Smyrna times., 1885-09-23
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
s. w. Hope of Dover is experiment.
ing with a corn harvester.
Prof. S. T. Ford will soon make a
tour through the towns of the PENN
sula.
Although Jumbo is dead the people
of Dover will see him in October says
the DeLG,Oarean, stuffed with saw dust.
The appointment of Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the Eastern Shore
of Maryland and Delaware seems to
hang fire.
On account of the removal of DR..
Purnell to Maryland, John H. Adams
has become president of the Delaware
State Temperance Alliance.
J. A. Stovel of Philadelphia is said
to have bought corner lot in Milford,
for which he paid 50 500, and on which
he proposes to erect a 1000 hotel.
The number of rail birds killed by
our spOrtsmen this season still continues
small, indicative of the fact that the
tribe IS rapidly degenerating, as far as
quantities are concerned at least.
John T. Jakes, of Wyoming, left Sat
urday for Baltimore to attend the un.
yelling of the Ridgely monument. Mr..
Jakes is the Grand Marshal of the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.
The Society for the Prevention of
cruelty to Children at Wilmington,
held a meeting last week, and they are
determined to look more carefully after
orv,Lo,,0I l., ! ~
city.
The remarkable resemblance be-
tween States Attorney John
II. Paynter and President Cleveland is
so clear and well defined as to be no
ticed by all who attend Court.-Re-
publican.
Judges COmegys, Houston, Whiteley
and WOOten and U. S. Senators Gray
and Salisbury, were given a cOmpli-
mentary trip to Old Point Comfort last
week by George V. Massey, Esq, Of
the Dover bar.
The SeafOrd Item says that Bridge
vile man was so sure of getting the
post Office that he went and got mar
ried on the strength of it. While off
on his wedding another man stepped
into the pOStmaSterShlp.
Several Democrats are after the posi-
tion of Deputy Collector of Port of
Wilmington. Among the number is
mentioned Ezekiel Harold Rhoads, son
of Mayor Rhoads. The salary attach
ed to the Office is a plum worth having.
Owing to a failure to secure enough
pupils to make the institution pay
Wesleyan College Wilmington was
closed last week. 1t re-Opened on
Wednesday with only nine scholars
pupils, eight day scholars and one
bOarder, in attendance.
A. n. Brown, of Wyoming, shipped
Friday to A. Taylor & Son, 63 Char
lOtte Street, Liverpool, England, five
boxes of peaches. They were of the
SmOck variety and were packed in the
ripe fruit carrier" manufactured by
Jenkins Mcclure & Co., of Baltimore,
Nd.
c. H. Sentman askes US to publish
the following item: Beginning with
next week, all subscribers to the Della
tUdre PrOhibitiOnist who have paid in
advance for that paper will receive a
copy of'1he Voice each week until such
time as their subscription shall expire.
The Voice is an able temperance paper,
is printed i'll New York, and contains
quadriple the amount of reading mat
ter that the PrOhibitiOnist did.
On Saturday last Henry Holden sued
Edward Sapp Of FELTON, before Squire
Pitman, and in a referee trial recovered
$l4 damages. Holden last year rented
a house of Mr.. Sapp and notified him
to provide a well on the premises
This Sapp neglected to do. Holden
brought in a bill for each and every
bucket of water he had carried from {
neighbOr's and was awarded the above
amount. Landlords had better lool
out and see that their premises ar,
provided with wells.-WiLfOrd Chronicle
Samuel Hammond, well-to-do farm
er living near Milford, died of Bright
disease of the kidneys on Saturda,
morning last at o'clock. Two week
ago a sixteen year old daughter of tn
deceased died of typhoid fever, an,
only six months ago Mrs HammOn
died of the same disease. Two NOR
daughters, Ella, aged 10, and Laura
aged 81, are now lying at the point {
death, afflicted with the same fevel
An analysis of the water proves its in
purity to have been the main cause {
the disease.
The September Court for New CAST
County, commenced in Wilmington o
Monday. The principal business wi
be to clear the criminal docket, thOug
some civil business will be transacte
which is not regularly dOcketed. TIL
e Aha 81 &c g.,
the murder of officer Peterson and til
trial Of Becker for the murder Of youn
McGinness until the regular NOvembC
session has already been agreed upOI
When the September Court was fir
established it was intended alone ft
criminal business, but the law has bee
amended at the urgent solicitation of
large portion of the bar so that civ
business can also be transacted, SUI
as requires considerable expedition.
Republican.
Jacob Deakyne, sealer of weigh
and measures for New Castle count
brought a civil suit for the small su
of tWenty-nine cents, against w.
Myers, who runs mill in Mill Cree
hundred. Deakyne examined /
scales some time ago and some unples
antness took place between the
Myers paid Deakyne his fee of twent
nine cents, but when the latter left
forgot his tools According to Dc
kyne's testimony when he went ba
for his tools Myers refused to gi
them up unless his twenty-nine Gel
were returned. In order to regain
tools Deakyne paid back the penn
and then brought suit for them. I
justice gave judment in Deakyne's
VOr.
The New Castle Star thus refers
the attack on State Chemist Wolf:
at is passing strange that Edi
Phelps failed to see anything wrong
this law or in the character of its
puted author during the time of
passage, and not until the law was
into execution. This may be accOu
ed for, however, by the fact that tn
firms who had been selling an infeI
quality of phosphate in cOmpetit
with an honest article had not yet b
exposed, and Editor Phelps had
way of cOaxing an advertisement
of them. But since Prof Wolf has
his analyses made the exposure
separated the genuine article from
worthless One-EditOr Phelps find
brilliant opportunity to capture la