Smyrna times., 1886-04-07

County and State Items.
J. E. Mowbray, Esq, is to lecture in
the FELTON, M. f. Church, this evening.
William Wood has been appointed
Postmaster at Middletown, vice D. L.
Dunning.
The teachers in the Dover public
schools dismiss scholars from school
who eat onions.
DR.. and Mrs. w. L. Lafferty, of Can
terbury, celebrated their golden we'd
ding on Monday.
Jacob Cuykendall left Milford on
Monday last for Kansas City, where
he expects to permanently locate.
S. H. Thomas of Wyoming, Is selling
thousands of baskets of yellow globe
turnips for feed at p cents per basket
Sheriff Robinson sold last week the
farm of VIM. Grasley, near Leipsic,
containing fOrty-eight acres to Harry
Ward, for SO, 130.
John Whitaker, school teacher from
Leipsic, has been appointed to u clerk
ship in the Coast Survey at Washing
ton. The pay is 81 900 per annum.
The day of doom to Charles Robin
son, the negro assailant of Mrs Gard
ncr, is drawing nigh. Under the SEN
tenco of the court he has only a week
to live from next Friday.
John w. Causey and DR.. VIM. Mar
q
ledge, the Fish commissioner of this
State, about $4,000 lake shad, which
they put into the mill ponds of that
vicinity last week.
Charles NJ. Curtis, Esq, and Phoebe
D. Bradford, daughter of Judge Brad
ford, deceased, were married on We'd
nesday afternoon, at the brides home,
No. 1901 Delaware avenue, Whining
ton, by Bishop Lee.
The Dover Glass Works were closed
last week. The cause of the shutting
down at this time, was the inability Of
the company to get coal to run the
works. BY this action on the part of
the company there are about 80 men
out of employment. 1t is impossible
to tell when work will be resumed.
The trustees of Delaware College
have recently purchased and set up a
complete assay furnace with all the i'm
plements pertaining thereto, together
with one of Troemner's finest assay
balances. The professor in charge has
had practical experience in the mining
camps of California and New Mexico.
The spoke factory of James A. Han
ley & Son, at Harrington, was entirely
destroyed by fire about 2 o'clock Thurs
day morning. The loss will be very
heavy, as in addition to the building
and stock, all the machinery was
destroyed. There was an insurance oil
$1,000 upon the property. 1t is sus-
pected that the fire was Of incendiary
origin.
J. Frank Wilds, Register of Wills fol
Kent county, has granted letters of ad
ministratiOn upon the estate of Thoma:
II. Neal, late of the State of Maryland
to Robert II. Smith; Upon the estate oil
DR.. William Daniel, late of Smyrna tC
Susan Q. Daniel and John G.. StOckly
upon the estate of Capt. James Burnett
late of Little Creek Hundred, to Philip
Burnett also, admitted to probate the
last will and testament of George w
Knight, late of North Murderkill Hun
dred
PEACHEs.-The prospect at this tim,
for peaches in the central portion o
this county is good. On the eastern
side of the county, from Magnolia up
most of the orchards have some peaches
and some of them will have fair crOp
The tops of the trees and on the sOutl
side of the orchards are where most o
them are to be found. The War,
orchard, on the McHenry farm nea
Little Creek, is full and the same, i
said to be true of Mr.. Laws orchard
near CowgilPs Corner The buds ar
nearly ready to bloom and every liv
bud is easily told now. OF course the!
will have to run the gauntlet of lat
frosts as yet.-SentineI.