Smyrna times., 1885-11-11

Pleasant, containing 300 acres, for $21,- )
600.
The newspapers are saying poor
FTederica; after Jas. T. Sipple and
Carrie Higgins have added their mite
to the school for scandals.
DR.. S. D. Marshall, of Philadelphia,
has sold farm of 100 acres near Mil
ton, to Charles Wilson, near Leipsic,
Kent county, for 81 $50 cash.
The Rev. John Miller, formerly pas
tor of the Baptist Church at Doyles-
town, Pa, has accepted the call to Do
yer, and entered upon the duties of his
new charge.
The cornerstone of the new NJ. E.
Chapel of South Milford was laid on
Sunday Presiding Elder Milby and
the Revs. Jonathan s. Willis and w. S.
Robinson oficiated.
There are two young ladies in Del
mar by the name of Lille Gorby. Their
fathers were both named John Gorby,
and their mothers both named Sallie
Gorby, but they are not related.
James A. Bayard, a son of Secretary
Bayard, has been appointed secretary
of the Territory of Arizona, from Mary
land, where he has lately been employ
ed in teaching the young idea how to
shoot.
U. S. Senator Gray, DIR. John ]. Black,
PrOthOnotary Maxwell and John NJ.
Rodney, Esq, went to Washington, D.
c., on Friday, to look after the interests
r,f Nc ~,f hA 4
wing of the party.
Andrew f. Crow of Wilmington,
who has for years been connected with
Hood, BOnbright & Company of Phila-
delphia, will in company with other
business men open new jObbing house
in Philadelphia about the first of the
year.
The f. c. Fenimore property in Ap-
poquinimink hundred, known as the
Rock Farm" was sold by Sheriff Ford
last week to George F. Brady, of Della
ware City, for $13, 500. 1t is said the
owner originally paid $4,000 for the
farm.
The large fruit drying house at Mid
dletOwn, with three evapOratOrs and
other fixtures therein, belonging to
Alfred L. Sellers, was sold at sheriff's
sale on Saturday last. J. Layton Reg
lister, the mortgage of Philadelphia,
purchased the property for $2,550.
George Stats of Middletown, who is
on the United States ship Ossipee
writes home from Kobe, Japan, in res.
pect to the cholera which is now raging
hot ~.
men have died out of the seventeen
who were sick. Mr.. Stats has kept
well.
All the liquor licenses applied for al
the Kent county Court were granted
including new place at Hartley, Nehe-
miah Jacobs, applicant. As his hotel
is within one mile of the Maryland line
(where local option prevails), Mr.
Jacobs will have a big swing. The IL
cense was granted by a majority of the
Court-nOt by the entire Bench.-Sea-
tineL.
The District Grange of Kent and Sus
sex counties, which held its regular
quarterly meeting at Milford on Thurs
day, discussed yellows in peaches a
considerable length. Opinions differed
as usual. The grange also adopted ;
resolution declaring that farmers whC
wish to adopt the sOiling system, should
not be compelled to keep up division
fences"
On the night of November 9Th Georg
Bramble of Townsend took into hi
house for the night a young German
mendicant. The following morning
the wayfarer was gone and with him
suit of Bramble's clothes. The latte
at once started in pursuit of the sneal
and arrested him the same day nea
Armstrong; Corner. The clothes hav
been recovered.
A true bill for abandoning a minO
child was found on Thursday by tn
grand jury of Philadelphia, agains
James T. Sipple of Frederica, the alleg
ed father of Carrie Sipple's babe VIII
was left recently at the house of
stranger in that city. Sipple, accOrdin
to a Frederica letter in the MilfOr
Chronicle, was arrested at Frederica o
Tuesday and taken to Philadelphia.
J. Frank Wilds, Register of Wills fC
Kent county has granted letters of az
ministration to Benz. F. Dickerson O
the estate of James Madison Insley
to Elizabeth Reynolds, executrix, G
the estate of Samuel Reynolds, late
Smyrna; to Samuel Wharton on IL
estate of Eli Kenton, late of Maryland
TO John B. NickersOn on the estate
Gabriel Nickerson, late Of North Mu
kill Hundred.
Asbury NJ. E. Church, Wilmingto
which has been enlarged, renovat,
and newly furnished was reOpened Su
day. Chancellor Sims, d. D., LII. /
of Syracuse University, one of the for
most educators of the NJ. Z. Church
the United States, preached at 10 A.
At 230 P. H., Bishop Warren, preachr
the sermon being his first in that cit
and the Rev. J. Richards Boyle, d.
pastor of Grace Church, preached
7.30P NJ
Captain Draper's dredge has be
bringing up some gOod-sized ston
from the bottom of the St. Jones Rive
near the wharf, where it is now wor
ing, and Chief Justice Comegys ac
IDENTIFY discovering this fact, has secur
one of the largest which he proposes
place upon the grave of Caesar ROdn'
one of Delaware's signers Of the Decla
alton of Independence, whose unmal
ed grave on the old Cowgirl Farm
Jones' Neck, is a disgrace to the ST
with whose early history he is so pro
inently identified. d.-Stdte Sentinel.
The WIImingtOnian says: Sin {
two great political divisions, so happ
developed and existing-the Den
cratic and Republican parties-One r
resents centrifugal power and the Otl
ceDtripetal. They pull in opposite
rectiOns. Did lasting prepOnderal
appear for either party there would
critical and perhaps dangerous resu
either extreme is uniting at the pI
ent time. But the golden mean is
actly what is needed, and that is VIII
we now stand There is no danger
our traditiOnary ideas while the
parties watch one another with I'll
present sOlicitude and diligence"
BIG FRANK" AGAIN IN DELAwA
Last week Ford and deputy lam
Francis III. Carter, alias Big Fran
safe in New Castle Jail to serve out
remainder of his ten years sente
for an attempt to rob the NatiO
Bank of Delaware in Wilmington
November, 1873. Associated with
in that attempt were Frank Law
William Hurlburt and Jimmy H'
After serving three months and tax
forty lashes each, the qurtette br