Smyrna times., 1884-07-30
County and State TOW


County and State Items.
Continued from Fourth page
The st. Georges canning factory will
put up 5000 quarts of tomatoes in glass
Jars.
Seventy five tramps have been ar
rested and imprisoned in Dover since
last Friday.
Col. A. S. Small is dangerously i'll at
his residence in Lincoln, and fears are
entertained for his recovery.
On Thursday f. c. Cuykendall. of
Milford, shipped nearly ton of evan
Grated apples that were packed this
season.
The Curtis Brothers paper mill, ut
Newark, resumed work on Friday.
having been stopped several weeks for
the want of orders.
The twine used in binding the wheat
OF this county costs the farmers over
| 81 200. They ought to save it to tie
the fodder.-Sentjaei.
The bids for building the new
schOolhOuse at Newark ranged from
$6,l 100 to $780, The building and
ground will:cost about $4,000.
Charles Gordon, young cripple of
Lewis, who was express messenger and
general utility man for the whole town.
died suddenly last Thursday evening.
DR.. J. r. Thompson, of the Bright
House, Rehoboth, has reduced the
rates at that popular hosiery for the
remainder of the season to 81 and SO
! per week.
John Ingram, an old soldier of the
/ First Delaware Regiment, aged forty
five years, was struck by Il falling log
near Dover last Friday and died on
Monday evening.
About one hundred seats at ten dol
/ lars per seat have thus far been Dur
/ chased in the Delaware Fruit En-
/ change, which is to be opened for the
first time this season at Wyoming.
James +. Wallace, of Paola. Kansas.
/ died on July 9TH from injuries received
/ by the bursting of Il Roman candle.
lie was Il native Of Milford, IS years of
age, and removed to Kansas in 1870.
The Dean Wooden Company Of
Newark, has notified its employees of a
reduction Of 10 per cent. to commence
ON the lst of August. The reason
given IS the depression in wooden goods.
One day last week a young son Of
Winfield Waters, of Brandywinc
Banks, thrust his arms and hands into
Il boiler Of boiling water. The child
was terribly injured and died on Fri
day evening.
Thursday, August 9TH will be at
Bowers Beach what is known
as Big Day" That date will be eel
ebrated as Il general picnic at the
shore by hundreds Of people Of the ad-
jacent country.
Over twenty cottages have been
built al kits Hammock. and others
are being built every week. Those
who are occupying them speak in the
highest terms of the good time they
are having
The Brandywine Summit camp
meeting, which commenced Monday
has become an institution among the
Methodists Of Wilmington, and of Del
aware and Chester counties in
Pennsylvania.
Mcssrs. Richardson & Robbins of
Dover, have been purchasing the vel
low fruit iii several orchards at lirtv
cents per basket, and up to the present
time have made contracts for about
10000 baskets of yellow fruit.
The various canning and evaporat-
ing establishments in and around
Dover will need ut least thousand
hands. Where they are coming from
Is the question that is agitating the
minds Of some employers just now.
|. G. Grubb, Esq, has been named as
DelaWare's member upon the National
Democratic Committee, and Geo. II.
Bates, Esq, rs the member for the
state on the committee to officially
notify Cleveland and Hendricks Of
their nomination.
II. G. w. Lake from New York. who
about two years ago, purchased the
farm of James IL. Todd, situated about
five miles west of Dover, and contain
ing about 240 acres, has sold the farm
to e. Layton, Superintendent of the
AlmshOuse, for $4,000
The Milford Chroaicle says that Gar
rett V. w. Eldcrt, of New York. has
purchased Burton Island, lying be-
tween RehObOth and Indian River, and
IS erecting gunners' and fishers
hotel there. He has also bought Mas
seys point, lying back of the island on
the mainland, and is erecting another
house there.
The Fruit Exchange has made ar
rangements for the quickest possible
transportation for peaches through to
Pittshurg, Dayton, Cincinnati, Colum-
bus, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Mil
waukee, St. Paul and MINNEAPOLIS
William =. Corsa, secretary Of the Ex-
change, has been visiting these places
during the last two months.
The Milford Chronicle tells of a boy
named Alfred Atkins, living in Milford
Neck, who was sent out into the
woods to lose cat" The child
made good job of it and succeeded in
losing itself. 1t took the child's par
cnts and neighbors two days to find
the youngster, and they finally came
up with him near Barratts Chapel.
How long it took the cat to find its
way back is not stated.
The Rev. John Shilling, of the Will
mington NJ. f. Conference, died last
week in Wilmington. He was born in
England in 1892 and came to this cOun-
try in 1876 He was admitted to the
Wilmington Conference at its organiza-
ton in 1869 and given his first charge
at the Brandywine Church, to which
he was returned in 1882. During the
past year he has been great sufferer
from disease of the brain and the last
Conference granted him supernu-
merary relation.
Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood.
one of the Greedy expedition, and who
persisted Of starvation and hardships,
was the son of General Henry II.