Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-12-12

county and State Items
~, oeonle at Downs Chapel now
Inc . daily mail by way of Kenton.
u.,on Potter, the great impersonatOr,
i: he linear at Middletown, December
9th. Co.
The Teachers Institute for Sussex
oonnty. will be held at Lewes' Oegin-
ming to-day
rno Peainsular Ne1cs comes to US
~ nv reek greatly improved by an out
fit Of new type
The tenth annual session OF tne Dela-
NV state Grange, p. of H., is being
heid in Dover this week.
The Simmons turkey hen up at Belle,
no Rrandywine Hundred, finished
S Ser "a egg last Saturday.
Mrs Elizabeth Lowber, widow of the
MnP I9, John Lowber, died suddenly
Il" Friday night in FREDERICK.
prof WYATT will give the Oratorio
&c Queen Esther at Middletown next
Monday and Tuesday, evenings, 18th
and 18th inst.
The Sentinel says our Gamers are
now protected by 35 per cent. duty.
md asks what could they do with this
r.nmoved. or cut down one-half?
Tba cornerstone of the new NJ. E.
church at Little Creek was laid with
Snnronriate services yesterday after
~ nppn DIR. ]. II. Caldwell officiating.
The SUSSEX Journal, while favoring Il
Constitutional Convention, is opposed
70 the agitation Of the question now,
and desires to postpone it until 1880.
The Weld of corn at the Kent county
oImshouse farm was 2,630 bushels upon
"a acres. being an average of 50! BUSH
oIs npr acre, and was raised without
the use of phosphate.
Thomas G. Cowgirl, wife and two
children. from Sioux City, have been
visiting his father, Daniel Cowgirl, near
Cowrilps Corner. Mr.. Cowgirl is en-
Gagged the cattle business in Nebraska,
having an interest with other gentle
men in 5000 head.-Sentinet.
The oyster business is brisker this
season than it has been for many years
mast The demand for oysters is great
and the prices are very high. All the
Spaford houses have more orders than
they can we'll fill and all seem to bt
realizing handsome profits.
Who can beat it? Two gangs of hos
killers in Frederick, on Monday, killed
1879 TBS. of pork in one day. Clever
hogs aggregated $3.50 TBS, an averag,
Of ago IT'S. a piece. The heaviest no;
weighed 600 TBS, next $50 TBS. Tn
smallest of the eleven aggregated wa
800 TBS
The Peninsula Fruit Evaporation.
Association held its semi-annnal meet
ing at Dover on Tuesday. Messrs
Corsa, Phillips and Tranor were AZ
pointed a committee to consider tn
best method Sin setting color in evapC
rated fruit" and were asked to repol
at the next meeting.
The use of sulphur for bleaching
what is making trouble for the evapC
rated fruit people. Many persons VIII
are engaged in the business overd
the thing and the fruit tastes of
This hurts the sale of all bleache
goods. What the cvaporators woul
like to get would be something to TAX
its place.
The republican members of the Wi
mington city council Thursday nigl
reelected David H. Coyle chief eng
neer of the water department. III
democratic members refrained fro
voting, because they hold that the Off
has been legally filled by the wat
commission. The validity of the wat
commission act will be adjudicated
the Court of Errors and Appeals ne
month.
ANOTHER MAN GONE WRONG.-J'
7. Craddock, the express messeng
over the p. w. & B. Railroad betwe
this city and Philadelphia, disappe;
ed last Friday. He went to Philad
phia as usual in the morning but fail
to return, and on Saturday Arthur
Smith, with whom he recently form
copartnership, went to Philadelpt
and found that Craddock had gone {
1t twas then found that goods entrust
to him by persons in this city ha
never been delivered in Philadelph
n Craddock was formerly a bookkeel
in the Office of the Wheeler & Wills
Il Sewing Machine Company, but so
time ago engaged in the express bU
ness. He had been drinking heaVil!
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