Smyrna times., 1883-04-04
county and State Items

County and State Items.
oovement is on foot at Middle
.ouu TO start another bank.
Wilson Knowles, aged 81 years, the
.,iost citizen of Laurel, was buried on
sunday morning, March 25th.
zodoc Postles, aged "A, died on Fri
dow at Frederick and was buried SUN
S Sy in the NJ. E. Cemetery at Dover.
Atthe March meeting of the Mutual
Loan Association of Townsend, 500
we're sold at thirty and $500 at fifteen
cents premium.
Thomas c. Morrison of New Castle,
damned dead in Pennsville, n. j. yes
tsrd fs morning. 1t is supposed he
had heart disease.
pav John Shilling wishes to notify
his friends that his address is changed
from 29l1 Market Street to 22O7 Mark
ct. Wilmington, Del.
7, 1890 the number of houses erect
cd in Wilmington was about 25O, in
1881 the number over-reached 600, and
IN 1890 there were about $50 erected.
Rev. A. W. Mildly, Presiding Elder
Of Dover District, has fixed his resi-
dppce at Frederick and Rev. j. A. B.
Wilson, Presiding Elder of Salisbury
District, at Princess Anne.
Messrs. J. R. Wilson and Isaac E.
Hearn and two other persons have
hec,,n the erection of a building at
Laurel for the purpose of manufactur-
inc tubs and buckets. The capital OF
the firm is $4,000.
The residence of Levy Court Com
missioner John T. Cheairs, near Della
ware CITY. was entered by robbers last
Thursday morning about 8 o'clock
and $500 in money stolen from him
Sl75 in gold and 1925 in notes.
Miss Dora Hoffecker, youngest
daughter of the late Daniel c. Hofeck
er, Of Dover, will be married this even
ing at the residence Of her sister, Mrs
J. w. Cassons, to Rev. F. ]. Cochran
of the Wilmington Conference, st
Georges.
Horace Sudler and Miss Mime
Records, daughter John r. Records
Esq. near Bridgeville, were united il
marriage on Wednesday afternoon
March 2lst, at the residence of tn
brides father, Rev. w. S. Robinson
officiating.
It's intimated by an exchange tina
the Senate passed the Local Optic
bill for the purpose of inducing tn
liquor dealers of Wilmington to com
down handsomely ito Dover, an
scatter among the Lobby some of thei
easily made money.
Mr.. Hayes, landscape gardener (
the P, W. K B. railroad, will go dow
the Delaware road as soon as til
weather permits and, under the dire,
ton of Superintendent Mills, will in
prove the flower beds at various ST
tons along the road and construct ne
ones
The cost of bringing adult imnl
grants from Bremen to Wilmington
only S24 each, by steerage. The a
vantage of importing them direct
that they come here looking upC
Delaware as their destination and wi
the intention of making this Sta
their home.
A short time ago prominent Dem
crat in talking of the House of RepI
Sentatives at Dover, said that he hi
Oeen there but few times, as he d
not like to go and see everything or
sided. at reminds me-" said he, I"
a country school with Bates It
speaker as teacher. "-SentineL.
The Gazette says that "at last
are officially informed that the RepI
Hcan party Of Delaware has gone {
y the disreputable business of payi
private taxes in order to attend
we more honorable work Of paying
IIst debts" This being so; now
!he Office of the collector be to cole
Under the title of /" An Act for
Relief of Infants" the Dover peol
are Trying to slip a bill through
legislature to have the streets of
eown shelled. This will be making
so1u Use of the demands Of nurses a
GSoy carriages, and an exemplifi
tS ou u the maxim that the "child ru
A. william H. Thaw, brother-in-law
S ie Iate James r. Mitchell, of Milfc
eu IN Philadelphia on Tuesday af
So on OF pneumonia, aged about
lars Mr.. Thaw had many VIZ
trends in Kent county. He was
mem ne employ of Powers & Weightmi
woonnuiacturing chemists. The rems
WIZ carried to Milford for Intern,
H. Dix New DELAWARE DocToRs.-
nj. 1 Jefferson Medical College, Ph
a,ppnla, Monday, the degree Ofmed
i inc NJ was conferred upon the foil
- DelaWareans : Irvine Moore Fl
Owls oms Wesley Finn, Email He
Ssorge ". Morrison, John F. Pea
samuel F. Ware. The "Roblev I
Iison Prize " Of $50 by Dr. Ricbar
]ooagls99, for the best Essay on
tESsoss4llsatlon of CeEebral Functi
Delaware, 'H' 'tOo'0 pun
Gsa.,W. Bennum, a merchant
neU,setown, received a pint flask
az a.w brand of gunpowder from a bl
nloopp9 9rtsman not long ago which
p,acsu In closet with other flasl
POWDER and several loaded GUNS
bo taays ago while sitting in his ,
ana heard an explosian in the cl
m nu before he could reach it the "
sIossa azlne went off, demolishing
miscraalld scattering the tin cans
bncLa,usiy over the store. A
that ~: Of water squelched the fl
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