Smyrna times., 1884-05-07
county and State Items.

COIlI1OJ
M. John Hammond died near Dover
- u sunday May 4th, from cancer in the
Saoast' Sn st. She had been great sufferer for
the past two years
rtoCourt ofG General Sessions has had very
IN business of special interest or impor-
hIIi. heo bafore it at this term. The Grand
taloo In" was in session four days and during
,ul. Ju.y lime flrty-nine true bills were found,
tlas thla;.str'ive of them against Samuel j. Levy,
tn.' sn. .elling liquor Illegally; the others for
other otfenSes.
A. +tbe annual meeting of the Board of
r.nstees of the Poor of New Castle county,
il.t week. resolution was unanimously
"aJSnted instructing the Hospital Commit
.oo n nrOceed with the erection of a build
:e, n6t TO exceed thousand dollars i'm
nnst ,,ls for the nurses at the almShouse, and to
Urocure Sibley tents for use of smallpox
patients
Robert WiSher, colOred, who was tried
Io.t Thursday and Friday for an alleged
brntal assault on Mrs. Evaline A. Adkins
last September was acquitted by the jury
"n Friday evening. The principal wit
Vn moss Mrs. Adkins herself could not give Il
,.orv clear account of the affair She lives
'USrt from her husband and has spent a
n9rt of her life in the almshouse.
On Thursday last the committee appoint
ad by the Directors of the Delaware Rail-
road for the purpose, met at Middlet0wn
many citizens of Odessa and went with them
over the several routes proposed for the
branch railroad connecting those towns
The committee talked encouragingly ofthe
nroposed branch and of the several routes
gone over they seemed to favor the one
Tunning from the Delaware railroad at II
noint near the northern limits of Middle
town straight to Odessa. The Odessa peo-
ple are very hopeful that the road will be
built
The following is complete list of the
hotel licenses granted by the Court for
Kent county:
Noah Holden and Emory Section, Eel
ton: Joseph c. Gorby, Milford; Amos
Cole Harrington; Roseby J. Boulden.
Frederick; Isaac w Belts, Bowers Beach;
David +. Burton druggist, and John Nj.
Ford, Dover; Thomas f. Heathers, Cam
den; Edward X. Smith Leipsic; Ter
renee Carvin. Kenton Lucius Campbell
Woodland Beach; Michael Riley and
Alexander Walien, Clayton; Hotel Rich
arlson withdrawn.
j. Frank Wilds, Register of Wills.
granted the following letters of admins
ration during the past week; Upon the
estate of Phillip Morris, late Of Duck
Creek hundred, to George Morris; upon
the estate of Jas. u. Clark, late of West
Dover hundred, to Lemuel Clark; upon
the estate of Robert G. Anthony. late of
MEpillion hundred, to David W Smith
upon the estate of Annie w. Pyott, de-
ceased, late Of Pennsylvania, to Joseph
Mcdaniel letters testamentary upon the
estate of Rev |. T. Cooper, deceased. to
Richard Z. Cooper, Esq.
A meeting of the Kent County Commit
tee of State Temperance Alliance, will be
held in the Odd Fellows Hall, Dover, on
Thursday, May 10Th. A full attendance is
earnestly desired, as business of importance
will be laid before said committee. Atthe
last meeting March 26th) the following
we're added to the said committee: w
r. CahOOn, Sr, A. b. Moore, Dover: VIM.
D. HOfecker, w. S. Jones, John w. Gra-
ham, John Hutton and P. l.. Barcus, Ken
ton hundred DR.. +. Dawson, Cornelius
Ffear, T. b. Clark, David Needles. Lewis
Melvin and Thomas r. Wingate, Murder
kill hundred; Nathaniel Thomas, Milford;
Joshua Boyd. Leipsic.
7. j. STEVENSON, Secretary.
The Hotel Richardson. at Dover. was
again sold on Thursday last. The pur-
chasers this time being Alvin b.
& Harry a. Richardson, the original
owners The price paid was S26,OO0. We
stated in last weeks issue of the TIMES that
twas then offered by Mr.. Cochran for $40
CO., He exchanged property in Philadei-
Phia for it valued at S65,0O0 The cost in
the first place to the Messrs. Richardson is
currently reported to have been $l05, 600
The first selling price then founded on the
exchange was SEA, 600 and in less than a
year its market value falls to S26, 600
Another such propOrtionate decline will
bring it within the reach of some one who
can afford to run it, This is the finest
hotel on the Peninsula but it is very evil
dent that the breeches are entirely too big
for the child