Smyrna times., 1883-07-04
Countv and State Items.

County and State Items.
II Ross. of Seaford, estimates his
raspberry crop at 10000 quarts.
F G. Fenimore, of Odessa, shipped |
tbe first basket of peaches by the
steamer Clio, on Thursday.
Fourteen carloads of berries and
vegetables were shipped over the Del
aware Railroad on Saturday.
Odessa is to have paved sidewalks,
100000 bricks having been ordered
from one firm for that purpose.
Professor F. d. Chester, of Delaware
Colleqe was married last week to Miss
Emily l.. Sherwood, of Johannesburg,
NY.
The Board of Immigration met On
Thursday. They are constantly re-
ceiving applications for immigrants,
and are filling them as fast as possible.
The contracts for the work of the
new railroad from Baltimore to Phila-
dephia were given out by Chief Engi-
neer II. Il. Douglass, in Baltimore, on
Tuesday.
The Rev. Henry Trait has resigned
his position as pastor of the Dover
Baptist Church and has accepted call
from the Bethany Baptist Church of
Wilmington.
The phosphate men are as busy as
bees, looking up orders for the Fall
trade. They find liberal quantity of
printers ink indispensable in making
their goods go.
A MiddletOwn man was recently
swindled out of $Sl by Il sharper who
represented himself to be an advance
agent for ciAcus. He went by the
name Of Harry Mumford.
The Wilmington Morning NeWs will
give the newsboys an excursion tC
Woodland Beach on Saturday.
special artist of Harper'S Weekly will g
along to make sketches.
Levi h. Bowen and John M. Bowen
graduates of the Cecil Democrat office
have purchased the DeIdUare Ledge
from f. G.. Handy, of Newark, ant
will take possession of it on the 7th Q
July.
The immigration Commission re
ports having supplied 81 applicant
with labor from abroad Forty immi
grants will arrive within the next tw
weeks, and applications are still con
ing in.
Delaware sends good deal of he
produce to Chester, and thus benefi
both communities. The damon
State is very productive, and thou
ands of dollars will find its way I'M
our marGets.-Cse ter AdrOcdte.
The increase of fare from 60 cents
70 cents on the Pennsylvania railros
from Wilmington TO Philadelphia
not liked by persons in that cit
They have enjoyed the remarkab
low rate of two cents q mile so lol
tnat they have come to regard it as
right.
William Polk, aged %. one of Il
Oest known and most amiable you
men Of the neighborhood of Midd
town, died at o'clock Thursday aft
noon. He was in town the previo
Monday morning completing his ;
fangements for harvest and was tax
seriously ill with brain fever on his l
turn home.
The Masonic Hall at Seaford "
dedicated Thursday with the usual C
smonies. Union Lodge, No. Z,
Dover; Hope, No. 4, of Laurel; Nj
ucoke, No. 172, of fredericksburg, NJ
apollo, No. 1856, of Philadelph
Nashua, No. 536, of Brooklyn, N.
ana Gethsemane, No. 28, of Johnso
Cross Roads, Sussex county, were +
resented.
., Brother Way of the Middleto
transcript don't claim to know mi
aoout farming, but he has an idea
.ne perfection of self-binders in
Hneat harvest. After looking at
last week, he said:
We did not see that we could m
any Improvement upon il, except
G..aprella attachment for the driver
st under and tank from which
soaid suck sherry-cobblers throug