Smyrna times., 1884-12-17

J.
(Condnued from Fourth page
About one-half of the female teachers
of Sussex wear glasses.
There are some IS lady teachers in
Sussex county and SO male teachers.
superintendent Williams should not
pronounce here as though it was
spelled h-u-r-e.-MiLfOrd NelUs.
The ladies of Sussex county Institute
are the youngest and prettiest of the
three counties says the Milford Ne,Us.
Mrs. Robert Poor, a widow of Milford,
received recently $2,015 in back pen
siOns for the loss of a son during the
late war.
Professor w. D. Mackey of Delaware
College gave a reception to the Senior
class of that institution on last Friday
evening.
Henry Goldstein of Dover has been
held under bail for his appearance at
court on the charge Of keeping gamb-
ling den.
A skating rink to cost S, 300 is being
built at Wilmington. The formal OPEN
ing is expected to take place on the
first of January.
A peach orchard in the neighborhOOd
of Milford, containing less than 400
trees. yielded $500 pounds of dried
fruit last season.
Mrs. Charlotte Stockley, widow of
the late John Stoclley, died suddenly
at her home at Georgetown December
7th, aged 67 years.
The sturgeon fishermen of the Della
ware river are getting ready for their
annual trip South More luck and
better health than last year to them.
The directors of the Cantwell Mutual
Insurance Company, of Odessa, have
declared a dividend of six per cent. on
balances standing to the credit OF mem
bers.
1t is believed that the Rev. II. Allen
Griffith, rector of st. Th0mas's church
at Newark, will accept the call from
the church at Downingtown, Pa, at
salary of $4,000.
The dancing class at Georgetown has
come to grief or rather the members Of
the class are called to mourn the loss
of halfterms tuition because of the
failure Of the teacher to come TO
time"
A great revival has Just closed at
Laws Chapel. About sixty persons
professed a change of heart. The
meetings were under the charge OF
Rev Dawson, the pastor of Houston
circuit.
IfMr. Bayard should enter the Cabi-
net, Sussex county will probably have
three aspirants for his place in the Sen
ate. Judge Wootten, John II. Paynter
and Edward. L. Martin are the expect
ant ones.
Charles Blake and Charles CQYan.
alias Copley, who escaped from New
Castle jail on Saturday, were captured
Yesterday, near Oxford, Pa, but not
until Blake had received a severe pistol
shot in the ankle
The Right Rev Alfred Lee, d. D.,
bishop of this diocese, is i'll at his home
in Wilmington, consequently will be
unable to participate in the ceremo-
MES 1T the unveiing Of the DUPONT
statue in Washington on Saturday.
4. z. Ackerman, the man who drew
$4,000 with alottery ticket few years
ago, while riding to Milford to see
a physician one day last week, fell
from his wagon seat and expired in a
few moments 1t is supposed that his
death was caused by heart disease.
We wish President Cleveland had
accepted that Newfoundland dog, and
sent it to us. There is pack OF boys
who make it practice of running uI
in our office, as though it was a bowl
ing alley. We don't want to kill them
with dynamite but we do wish to set d
dog on them.-Seqford Enterprise.
DR.. w. n. Hamilton, who has been en-
gagged in the practice Ofmedicine for tift,
years, in Odessa, will celebrate the 70tl
anniversary Of his birth on the 23r'
instant He looks as if he would b
spared to practice many years longer
for there be few men upon who's
shoulders seventy years rest 50 lightly
At the Sussex county Institute
prize was offered to the best speller b.
Porter, Coates & Company of Philadel
phia, handsomely bound volume
The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poe
try" Professor Back walter gave Ou
twenty-five words, and about siXt
teachers contested for the prize. Th
words were written and the result {
the contest showed that John I. ST.
phens of Bridgeville had won the pre-
MUM.
Peddlers have recently been " doing
u. hrf laxr ra1
selling the stock of a bankrupt at abOl
one-third their real value. They ais
claimed that they would open stoI
in town. The story is an old one, an
those they cheated are groaning owe
the fact. Nearly all these fellows WI
peddle silks and dress goods throug
the country are frauds. 1t is safe
buy only Of responsible parties III
f0rd NeUs
The Democrats of this county, sa.
the Sent incl, will have the pleasure
saddling the expense Of an extra ele
tl0n upon the tax payers Of the count
because Of the election Of VIM. L. Wa
son, of Milford, as member Of Il
Legislature. II seems that Mr. WatsC
has not resided in this state "thrD
years next preceding the meetn
Legislature" as the Constitution pr
Yldes. The same instrument prOvid
for a special election to fill such vaca
ces.
The Peainsular NeWs in speaking
the meeting Of the Sussex County
stltute in that town and the great il
pFovement among the teachers und
the new order Of things says: II
first examination held in Sussex t
years ago by Superintendent Groves
Vealed the fact that some teachers {
not know the name Of the President
the United States, or who was &C
ernor Of Delaware, etc. The appei
ance and manners of present teachC
= also an improvement over the pa
now only two or three appear in pub
with jaws distended with tobacco a
otherwise repulsive, while such ca
were commOner a few years since.
Hugh Duffin, Centralia, Penn, sta
mat 81. Jacobs Oil, the wonderful pa
reviewer, is just the thing for rheuu
Ilsm and he would not be without it