Smyrna times., 1886-01-06
County and State Items.

County and State Items.
J. S. Sines of Georgetown distributed
watermelOns on Christmas day.
Registrar Frazer, places the present
population of Wilmington at 55.814
The census-Of 1880 gave it 42,499 in
habitants.
B. B. Bennett of Dover has moved TO
Tazewell in Accomac county, on the
line of the N. Y, P. & N. railroad.
where he is interested in real estate.
The young ladies of Milford were
given reception in Smoot's Hall Mon
day evening by the young men of the
town. There were so couples in the
march.
The new Academy of Music for Will
mington is nearly completed. and bv
Friday next the work will ali be done
and the day following it will be thrown
open for public inspection.
The Chronicle of Milford is owned
and edited solely by Theodore Town
send since Robert H. Gilman has with
drawn from the firm. Mr.. Townsend
purposes to make an independent local
newspaper.
The Avenue NJ. f. Church of Milford
Is at last clear of debt. On the last
day of the old year $4,000 were raised
to pay off the last mortgage. The edi-
flee cost $4,000 and the parsonage
$1,000 more.
The switches on the Delaware rail
road are being extended all the time
on the west side of the track, looking
towards double track when the ne
cessity demands it, which will be the
first big peach crop.
Miss Elma BaCeman, daughter of
John w. Bateman, of Canterbury. was
married in the NJ. f. Church at Mag
nOlia, on Wednesday evening, in the
presence of large number of relatives
and friends, to Frank Norris.
DR.. Mary II. Heald, wife of DR..
Pusey Heald, of Wilmington, and with
him associated in the management of
Heald's Hygeian Home, in that city.
died Thursday night. She was regard
ed as one of the most skillful physicians
practicing the hygienic branch of the
medical profession.
The heirs of Joseph Oliver, who. it
is said, owned nearly half Of Milford
hundred, and who leased it for ninety
nine years are making movement to
get possession in 1886 when the lease
expires. The lease took in all of North
Milford, excepting the lot where the
Episcopal and old NJ. Z. Church stands.
Thirteen members of the Phi Rho
Sigma fraternity of Dover sat down to
dinner on the day after Christmas at
the Hotel Richardson. n. B. Smithers,
Jr., was postmaster, J. Fred Windolph
was elected president for the coming
year; w. Lee Cannon, Jr., vice presi-
dent; w. G.. Kerbin, secretary and S.
ID. Truitt, treasurer.
A crowd of masked rOughs threw
the Laurel lookup into Broad creek,
knocked Bailiff Frank Parvin down
with a brick, threw bricks through
store windows and performed other
Iawless acts on Christmas eve When
the bailiff was struck he was not even
trying to arrest them, but was only try
ing to see if he could recognize any of
the parties so he could report them to
the town commissioners.
William Wallace of New Castle, was
a Union soldier in the late war, in
DOubleday's command. At the battle
of Gettysburg he was miraculOusly
preserved from death by a shell fired
from a Confederate battery, which en-
tered the ground near where he stood
and failed to explode. Last Summer
he went to Gettysburg and dug this
shell up, and now has it in his poses
sion The shell has remained buried
in the ground % years and a day
NeW Castle Star.
Thomas II. Denney of Dover, receiv-
ed letter on Tuesday that his son
Thomas G. was dangerously i'll, at his
home in Colorado. Mr.. Denney being
unable to 90 himself on account of in
disposition, sent John G. Pennewill,
who left there for Colorado on Tuesday
evening Mr.. Denney has since re-
ceived letter that his son is better,
and he is thought to be out of danger.
MIR. d. left hereabOut three years ago,
and is now largely interested in a cattle
ranch in that State.-DeIdWdredR