Smyrna times., 1885-04-22
County and State Items.

On April 9th and 2Sth, O'Brien
Uondenberger & Astley's circus and
menagerie will exhibit in Wilmington
Frpry Er6HiHg says OVertWO hundred
vacant houses in Wilmington is the re-
suit of general depression in industria
circles.
Postal Clerk Finn, route agent on
the D. & G.. branch of the Delaware
railroad, has been notified of his reap
pOintment.
The Joint resolution appriating $500
TO the Delaware Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children has pass
ed the Legislature.
On the farm of Anthony Higgins
near Delaware City, about 1900 chick
ems hatched by a patent incubator are
growing finely.
The municipal election for Mayor OF
Wilmington and eleven members OF
the CIV Council will be held on Satur-
day, the 9Th of June.
A boat loaded with 10000 bushels OF
oyster shells for the Road Commission
ers of Appoquinimink hundred has
been unloaded at Odessa.
S. w. Darby, Of Frederick. has a peach
orchard Of 5000 trees. which dlrin o
the las; fifteen years has paid him on
an average $40 per acre.
Charles Tatman, Esq. President of
the New Castle County National Bank
at Odessa, VIII soon celebrate the 93rd
anniversary Of his birth.
SAYS the Atlanta Constitution Sccrc-
tary Bayard is said to make his own
terrapin stew~. This accounts for the
expectant look shown in his portraits.
Mrs. Mary !. Rowland. widow ofthe
late Augustus J Rowland. died at the
home of her son. H. A. Rowland, near
MiddletOwn, Friday, in the 6Sth yearo of
her age.
The passenger station-hOuses on tie
Delaware railroad are being painted.
The Pennsy" keeps the property un-
der its management in lirst-class condi-
lion.
The Old Point express train is being
SO well patronized that another day
ear has been put on. and it is said that
another parlor car will soon have to be
added
The wife of the Rev. B. +. Price. of
Wilmington, died on " Ncdnesdav morn
ing, after brief illness She had been
married ouly eight months. She was
buried at Suli Pond.
Charles X. Iie, for many years con-
nected With the p. W. & B. Railroad
Company as master of transportation,
died Of paralysis Of the heart ut his resi-
dence in Wilmington, on Wednesday
last.
John ;. Davis, Of Slaughters Neck.
del al his home on Saturday last. of
dropsy aged 20 years lie was Il
brotherof Henry Davis, Of MiddletOwn,
ana of the late Thomas Davis, of
Smyrna.
Talk about Il peach crop! 1t is moth
ing TO bsing a DrOr-keeper. Clerk or
Fireman b tine LEGISLATURE. The Clerk
OF the House received the price of 4 900
bushels Of corn for 1O4 days work
Sentinel
Adam Peterson in 1873 bought at the
rate of $40 per acre the 200 acres on
winch MlddletOwn stands to-day. Be-
lore 1916, or the close of the war of
1872, MiddletOwn was little better than
cross roads" and it was not much
OF place until the railroad was built
thirty years ago
4 man from the neighborhood of
Newark was sWindled out of S65 by a
professional sharper at Wilmington on
W ednesday. The sharper represented
himself to be salesman for Il promi-
hent Philadelphia house and borrowed
Ihe money Of the Newark man "just
ior lew moments" Does the New
ARK man read the papers?
There is reason to believe that Secre-
'afy Bayard may shortly abandon work
on his great book on the peninsula
peach crop long enough to tell us what
ne ne knows about the Williams case.
!, i o 'ir. Bayard Is credited the theory
Ihat Jack FrO,t's fOndness for peach
brandy Is the reason he takes so many
hips at the -PhIadelphia Neus.
Inc Legislature has set a very bad
precedent by passing a bill TO reim-
ourSe the state militia for the expenses
incidental to their Inaugural visit to
washington. The militia was denied
an appropriation, but now it is reim-
ourSed. They may holG a summer en-
campmcnt and ask the next Legisla-
NeCs.
reports having been circulated that
several Of Mr.. J X. Williams cattle, on
ms iarm near Odessa, were affected by
img l,,.,'. contagious pleuro-pneumOnia, Mr..
"'lilAns decided to have the herd ex-
a'nihed by DR.. Ward b. Rowland, State
veterinarian. The examination was
maze on Wednesday says the TraH-
.'ii' ifHullcu III II Clttll Ulll OF
Health for Mr.. Williams herd.
a Laurel correspondent of the Morn
'i"g "eC@ says: Stanford J. Parker,
'He lIrst cOlOred merchant Of Laurel,
commenced business at the age Of 81
years, three years ago, with capital
oi $40. His cash account for goods
Solu during the year 1854 was $4,000,
besides $500 taken for ice cream and
handling I'ii Of g 900 worth Of peaches.
W nat town in the State of Delaware
lah give better showing for a colOred
merchant
!, JURQRs.-The Grand Jurors from the
thfee lower hundreds Of New Castle
county, for the May term OF Court are
, ct. Georges Henry A, Nowla1d,
isaac Wood, Elwood r. Aorney,
,Aappoquinimink- Elias N. Moore,
William +. Evans.
\, Biiiackbird Benjamin Money, VIM.
=, PeiH Jory.-St. Georges-Samuel c.
an Eugene c. Mailley, D. Nj. Cock
Appoquinimink- Clarence d. Stats,
'onn +. Webb, Robert NailOr.
q hla!ekbird-John Deakyn james II.
Frazier.
APPOiNTAfENl1r William ] Black