Smyrna times., 1886-12-15

disappeared. ' '''"iiy ali
1hree vessels went ashore near Lewes
uurlhg the storm of last week.
The widow of the late DR.. LafFertv diod
suddenly at the Hotel Richardson on Fri
day morning.
sweet potatoes are selling little higher
now: Delaware chunks are saline in &o,,
York at 81. 25 to 81 so per barrel.
kev. Armstrong, rector of the Lewes
Episcopal Church, is to be married soon to
MIS- L. M. Hardley, of that town.
A; q Cox has all the insurance business
III Mlddletown. Messrs. Burris and MiAIin
n"Ve given up the business in his favor.
n Fifteen new houses have been built in
georgetown this year and it is thought
I5aI IaaL stlli greater number will be built i'm
William Budd, of Prices Corner. Appo-
Eulnlmlnk hundred, died last week and was
age. 0'''' VI
Inc vacancy in the Seaford post-ofice
caused by the recent death Of the post-mas-
e yer IVA, was hlIed Friday by the appointment
OF Henry l.. Phillips.
It is asserted that the soft crab business
%I Mlllsooro brings to those engaged in the
eeu9lness %, OOO per year, and that the rock
h>h ana eels fetch as much more.
One hundred liquor licenses were granted
Oy lhe Court last week for New Castle
county nearly all of them in Wilmington.
Eighteen applications were refused.
!, Had the snow fallen before the election
tne poor editor would have had several
sleigh rides, but the election is over and
the poor editor is left to tramp on foot
S~ssee Journal.
Howard McKinsey, who has wife and
several small children, eloped from New
ark last week with a girl of Is wears
Mchlnsey's wife lies critically i'll from re-
cent confinement.
The NJ. E. Sunday School Of Odasso
Will give frst-class entertainment on
w ednesday evening. next. The Old
FoiKs Company, of Wilmington, will fur
nlsh the amusement
r. Wilson Roberts, eldest son of Charles
h9oerts, manufacturer of Chester, was uni
TED IN marriage on Wednesday at Kirk
wood, Delaware, to Miss Eliza Ellison.
Inc wedding took place in ST. Georges
Mrs. Sallie Ann Morris died Monday At
the residence of her nephew, John Nj. G.
Rodney, Wilmington. Deceased was n
sister OF the late Thomas NJ. Rodney and a
daughter of Caesar A. Rodney. who was
AttOrney-General of the United States In
the administration of Jefferson and Madi- |
son.
On Wednesday Pavnter Frame came
across a snake in his field crawling over the
snow. His snakeship had left his winter
quarters IN the ditch bank and started uDon
aJourney, but the season was later than be !
evidently reckoned and the next morning !
ne lay under cedar bush unconscious Of |
the state of the Thermometer. .-Susser Jour- |
nGL
The cold snap froze over the creeks and |
stopped navigation. One Little Creek |
week farmer was expecting a vessel up |
LlGtle Creek to take his old corn away so |
as he could get this years crop in the crib.
m belng IN the field yet-abOut 80 acres |
The vessel succeeded in getting about half
way up the creek when it was shut in bv
the ice.-SentineL.
Joanna White, colored girl about Is
years Of age, living with her father on the
road from Backbird to Townsend. and
only short distance from that place. per-
lshed from the cold on Saturday night.
She had not been we'll for some time. and
her father went off and left her alone with
out any fire. When morning dawned she
was found dead on her bed
LAM GALES. i ueSuay week the follow !
ing tracts of land we sold in Dover: Farm
Of -- Abbot, within a half-mile of
wyoming, l34 acres, to Il. II. Kenney. ESQ. !
for S975. Farms of William Bidwell, in
West Dover Hundred-NO l. containing
81 acres, to D.. Marvel, at SD 70 per acre;
No. 2, containing acres well set in white
OAK timber, to II. Marvel, at $50 per acre.
VIM. Hitch, who died at Laurel. last
week, in his Sjth year had held many
positions of trust in Delaware, having been
speaker of the Senate and Leutenant-GOv-
ernOr. In 1852 he was a member of the
national democratic convention at Balti-
more. which nominated Franklin Pierce
for the presidency. One of his daughters
i the wife of DR.. Arthur Jones, Of Mary
land
Ifthe manufacturing interests of Milford
decline as fast in the next ten wears as thew
have in the past eight, says the Chronicle,
the business streets of Milford will be grass
grown, and her solitary federal office the |
posttnastership, worth but little more than
clerkship, Of the present, through the de-
cline ~ business spOndence. The |
capitalists Of Milford think more Of their
percentage than they do of the town or the
increase in value Of town property.
A STEAMSHIP LINE IN TROUBLE--The
Wilmington Steamship Company, famil-
iaFly known as the Electric Line Of steam
ers. which has been carrying freight be-
tween Wilmington, Chester and New York
for some twenty years past has withdrawn
its vessels, which are for sale. Reduced
railroad freights have made the line un-
profitable, so that fer three years past the
boats have been run at loss The Charles
Warner Company is the largest stock
holder in the line.
JACOB MOORE DgAD.-Jacob Moore.
Esq, the leading lawyer of Georgetown
died Monday night after a few hours of ill.,
ness from gastric trouble, in the j7th year
Of his age. He was born in Laurel read
law with Judge WOOten, commenced the
practice Of law in Georgetown in 1888 and
married the daughter Of John ID. Rodney.
He was an active democrat in his younger
days but when Sumter was fired on nc he
came prominent UniOnist and threw all
his influence for the suppression of the re-.
beliOH. He was Lieutenant Colonel Of
the Sixth Delaware Regiment and was af-
terwards appointed Attorney General of
the State, by Governor Cannon. serving
BIS term Of five years with marked ability.
lie had large legal practice and was at
t0rnCy for the railroad, the d. NJ. 81 V.
division. His death will be greatly
regretted.
WANT TO BIZ CLERKS IN THE LEGIsLA-
TURE.-The list Of candidates for the clerk
ships Of the General Assembly is gradually
lengtneulng rs the date Tor opening the |
next legislative session draws near For
clerk Of the House the aspirant are Will
liam Fox Smalley, the son Of Representa-
tive elect Smalley, Of White Clay Greek
and a law student in Senator Grays
9ihce John Hawkins, Of Kenton aud
Frank DUNN, of East Dover, both in Kent
county aRd Edward ID. Hearn, Of George
town, John II. Layton and Everett Hick-
man, Of Brankford, all Of Sussex county.
For clerk Of the Senate Sussex has five
candidates, Benjamin j. Moore, Of Laurel,
Hiram 7. Downing, Of Georgetown, w. B.
Conway, of NaaticOke hundred, John g.
Gray, Of Bridgevile and probably Robert
z. White esq, Of Georgetown. New Cas-
tie county furnishes one candidate in. the
person Of Henry 0. Collins, Of Wilmington.
AS business just now seems quite dull in
Dover the politicians and others are Will
ing away their time in speculations as to
what will be done by the Legislature,
which will meet in January. Each of the
factions of the Democratic party will try
TO work its cause so as to get the Organiza-
tiOn Of each branch, but the probabilities
are that the Administration wing, as it il
called, will secure most Of the offices. 1t
is believed by some of the knowing ones
that the Legislature will be compelled ut
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