Smyrna times., 1885-09-02


Thursday as postmaster at Laurel.
The Delaware Railroad alone carried
1S5 cars of fpeaches on Wednesday.
Peter X. Meredith has bought the
Squire Moore town property at FELTON,
for 81 $50.
More money has been realized by
peach growers this year down the
country than during any previous one
Miss Elizabeth L. Beattie of Camden,
has been elected teacher in the Primary
department of the Odessa public school.
The Comegys family Of seven-4
brothers and sisters-were weighed
the other day. They weighed 1,4O2
pounds.
The pear crop about Dover this year
is not large one nor are the pears per-
feet, and the evaporators are using
nearly the whole crop.
A potato train passes over the Della
ware railroad every night 1t carries
nothing but potatoes. which come from
the New York q Norfolk Railroad.
Mosquitoes were thick at every point
along the coast last week. At some
places near the marshes they made life
very lively if not very comfortable.
The oyster Guard Boat has been re-
paired mt the ship yard of Col. EnOch
Moore at Wilmington. Her name has
been changed from that of the Blue
Wing to that of DeIdlUdre.
Thomas Whann, Sr., the well-knOwn
manufacturer of fertilizers died sudden
ly at his home in Strickerville, Chester
county, Pa, near Newark, on Friday
morning of last week. He was in his
S4th year.
Delaware College will be reOpened
to-day for the reception of students.
The building has been greatly improved
and renovated, and with new head at
the institution, we sincerely hope to
see many students.
George w. Ingram, real estate agent,
has sold the farm belonging to the
Hon. Charles B. Lore, situated near
Mt. Pleasant, and containing about 81
acres of land, to Miss H. Houston, of
Mt. Pleasant, for S475G.
At Wyoming, FELTON, and Bridgeville
prices ruled last week from forty to
sixty cents for good white fruit, and
somewhat higher for yellow. AT
Wyoming the standard prices of Old
Nixon was fifty to ninety cents.
Nearly all the canneries and eVapora-
tors about Milford have been running
full In fact, there has been glut of
Old Nixon, since there are more trees
of this variety bearing than Of any 9TH
anH xyara ra0 n full
st. PauFs NJ. E. Church quarterly
conference Wilmington has licensed +.
w. Burke, a student at Wesleyan Uni
versity, Middletown, Conn, and a son
of the Rev. G. w. Burke, pastor of the
M. E. Church at Harrington, to preach.
The deciding game for the champion
ship between the State Capital Nine, of
Dover, and the Mutuals, of MiddletOwn,
was played Thursday. The Mutuals
were victorious by long odds. The
score stood IL to 1 in favor of the
Mutuals.
Friday evening engine No 80, attach
ed to peach train, cOllided with the
rear cars of the Harrington extra which
had become detached about a mile be-
low Middletown. The engine and a
number of cars were wrecked. One
man was severely injured.
Mrs. Ann Maria Hasting, wife o
George V. Hasting. of KirkwOod, dice
very suddenly Thursday. She wa.
sitting talking with her husband wheI
she uttered an exclamation of pain call
ing her husband by name, and in les
than two minutes had ceased to breathe
In view of the murders which hav
been committed in Wilmington recent
", the Morning NelCs is moved to re
mark that Wilmington whiskey
''surcharged with deviltry," and not q
the quality to provoke man into sing
ing psalms and the pursuit Of innOcen
pastime.
Robert c. Wetherby of Dover fe
from his bicycle at BehOhOth, on Satul
day, receiving injuries that terminate
fatally at II O'Clock the same nigh
He was formerly employed by the Ken
Iron and Hardware Company of Wi
mingtOn, but latterly had been engage
with r. X. Jones & Brother of Dove
Persons who use oil stoves ought
get a special permit from the insuranC
companies. Nearly every policy issue
specifies that no oil shall be used G
the premises, except for lighting pu
poses. Without a permit the use
these stoves vitiates the policies. Fe
persons using them think of this, bl
it is an important fact.-Sentinet.
George Sowders, the young viii
man, arrested and lodged in GeOrg
town Jail few weeks ago for stealth
clothing and other property from pa
ties in Frankford, broke Jail on Tue
day night last by picking through Il
wall. SOwders was confined in Il
cell from which Hallett escaped and
picked a hole in the same place th
Hallett did-immediately under Il
window
A we'll was driven 219 feet at Wat'
loo, the new resort at the mouth
Broad<iln creek last week, and fail
to find good water. The well IS Wit
out doubt the deepest on the Peninsu
The well is about 100 yards from t
bav shore, but not more than 200 var
from the well and much nearer
shore, elegant water has been found
depth of eight feet.--BreGktOd
Light.
The wife of DIR. J. r. Jakes of MagI
liza. Kent county, died August 9th,
the home of her father, ID. BrainC
Ferris. near Glasgow. Both she
her husband graduated at DELAYS
College few years ago. He IS
Of John T. Jakes of Wyoming. III
were married last December q
sumption was her ailment and she
q years of age. She was buried Sat
day in the Presbyterian Cemetery
Glasgow.
The Baltimore american of Wedr
day states that information has b
received in that city that the Kt. X
Thomas A. Becker, Bishop OF Wilml
ton, will be transferred to the See
Savannah Ca, lately made vacant
the elevation of Bishop Gross to
archbishopric of Oregon, and I
Father Foley of St. Martins Chul
Baltimore, will be Bishop Becker's
eessor. Just when the change
take effect is not yet known.
James Pennewill, Esq, sold the
estate Of James M. DOod, near M
ton, last week to John Moore, for ;
Sheriff Robinson, at the same pl
the following real estate OF Elias
Reed: A farm Of "a acres in
Dover hundred at 50 per acre, and
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