Smyrna times., 1884-11-26

Several thieves were puDllCly whip
ped in the jail-yard at New Castle on
Saturday.
f. w. Jester has shipped to Califor-
MIA pair of English settlers, for which
he received $500.
The Newark Delaware Ledger never
looked so we'll as it does this week in
its new Fall suit of type.
A single train took 100 gunners over
the Delaware, Maryland and Virginia
Railroad one day last week.
A carload of exhibits for the Worlds
Fair were shipped from Wilmington
for New Orleans last Thursday. i
The delaware, Maryland and Vir-
ginia Railroad machine shop at Lewes (
was transferred to Georgetown last !
week.
William Sapp, who died at his home .
near Whiteleysburg, on November 9th, /
leaves an estate said to be worth more .
than S15O,OOO /
The revival in the Asbury church in .
Wilmington, which has been going on /
for two months, closed with a CONVEX I
sion of 20 persons.
The Delaware Baptist Union which I
was in session last week in Whining |
ton, adjourned to meet with the church .
at Milford in May next.
In Wilmington, according to the /
Hon. Charles B. Lore there are over
$4,000 Of trade dollars slowed away in
the vaults of the bankers in that city.
About seventy teachers attended the
sessions of the County Institute at
Newark last week. There are ninety
six teachers employed in New Castle
County outside of Wilmington.
AdOlph Kettner, who killed Patrick
O'Brien in a beer saloon row in Will
mingtOn last June, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter Monday, and was SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment and /
$1,000 fine.
W. A. Comegys, Representative from
st. Georges Hundred, has resigned his
position as teller of the Peoples
National Bank at GIiddletown, to take
effect January LIST, when he expects to
90 to Dover.
VIM. A. Hukill announces through
the Morning Ne,CS that he IS again in
the field, at the solicitation of friends
for the nomination on the Republican
ticket of New Castle county, two years
hence, for sheriff.
The Wilmington Glass Works which
were built during the past Summer,
and opened on September first and
were burnt down last week, it is an
nOunced, will be rebuilt ut once. The
loss was $4,000, insured
A good many farmers who were not
with George w. Migrants excursion to
the Virginia counties of the Peninsula
last week have expressed a desire to
see that land of promise, and Mr.. In
gram, says the Transcript, will endeavor
to arrange for another excursion in the
near future.
The first Southern express train over
the New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk railroad had fifty-fOur passengers.
That is good beginning for the new
line. The train makes only one stop
in Delaware South of Wilmington, and
that at Dover, just long enough for the
engine to take a drink at the tank
house. The run from Wilmington to
Cape Charles City, 19l miles, is made
in six hours and forty minutes.
In the United States Court in Will
mingtOn, last week, Levi G. Bird, Esq,
arose, and in words of the most fiatter-
ing encOmium, expressed himself as
unable to repress his feelings of just
qualification at the brilliant effort of
the young lawyer, Andrew F. SanbOrn
Esq, whose maiden speech of an hour
at the bar had just been delivered. Mr..
SanbOm was admitted to the bar at
the last September term. He is a
graduate Of Lafayette College, Easton
Pa, where he graduated in a classical
course in '81. He is a native Of Leipsic
son of the late DIR. Sanborn.
On Wednesday evening the mem.
bers of the Bar in Dover held Bal
meeting and passed appropriate resO
lutOns Of respect, on the death Of
Richard Harrington Esq, who died OF
the day previous and was buried the
next day at Silver Lake Cemetery
lie had attained the age of 81 years
Delaware has produced few men o
such conspicuous natural ability as he
Even in early youth he had made 70
himself reputation as an orator and
lawyer far beyond the confines Of Iii
native State, and there are many of hi
associates at the bar who will carry witt
them to old age, as q cherished mem
DRY, the recollection of the pleasur
experience and admiration aroused b,
the impassioned elOquence of the bril-
liant genius who has now passed away
J. Frank Wilds, Register of Wills 70
Kent county, on the 18th inst, grantee
letters administration upon the estat
OF John ;. DaVey, deceased, late {
North Murderkill Hundred, 20 Samut
SHUTS on the 18th inst. admitted [
probate the last will and testament {
William Sapp, deceased, late Of Mispi
hon Hundred and granted letters test,
mentary upon said estate to Elijal
Edward and James +. Sapp, the execI
tors named in the will ; on the 2h
INST, granted letters Of administratiO
upon the estate OfLOuisAndre, deceased
late 0! Fast Dover Hundred, to job
Bockman on the oath inst, granite
letters administration upon the estai
OF William NJ. Hopkins, deceased, LAT
ct MispiliOn Hundred, to Il. G. HoI
Hlns, and on the same day granite
leIterS OF administration upon the esta
OF Ann Lewis, deceased, late of Ea
Dover Hundred, to Robert II. Levi
PROPERTY TRANsFERs.-Th follov
ing is list Of deeds that have been I
corded the past week at the Recorder
Oiice for Kent County: $. Faulkn
to }. Y. Graham, u acres, South Mu
derkill Hundred, 81 200; w. L. Gri
to +. Roe, lot in FELTON,, $500; 5.
McGOnigal to c. G.. Comegys, II acr
In East Dover Hundred, -; Herrin
ton, Sheriff, to DR.. J. A. Moore, 2
acres, in South Murderkill Hundre
S238 w. S. Barger to J. Waugh, lc
IN Dover, $1,000; Myers CassOns to
CassOns, Jr., lot in Leipsic, $3.50;
Harper to G.. W. Baker, lot in Dow
$3.50; J. Besemer ct. al, to j. Hun
Jr., lot in Wyoming, $500; Stetson
Ellison to p. Sharp, lot in Camdt
500; l.. Dowse to J. Freidel, I acre
North Murderkiil Hundred, ~; III
rlngton, Sheriff, to J. r. Lowe, III
Dover Hundred, IS, 27O.50; J. Green
). W. Green, 1873 acres in North Nj
derkill Hundred, 81 GOO; a. G. Dill
:; X. Truitt, 89l acres in Mispilli
hundred, 81 1884 +. NJ. Stevens
70 NJ. +. Bostick, lot in Dover, $3.50.
A RAILROAD RIOT Al NEWARK
month ago two Baltimore and Phi