Smyrna times., 1882-04-05
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
A coApany in Camden have purchased
an engine, and propose starting saw
mill.
The Philadelphia Record calls our pilots
- licensed harpies OF the State of Della
ware
Town lots in New Castle go off like hot
cakes. in spite of the removal of the cOun-
~ seat
Seaford has q new paper, the Seaford
Enterprise with patent outside. Ii is a
six column paper, published ON Thursday.
Of his sailing craft, for the purpose, it is said,
of establishing steamboat line between
Milton and Philadelphia.
Franklin & Bro. of Harrington are now
manufacturing from eight to ten thousand
strawberry baskets per day and the de
mand for them is very great.
The new station of the p. W. & B.
R. R., at Wilmington, will soon be ready
for public use. The total cost of the
building will be about S45, 1000.
There are only seven candidates in the
field for the Republican nomination for
Mayor for Wilmington, and three candi-
dates for the Democratic nomination.
Rev Mr.. Willis has many admirers in
Harrington, and on Sunday last about ten
Of them went to Milford on a hand-car to
hear his evening sermon. He had an
audience of about 700 persons.
The Town Commissioners of Milford
granted on Wednesday, a permit to H.
Davis and NJ. G. Lof1and to erect phOs-
phate factory, also a permit to r. H. Will
IiaMs to build dwelling house.
The recent death of Mrs. Annie West
leaves legacy of $4,000 to the Stewards
Ofths Wilmington Conference for the ben
EFT of the worn-Out preachers. Just when
this amount will be available, however, is
uncertain.
In the u. s. Senate ON Wednesday Mr..
Mitchell presented resolutions of the
Vessel Owners and Captains Association
Of Philadelphia in favor of the establish
ment of an ice harbOr and lighthouse in
Delaware bay and for the completion of
the Delaware Breakwater.
Revs. w. J. Stevenson and ]. B. Mann,
former members of Wilmington Confer
ence, but now of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference, have both been assigned city
appointments. The former goes to Grace
church in Harrisburg, and the latter to
st. Paul's church in the same city.
Wilmington Conference will have Il
handsome church in which to convene in
next Spring, in Cambridge. 1t is stately
and graceful granite structure The
M Qx0O -.4I,
tower, surmOunted by beautiful spire
whose final reaches a height of 166 feet.
Miss Addie Houston. daughter of Rev.
James l.. Houston, Of Wilmington, has
completed a magnificent painting of q
beautiful bunch of roses, of the Bon Silene
and Marechal Mel varieties. The paint
ing is executed ia the highest degree OF
that refined art for which Miss Houston
mas become 80 Justly noted.
The Pennsylvania X. r. Co., is conten-
plating the project of furnishing Refriger.
atlng cars fer the transportation Of fruit
during the coming season. If this idea is
carried intO effect, it will be great saving
70 both the producer and shipper, as the
lrult can be shipped to any point in a
more perfect state of ripeness without any
great risk of decay, and will bring better
prices.
The Democratic members of the New
Castle Levy Court were astounded yester-
DAY afternoon when Dupty Sheriff George
Clark summoned them to appear before
tne Superior Court at Georgetown, next
Monday, for the purpose of answering tc
tne charge of trespassing upon the rights
st voters. The Democrats had no idea
Ehat they would receive such a summons
and many of the republicans were greatly
surprised when they learned what had
occurred. Two complaints have beer
made. One was made by Samuel East
burn and the other was preferred by Jos
II. G. Macy and others These com
plsinants it will be remembered, asked
the Levy Court to rescind the order for tn,
dropping of their names from the assess
meat lists, and requested that their nam e
De restored or continued upon the sale
lists and that they be entered upon tn,
collectors duplicates. This request wa
denied.