Smyrna times., 1884-10-22
County and State Items.

Magnolia is having a commOdious
and very tasty school building erected.
An effort is to be made to start a
Chatauquan Literary Circle at Middle
town.
Several farmers near Milford, says
the NelCS, have drilled their wheat a
second time, the first sowing failing to
come up.
Samuel D. McGonigal, of Dover, has
sold his farm of $50 acres, near Colds
bOTo station, to Thomas HOlcomb. of
New Castle, for $4,75O.
David Marine, one of Mispillion
Hundreds wealthy citizens, died sud
denly on Wednesday evening at his
home near Whiteleysburg
Samuel D. Truitt, Esq, State Libra
rian, passed a full examination before
the Law Examining Board in Dover.
Thursday evening Mr.. Truitt was a
student under c. H. B. Day, Esq.
The small store at Reedville above
Barratt's Chapel was burned on Tues
day of last week with all its contents.
The fire originated in some unknown
manner in the celler. There was
about $1,000 worth of goods in the
building.
Miss Minnie Cowgirl, daughter of
Daniel Cowgirl, Jr., of Dover, and DR..
Jas. Martin, were married by Rev. J.
Stonecipher, at the residence of the
brides parents, on Tuesday of last
week, and left for their home in the
city of Philadelphia.
Every town and hamlet of Kent and
Sussex Counties is showing the most
gratifying signs of new life and in
creasing prosperity. In every direc-
ton new homes, generally built in a
style more modern than the dry goods
box, many of them very tasty, are
sprlnging up on every hand.
The Middletown TraascriDt in no
ticing a successful book agent in that
vicinity says: 1T strikes us that an
active young man who can talk and
doesn't get alarmed at the open coun-
tenance of bulldog can get rich a
great deal quicker selling good books
than by sitting about waiting to be
nominated for the Presidency.
Captain Joseph Fairbanks. who died
at Odessa on the 9th inst, is said to
have once saved the life of the Hon.
Charles B. Lore, when the present
Congressman was a lively bov. bv
resculng him from drowning. Young
Lore who spent the early years of his
life at Odessa, fell into the AppOuuini
mink creek one daV while plavino
upon its banks and was rescued bV
Captain Fairbanks when about to sink
for the last time.
In Middletown on Wednesday even
ing, October 18th, at the pleasant
home of the brides father. John w
Wright, Esq, Miss Sylvia A. Wright
and Martin B. Burris were Joined in
marriage by the Rev. Mr.. Stenple
The parlOr was prettily decorated with
hoWers and evergreens, and the guests
passed In from the hall under a neat
floral horseshoe suspended above the
door. About sixty guests were assem-
bic in the parlOr before the hour fixed
for the ceremony.
A GENUINE MERMAID.-A curiosity
in the shape ofa Mermaid or Human
FISH was on exhibition in this town
tue latter part of last and first of this
week. The Human Fish . had been
embalmed and was about three feet
long. Several of the doctors of our
town examined it and declared II n
curiosity, yet the incredulous are still
skeptcal. 1t comes as near being a
Mermaid as Is possible. The face
ana mead are human except that the
teeth are those Of fish and the body
as far down as the waist where It
assumes the nature and appearance of
a fish, having q fish's tail and fsb's
scales. The upper part is without the
scales. 1t was caught in the Mediter-
ranean sea about two years ago. bv a
sailor who sold it to the exhibitor at
Lewes in this county, for $50, or so !
saysits sproprietOr.- Georgetown Journal
PROPERTY TRANSFERS. The follow
ing is a list of deeds that have been re-
corded the past week at the Recorders
oihce for Kent county :-E. J. Hiss to
,. y, Jones, lot at kits Hammock. !
SlOO; h. S. Anderson to S. T. Jones
lot at Kits Hammock, -; E. NJ
stevenson to j. G. Lewis, lot in Dover. |
81, ,COOi VIM. Fisher to w. A. Bieber, !
lot in Dover, $4,000; J. S. Willis ct. qI'
to M. L. Smithers, lot in Dover |
y, ,266:67; N. B. Smithers ct. aI., to A. |
i. Willis, 112 acres in South Murder !
kill Hundred, 3,333.33; N. B. Smithers
ct. aL., to E. Townsend, 200 acres in |
South Murderkill Hundred. dover: |
ii. ). Hays to S. e. Abbott az acrae in
North Murderkill Hundred. S2.8OO:
q. Lecompt to S. Minner, 164 acres in
Kenton Hundred, $8,187.5O; T. II.
Wilson to f. P. Stone, "a acres in
North Murderkill Hundred, $500; ].
F. Thawley to r. H. Stafford, 100 acres
IN Mispiilion Hundred, $500; w. A.
Bieber to w. Fisher, 1876 acres in West
Dover Hundred, $7,625; F. Richards
70 J.S, PomerOy, lot in Milford, $500;
r. Stout to w. M. Prouse, lot in Mag
nolia, $50; E. Blais to J. H. Jefferson,
lot in Smyrna, 5000; J. J. Conner TO 2.
j. CallaWaV. mill seat In got,th NFnr