Smyrna times., 1886-01-27
County and State Items.

Wal = ~ NOAA'ANAO W OO Dduiy DlOCk-
AIDED with ice.
The policy sharks of Wilmington
have at last come to grief and their
vile dens are closed, at least for the
present.
Geo. Hazel, of Slaughter Neck. on
Monday killed one hundred muskrats.
and on Tuesday seventy two
profitable days work.
The farm of Joshua B. Fenimore. 14O
acres, in Appoquinimink hundred, was
sold at Sheriffs sale or Monday, to J. p.
Smith, Esq, for $500.
Levin Hastings, of Laurel has taken
the contract to furnish 1000 pine poles
which are to be taken to Italy and
used for telegraph poles.
Queen Esther will be rendered bv
the young people of Harrington on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
evenings of this week, in the NJ. E.
Church.
The Kent County Mutual Insurance
Company, lost $4,000 by the burning of
a residence in Laurel, and $4,000 by
the burning of store at Frankford
week before last.
The expenditures of the Legislative
Committee were all in the line of Re
trenchment and Reform. $50 per day
for a clerk and S. per day for a door
keeper. Sentinel.
About $50 were realized on Friday
evening last at the musical entertain
ment given at the Hotel Richardson.
The money will be distributed among
the poor of Dover.
The large frame building at Dover,
used as a skating rink, will be sold on
Saturday, January 30th as we'll as all
the furniture of the building, including
200 pairs of skates.
Sheriff Ford Monday sold the III
acre farm of William T. Kirkley, near
Townsend, to the CashO Machine Com
pany, of Newark, for $50. subject to a
mortgage of about 81 900.
Captain Philip Richards and John
Tunnel, sailor, who were taken from
the wreck of the schooner Crissie
Wright frozen TO death, belonged to
Ocean View, Sussex county. Richards
left wife and nine children.
On Tuesday evening, January 18th,
Jacob S. Cochran and Miss Minnie
Moore Reynolds, were married quietly
at the home of the bride, on Main
street, MiddletOWn. The Rev. w. Z.
Alexander performed the ceremony.
On Wednesday evening at 7 O'Clock
John Dawes and Miss Etheline Will
liams were married in the NJ. f.
Church of Dover by the pastor, Rev. T.
Z. Martindale The ushers were
Messrs. David Montgomery and Charles
POstles.
The next annual meeting of the
State Temperance Alliance will be
held in Wilmington on Wednesday,
February 18th. Churches, Sunday
schools, temperance societies, colleges,
academies and oranges are invited to
send delegates to the convention.
1t has been learned from an official
source in Washington chat the $150,000
appropriation of the last Congress for
the erection of public buildings in Will
mingtOn is available and certain steps
have been taken which indicate that
bly, during the present year.
New Castle hundred has a collector
who feels the duty of a collector is to
collect: Collector Mccoy has been en-
gagged all the week visiting every man
living within the city limits who has been
assessed. He is calling upon each tax
payer personally and is urging them to
pay their tax before the meeting of the
Levy Court.
Governor StOckley has appointed
Paynter Frame of Sussex county, the
Rev. J. S. Willis of Kent and William
G. Lodge of New Castle as delegates to
the sixth annual national convention
of the American Agricultural Associa-
ton, which meets at the Grand Central
Hotel, New York city, February 10TH
18th and 18th
Senator Gray, of Delaware, Mr
Baya"d's successor, blows an honest
blast from his rams horn in the
eighty ent-dollar-matter. If he is as
wise and as Outspoken in tearing the
mask from other evils, the Blue
Hens Chickens" will need be proud
of the man who wears their illustriOuS
statesman's mantle.-Chester AdUOcdte
The Board of Trustees met at the
AlmshOuse last week and continued
the widow of the late Overseer, Mr.
Lewis, with her brother to help hel
manage affairs, until the next meeting
in February, when the position will bt
filled so as to give the new Overseel
an opportunity to move in in March
There are already 10 applicants. Tht
salary is $4OO with perquisities.
Itisstated that ChiefJustice COmegys
after denying a new trial to Charlie
Robinson who has been convicted of ;
capital Offense, turned to the bar anC
declared that the court had come t
the conclusion to hear no more appli
cations for new trials in capital cases
that there was no authority for such
hearing in the English law and tina
the statutes of the state made no pro
vision for it.
A commission assessed damages Ol
property on Saturday for the right o
way of the proposed canal thrOugl
this county. A similar commission
awarded damages last November, bu
eight Of the land owners, Just south o
MiddletOwn, refused to accept tn
award as final and asked for a neN
commission. G.. w. Naudain got Onl.
Sl6 more on Saturday than had bee
awarded last November, while JOsep
b. Deakyne was awarded less by S34i
The former is allowed $2,8l6 and tn
latter $4 $4,658.-MOrRing NelCs.
A correspondence Of the MOrnin
NelCs wrote the following: "The 81
loon opened in Hartley last Fall b
Nehemiah Jacobs, with the apprOvi
and sanction of this State, is doing
fourishing Business in the Distribute
OF whiskey. Fights, brawls, gamblin
and the use Of firearms are trequeI
occurrence. The fitness of things
sometimes seen even in a whiskey s.
loon; as was the case when M
Jacobs's boss cook got drunk an
cleared the deck by the use of q p'
OF boiling coffee and two butch'
knives"
Paul Pry" of Ellendale, SUISSE
county, writes as follows about yOuI
woman Of Wilmington to the MilfOl
Chronicle: Mrs. Scout Flanner, WI
mas left her husband on account
non-suppOrt, has been living upon Il
hospitality Of our good people for son
ume, and on Monday a collection WI
taken uD To send her fo har parpnts