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county and State Items.
T,o Harrington Bank is now occu-
ING inc its new banking house.
Dow Lac Wilson D. D., is north,
,i"g h9'' missionary in New York and
Connecticut
The Sussex County Teachers Insti-
~ viii be held November 26, p and
oQ SC'I Inrobably at Laurel.
The undertaking business of the late
c.orge w. Wilson of Middletown will
Ss continued by his son William.
Ofthe forty-eight charges on Dover
NE. district twenty-eight have ad-
yy,need ~ the salaries of their pastors.
Robbins' circus was attached at Mil
I'D nm Wednesday for claim of 81 900 |
~ % Sheriff Mcdaniel. The debt was
Usid by Adam FOrepaugh Jr.
Mavor Austin Harrington of Will
u,ington remitted $585.54 by Adams |
TvnTess to the Jacksonville yellow fe-
YER ersufferers Monday afternoon.
Rev, T. E. Terry, pastor of Dover
N r church, announced Sunday that
tbs services in his church next Sunday
wonld conform as nearly as possible to
The old Jewish feast of Tabernacles.
Horace G. Knowles, Esq, will 90 to
Sussex county on Thursday and will
remain there during the rest of this
canvass to work among the liberal vo-
ters of that county in behalf of consti-
tutional reform.
The congregation of the Milford NJ
E. Church heard Sunday with pro-
fund regret that the Rev. Vaughn
Smith had been stricken with paralysis.
He was to preach there Sunday in the
Avenue NJ. E. Church, both afternoon
and evening.
An axle of one of the freight cars on
the Norfolk express broke on Sunday
morning between Dover and Wyoming
and scattered a car load of potatoes
along the track. A wreck train came
down and cleared the debris. No other
damage was done.
Lewis r. Springer, architect, has
completed the plans for changing the
old Wesleyan College in Wilmington
recently purchased by Samuel John
son Of Philadelphia, into a first.class
hotel and is now ready to receive esti-
mates for the changes. The front of
the building will be entirely remOdeled.
The alterations 10 the Kent county
court room are completed and attrae-
ted much attention Monday at the
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which always gave promise of falling,
has been removed and hard wood
ceiling. highly polished, has been sub
stituted The side walls have been
painted and frescOed and the old habit
ues of the court hardly knew the room.
The social event Of the season in
Georgetown was the marriage of Miss
Ilena Fritz Benson, daughter of Mrs.
Anna z. Benson, to Mr.. Charles Lou
ther Moore, member of the George
town bar, Thursday. The ceremony
was performed in the St. Paurs P. E.
Church by Rev. John L. McKim, who
performed the same ceremony for Mr..
MoOre's father and mother twenty
eight years ago.
Coroner Truitt of Sussex county held
an Inquest over the body of Mrs. Shaw
on Saturday at Milford at P. NJ, and
verdict was rendered of death by
hanging by her own hands," One OIL
the Jurors, in questioning the witnesses
began asking the husband about his
unfaithfulness, and of his relation with
the wife of an ex-constable of that
town, with whom it is alleged Mr.
Shaw has been on more than friendly
terms, but the coroner stopped the
Juror. Mr.. Truitt said that had moth
ing to do with the inquest.
During the performance of Pawnet
Bill's Wild West Monday, in the In
dian race, one of the ponies stumbled
throwing "John" the Indian rider anC
also the following pony and Indial
rider. Both of the Red Men were Sc
verely hurt, one having his collar bon
fractured and a scalp injury which tor
nearly all of the hair off his head, ant
the other received internal injuries
Both were taken to their wigwams an
a doctor was summoned. II will b
some time before they will be able
take any part in the performances.
OUR PREACHERS ON THE STUMP
We see by our Peninsula exchanges
that Presiding Elder John A. B. Wi
son and Revs. A. Smith of Gambridg
B. c. Warren of Deals Island, and I
S. MOWbray of POcOmoke City, al
making addresses in favor of the Pr
hibition Party, at various points on tt
Peninsula.
Rev. ]. s. Willis is announced ;
making an address, under the auspic'
of Harrison and Morton Club.
We hope our critics will not condem
this note as partisan.-PeninsuLGr Met
Odist.
GAMBLERS CAUGHT AT PLAY.-ShOT
ly after IL o'clock on Saturday mig
Sergeants Tucker and Peterson, Sp
ciaI Officer Smith and Officers Burleie
aud Sherer, raided poker den in Il
basement of No. z East Third stree
Wilmington. So we'll was the ra
timed that the men were captured
the game Charles Reynolds, Charl
Ramsburger, John II. Countiss, Jol
Kyle, Lemuel Stroud, John H. Pri'
Evan B. Morrison, Robert l.. Jefiri'
Cloud Harman, John Chandler al
John H. Henderson were arreste
No attempt to escape was made as
would have been useless. Inc 10
were taken to the chiefs room and
amined. Several Of them gave tic
tious names. Judge Turner and q
Solicitor Ball were present and most
the men furnished bail and were
leased.
OLD AsBURY CHURCH HAS NO MOI
GAGE NOw.-The services at Asbt
N. E. Church Wilmington Sund
were a celebration of the ninety-nir
anniversary of the organization OF
society. The congregation was We
large one, including Secretary Bays
and two of his daughters. The spi
inside the altar rail and around
front of the pulpit was handsom
decorated with palms and cut howt
The Rev. Enoch Stubbs, of PhilSo
phia, a former. pastor of the chuT
was present by invitation and eond
ted the religious services during
day. The Rev. John Roche, OF n
York city, also a former pastor, was
vited, but could not come. The OBJ
Of the particular service was to n
money enough to remove mortg
Of 81 700 from the church propel
which was done.
AN IMPORTANT CAsE.-The case
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