Smyrna times., 1884-05-14
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S1zYgvzp, .Del.,
Eeanssday Afssrnoen, May "a, 1884
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State Items.
The Asbury II. d. Church. at VIII
mington, is to be rebuilt.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is build
ing a larger freight house at Delaware
City.
The store Of A. F. Phillips, Of Sea-
ford, was recently robbed Of 500 worth
Of securities.
A large fire among timber, occurred
last week near Houston. COnsidera-
bic damage was done,
Commissioned of Immigration Albury
has sent for twenty-eight Immigrants
to be distributed in Sussex county.
Ex-Governor Hall and his family
are reported to own fOrty-eight
schOoners, generally engaged in the
eOasting trade.
Attorney General Gray has remind
ed the Delaware tavern keepers that
the law forbids them to sell liquor in
bottles to be carried away.
The Delaware Fire Insurance Com
pany, established about sixty years
ago, intends going out i,f business
upon the expiration Of the policies
now in hand.
The Levy Court Of Sussex county
has appropriated $500 for the cree
ton Of two new buildings for the pau
pers and insane dependents of the
county almshOuse.
Isaac y. Hearn recently purchased
the ". 0. Hearn farm, near Whites
vile, Sussex county, for 5000. This
farm has been in the hands of the
Hearn family for $50 years.
A drum fish was caught last week
| by the sturgeon fishers, OF Slaughter's
Beach, that weighed 140 pounds The
usual size of this species of fish taken
on our coast is from ffly to seventy
I pounds.
The State Temperance Alliance will
/ convene at Dover on May 22nd. Dele
gates are to be sent from all churches,
Sunday schools, ministerial and other
! Christian associations and temperance
societies.
At a recent sale Of Jersey cattle in
/ Philadelphia, z. H. Bancroft, of Cam
den. bought .Sir Georges Rhoda, +"
/ heifer, for $500; d. NJ. Ridgeley, of
Wyoming, bought Lord WOlseley,"
bull calf. for S35.
Orson Adams, United States bank
I examiner for Pennsylvania, Delaware,
/ Maryland, Virginia and North Caro-
/ lima, has resigned to accept the presi-
dency Of the National Bank of the Re
public Of New York.
LATE IN LIFE.-Mr. Job Butter
worth and Mrs. HydrOn, both of Eel
ton, were married on Monday. The
groom is so years Of age, and the bride
| 70 years, Ike many younger folks, they
went on honeymoon trip.
It is said that the Dover Glass Com
pany has offered S1.25 a ton for sand
on Sandy Hill, near Cambridge, but
that the owner Of it is holding back
with the expectation Of having a glass
factory built at the latter place.
The different buildings at the Dover
Glass Works are being pushed forward
rapidly. The furnace is now being
built, and for this alone it will require
over 100000 bricks. Pots are being
made, the German clay for this pur-
pose having been imported at a cost of
$500.
Judge John w. Houston, Associate
Judge for this county, was appointed
to the Bench % years ago Monday
week. During all these years he has
never missed sitting at a term of the
/ Court on account OF sickness. Some
thing very few Judges can say who
have served as long as he.
Stetson & Ellison, Of Camden. have
/ purchased the peaches Of oneof Captain
/ John DurbOrOugh's orchards, near
Five Points. supposed to have about
/ 10000 baskets, at so cents per basket
/ for the yellow and 80 cents for the
white fruit. Most Of the fruit, though.
is yellow, and adapted for canning.
Captain John P. Wilson. master Of a
/ schooner engaged in oyster planting in
ChineOteague bay, was found drowned
and floating at the stern of his schooner
with a rope about him, last week. 1t
/ is thought he committed suicide. Can
tain Wilson lived at Milton and was
the father Of Revs. J. A. b. and w. W.
w. Wilson. both Of the Wilmington NJ.
Z. Conference.
The following is the representation
Of the Wilmington Conference in the
standing committee Of the General Con-
/ ference now assembled in Philadel-
phia: EpiscOpacy, J. II. Caldwell;
lhneracy, J. B. Quigg Boundaries.
/ Charles Hill; Reyisals, J. B. Quigg:
Temporal Economy, f. A. Ellis:
State Of Church, A. G. Cox: Book Con-
cern, J. II. Caldwell; Missions. A. G.
] Cox; Education, Charles Hill: Church
( Extension, i. A Ellis; Sunday Schools
and Tracts, A. @. Cox; Freedmen's a
Aid and Work in the South, ]. H.
I Caldwell.
PROPERTY TRANSFERS. 1.-The follow
/ ing is a list Of deeds that have been re-
! corded the past week at the Recorders
Ofice for Kent county f. III. Beck to
Catherine ii. Douglass, lot IN SMYRNA
! T. i. Cooper to n. v. Kingsburv. lot
in Willow Grove, 500; T. b. Cooper
70 - y. Cooper, lot in Willow Grove.
500; Emory Sc0tten to ] III. Peter
son, lot in Dover, $500; Harrington.
sheriff, TO Mary +. Jones. us acres
Aispillion hundred, So .4O2: 4. w.
Wilson to Fannie f. Cowdright. lot in
Little Creek, $3.50; T. w. Wilson TO
Fannie +. Cowdnght, lot in Little
I Creek, 5000 Edward 4. Evans
% Thomas Reed, lot IN Little Creek
hundred, exchange; Thomas Reed
to =. a. Evans, lot in Little Creek
hundred. exchange; VIM. Wood to III
X. IrumbOre, 76 acres, in West Dover
hundred, $1,000; Prof r. Z. Rogers to
5. n. Pilchard, lot in Dover $3.50:
JOS Lutz 10 A. b and II. A. Richard
son, lot in Dover, $4,000; Ellen n.
/ Cummins to J. q. Baily, % acres IN
Kenton Hundred, 1915; S. III. Thomas
20 N. III. Nins0n, 81 acres In West
Dover hundred, Delamarean.
GOLIATH AT Am.-The home Is
I the cline where the man IS rreat