Smyrna times., 1883-05-23

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Soing SOUTH NV
county and State Items
,couire Dorsey's personal prop
The late .oIa of at Milford last week Tor
SIss nearly $1,000 ooo g. ..,..,,
7 Horsey has paid $1,000 for or.se1 seven EN-
eign.nfte eig.nfe - and basket factory
H' :, 1ynson of Middletown, has
VIM. n; NN;;rted Notary Public in place OF
been pee Repyrnolds, term expired
heavy hail storm visited Dover lover ana 5id
unity "a Monday night, ana 3rnoH ~ 10 ie"'eO U'U
ylclnidtI WIEN damage to the peach trees
II is saia s"'' radius of twelve miles
mll.S mlllnnd MillsbOro, Sussex county
..oaner Wilmington is carrying pas
Inc stS% rom Wilmington to Philadelphia
sengsaoen cents, or the rouno "Trip lor
twenty-five CENTS
~ Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
Inc ne,,r,ton naar have laid the 270 feet keel
at WI Mln% no4 Puget Sound steamer which
Of the era nSm nSSTilding for the Oregon Naviga-
ion Company
Tho Delaware City Phosphate Factory
- inC Commenced making Phosphate, uhIer
h"o .bo supervision OF Il. Il; olpPle' WY w nas
inc me- n the employ Of Tygert q Co. at
S%Wrna. Sgev IA for several years
Tho Delaware, Maryland and Virginia
Inc lncJ Companv have decided to build
kaillo"r "r sLons at Georgetown. 1t Is also
thelr abIo IA, that the shops of the j. Il B. K.
RroUaIIb .D;II he moved there from Lewes.
c.ro Bnrton and Nathaniel Fisher,
GeOneU OnneeUUvcted of chicken stealing, re-
pom :.nod It ten Iashes each at New Castle on
celveG1 celv1av .v and George Miller, convicted of
SAIuputS la stSSaling, received twenty lashes.
u,n Jobn H. Paynter, of Georgetown,
m deliyer the Athenaean Grafton at Del
WI, nara College on the 10th of June. and
SS","arintendent of Schools, L. n Wllllams,
deliver the commencement auuresS Oil 'he
9Dth
D,.;oc the thunder storm Monday night
,Duos;dence Du,,rd of J. n. Hubbard, at FELTON,,
lle .trnck by lightning. Mr. Fitzgerald
TaS %aS horse killed by lightning just week
nnaaoyousiy nau : not 200 yards from Mr.. Hub
bards house.
u.x6eId & Co., wholesale fruit dealers
g Now York, and part owners of the
ljon notpnt fruit evapOrators, long IN lit
;a"t;nn have failed for 100000. The fail
,T,,'iT Ers NAV effect pending suits against Pen
;r,u1or hackers.
Monday the Jury in the case of State of
DeIaware VS.. Thomas Bratton, OF Black
bird hundred, returned a verdict In favor
Of the plaintiff saying that the signatures
On the bond was unmistakably that of Will
liam L. Reynolds.
man by the name of Edmunds, who
,,.t both his fortune and his mind in in
ronting A fre-escape and tricycle., was
rsmoyed from his home at Canterbury to
the insane department of the Kent County
AlmshouSe last week.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the Boston berry train will leave
Delmar at 5 P. NJ. daily, and arrive in Bos-
tan the morning of the second day. This
will give berry growers all day in which tC
nick and deliver their berries at the sta.
tons.
Martin L. Williams, formerly of Seaford
but lately of Liepsic has been appointed
mailagent between Georgetown and Frank
Nm Civ in place of Samuel j. DOdd, whC
has occupied the position ever since thu
completion of the Breakwater Il Frankfort
railroad.
Judge Thayer, in the Philadelphia
Court Of Quarter Sessions, on Saturday dis
charged w. W. Norman, the Delawar
pilot, who brought vessel to the port Q
Philadelphia, holding that the Pennsyl
vania act of 1916 does not apply to pilot
licensed by the State of Delaware.
H. Reedy, Esq, of Dover, on Frida
raised his house two-and-a-half feet.
force of 4G men with Al jack screws, unde
the direction of Mr. Morrison, of Camden
soon made move, and raised the whoI
building, front and back the desired heigh
without iniuring the house. 1t was jO
N well done.-DeLdWGreGn
The ninety-fuurth annual session of II
Delaware Medical Society will be held
Wilmington at neon on Tuesday, Jun
4 18th. Orders for reduced rates on the raj
II road may be had of the secretary, DIR.
nj W. Marshall, Milford. Tickets may
b purchased from June 8th to 18th, good
nj return on or before the 18TH
n 0EAToRIo OF QUEEN EsTHER.-Tl
nj 0ratoriO of Queen Esther which was pc
III formed at Milford on Tuesday and We
a. nesday evenings of last week. was graz
success. The young folks of Milford
# serve great credit for the manner in whi
H they performed their parts. The cOstum
M were good and the scene on the stage wa
M beautiful one. The choral singing was
pscially good.
The WORK OF LIGHTNING AT MOORTC
IA During thunderstorm Monday event
at Morton. lightning followed the wires
the station house, tore big hole up in I
noor under the operators table, disabl
TWO Of the Instruments, shivered and I
out all the lights, etc, thence prObal
along the railroad track about fifty yal
@atelegraph pole and two shade trees
l1e yard Of N. H. Palmatery, which W
shVered by the current. j. Herman
derson, agent and operator, who at
was standing a few feet from his inst
Melts waitingfor good night /" from Pl
auelphia, was severely stunned by the c
rent for time, but when sufficiently
covered he hallowed for help, which :
M immediately rendered. Mr.. A. is disab
,I IIohe leg, ne suppOses by by being strl
snereon by a piece of the shivered boa
rOn the iiOor. He is temporarily relic
W the company for few days. Mr..
anu Morton are to-day happy over
u narrow escape. The crash was terrific
POuneed panic throughout MOOrtOn.