Smyrna times., 1884-03-19
.,o North. 11.5O A. NJ, and S.S5 P. N.
From ibe ,he South, 7.35 and 1l.5O A. NJ

County %'A
Work on the Dover glass works will
begin this week.
milford man has head OF a cask
which was under water lou years.
,,oxonder Jackson, Jr., and wife, of
c.n,Jen' are making protracted tour
of Florida.
The Republicans of Kent county are
.oling no effort to get their poll-tax
payers assesseu'
Farmers in the possession of light
II down the county below Dover
have i commenced plOwing.
The steamer Mary Morgan will run
,otTeen Marcus Hook, Chester and
Philadelphia next season.
Several residents of Camden, n. j.,
olaim one-half of the town of Bridge
,;IIe They have deeds dated 1884
Iosanb Lutz. the owner of the Hotel
p;cbardson of Dover, is advertising it |
far sale in the New York newspapers.
lanes L. Hawkins, chief of police of
Wilmington. Del, has been suspended |
from office for an assault on Hop Sing, a
Philadelphia laundryman.
The telephone line between Milton
and GEORGETOWN is an assured fact, |
since enough money for the purpose
has already been subscribed.
"Nat" Hickman, who, it is said, is
hooked for the office of Clerk of the
Peace of Sussex county, is over 20
Years of age and in poor health.
Many of the farmers of the country
surrounding Milford say they will not
GROW tomatoes this season, as they do
not pay at the price received for the
past two years.
Charles Warner & Co., the great Will
mington dealers in coal, lime, cement
and plaster moved on Monday from
tbe Orange street wharf to their new
wbarves on the south side of the
Christiana creek.
The Republican State Convention
has been called to meet i'll Dover on
Thursday, April 18th next, for the pur-
pose of electing six delegates to attend
the National Convention to be held in
Chicago June 3rd.
Many of the Georgetown carpenters,
in anticipation of Il very busy season
there have signed an agreement not to
work for less than 1925 day. Farm
help is very scarce there and also de-
mands increased wages.
There were never 50 many railroad
ties in Milford at any one time as at
present. Messrs. Holland & Son and
George II. Hall have been dealing ex-
tensively i'll them and the wharvcs are
covered with immense piles.
Mrs. Ann w. Downs, mother of F.
W. Downs, died suddenly at her sons
residence at Downs Chapel, last Thurs
day night. An inquest was held and
verdict of " death from natural causes
rendered. She was rs years Of age.
Simpsons drug store, Camden, was
entered on Saturday night by thieves,
who carried out heavy safe, placed it
in wagon and drove off to the camp
meeting woods near by, where the safe
was blown open and $50 abstracted.
The postal receipts from Delaware
during the year ending June Both, 1882,
were Sl03, ,748.02; expenditures, $751;
1850; showing profit to the depart
ment of So, ,30l Al. Not all the States
did so well, the account with Maryland
for example showing a deficiency of
$29,73l 20.
The statement made in list of sales
from the Recorders book that Hiram
Barber, of Milford, had sold his proper
ty TO Miss Barber should have been
Milo Barber, his son. The error,
which we copied from another paper,
has given him some annoyance, which
we regret.
Superintendent Il. N. Williams and
his assistant will hold educational
meetings" this week as follows: Mon
day evening, Gumboro'; Tuesday
Delmar; Wednesday, Laurel; Thurs
day, Georgetown, and Friday, Harring-
ton. Laurel and Georgetown are bOtl
very much in need of new school build.
ings
The interest manifested in the extra
services at Delaware Avenue Baptis
Church, Wilmington, has become Sc
great that hundreds of people were un
ghIe to gain admission Sunday even
ing. Isaac b McCaulley, while strug
Cling with crowd to gain entrance
mad TWO ribs broken by being pushed
against door jamb.
A special yesterday from Washing
lngtOn, Pa, to the Press says: Tn
remains of Miss Clara b. Tilton, for
mieFly a resident of Wilmington, Del
nut who died in Philadelphia "a fey
Jays ago. were cremated to-day. He
aShes will be taken to Ohio, where tn
deceased owned property and request
ed that her ashes be buried.
AT Wilmington, Monday evening,
Iallse containing $1,000, which ha
Oeen obtained from the Treasury De
PaT'ment by Paul Schmellick, of Phila
ueiphla, was seized by a stranger an
IhrOwn from window of q car on th
congressional express and seized by
Goniederate. Mr.. Schmellick pursued
nnElHg ms pistol, and regained the vi
USE The thieves escaped.
young lady from northern Penn
II 3SNahla who is visiting friends
liver, noEer, never saw an oyster in the she
N SiIh a few days ago. When h
II hiehds began to open some for dinnt
tne gathered up her dress and got @
H ~p OF chair. On being asked VIII
4 Was WAS Ihe matter she said II am afra
Sare %Ieh the thing runs out it will bite n
%m ,oTe you kill it," She was vel
n fae, aa'n surprised to find oysters had l
N a. DaHld W. lIarnish. of near IIanca
s, sa. ra', bought short time since
Il Sic u1 near Newark for his son cOstiI
4 on IOooO !. and the latter expected to con
Il da,, " On The 25th Of March. Last Mo
sp;o;T week the young man commit,
m".n rnOlue by shooting himself with
81 tSAe'' tu,o lie had been married on
81 s"0 "1 OF three months. III health W
# 0wps 0neG as the cause. Mr.. Harm
n i,"inha i,S larm of 300 acres in Appoqui
Lee 90 hundred, occupied by VIM.
81 tbis frank rank Wilds, Register of Wills
letter. Ouh'y, has granted the foIlowi
estate ter e Of administration upon t
late &c VI VI Ebenezer Burris. deceas,
70 TSoaAeh Aehton Hundred, on March 8
a. o1noaas mas J. Burris.