermon, Rev, John Graf,
; delivered the address to the churcl
and Rev. J. NJ. Hope, made the ordin;
, tion prayer, and Rev. II. Trait WI
, ordained as pastor.
The whipping of the prisoners sci
fenced at the recent term of court toe
place in the Jail yard at New Castle {
9 Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in IL
: = midst of a pouring rain. Charles Viii
! and Roland Caville stood in the pillol
, an hour and afterward received for
! lashes each. John Saunders, Jam
. Green, Henry Caulk, James Trust
Shadrach Trusty and Frederick He
land each received twenty lashes al
= Jesse Tim was whipped with t.
!" lashes.
e On Tuesday afternoon ]. l.. Walco
l. ESQ, sold as trustee under an order
OuC OIplldl NOuIOy III VIC SOuIb I1Ou
:, door, Dover, the real estate late
g, owned by William +. Hawkins, dece;
&C ed, and situated in West Dover hu
y dred, near the Maryland & Delawa
railroad. One tract of 168 acres W
Ie sold to Mr.. Harvey Loper at $14
per acre; another tract of SO acres W
Il purchased by Owen II. Nickerson
$500 per acre; another tract of
n, acres was purchased by Albert Comeg
at $7.20 per acre, and piece of
n acres was sold in bulk to Charles Po
ell for $151. After the sale of [
Hawkins land was over, the admin
y, traitor of Beauchamp Morris, deceasC
at the same place, sold under an orc
n, of the Orphans Court, a part of I
real estate of the deceased for the pa
q. ment of debts. A tract of woodlal
containing 80 acres was sold to Wills
l.. Cannon at $13.25 per acre, q
another tract of % acres was purcha.
ur by ]. l.. Walcott, Esq, at $40 per &C
rs These lands are also located in w
er- Dover hundred near the Maryland
Is Delaware railroad.
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on The Democrats of this county h
TO- their County Convention ThursC