Smyrna times., 1884-07-09
County and State Items.

The first peaches 10 ripen this sum-
mer have been those of the variety
known as Waterloo"
Wheat sold lower in Baltimore July
1st than it has before for thirty years
selling on Change for 81 cents
The Preachers Association for Dover
District will hold its next regular ses-
sion in Georgetown some time in Sep
tember.
The pier in front Of the Bright House
is nearly completed. The report that
it was washed away by the storm was
not true.
The season for shooting woodcOck
opened in Maryland June 18th. In
this State it is not lawful to shoot them
until November 18th.
Next Saturday, July 18th, at 3 p. NJ,
is the time fixed for selecting places for
tents at the camp meeting in Penrose
woods, west of Dover.
Alonza II. Reynolds, well known
builder and contractor of Port Deposit,
was stricken with paralysis July 1st
and is in precarious condition.
The New Castle County National
Bank of Odessa has declared divi-
dend of four per centum out of the
earnings of the past six months.
A Morning Neics correspondent states
that there are fourteen prisoners in
New Castle Jail under conviction, or
awaiting trial for capital offences.
Rev. VIM. NJ. Jefleris, formerly of
Delaware College, sailed for Europe
on the 25th of June, and will remain
abroad until the 1st of September.
Charles E. Ewing, who has been en-
/ plOyed as conductor on the ID. NJ. & V. !
r. r. for the last thirteen years, has
| resigned. He will assume similar du-
/ ties on another railroad.
Thos. S. Clark, real estate broker,
has sold the Holcomb farm, containing
200 acres, located four miles from
Dover, in st. Jones Neck, to Captain
Thomas Draper, for 1000.
The directors Of the Citizens Nation
al Bank, of Middletown, on Tuesday
of last week declared dividend of five
per centum from the earnings of the
bank for the past six months.
On Tuesday week VIM. 4. Atkins
of Dover, threshed the wheat grown
on a three acre lot, 100 bushels and
peck being the result The wheat was
mixture of Fultz and German Red.
Ex-Governor Ross, of Seaford, has
sold his farm near that place to his son
James Ross, for $4,000. This is often
called the finest farm in Sussex county.
1t is in an advanced state of cultiva-
ton.
Register of Wills of Kent county has
granted letters of administration upon
the estates of VIM. P. Smithers to JOS.
Smithers; Jesse S. Huntington to John
II. Hoflecker; James B. Richardson to
James Richardson.
Thomas N. Rawlins, late of PEN
ningtOn Seminary, n. j., is at George
town for the Summer. Mr.. r. has ac-
cepted the Professorship Of Natural
Science and Higher Mathematics at
the Conference Academy, at Dover.
A. II. Carey has sold his farm near
Camden at about 800 per acre, r. c.
Roe, of Dover, being the purchaser of
about one hundred and ten acres
thereof and the gentleman from Can
ada who purchased the Lindale farm,
having purchased the residue, contain
ing about lifty-two acres. Mr. Carey,
proposes shortly leaving this State
to settle in Florida.
A very reliable fruit grower and
dealer who has looked about through
the orchards in the neighborhood of
Middletown estimates that 1000 bas-
kets of peaches will be shipped from
Middletown this season. In 1883 ship
ments from this station reached 4435
carloads, or about 600 baskets
Transcript.
Some of our farmers, says the
Georgetown Democrat, are complaining
that the wheat harvested last week
has suffered considerably from the ef-
fects of the recent warm, wet weather.
The wheat crop generally in this sec
ton is better than for several years,
more acreage having been sOwn last
Fall than usual, and the grain having
headed out very we'll
TRANSFERS OF PROPERTY.-The fol-
lowing is a list of deeds that have been
recorded the past week at the Record
er's Office u. J. Galloway to w. Van
Burkalow, lot in Camden, $50; +. X.
Spang to +. Gerhart, 253} acres in
j East Dover hundred, $9,867 Stetson
& Ellison to NJ. L. Speal, lot in Cam
den, $500; f. Mitchell to c. r. Fleming,
lot in Milford, -; A. II. Carey to 4.
G. Roc, 112 acres in North Murderkill
hundred, S11 200; r. G.. Roe to A. II.
Carey, lots near Dover, $3.50; n.
GriswOld to M. J. Grennell, 81 acres in
: South Murderkill hundred, $2,5OO; II.
S. Clark to J. l.. Bonsall 93} acres in
East Dover hundred $3,162.5O; A. G.
Williams to J. Walker et GI., 70 acres
in West Dover hundred, $2,OOO
By order of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, the force of the Dis
trict Of Delaware has been reduced
from five deputies to three, This dis
trict includes Delaware and the Eas-
tern Shore of Maryland and Virginia.
BY this change the deputies in the up
per portion Of the Peninsula are re-
tanned, and James F. Anderson of this