Smyrna times., 1882-08-02
County and State Items

Comfy and State Items.
Tho function & Breakwater Railroad |
.,n,menced running a late train last
saturday, night to RehobOth.
Tho Hon Benjamin T. Biggs. of Mid
dlatown has so far recovered from his
,Cs racSnt illness rs to be able to walk
about the house
delaware ranks third among the
States as a packer of tomatoes, putting
nm $4,000 eases per annum, while New
II Iarsev nuts up 100000 and Mary land
100000 cases.
About four-ffths of the fruit ship
ments now are peaches, and the re-
mainder are berries. The shipments
iaSt nioht were forty-seven carloads
oItouet6er. distributed as follows: Bos-
tom 6 cars; Jersey City, 20 cars Phil
adelphia, 2l cars.
Rob Allen. colored, charged with
burglarvwhO escaped from ChestertOwn
iail in Kent county. Md, and who was
srrestedin Wilmington. made his escape
Monday few hours before the cX-
pected arrival of the sheriff of Kent
county with a requisition for Allen and
companion named Shadrach Trusty.
Prof. Charles ID. Raine, for the past
few months the principal of Whining
ton High School. declines reelection.
The educational facilities in Delaware
are too far behind the age to suit Il live
man like Mr.. Raine-,Sdlem Sunbeam.
The Wilmington public schools we
thought on the high grade order, but
there must be something the matter
with them or Prof. Raine.
DR.. Wm. I. Collins, Chairman of the
late Republican State Convention, ha:
appointed the following gentlemen {
committee to notify the candidate
selected by the convention of thei
nomination Anthony Higgins, Austin
Harrington. Levi c. Bird, George p
Fisher, James L. LOhand, Beniah Wat
son. Jacob Moore, Charles f. Richards
Daniel Burton. The committee will b
called together early this week.
The correspondent of the Peninsula
NelUs from RoXana. Baltimore hundre
says:
Rev Z. II. Hynson preached hi
temperance sermon on last Sabbat
evening prior to the nomination {
Legislative candidates. The sermO
was good. Temperance lectures an
sermons are something very rare to II
from the fact that the people are nc
even dram drinkers, much less drunl
ards. There is not Il rum shop in tt
hundred and the people are determil
ed there shall not be one soon, hen'
there will be no difficulty in selectiI
a candidate for the Legislature of
strictly temperance character.
The manufacture of peach baske
has become an important industr
Years ago the baskets were made
hand, and inasmuch as they cost fro
% to 30 cents, the loss of any consider
bic number of them was a serious m;
ter But the establishment of gre
factories. required by the growth
the peach trade, has reduced the pri
to moderate figure, varying from
to S. hundred. Along the PeninsU
railroads there are now eight or nj
basket factories, each making frC
200 to G,000 baskets day during t
busy season. The bottoms and hoe
are made of Maryland pine and
slaves from the Delaware gum tree
y. T. Tribune.
SALE OF PROPERTY AT DOVER
Tuesday afternoon, July 25th, J.
Remington, Esq, trustee appointed
the Court of Chancery, sold at
Court House door the real estate fol
erly owned by Mrs. Mary p. DuHan
deceased. The home farm about
miles east Of Dover, containing alb
one hundred and twenty-five acl
was purchased by Rev. John P.
hamel at thirty-eight dollars per a
another farm adjoining the home ia
containing about one hundred
HII'y-seveh acres, was purchased
or; VIM. Denney, at nineteen dol
ana twenty-five cents per acre a;
tne remaining farm situated al
three miles northwest of Dover,
talhlng about one hundred and seVel
SlX PIX! acres, mostly in wood, with
HSue ~! II improvements, was purchased
Mr; Ihos. II. Denney, at eight do
ana twenty-five cents per acre. A
the sale of the DuHamel prop
was over, J. l.. Wolcott, Esq, adm
m Ia'or of A. J. Taylor, deceased, so
S4e S1 same place the late residenC
ir. 1l Taylor, on State street, to
margaret Z. Baynard, for three tn
anu and four hundred dollars, sui
in.