Smyrna times., 1882-03-08
County and State Items.

county and State Items.
There are II steam saw mills in and
around Bridgeville.
! The Milford basket company is turning
out about $4,000 baskets daily
The Rev s. n. Pichard, of the Wvoning
circuit is quite sick, occasiOned by over
work.
Captain ID. Il. Burton has been elected
director of the Farmers Bank at
! Georgetown vice James Ponder resigned.
George W. Ingram, real estate agent,
has sold to :. Downs, of Delaware Citv,
the farm of Edward Silcox. at Noxentown.
145 acres, for $1,000 cash
/ Rev. John Wilson, cx-President Of the
! Wesleyan Female College, Wilmington.
! will remove from Ridley Park and resume
the control of the Wesleyan.
Bishop Hurst, who will preside during
the NJ E. Conference in MiddletowS
preached a very able sermon in st. Paul's
church. Wilmington. last Sunday.
Seventy three acres of land i'll Delaware
City, belonging to the Delaware City Inl-
provement Company, were sold Monday
afternoon to Edward Clark for $4,000.
Two miles east of Milford stands two
story frame house erected by OF for Capt
James Binn in 1774 and now occupied by
two great grandchildren Of the captain.
James Redden, awaiting trial at New
Castle, for committing an outrageous as
suit on Sallie Purse, has made state
ment showing the alibi he expects to
prove when his trial takes place
At the election held in Dover, Monday,
Charles Day, Thomas Draper, Stephen
Slaughter Hiram Reedy and James Wise
were elected members of Town Council
All of these are favorable to town improve
ment.
A Milford man who has three interest
ing daughters says that their admirers
have burned up 800 cords Of wood for him
thus far. He will rejoice when the balmy
spring revives courtship on the back porch
by moonlight.
A libel has been filed in the United
States court at Wilmington, against the
brig Mary f. Leighton, to test the coNsti-
tutiOnality of the Delaware pilot laws.
The brig was outward bound, and refused
Leighton's services.
In Milton on Tuesday evening as Mr..
Caleb l.. Morris, aged about 80 years, an
eXhOrter of the NJ. L. Church was address
ing large congregation in that place, he
was attacked with paralysis and died from
the effect before morning.
The labOrer Bassett who cut his foot
while chOpping wood, near Dover two
weeks age, died of blood poisoning last
Tuesday. His wife, in dressing the wound
was likewise poisoned, and she, too. died
on Thursday last One of their children
a bright little girl, has been taken sick
since then and is now not expected to
live
An iron steamship of ., 100 tons register
for the Old Dominion Company, was
launched at Roachs yard, at Chester Pa
on Saturday. A lightship for the United
States government was launched at Pusey
& Jones yard and the new fcrryboat
Baltimore, for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, TO ply between New York and
Jersey city, was launched at the Harlan &
HollingswOrth yard, in Wilmington.
Rev. Henry l.. Phillips, late Rector O
Christ Church in Delaware City, appeal:
to the public for pecuniary aid to conduct
q civil suit for his restoration to his charge
from which he was displaced by the Bish
Op and standing committee of Delaware
and Inhibited from the exercise of al
ministerial functions in the diocese il
April last He claims that his cause i.
= the cause Of every priest in the American
church, many of whom are driven from
their homes every year by the cryne
abuses of the present vestry system of thI
Protestant Episcopal Church.
SALES OF REAL ESTATE IN DovER.-
The reaF estate of James Evans. deceas
ed was sold on Thursday as follows
TwO-story frame dwelling house en STATE
ia street. to l.. c. Smith, price 81 ,211 three
story brick storehouse ON Lockermal
street, occupied by ]. r. Stevenson, to III
w. Evans, price $4,S5O; two-stOry bricl
stOrehOuse, adjoining above, to H. w
Evans, price 81 $50; twO-stOry brick store
house, on Lockerman street. occupied b,
j. F. Alice, to H. w. Evans. price 81 $50
three acres of land on Washington street
to John ID. Burton, price $351 two-third
interest In One-stOry double dwellin
house and one and a-half story dwellin
house on two acres of ground, on Divisio
street, to James H. Evans, price $50.
HEALTH OF THE PENINsuLA.-Th
Philadelphia Erening Telegraph in speak
ing of the agricultural attractions of on
Peninsula, says Like all Peninsula peopl
we look upon the salubrity of our climat
as matter of course, and therefore over
looked that very important consideration
la the matter of health the Peninsul
ranks with any other eastern section
the country. Longevity is as commo
here as anywhere else, and our physician
do not grow rich any sooner than those {
New York or Pennsylvania do. We hay
some malaria, but what low lands are fre
from it? We are confident that tn
element of unhealthfulness is more tina
counterbalanced by the genial influence
of our climate in staying all those diseasl
OF the throat and lungs which are 80 con
mon in the severer climates Of the Mort
and West.