Smyrna times., 1888-05-09
Closing Of Mails.

,ountv and state Items.
OOb H. Owens, aged 79 years,
a5i siI1s al Milford on Sunday
o'r ..re V. Massey, esq, and wife will
= GITls1 rom Philadelphia to-day for a
European trip
D Il Hurley has sold Sc acres of
w. w., little Creek Hundred, to David
B8repIinger, 81q ii for s6'5OO-
y..,.rk will decide on Saturday,
ro the water question, with or
lLiiEoat. LaEE l ." at a special election.
Richardson, wife and two
ms m' left Dover for California on We'd
ssi sss.day, w. to be gone about a month.
r,a hover Gas Light Co. has pur-
,iaed lnS more ground and will soon COM
clasee seo to erect another large holder.
D, m... contract to build the pier at
Inc has been awarded to w. H.
75.son. IsseI u The pier is to be 1000 feet
long.
=. tho 25tb instant there will be a
GT yi;o sale of all the real estate be-
Puo.O rUg to the late Charles Tatman of
odessa
,,,m Forepaugh's Wild West, Cir
Aun5I unJ Menagerie drew fully $4,000
eus ls0Ie apI to the grounds at Wilmington,
Monday.
H., Ann Sarde, one of Camden's
Lost iat' residents, died after a short ill
o.o U,s.'' on last Wednesday afternoon,
aged 95 years.
Tho funeral of Mrs. Melinda Humph-
,.g wife of George w. Humphrey,
s5i' siitor of Every Ereniag, took place in
Wilmington, Sunday.
rouisa. wife of the late DR.. Worrell,
# Mis- State, and daughter of the late
Cesar r. A, Rodney, died in Philadelphia
,aer alter a long illness, aged about 20
years.
Miss Laura Campbell, of Leipsic, and
Walter Fowler, of Camden, N. j., will
bo married at the residence of the
6ride's sister, in Camden on Thursday
evening.
Twenty.fvc acres of land in West
Dover Hundred were sold by PrOthOn-
otory Burchenal last week to Emory
soften. of the Douglass House, RehO-
both, for $l75.
Clement B. Smythe, Job H. Jackson,
George W. Stone and George w. Bush
attended the Republican anti Saloon
Convention in New York city on We'd
nesday and Thursday.
Governor Biggs and staff in keep
inc M war memories will be present at
tbe Memorial Day celebration, in Will
mington, and the parade will be the
largest of the kind ever seen in that
city.
The DelaUaredn says a ride around
Dover. now when the fruit trees are in
4 boom, will give one an idea Of what
Paradise is like. Perhaps the peach
bad its start in that once famous gar
ien, only they didn't have the yellOws
there.
Ifthe damage to the fruits and veg
eabes about Norfolk by the frOsts anC
freezes last week is as great as report
ed, then the truckers and berry grow
es of Delaware will be on better foot
ing to meet the competition from
Virginia.
Deputy Grand Master E. NJ. Fowl
e, assisted by Charles Peregoy ant
Charles Barnes, installed the officers o
Amity Lodge, I. o. o. F., at Camden
Wednesday evening. He also install
ed the officers of Philodemic Lodge a
Dover, on Thursday evening.
The DeIdUarean says, perhaps j
would not be putting it too strong t
say that President Cleveland neveI
made a more popular appointment
than that of Melville w. Fuller, o
Illinois, to the chief justiceship of thu
Supreme Court of the United States.
The late Mrs. Mary R. Pusey, o
Wilmington by her will directs tina
$4,000 Of her estate shall be paid t
The Ferris Reform School, $4,000 t.
ihe Home for Aged Women, $4,000 t
Tue Home for Friendless Children ant
5000 each to two other organizations
Letters have been granted durln,
The week by Register Heverin, to p. c
IembertOn, executor of the estate o
GeOrge RalstOn deceased, of Mispil
lion Hundred to Thomas 5. Clark Ol
iae estate of Ellen Dygert, late O
North Murderkill Hundred, and t.
vincent Knox upon the estate O
thomas KuOx late of Kenton Hun
dred
The $4,000 agricultural appropria
aon has been secured by Delawal
Iollege. An order for the payment c
ae sum has been issued by the comp
roller Of the treasury, Judge Durham
mere was considerable opposition t
.ae money coming to Delaware col
Fse, out when the matter was state
the comptroller, he ordered tn
AMOUNT to be paid.
VI, ~ IS generally admitted, saws th
Allord NeCs that the freeze on Wed
5ssday morning of last week did som
ea9age to the peach buds, though nc
s'iOus injury. On some trees as man
Ss'WO-thirds of the buds were bias
W On others none. There was
a'eVy white frost on Thursday mOrI
last, but the soil and air were yer
Wy and no damage is feared.
Inc WilmingtOniaa in speaking
ny GGaluel d. Baynard in connection wit
~g n! gm!ayoralty says:
MS suavity of manner and his pc
- oGusl magnetism make for him a no
,1ends who do and dare" in h
~ 1r; Baynard will not only take Il
n republican vote of that city, bl
r.,S r0Tlll also draw from the Democrat
oo.l.3 ,@uHs vote that will jeopardize Der
Oefatie supremacy.
OaaS does Judge Paynter represent Il
rVTpie Tp or the saloons?
a. i1e people Of New Castle COun
Sr.lOrtunate to have Chief Justi
6s,-esys and Judge Houston to stal
Tween tween them and the saloons.
tss. Suuge Grubb, by his action at Il
Jna.;o 'I oi the court, in joining the Chi
gmoNte;. g'.ce; In listening to the growing Sc
H;.gln this county in favor Of ]
oor.N,.g ooo'ng the saloon influence, has be
ta1PTImented taD ~ by the WOmen's Chr
sisns u temperance Union for his man
"Sna.-Sentinel,
as .Ts Dover Iader takes exception
boioii' laurel Gazette claiming the largl
NJ GVl south of Wilmington and Il
as,;.W ;.oWn is the largest fruit shippi
mroa1 ,,,ou IN the world. With witheri
,aItd9m he oels 81 A. cf-ss ~,