Smyrna times., 1888-04-25
.,ntv and State Items.

-,ntV and state 1CeInS.
-; O..,-,;nston is again clear of the
Riinlue and there is not a single
'nali,PStoo%1 town, or at the hospital.
oiss >. ..ek Delaware Bay fishermen
Lss. ,SSo shad to market. $40 per
ssDl pa oo'i' was the highest price re-
'''I nsnP R. Polk, Esq, will address
JVnI ,;t growers of Wyoming to-mOr-
ibs ar,I arening, on the subject OF market
,r;lliam T. smithers, Esq, the
LAWYER of Dover, has moved to
!9Ins !l.93Es,ngton and taken an office at No.
az Market street.
a.. Wm. Walker sold the evapOra-
d Ia lot opposite the depot at Dover
iol anbiic mi sale, on Thursday, to IL. A.
P;sbardson, for ST. ,OOO.
noriae the cold weather of the past
- t6e Town Hall of Dover, with
"lD.1' "lD.arning. suddenly blOssOmed out
ol. ol. butterhy into an Opera House.
r..t has become of the Inter State
n.al.oad commission? They were an
A-,acad A.,,,csd TO be at Dover early in the
nGonG rjuter and again, in March, but they
come not.
Cards are out for the marriage Of
NJ GE. Hukill and Miss Maggie
ss.llcross Williams at the residence
u her parents, near Odessa, to-mor-
Tow the 26th instant.
The levy Court on Thursday fixed
-ste of taxation for county, road
~ III moor purposes the same as last
ar a. A cents on the $l0O-twenty-
Int cents for county purposes, ten
MS for road, and seven cents for the
poor.
Chancellor salisbury has given it
ont q straight" rs the boys say, that
N his 10th birthday he will resign the
cbancellorship. this will be in 1890)
so5 that he will then retire. while
Goyernor Biggs will appoint his sue
cessOr.
Adam Forepaugh's great tent show
wiIl visit Wilmington on May 7, and
mu Ia. tue U..ll circus of colossal
dimensions there during the present
ssason. Barnum this year taking an
other route by agreement with Fore
paugh.
The Office of inspector of weights
and measures for this county will be
vacant in a week or so and though the
salarv and perquisites amount to but
about $500. there are nearly as many
anpliesnts as dollars. The governor
holds the appointing power.
The farm of the late Henry Moore
At The mill. two miles south of Dover
was sold at public sale on Tuesday tC
CS. PennewIll, for $4,800-104 acres
The buildings on the farm are worth
the money. Last Fall $500 was bic
for the place, but it was withdrawn.
Six hundred shad were caught OF
Thursday at Bowers Beach. Th'
surgeon fishermen are also making
things lively at Bowers. Betweel
forty and fifty boats are engaged il
that line there at present. Elevel
surgeon is big days catch for on
boat
From the fact that the House G
REPRESENTATIVES last week refused t
suspend the rules and pass the Rive
and HarbOr bill, it looks very like it
doomed for this session at least. Cor
gess will be engaged in the discussiO
Ofthe reform tariff the remainder {
the session.
Richardson's factory, in Dover,
running on full time and employs
large number of hands. FOrty-fiv
thousand cans of asparagus will be pU
Up this season. last week % hog
heads Of bOneless ham were put up
5000 cans Of potted ham and abOI
1000 rolled tongues. Besides this a
immense amount of plum pudding ws
made.
Is the correspondent who furnishC
the news from Dover to the Whining
ton dailies the same individual writin
70 them severally? One might thin
50, when most all the news comm
from there lately has been in referenC
to the Catholic Church. Thus, in or
Of the letters six lines are given to ii
Kent County Court, which meets on
once in six months, and seventeen lin
are given to Father Graf, who
brought out almost daily.
WELCOME HOME.-Rev. H. S. Thor
pson and family were given a war
greeting on their return to Lewt
Friday, April 18th, where Mr.. I. b
gins the second year of his pastoral
A large number of the members of Il
n. Z. Church were in waiting at &
parsonage where the ladies had pr
nded bOuntiful supper to which fl
justice was done. Music and readin
were part of the evenings entertai
nent, closing with that familiar b
dear old song, Rock of Ages, follow
0y iervent prayer by the pastor.
It's given out that President CleN
iaEd apprehends that Senator Grav
.oO young for the position of Oh
justice Of the United States. II
question Of age is coming to be quite
serious puzzle. Everybody is eitf
700 young or too old. A man at for
eight, Senator Gray's age, is too you
ana man at ffty-fiye is too old. II
man is not fit for a high place at for
sgnt, when will he ever be? SURE
Ar. Cleveland, president at fOrty-s
e4nnot seriously pronounce a man
"o years more, too young for jud
-Cecu Democrat.
PENNSYLVANIA RELIEF DEPA
AENT.-The statement of the Pei
yiVania Railroad Relief Departm
Df the month of March shows t
szo95.lO was paid out for benefits
sae +. W. & B. railroad, divided as
IOWs Death benefits, $2,25O; a
eehls, Sl55.5O; sickness, $447. go.
amount paid out on the eight railro
oOhprlslng the whole Pennsylvs
system aggregated 1928, ,1O4.9O. 81
1se organization of the department,
aeornary 10Th 1886, to date, it has I
Su1 495 death benefits, 5,97G acciC
Oenehts, and 1906 sick benefits.
DEATH OF MRS. CoMEGYs.-
~ nlie e Of Chief Justice Comegys, died
11'oV o'clock Tuesday morning. ]
SOmegys had been confined to
oOm Tor over year with a COMP
slOn Of diseases and her death has b
SC1peeted for the past 10 days. I
SOmegy's maiden name was Marg
N douglass and she was daughte
"aiIer Douglass, a prominent d
@arean, 20 or so years ago. Her m
n, N was a sister of John M. Clay
nne chief justice and Mrs. Com
a @SIe married in 1887, and last
Seleorated their golden wedding. Z
Taa three children, only one of wi