Smyrna times., 1885-10-28

fel in New York markets.
The New Castle County Teachers
Institute will be held in the Institute |
Hall, in Wilmington on December End,
3rd, 4th and 9Th.
Walker & Mcdaniel raised this year
800 bushels of potatoes on their farm |
on five acres of land. They were of
the Burbank variety
The Jackson brothers, living near |
Camden, have bought of John Raugh- |
ley farm of $50 acres, five miles west
of Milford, for $4,000.
Robbie Houston, son of DR.. D. H.
Houston, of Lewes has registered as a
student in law. His preceptor is his
uncle, Judge Houston.
John Booth, living near Harrington,
has left at the office of the Harrington
Enterprise, a Sweet potato which weighs
10k pounds Enterprise.
Twenty thousand bushels of wheatis
stored in the freight depot at Middle
town. about half of it belonged to
speculator who bought for a rise.
Patents have been granted to DIR. J.
IL. Wilson and F. H. Forbes, of Dover,
for corn and cane harvesting machine;
also to the latter of a corn-harvesting
attachment for moving machines.
Edward Mendinhall, Jr., aged years,
son of the president of the Marshall
Iron Works at Newport, was instantly
killed at that place on Saturday after
noon by being struck by train ON the
p, w. & B. railroad.
The Odessa people have vOciferOus
way of welcoming a newly married
pair. Three horse tiddles and three
steam Whistles composed part of the
orchestra which welcomed w. S. Perry
OH his return from his bridal tour.
Theodore Carey, of the Philadelphia
firm of Carey, Gravermeyer & Co., was
married on Wednesday to Miss Clara
NAPLES, of Milton. The ceremony
took place at 7.30 A. NJ, i'll the Episco-
pal Church ut Milton, Rev. J. L.
McKim, officiating.
The directors of the Kent County
Mutual Insurance Company met in
Dover last Wednesday and agreed to
declare a dividend of twelve and one
half per cent. for the present year.
The losses by fire this year exceeded
that of former years.
Rev. Sam Jones says many coarse
and queer things, but he has some very
cOmmOnsense notions about boys and
business. He remarked that zone dol
lar that a boy sweats for is worth one
hundred thousand dollars that any boy
will win in a lottery"
J.P. Dunning passed u successful eX-
animation for admission to the bar at
Dover, October 22nd, and was admitted
to the bar of Kent county this week.
Mr.. Dunning is son of Postmaster
Dunning of MiddletOwn. He read law
under n. B. Smithers, Esq, of Dover.
A new weekly newspaper called the
DeLGUdre Farm and Home, was started
in Dover last week. The paper is
edited by Professor Wesley Webb, late
of Delaware College, and is devoted
principally to the interest of agricul-
ture. The first issue was distributed
gratuitOusly.
The NJ. Z. parsonage at GGmbOrO
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday Of
last week. The building was nearly
new, and the loss will amount to be-
tween 81 800 and $4,000. 1t is said the
fire caught from some ashes in an old
water bucket that had been placed in
the back kitchen.
Property in the town of Harrington
is depreciating, evidently, as several
pieces of property that were purchased
at the sale ofthe property of +. Fleming
were thrown up, the purchasers losing
the percentage. At the late sale by
the Sheriff they sold for almost one
third less than they did at the first sale
The State Grange is desirOus of hav
ing good display of fruit on eXhlbl
tion at its approaching annual session
in the early part of December, and 9
good result hoped for is that the dis
play NAV be such as to merit the atten
tion Of all fruit growers and stimulate
them to do the very best they can t
prOduce something even better mex
year.
At the recent session of the SuperiO
Court of Sussex county, Charles J.
Moore, of Georgetown, was admitted t.
full practice as a lawyer in the State o
Delaware. He studied under his tathe
Jacob Moore, ESQ. He is young mai
of extraordinary ability, and his pOpu
laritv in our county gives abundant as
surance of the success he will surel
achieve in his calling.-BreakWdte
Light.
The cold wave reached here on Wed
nesdav. and the number of blue rose
were in the majority. Ledge
During the past Summer there wa
quite a rivalry here between our ladie
as TO who should have the handsOmei
and greatest novelty among the rose
hut none of them had a Summer produ'
of that color. Have the Newark ladlC
found new variety, one that bloom
only after frost cOmesT
Ex-Governor W. H. Ross of Seafor'
has advertised his household goods !,
sale at auction on November llth. l.
also offers two farms for sale, one CO.
tanning 262 acres, the other "a. +
will take his family to Philadelphia
live, while he intends to spend muS
az his time at Jacksonville, FlOrld
THE intolerable servant girl nuisan
Is the chief motive that prompts u
family 10 quiz AOuSONOOPi"5
s H. Blackiston, chief clerk in IL
Office Of Register of Wills, at Cheste
town. Md, brother of the Miss
Blackiston of MiddletOwn. was stric
en- with paralysis last week and is no
living at the point of death. A tel
gram was received here this mornH
announcing his precarious illness a
ON account of this the marriage
Miss Josephine Blackiston to H..
Nowland, which was to have tax
place this afternoon, was postponed
MiddLetOlUn Era, Of Thursday. n
BlackistOn has since died.
NEW CASTLE COUNTY JURORS
following are the jurymen drawn iT'
the three lower hundreds of New Z
tie county to attend the court, VIII
meets in Wilmington in November
First PaneI.-St. Georges -Abrahi
B. Vandegrift, Cyrus Polk, Daniel
COrbit
Appoouinimink- Welsh. Ma
Guessford. Elbert Il. Wells. =,
Blackbird-GeOrge d. Bedwell, v
liam c. Deakyne.
Second PaneL.-St. Georges-Sahl
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