Smyrna times., 1884-07-23
County and State Items.
The Harrington Enterprise complet-
d its first year Thursday.

The Harrington Enterprise complet-
ed its first year Thursday.
st. Jones river got $4,000 appropria-
ton by the passage by Congress of the
River and ITarbor bill.
Prof John Il. Sweeney, Of Chester,
Pa, will direct the music ut the
Barratt's Chapel Centenary.
Elias p. James, on DR.. Ridgely's
farm, two miles east Of Dover, raised
81 bushels of Fult2 wheat per acre.
The farm of J. w. Downham, con-
tanning l95 acres and lying near FELTON,,
was sold on Wednesday to Mrs. Down
ham for $4 100
The cannery at Houston last week
packed 100000 cans of whortleberres
and blackberries, for which they paid
twenty-five cents per bucket.
Richard Berry, cOlored lad of about
II years Of age, was drowned in st.
Jones river at or near Barller's Land
ing, on Tuesday of last week.
George w. Collins, living on the road
from Dover to Kits Hammock, has
just threshed 1,7OO bushels Of wheat
from a Sc acre field, or over thirty
bushels per acre.
Levin Williams raised this year on
Ex-Governor Ross farm near Seaford.
1,772 bushels Of wheat from AL bushels
of seed, and on IS acres Of land. The
field last year was 4 two-year-old clover
sod.
The balance of the Jacob NJ. Hill
farm, near Dover, part of which was
recently purchased by George 4. Mil
lington, Esq, was sold on Tuesday Mt
trustee sale and was purcha ed by Mr..
DIillington for So, 300.
Combination railroad and hotel
tickets, good over the Delaware, Mary
land and Virginia Railroad, and at the
RehOboth hotels, are now on sale at
Harrington and Milford. The price of
an excursion ticket, including supper,
lodging and breakfast, is $3.50; for the
round trip, including five meals and
lodging, 81.
Among the seventeen persons of the
Greedy Expedition who persisted of
starvation was Lieutenant James B.
Lockwood, of the Twenty-third Infan-
try, and son Of General Lockwood, of
Washington. He died on April 9th
last, being the fourth of the party to
suceumb. The Lockwoods of New
Castle county and of Cecil county, Md,
are his relatives.
Arrangements for the Camp Meeting
in Penrose Woods, near Pearson's
Corner, are progressing finely. BY
/ permission of the owner of the woods.
Moses Rash, the encampment has been
enlarged and made more airy, by cut
ting out and clearing away the under
growth and lower limbs of the trees.
There is prospect, says the Sentinel. for
a larger number of tents this year than
heretofore.
DELAWARE FRUIT EXCHANGE.-A
correspondent of the Deidrdredn saws :
"The board of Directors of the Della
ware Fruit Exchange meet every Wed
nesday in the exchange room at
Wyoming, and are vigorously pushing
the preliminary work looking towards
the opening Of the exchange. Secre-
tary Corsa, who has been travelling for
the past four weeks in sections of the
country where our fruit has hitherto
reached, selling seats to dealers has
met with great success, having sold
chairs to dealers in every town or city
visited. There are now 30 chairs sold
to dealers and growers.
Bowers Beach has changed very
much of late years. Formerly it was
place for drunkenness, rowdyism and
fighting, but now we find the scene
changed, and any one can go there
without being molested. For the last
year or SO, it has been kept up to a bet
ter standard and in the hands of Isaac
Belts, Esq, is largely patronized by
the better class of people of the county
-DeiaCdredn.
PROPERTY TRANsFERs.-Th follow
ing is a list of deeds that have been
recorded the past week at the Record.
er's Office for Kent county: AbneI
Coker to Patrick Coler, lot in Wyom-
ing, $4OO; Jefferson Lewis to J. M
Smith, acres in Moorton, $642; J. M
Smith to i. StOckwell, lot in Moorton
$205; A. T. HoGecker to l.. Stockwell
lot in Moorton, $3.50; H. RidgIey to
Elenor Mcdaniel, lot in Dover, S75
Geo. S, Powell to N. F. Raughley
house and lot, &C., Harrington, $4,000
Abraham Pearson to II. ]. Enright
two lots in Dover, $500; Chas. M
Wharton to James Fisher, house anC
lot in Dover, $432 John s. Melvin tC
William Sapp, 2 acres in MispilliOl