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

army engineers recomnehu Gne
The G' Of Smith and Windmill
'tsnoSSslf from the Delaware river.
lslanuI Family have full control of the
..l,a In' Committee. The Woicottites ti
Sla'I Sod no say in the Convention matter
haa ~ marriage of Miss Maggie T. a
The n Of John T. Jakes of Wyom-
daugn'99'W w #. Redmile, occurred at
iRs' ,5s residence of the bride Yesterday; w.,
tue w. ,ou Delaware Hospital, in Will
Ihe ~ n' has received its charter and
nlnglo@", g@ strong, energetic and homo
eHecleu " "orsaniZatiOn, with Mr.. Job H.
gsnS {snFson as president.
'' TR Hofecker, Esq, sends " broad
j. ~ bis excellency, Governor Ben
sac a. r Riggs. in regard to the liquor
lamlH The language is severe, and
laws ant. il is truthful, and must hurt.
|yelcark Ledger
Mrs Isaac J. Collins, OF Laurel, DEL
ME- AsS. twin infants on Sunday morn
lell n9n nd 'nroeeeded in her night gar
lns, @IT to the river, plunged in and was
@en,9 @ernsd Il Her body was soon after
ulUJs iards recovered, and returned to the
SSms Sn,~ she made desOlate.
I..oob H. Seal, superintendent of
yO'Ti Wilmington Transfer Company,
lns rand master of the Delaware
a5 Ia'' Lodge of Odd Fellows, and past
Grand chief of the Encampment orancn
sftbe order, died Sunday night at his
vs.dence in Wilmington.
Tnrnip greens and pigs face is a
.,anIar Georgetown dish. 1t is no
P1opommon thing to see persons peep
;mg % into the kitchens of Georgetown
bqiels In during the spring term of court
~ 6nd which have the largest pots of
tSis snring dish in preparation for din
and to the most bOunteOus supply
NIL NIL 90 their custom.-MilfOrd ChrOn-
Cle.
Tho River and Harbor bill reported
,o the House is larger this year than
oyer sl9. .432. .7S2 is the amount apprO-
mated for this purpose. Among its
toms are $3.50, 900 for the improvement
Of tbe Delaware River ; 100000 for
Ibe Delaware Brrakwater; $4,000 for
Wilmington. Delaware; $500 for
New Castles ice harbor; $4,000 for
dredging Duck Greek Sl5,000fO st.
Jones Greek.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee met in Dover on Thursday and
fyed upon Tuesday, May 8th as the
date of the Democratic State Conven-
tion TO elect delegates to the Demo-
cratic National Convention, " hich will
meet in St. Louis, June 5th. The Cen
trail Committees Of the several counties
will fix the date of their respective pri-
maries. at which delegates will be elec-
ted to the State Convention.
The freight on oranges from Jack
sonyille to New York is thirty cents
per box: on peaches from Milford to
New York 20 cents per basket. As the
orange box holds about as much as TWO
baskets. it will be seen that Florida
can deliver her fruit in New York
cheaper than Delaware can hers in the
same city. Jacksonville is six times
further than Delaware from New York
Such facts as these keep the farmers Oi
this State in continual enmity with OuI
railroads. Milford NelUs.
The tomato growing craze has struck
Georgetown. The farmers have at last
begun to fOrsake King Corn" realiz
ing the Importance and profit of mixed
farming. Probably the establishment
OftwO additional canneries has greatly
accelerated this work of prOselyting
Messrs. W. A. Fawcett & Son have
contracted for seVenty-fve acres of to
matOes; Calhoun & Thoroughbred
15OaCres; Macklin, Day & Co., eight!
acres, and G. H. Treat Manufacturing
Company, for seventy-six acres.
AN UPsET.-As Rev. J. T. VanBurk
allow, the new pastor of Mt. Pleasan
NJ E. Church, was driving along Mar
ket street, Wilmington near the COur
House, few days ago, his horse tool
fright at a car on the electric line
when suddenly springing on the pave
ment the carriage was overturned ant
he and his son thrown out. DE hell
on to the lines and he was dragged
some distance, when the lad caugh
the horse and brought it to a stand
Luckily Mr.. V. escaped with a feN
slight bruises and the lad was unhurt
The LAST ACT.-The Levy Court {
New Castle county covered itself wit
partisan glory on Saturday, when dul
ing fOur-hOurs sitting it added ntnC
~ namoc 70 tho liefc EOrty
two Of these went on during the mOrT
ing session, and forty-eight were adde
during the afternoon. An unusuall
large amount of routine business W;
also transacted during the day, and IL
actual time occupied in examining al
plcants was probably not more tha
two and One-half hours.
This shows an average of near
i0rty-tOur per hour which is ten mo
than were considered during any sing
DAY of the SIX set apart for the goa
you-please farce last mOnth.-MOrntl
NeUs.
A TRAIN WRECKED BY A TRAMP.
Thursday night a sOuth-bound freig
Tram ran into a switch at WOOdsl
Station, six miles south of Dover, al
NE engine and four cars were wrecke
NO one was hurt. At the statiOn-hOu
tramp was found, who, on being I
rested, confessed that he had tamper
Win the switch, breaking it with
erOwbar. His purpose was, he said,
stop any sOuth-bOund train that cal
along Tor the purpose of getting a ri
70 OCFlsheld, Md, where he once had
nome. He gave his name as Sydn
roach. He is now in Jail at Dow
An nOur after the accident the NOrf'
express came along at the rate of for
nVe miles an hour, but was signaled
ume to prevent further harm.
KENT COUNTY JURoRs.-The foll'
ing jurors were drawn for the Al
2d:
GRAND JURORS.
DUCK Creek-Titus !. Hobbs, JC
NJ: VOshell, Mathew Ford.
Little Creek-Henry NJ. How, J.
d. Hendrickson.
o. KentOn-Stephen Minner, Will
Stephens, VIM. r. Smith.
East Dover-JOseph Moore, Will
Steffy.
North Murderkill-Levi s. Pro-
"n. L. Cooper, Thomas Anderson
n south Murderkill-Caleb l.. ]
noses ). Vanburkalow, Henry l..
Msplllion-George West, EdV
Sapp, Solomon K. Lord.
Mlliord-Nathaniel b. Thomas,
Hsar Williams, Joseph Frazier, ST.
PETIT JURORS.