Smyrna times., 1885-05-13

County and State Items.
The May term of the New Castle
County Court is now in session at Will
mingtOn.
The Delaware Baptist Union COM
menced a two days session in Milford
yesterday.
Sheriff Ford, will sell the personal
property of Edward G. Fenimore in
Appoquinimink hundred, on Friday.
The fishermen are doing a thriving
business at Delaware City catching
perhaps, 5000 shad daily ON an aver
age.
Captain N. r. Benson, of the Har-
Ian & HOllingsworth Company, accom-
panyied by his son Thomas, sailed last
week for Europe.
The Peninsula has lost twenty evap-
orators by fire since the first Of August
last. This is about seven per cent. of
the whole number.
Saturday, May 3Oth. will be obser-
we'd by the different Posts OF the
Grand Army of the Republic in this
CLdLc as NlCiHoildi ISiO
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Delaware, Maryland &
Virginia Railroad Company will be
held at Georgetown ON the 9th inst.
\ trackman of the section from
Townsend upwards, named Armstrong,
was ran over by hand car on We'd
nesday, near Townsend and instantly
killed.
The DeimUWean cOnfesses to bash
fulness ut being called 2S years old
only y, please" it SAYS. 1t should
have been over such modesty long be-
fore this it is no Spring chicken.
State Auditor Long will he in Mid
dletown on May 18th to audit the ac-
counts of those school clerks Of New
Castle county TO whom MiddletoWn is
more convenient than Wilmington.
The widow Of the late Chas. NJ q.
Douglass, of near Milton, received last
week from the Heptasophs two thou
sand dollars, the amount for which her
husbands life was insured in that or
der.
Much of Millord's prosperity has
been due to her manufactures her
shipyards are idle and her other prin-
cipal mandatory of the Milford
Basket COmpany-has been destroyed
by fire.
The date of Barnum's visit to the
Peninsula is no. yet fixed. Perhaps
Barnum will wait till the peaches are
gathered and then sWoOp down and
pocket the proceeds. MiddtetoCH
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Eliza, wife of Justus Lowery, died al
her home in Milford last Thursday
morning Of heart disease, aged 30 years
She had been in failing health tol
several years, and her demise was not
unexpected.
George Draper, colored, who ha:
been serving sentence Of life imprisOn
ment in New Castle Jail for killing
John Wilson, colored, has been pardon
ed by Governor Stockley. The crime
was committed in the year 1878 il
IamtOwn, suburb of Middletown
The difficulty arose over a debt.
The project of having line Of steam
ers between New York and Cape Ma
this season has been abandoned. Th
Old Dominion Company, running be
tween LeWes and New York, has re
fused the invitation to land at tn
Cape, and ;he only alternative was t
charter Il s.eam T., and this has bee
given up ON account of the expense:
The louisiana Lottery Swindle
the one thing that mars the advert!
ing columns of our Delaware COteu
porafieS. 1t may be that Marylan
papers would il they could" do th
same bat IL i IL wise State enactmeI
that prevents il. Millions of dollar
are swallowed every year by this y
A. Dauphin, New Orleans" lotter
humbug. Kent NeCs.
The Wilmington NJ. E ConferenC
Domestic Missionary Society was 0
gauized at Dover on Wednesday, an
the following officers We're elected tc
the ensuing year: President, Re
Charles Hill; Secretary, the Rev.
A. B. Wilson; Treasurer, JOSEF
Smithers Committee on Bylaw
Joseph Smthers, Revs. J. II. Caldwe
d. d., and Thomas +. Terry.
Among the students now in atte
dance at the West Chester State No
NAL School are the following from tn
State: Mary L. Clark, Faulklan'
Edward B. Ferree, Yorklyn; Jessie
Hukill, Middletown Hannah
Mitchell, Pleasant Hill; Regina
Mahonev, New Castle Ida r. Re
nolds, Blackbird Mary f. Tempe
Beaver Valley; Lizzie Bigger, Cla
mont.
The election Of Richard Ferguson,
Blackbird hundred, as Treasurer OF t
Trustees of the Poor, over William
Lane. of New Castle, who has held t
position for a number Of years pa
has created quite stir among t
friends Of the latter, who consider su
a procedure nothing less than jobbel
while the New Castle star calls 1t =
httle game of three" and IS very lnd
nant over Mr.. Lanes defeat, as the
flee pays Il salary Of 500 Il year.
J. Frank Wild+, Register Of Wi
for Kent county, has granted the 1
lowing letters Of administration
Susan X. and John b. Cleaver, on
estate of John Clcaver, OF West DO'
hundred to Charles II. Powell,
the estate Of Samuel Powell, of w
Dover hundred to James x. Ge0r
on the estate Of Mary George, OF NO
Murderkil hundred; to JOhn
Bourke, on the estate OF EulicK
Bourkp, Of Kcnt0n hundred; TO
John w. Warren, on the estate
Nathan Clark, of South Murderi
hundred.