Smyrna times., 1884-04-23
J,ranch Trains.
mosiup of Mails.
and State Items.

Over ont tim in the neighborhood of FELTON,.
r;uo hundred bushels of charcoal are
f!in'Se,ctured at the Bridgeville pits, every
day.
ro.onb Levi and wife Of Dover started
,,JSdPr nm two months trip to Ger
many
rho Roord of Education in Wilmington,
IL the CITY Council for S9O,69450 for
school purposes.
Roy Adam Stengle, pastor Of the M. y. !
church at Middletown, Is Sunerlhg with ,
naamlnatory rheumatism
Bav Noah J. Tilghman has been sent
Eor;da with $4,000 to invest in land |
~ e'r a company of gentlemen at Laurel.
4 sick sailor, who was left at Lynchs !
boarding house, Lewes: April ioth, Oy an an
SUtgoing vessel, is said to be afflicted with
smallpox.
lanes L. Hawkins, chief of police of
1r;i,oinpton. who was arrested for dirturh-
inc the peace in Philadelphia some weeks
ago has resigned
Prof T. n. Williams has been elected to
oddress the annual public meeting of the
Scott Literary Society of the Conference
Academy at Dover, in June.
The largest sweet potato grower in In
dian River hundred is Benjamin Bayls:
He has bedded twenty-five bushels of seed
potatoes for this seasons plant supply.
The big new hotel at Dover seems to be
an elephant that no man wants to hold
long. John Cochran, its recent purchaser,
i said to be negotiating for its sale tOa New
York man.
One of the thieves confined in New Cas-
te iail adroitly robbed a visitor of valu-
sble watch charm on Sunday and managed
10 escape detection even though u thorough
search was made.
The NJ. +. Church at Frankford caught
fire on April 10th from spark from j. 7.
Longs factory it is is thought. All hands
turned out promptly and beyond dam
aged roof no harm was done.
Watson r. Sperry, editor of the Morn
;ag Ne,cs, has purchased of Morton Me
Michaels sons the Philadelphia North
lmerican, the oldest daily newspaper in
the United States, and will succeed to the
editorship of the latter paper in a month or
six weeks.
Chief Justice Comegys in his charge to
the grand jury of Sussex county recently
called their attention to the growing dispO-
sition of land owners in Sussex county to
encroach upon the public highways, steal
ing as it were inch by inch from the roa'iS
and adding To their fields.
1t is said that the first telegraph line
erected in Delaware, was set up in the year
1876 This is one year after the first line
was erected in the United States The
Delaware line commenced at Lewes and
terminated in Wilmington, where it con-
nected with the oldest telegraph line in the
United States.
The Levy Court of this county has de-
ened, for this year at least, to extend
State Street. Dover, across Shakespeare :
mill pond by means of bridge Only one
bid for the contract of this work was
handed in, and as that called for the appall-
ing sum f$l3, 500 the Levy Courtmen beat
ahasty retreat.
Ifthe law on our statute book, intending
TO suppress prOfane language, was strictly
enforced in Milford, it would bring in 8
small fortune to the cOnstables, justices and
witnesses. There are more "cuss words y
to the square inch of a Milford street arat
than in any other similar class in the State
Milford Chroaicie
At the meeting of the Levy Court OF
Wednesday, the attorney Of the court wa
directed to enter satisfaction upon the off
cisl bonds of RObt. VI. higgins, collecto
Of Black bird hundred, w. b. Mackey o
White Clay Creek hundred, William vii
son Of Pencader hundred, and Charles VI
Newlin of Christiana hundred.
r. Alvin Cochran, residing near Middle
town, lost more than one hundred sheep
ont of u flock of 1873, by dogs during Fri
day night Of last week. On Saturda
morning sixty If the flock were found dea
and nearly all the others more or less in
jured, A number of the living were foun
in terribly mangled condition and wer
killed at lEiddietolcn Tr0Hscrip
Apri 1871.
Not long ago g. P. Hitch of Laurel W,
arrested for profanity on the streets of thi
town and was tried before the alderma
and fined. Refusing to pay the fine !
was put in the lock up, where he RENAME
10 minutes. friend paying the costs of h
trial in the meantime. Hitch has no
brought suit against the alderman and
W. Price, IL town commissioner, for SIG
W0 damages for false imprisonment.
Captain A. b. Fountain, Il well-knov
seaman Of Sussex in the days gone by, di,
at the almshOuse of that county April 12t
aged 20 years. He died pauper, but
Monday, April l4th, his remains were fc
lowed to the grave at Milford by the la
gest cOncourse of people that had gather,
there for like purpose for many yeal
while the vessels lying at the Milfo
Tharyes held their flags at half-mast {
day.
b. +. Wagamon, Georgeto real esta
agency, has sold the Warwick farm
longing to Governor Stockley, situated
the north side of Indian river, about s
miles from Millsb0rO, containing 300 acr
to sydney l.. Downs of Bay Shore, Lo
Island, and Charles l.. Squires of Broc
lyn for 5000 This farm is regarded
one Of the finest locations on Indian riv
me purchasers expect to engage extensi'
IN oyster planting.
A son Of John S. Jefferson, living n,
Concord met with sad death on MOnd
afternoon last. \ week or 80 previous
his death he stepped on a sharp splinter
wood, running It into his foot and caus
apalnful wound which rapidly healed. 9
nothing more was thought oft until Sat
day night Of last week. when the yor
man WAS taken with lOckiaw. A physic
was summoned, but he was past all h
and died on Monday afternoon at 3 o. clio
Deceased was thirteen years of age.-S
tord Enterprise.
While some gentlemen were discuss
the different kinds and qualities of
foek naturally came in for "A leading p
Did ysu ever eat any corn fed rocl
asked one. - No, | never heard of sue
.nlng as fish eating corn" was the rel
"elli 1t IS true. and corn fed rock
we Finest favored ones you can pOss
oDtan. The gentleman who thus sp
gave his experience AS follows: Ha'
81 upon one occasion obtained some '
# hrge Indian River rock, the servant "
a eleaning them found not only corn
Mhole nnbbins, cob and all. inside
men, When brought upon the table
sald tnat he never had tasted such d
M Ious reek The explanation was as follt
Fl everything like corn, wood and all frc
1ut OF Indian River has to be light
aoWh 10 Hats OF scows. In transferring
esTn .'aI from the lighter TO the vessel
MI oe more or less fall overheard,
aalese hsh, which are vOrReious, eat il q
"y not stopping at the cob.
latest FIsH SToRY.-The followi
nom the Philapeldhia Record. 9Th
sorIed shipment Of brace Of live
ron r Harrington, Del, to Clerk OF
sIurt Edward Paist, at West Chestc
ivy hlled with damp sawdust. Is q
eOhslderable interest among fish de-
na ,e oI them contend that such
,hnt be possible. bur most Of them 9
eoais sls story upon the ground that tn
hu not live out Of water for thirt
L.. ~. .r.xA hot