Smyrna times., 1886-01-20

Mrs. II. underwood, M. D., graceS
a shingle on Federal street, Milton,
Sussex county.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Annie Hynson and Will
liam T. Morris of Milford this evening.
Elijah Bender, aged between sixty
and seventy years, fell on the sidewalk
in Dover last week and broke his
thigh.
The Middletown Transcript thinks
that Major William Wood will be Post
master Dunning's successor at that
place.
At Redden recently a fox attacked
the one-day-Old litter of a sow, but was
promptly despatched by the infuriated
mother.
The stockholders of the Agricultural
Society of Delaware will hold their
annual meeting in Dover, on the 2nd
of February.
William Norman, one of the oldest
conductors on the Delaware, Maryland
& Virginia Railroad has been 'discharg-
ed on account of color blindness.
George V. Massey, Esq, has been
elected a director of the First National
Bank of Dover, in place of Joseph r.
Whitaker, who declined the response
BILE honor.
A $1,000 check, being the amount of
insurance held by the late Randolph
Peters in the Improved Order of Hep
tasophs, has been turned over to the
widow of the deceased.
Friends of Rev. w. NJ. Warner, at
Willow Grove, surprised him last Wed
nesday with a very seasOnable present
in the form of an elegant lap robe,
which the Pastor greatly appreciates.
Mrs. Stockley, the wife of the gov
ernor, was run over by carriage on
Broad street, Philadelphia, on January
7th. She was rendered unconscious
by the shock, but sustained no serious
injuries.
A registered Ayreshire cow, owned
by John T. Jakes of Wyoming, was
killed by the Old Point Comfort ex-
press train last week. The COW was
yielding six-and-one-half gallons of
milk day.
J. H. Pierce and wife of Milford cele-
brated the fortieth anniversary of their
marriage on January 8th. Eight chill
dren, six sturdy sons and two daugh-
ters, one of these Mrs. Rev. l. ID. John
son, of Blackbird, were present on the
occasion.
The Downs Chapel Lyceum met at
the club room on Friday evening with
a full board. The question for the
next meeting is ReSOLUed, That the
sword has done more for the elevation
of the human race than civil law"
]. U. B. Handy, the principal of the
North Milford public schools has sever
ed his connection with that school to
take a position offered him in St.
Paul, MINI. His position will be fill
ed by Lewis Wainwright, of Princess
Anne, Md.
f. B. Downs, of Downs Chapel, who
has been quite sick for several months
past, took a sleighride on Saturday, but
he was so badly shaken up and excited
by the sleigh being turned over that
he was brought home i'll a critical con-
ditiOn, and is now lying very ill in bed
again.
Thomas B. Lewis, overseer of the
Kent County AlmshOuse, died at the
County Farm on Tuesday night of last
week, aged 60 years. He had held the
position for less than a year, and wa!
succeeding admirably. His place will
be filled at the next meeting perhaps
of the Trustees.
Isaac S. Talley, who shot and killeC
]. Wesley Handy on Tuesday Of las
week, is reported better. Unite'
States Senator George Gray has beer
engaged as associate counsel, with Lev
c. Bird, Esq, for the defense of Talley
1t is probable that the plea of self-de
fense will be set up and stoutly main
tanned.
Caleb Jackson, nephew of Alex
jackson, Jr., of Camden, and grandson
Ofthe late Isaac Register, of Duck Cree
Hundred, was elected by the Presiden
and Directors of the Farmers Bank
Dover, at their last semi-annual meet
ing, to supply the vacancy caused b
the retirement of the venerable GeOrg
w. Cummins.
Reuben Stout, of Magnolia, and +
d. Glow, of Dover, engaged in pigeo
shooting match at Townsend on Wed
nesday afternoon. The match was fc
a purse of 500, q yards rise. Fac
party shot at % birds, and each kille
10 birds. The trap was then moved
26 Yards rise, and Glow killed but
out Of five birds, while Stout killed fOu
birds in succession, and was declare
the winner of the match.
The contest over the Seaford pos
Office is at whitehead again. The Ma
tins are doing their utmost for the
man, Phillips, John Martin going
Washington on Thursday. 1t is Il
use, however. The ROss-Giles faction
backed by the Administration and Ba!
ard, will again shillelah the Martin
and knock them out. Harvey Cal
non, the present assistant pOstmaste
will be appOinted.-Seatinet.
Senator Gray, since he made h
speech in the Senate favOring the su
pension of silver coinage, daily receive
an immense number of letters fro
friends and the public congratulate
him on his stand and the excellence
his speech. His letters come from u
east and west, and there is some su
prise expressed that so many IN u
west, where it is supposed they tav
silver, should write to him cOmmen
ing his attitude.
John w. Dickinson, farmer livii
near MiddletOwn, found half-trOz
man lying in his cattle pen on Satu
day morning. After the unfortuna
man was warmed, he explained that
was an oyster dredger, who had be
stranded on the lower Eastern Shoi
as many others have been, and was
his way on foot 20 Philadelphia. /
story confirms the reports OF hOrrli
sufferings undergone by his class
the Chesapeake waters.
Billy Dean in arguing the questI
of the silver dollar, under the head
Why should the government swine
the labOring man" uses the follOwl
comparison:
"If two working men living next d'
to each other are boarding up tn
earnings, and one stores his savings
gold dollars, the other stores the sil'
dollar; and suppOsing fire breaks
in the night and the two families hi
barely time to escape with their IL
while their savings are left to
flames; but after they have done tn
work of destruction, and then WI
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