Smyrna times., 1885-12-30

County and State Items.
Christmas travel over the Delaware
Railroad tc Philadelphia has been the
heaviest ever known.
Thos. B. COursey celebrated his 79th
anniversary on the 14th inst, in COM
pany with his children and grand chill
dren.
Over 100000 pounds of poultry were
purchased in Dover last week, Messrs.
Richardson & Robbins purchasing over
$4,000 pounds.
The schooner Commodore and her
crew were arrested on December 21st
for illegally dredging oysters on the
beds of w. S. Heverin, off Little Creek.
Mrs. Burnite has bought a house and
iot on State street, Dover, adjoining
some of her other property for 81, 400.
It belonged to the estate of the late
Mrs. A. J. Taylor.
Anthony NJ. Higgins and his daugh-
ter of St. Georges and Miss Sallie
Spruance of Wilmington formerly of
Smyrna, have gone to the Island of
Nassau, one of the Bahamas, to spend
the Winter.
The SUSSEX Journal of Georgetown
promises to enlarge its educational de-
partment, which under the capable pen
Of McKendree Downham has become
one of the most active educational
forces in the State.
w. R. Ridgaway, land agent at
Bridgeville. Sussex county, has sold a
fine farm belonging to S. G. Biggs, Jr.,
lying within two miles of Bridgeville
station, to William M. Evans ofWyom-
ing, for $4,000 cash.
The entertainments and suppers in
aid of St. Paul's NJ. +. Church, Sunday
school, Odessa, netted the school $135.
The Kempa family of musicians drew
large house and gave unbounded sat
isfactiOn by their performances.
The musical Kempa Family of Viii
mingtQn, who gave concert at Odessa
on the evening OfDecember 18th, made
such an excellent impression that they
are engaged to appear again in the
Odessa town hall this evening.
The Rink did not boom on the open
ing night for colOred people. The
managers, one of whom is an enterpris-
ing young typo of Dover, were on hand
to receive the dusky skaters, but only
three of the latter turned up. The
days Of the rink business in Dover are
numbered. d.-SentiRcl
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Wilmington deserves public
nvf in -cf Ill fr
be inaugurated a week from next Sat
urday, under the auspices of Maybee
and English. That the cause of tenn.
perance yearly grows stronger in the
United States is very evident, the
evolution that has gradully swept 9th
er burdens from humanity having ap
parently commenced to work in favoI
Of total abstinence.-MO Ne1Us.
Educational column of the SUISSE.
Journal: THE three institutes thi
year have been the best ever held
This is due to the 500 allowance mad,
by the legislature to each institute 70
special instructors We believe everl
cent of the money has been judiciousll
spent, and that it will return during
the next twelve months over hundred
per C6ub. III ln pIONCu WOIh III lu'
schools of the State. Our teachers ar,
growing; our schools are improving.
Robert H. Gilman, one of the editor
of the Chronicle of Milford, has sold hi
interest in that paper to TheOdOr
Townsend, his former partner. MI
Gilman took hold of the Chronicle jus
one year ago. He changed it from
neutral in politics to an advocate {
Democracy, from an octave to quartz
and contributed much to the improve
ment in tone and appearance of the pa
per- Mr. Gilman has worked energet
cally and intelligently but he retire
because of the reason most common fO
leaving journalism, insufficient con
pensation. Mr.. Townsend, who is
Republican, does not state what wi
be the future political course of tt
Chronicle. Mr.. Gilman will assume
position as local editor and assistal
business manager in the NelCs and IL
Vertiser office, of the same place, abOV
the first of January.