Smyrna times., 1886-07-07

County and State Items.
Last week party at Bowers Beach
caught 200 trout with hook and line.
The MiddletOwn Transcript an
nounces that hereafter it will be pub
Iished Thursday afternoon.
Six collectors of New Castle county
still owe $20,O75.73 for the year 1885.
Purnal J. Lynch of st. Georges owes
$9,47.65.
Some of the largest growers at Mil
ford. are evapOrating their red and
black raspberries. Both are low in the
city markets.
Samuel Armstrong on the DR.. Ash
craft farm near Magnolia who had
191OO baskets of peaches last year
won't have 500 baskets this.
The Laurel Gazette says that B. T.
Riggs has "a host of friends" and it
makes the same complimentary remark
in respect to Mr.. Lore, who paid that
town visit last week.
Excursion trains to RehOboth have
commenced running again. How often
they propose to run these trains the
public will not be likely to know until
a few hours before they start.
The factory owned by the canning
company at Marydel was sold by the
sheriff on June 29th to James Green of
that place for 81 1926. 1t is said to have
cost four times that amount to build
and fit out.
Among the graduates at Dickinson
College, at Carlisle, Pa, were s. Emer-
son Howell, of Camden, S. NJ. Morgan,
of SeafOrd, and Wilmer w. Salmons, of
TOwnsend-Cl Classical course; Thomas
IIattomus, of TOwnsend-Latin Scien-
tiic course.
The Democratic primary meetings
will be held on Saturday, August 14th.
Both sides will now go to work and
try to set up things so as to enable
them to nominate their man for Gov
ernOr He is the one who controls the
machine in each county, and that is
what both are after.
John w. Demby, the colOred porter
employed at BragdOn's drug store, at
MiddletOwn, was caught in the act OF
rObbing his employers private box on
Saturday morning. He had been rob-
bing the box Systematically for some
time. Over 800 were found at Demby'
home. He was sent to New Castle.
The annual picnic of the grangers Of
this State will be held at Rehoboth on
July 2lst, 22nd and 23rd. William
Dean, Mortimer Whitehead, Rev. j. S
Willis, Wesley Webb and the Rev. DIR
Caldwell will deliver addresses, anC
Miss Ettie NJ. DilwOrth of Port Penn
and Mrs. X. X. Brown Of Wyoming
will read essays. A. N. Brown o
Wyoming has the matter in charge
There will be reduced railroad fares.
The temperance folk of Delawar,
will breathe more easily after having
read the remarkable editorial from the
Harrington Enterprise. The temper
ance people no doubt agree with thu
witty Colonel IngersOll that a host o.
enemies is better than "a fool friend.
Probably if Mr.. James L. WOlcOtt o
Dover had taken an interest in the En-
terprise u month or so earlier, tina
journal would have been, spared th'
pain of its clumsy back dOwn.-MOrn
ing NelUS.
If Mr.. Cochran is nominated 70
Governor, as he is likely to be, tn,
Delawarean will, in all probability, Op
pose him. Level-headed politicians c
Kent, of both parties, have assured tn
writer that Cochran could not carr
Kent in the event of his nomination
They believe that the "Outs" there ar
determined to break the StOckley
Cochran league, if not in the CONVEX
ton, then in the open field, on tn
ground that they have no more to e1
pect from Governor Cochran than the
would from Governor HOhecker.-
Wilmington Sunday Star.
J. Frank Wilds, Register of Wills fC
Kent county, has granted letters of az
ministration upon the estate of Robe
B. Wright deceased late of East Dove
Hundred, to James L. WolcOtt, ESQ
upon the estate of BenOni Clarl
deceased, late of North Murderki
Hundred, to Isaac S. Anderson upC
the estate of Martilda P. Abbo
deceased, late of North Murderk
Hundred, to Benjamin F. Abbott; upC
the estate of Townsend McVeigh Bud
deceased late of the state of Nirginl
to Henry G. Budd; upon the estate
Norman Budd, deceased, late of Il
state of Virginia, to Henry &. Budd.