Smyrna times., 1883-08-29
o,,ntv and State Items.

County dlACl
T,a camp meeting season Is about over
on the Peninsula
Charles Brown, Esq, an n, ola resident ot
CnS''iS Is living seriously i'll at his home IN
that town. ,,.,u
Bigg', 0,y9rking l25 hands daily on
arc arches and tomatoes
McKane has sold his farm, near
No'rark. to the Baltimore " Oii" i'ail-
NeJTC N,oS Company for S4,OOo.
w Emerson, near Moorton Station,
D. W" "cach tree that has borne fruit for |
nav e%s /" eight years. 1t is dying
cnDarintendent Mills, of the Delaware
,,oHIIp"ad hns taken out Il patent on heat
haiU c"nling and ventilating apparatus.
Tro hundred hands, chiefly women and
,i,Su.n !IU will be employed from this week
chiISuat c1So tnmatD canneries of Georgetown
,orstar season opened under the new
l"e S0c,nst 10Th. in the creeks, and good
Ia" '',ars Sold at Milford on that day at 40
cents bushel.
r,.o sto.mers of the Old Dominion line
have been carrying about forty carloads OF
neaches from Lewes 10 Ne" lorA uai'y
Suring the past week
Tho colored peoples Big Quarterly"
in Wilmington, Sunday, was largely at
tended and the speclal coloreu ponce
we're extremely efficient.
I'm Saturday evening train passed over
oh;ld who had fell asleep between the
ra;iroaS tracks, near Harrington, without
doing it any serious injury.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
,ovinc fruit with great promptness this
S'omer and no complaints about trans
-"rtstion facilities are heard from shippers.
Farmers in the vicinity of Pennington
and Greenwood say that the drOuth was
are prolonged and disasterOus in their
n";rbborhood than elsewhere on the Pen
insula.
lanes L. WOlcOtt, trustee for the heirs
of Jonathan Galloway, deceased, sold at
Harrington on the 18th instant l56 acres of
land at SIG. 10 per acre, to w. ID. Taylor,
of Vernon.
On Wednesday, Constable Griffin, of
Kenton and posse captured eight tramps
Car waylaying and beating an old man the
niobt before Three were sent to Dover
and the rest released.
A few farmers of Sussex county COM
menced TO save their fodder crop last week
and such labor is general this week. The
drouth hastened the fodder harvest, which
will not be heavy one.
Rev. John F. Stonecipher, of Easton
pa has been called to the pasturate of thI
Dover Presbyterian Church, which has
been without pastor since the death o
Rev. Cyrus Huntington.
HR. Eliason, of Middletown, who re
II De his Ain and htfc
mess. will, as soon as his health will allow
90 to Colorado for a few months He i
now confined to his room.
There is no hope for the salvation of
man who will sit on IL picket fence fO
three hours and half to see a base ba
match and then refuse to go to churc
with his wife because them pews is to
confOunded uncomfortable" ."-PcninSutd
NeCs.
The laws passed by the Legislature at il
recent session have been printed and di
tributed The volume contains 600 page
and the index los pages, from the size
which it may be inferred that the Legsl
ture did great deal of some sort of lay
making
Mrs. Hiram MeColley, of Milford, die
after two days sickness, August 22nd,
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Z. ]
Chaplin, near Boston. In company wi
Mr.. McCOlley she had been visiting pOin
of interest in the North and East. 81
was about So years of age.
Every session of the Legislature the tin
for taking oysters out of the creeks
changed. The session of 1881 fixed t
time October lst. This caused such e
element and so many of the faithful swC
vengeance, that the last Legislature fix
the time August 10Th. and now the Oyst
carts are as thick rs blackbirds in the +
Of the year.-SeHti1et.
DR.. Alexander Lowber, one of the old
physicians in the State, died at Newal
Sunday, after n lingering illness chic
traceahle to the accumulated debility
old age He commenced the practice
medicine in Frederick. He married N
Adaline Whiteley, II daughter of {
Henry Whiteley. and sister of William
Whiteley, Esq, of Wilmington, in Is
He removed to Newark in l847.
A You've FARMER INSTANTLY KILL
Edward Atwell, a young farmer liv
in the neighbOrhOod of MiddletOwn.
instantly killed Saturday evening by be
struck by engine No. II on the Delaw
railroad, ut st. Anne's Crossing, near t
place. Atwell was driving out of town
hind his neghbor. j. Il. Pugh, and
latter, hearing no whistle, drove upon
track Mr.. Pugh discovered the apprOs
ing train in time to save himself, but
late to give effective warning to his friC
AtwelPS horse was cut loose from
wagon escaping unhurt, the vehicle das
to pieces and Atwell himself thrown
in the air, to fall lifeless six feet from
track. Atwell leaves a wife and two 81
children. His only fatal wound was in
forehead