Smyrna times., 1888-09-12
s7..ntv and State Items.

a,bonv Higgins, Esq, returned
sunday night from his trip to Europe.
A.. Hannah Daniels, wife of Will
MN 6Ioniels. of Townsend, died at her
lIalli 9iance D% on Wednesday in her 77th
p,nco men tried to work their little
DD on a Middletown farmer last
g,ont ga.ntS but he was warned liz time and
escaped.
rbo new steam saw mill of Hearn,
,jtins & Powell, at Milford, has COM
Aaanced operation and is running on
full time.
1tis reported that $4,000 pounds of
" has been hauled out of Lewes
gUrinc the last month as the result of
hog cholera.
Cards are out announcing the we'd
s;0% of Miss Bessie Headley of Milford
~ alnS 4enrv Colgate, of Canada, in Christ
TDiscopal Church, Milford, Septem-
Der 10.
Solomon Hersey has left the EUening
1oyrnaI and accepted an editorial posi-
I'm on the Daily Republican. Mr..
Iersev resumes his old position Mon
day next.
Ex-Governor Hall has erected very
hondsome monument to the memory of
LIS late wife at a cost of about 81 400.
This adds greatly to the beauty of Bar
rett's Chapel Cemetery.
It's to be hoped this year the direc-
tors of the Fair will prohibit the
wholesale robbery of our unsuspecting
citizens by the fakirs. Keep such trash
away from the grounds!
The date of the address which was
IN have been delivered before the Re
nnblican Club, of MiddletOwn, by
George V. Massey of Dover, has been
postponed until September 81.
James Lurty, employed by the Edge
Moor Iron Company, had the little fin
Ger of his left hand crushed yesterday
morning at the works. DR.. BlOcksom
amputated the finger at the knuckle.
The Republican State Convention
will meet at Dover on Thursday, Sep
tember 90. The New Castle county
committee therefore give notice that
delegates to that convention will be
elected on Saturday next.
It is asserted positively that John D.
Bickel, the Democratic candidate fol
representative from Milford hundred
will tender his resignation from the
ticket at the next meeting of the Kent
County Executive Committee.
The schooner Governor Stockley
was sunk off the mouth of MispilllOr
creek, in a severe storm Friday morn
inc. The schooner Annie E. Pierce
went to the rescue of the crew, whC
we're obliged to take to the rigging.
The prospects of an increased numbe
of students in Delaware College is en-
couraging. They now number "a, anC
several additions will be made the pres
ent week. BY Christmas it is expected
that nearly fifty names will appear OF
the roster.
The Dover Inder pleads eloquent.
almost pathetically-fOr harmony
But the solemn fact remains that tn
Wolcott men will probably have t
content themselves with the peculia
kind Ofharmony which they dealt out
the Salisbury men.-MOrning Nel0s.
Secretary D. z. Barnard of the Agr
cultural Society of Delaware is arrane
ing to have two games of base ball {
the Dover fair between profession;
teams. The Athletics and Baltimore
will probably play one game while tw
league clubs will be engaged for Thur
day.
The canning house of Brown, Hal
son & Co., at Wyoming, was sold b
Sheriff Mcdaniel last week, and pu
chased by George NJ. Fisher, for 81 80
The Whitnack farm, containing Sc
enty acres, near Dover, was sold at tn
same time for 81 $50 and bid off by
R. Kenney.
None of the Fairs in this sectiC
have offered a premium to any coup
who will get married during the pro
ress of the Fair. 1t would prove
drawing card to announce that a coup
would get married on one of the da!
of the fair. Time yet to make the a
nOuncement.
Levin T. Salisbury, Levy COu
commissioner for Georgetown hundre
has received notice of his appOintme
as postal clerk, to serve on the rOu
between Philadelphia and Crisfeld,
salary of 81 900. having one week (
out of every four. Mr.. Salisbury !
ported for duty last Thursday.
The annual State Convention of t
WOman's Christian Temperance Uni
will meet in MiddletOwn, October 10
1lth anG 18th. Mrs. Emily McLaug
lin, of Boston, and Miss Mcdowell,
Chicago, prominent speakers, will
present, and address the COnventiC
There will be one hundred and TWEEN
five delegates to be entertained.
The returns from Blackbird hundr
Monday, are as follows
Representative C. BroeksOn.........
Lawrence s. Asprii................
BrOcksOn's majority
lnspectOr-Mertimer
AssessOr-JOseph
Thomas Cavender...............
Andrew Spear................
David RANKIN
Road COmmissiOner-Wiliam g. PryOF......