Smyrna times., 1883-08-15
and State Items.

COUlnIy rL:I
',,or salisbury and several OF his rel
:'tl, otI"sr sre at saratoga Springs
a''' ,oo & Hart, of Townsend, are pre-
ApP',e,'y ,yaporate fruit this week.
u.,ntyo,ncrv, of Little Creek, has
pavla Tn1d farm near Mahon river.
u,.ouito nine of Jones Neck de-
Ing ,ba Richardson nine of Dover 10 to
TSa few days ago
Tho Good Templars of Kent county WIN
liz ,I basket picnic at Ca ndeA Union
Tomp TOIn Ground to-day
r.d. of 175,OOO bricks have recently
Up%a.51G;n IN sidewalks at Odessa, and more
Oegi'h pee ho '" needed to finish the work.
SO drug stores in the State 10 pro-
Out 81 and "a clerks have registered with
PrleRI,ard of Pharmacy. Only three pro-
tne e.i"rs p" have thus far failed to do so.
rha State Superintendent have just
lug .aJ the labor of appOrtioning among
eoniP,r;ons districts of the State the S2o,UOO
tner.""nriated tne for school purposes by recent
arf art of the Legislature.
,,a of base ball last week between
E",.nsend club and the Odessa club
tne won by the Townsend boys, the score
Was %as 10 to 70. The Townsend boys play
'nT Ue,I0 md are constantly improving.
vo.sr. James Kirk & Son have about
..m,Hlrted printing the laws, which were
's.pd oOd nj the last session OF the Legislature
Pp"d this week some OF the pamphlets VIII
AZ Inu udccnosited in the Prothonotary' office
for distribution.
rso canning firm of L. SchOenberg &
LING business in Milford, on Thurs
~ t., r~oceiyed and dOmiciled on their prem
aay obont seventy German laborers. who
Mi prepare fruit during the canning
saason.- PeHipSutGr Ne'0S
REYNOLDS & Postles, of Frederica, are
hacking peaches for pie fruit. Grler y
RstM1 P",,s are eyaporating Troth peaches and
d"o having thirty cents basket. I. b.
Toursey has built drying house and pu
in one of Grier's evaporators.
SomueI H. Rothwel died at the residence
of%;s snn S. Thomas Rothwell, near Earl
~ u;Te Cecil county, Md, last Wednesday
morning. at the advanced age of 80. H'
was horn in New Castle county and spen
nearly all of his life in Pencader hundred
A asuccessful farmer.
SATURDAYS Peninsular Ne,cs says: 9TH
arably for want of rain. The ground
varv dry and corn is burning New YOr
has been almost deluged with rain for sew
enl weeks, and Pennsylvania and Ne'
Jersey have had sufficient rain fall.
f. JOyce Smithers, Esq, who for a nun
her of years was consul at Smyrna, Turkey
hut who was recently transferred to cor
sulship at one of the Chinese ports, arrive
in Dover on Saturday under leave of al
sence with his wife and seven children, an
is now staying at the Richardson Hou!
where he expects to remain for some tim
The Kent County Insurance COmpan
have issued, up to this time, over 500 ne
policies of insurance. The company new
was in a more flOurishing condition ths
it is now. The indications are that thu
will nearly double their business this yea
1t is well managed, and the people ha'
the greatest confidence in the directors al
officers
The TRAMP QUEsTION.-It is seldO
that the State press is SO entirely of o
mind on any subject us it is now on tn
Of the tramp nuisance, and if the new
papers represent the feeling Of the peOp
the whole State, from the upper circle
Fenwek's Island is prepared to enfoT
the existing tramp law. OeVeral Towns
already provided with lOck-ups, and the
that are not can well afford to make su
provisOn.-EUsry EveHifag.
HORRIBLE SCENE IN A KENT CoUN
SICK CHAMBER Saturdays Denton { Nj
Journal tells strange and shocking ste
of young woman's death. Near Ma
Hope remote point in Mispillisn hundr
Kent county, lives a family named Mess
and for some time past his hOusekeepel
sister, has been seriously i'll.
On Wednesday last neighbOr, follow
by a dog, came to visit the sick WON
and the dog accompanied the visitor i
the sick rOom There, before any
could interfere, the strange animal an
dog belonging to the house engaged i
savage fight, and finally, to the horror
all present and the terror of the inva
the brutes leaped upon her bed and con
ued the fight in spite of all efforts to
them. The whole affair was too much
the sick wOman's Over-strained nerves,
with the sound of the savage creatu
grOwlings in her ears and their writl
bodies still upon her he'd, she shriel
liked her eyes in a deathly stare and tur
over dead.