Smyrna times., 1888-09-05
Co1ntv and State Items.

T. Bayard Heisel, of st. Georges, O
who graduated at Delaware College G.
this year, has taken position as time p
keeper at Edge Moor. Mr.. Heisel pro- 2
poses to read law.
The reed-bird season commenced u
Saturday. There wouldn't be as many ?
brave gunners in the marshes on the T
banks of the Delaware if the little birds :
could pop back. again. I
The Wilmington Morning NeUs with
the rest, has been caught up in the t
base ball craze. A late edition had S
three precious columns devoted to such a
stuff as is used in reporting the games. [
The Transcript, of Middletown,
column each. 1t had nine col
umns to a page. Hereafter it will
have only eight columns. This was its !
original size.
William Jacobs, Jr., who has been
reading medicine under DR.. Smith, of
Cheswold, will start for Chicago Sep
| tember 18th, where he expects to finish
| his course at the Hahnemann Medical
College.
The greatest feat in the way of peach
| picking is that of James Tucker, a man
employed on the farm Of John Ward,
near Little Creek who one day last
week picked the enormous number of
10 baskets.
NJ. X. Fallon, (Cathoic,) of Will
mingtOn, expressed the view Sunday
that The State or Government has no
more right to educate the children of
its citizens than it has to buy them
candies or toys"
The four canneries of Georgetown
! started up on tomatoes this week. G.
II. Treat & Co., in addition to toma-
toes, are canning some peaches. The |
other canneries are @. II. Macklin & |
Co., Faucet & Son, and Calhoun & |
Thoroughbred.
Alfred P Robinson and William H.
BOyce, Esqs., Of Georgetown, have |
purchased McKendrce Downham's in
teTest in the SUSSEX JOurndl the we'll
known Democratic journal of Sussex
county, and will be hereafter actively
concerned in its management.
The bicycle races at Farview Park,
, | Dover, on Saturday, were somewhat
: interfered with by rain. About twenty
p | wheelmen from New Jersey and other
r places had some speed trials and fancy
riding contests. The attendance was
! small.
:. President of Council Reedy, of
S Dover, and wife, leave for Los Angeles
= California, on Thursday next, to be
8, gone about four weeks. Mr. Reedy
!, goes as the representative Of the OGd
d Fellows of this State to the grand
2; lodge which meets at Los Angeles.
,. The Douglass House and Hotel Hen
IS lopen at RehOboth have both closed
If for the season. The Bright is still
open and has upwards of a hundred
guests. A number of the cottages are
yet occupied. The season has been
fairly successful for the Rehoboth hos
telres.
Old Uncle Manuel White" the
+, c0lOred man who mysteriOusly disap-
&c peared from Dover, Saturday week.
~ was found wandering around Wood
- land Beach Friday morning. 1t is
-, plain the old man is demented, and il
- is said has been brought on by his
~ domestic troubles.
ny Next Saturday the Democrats O.
u 4NCW NdSllC COuulN Will uOullldlG lu6il
Legislative contests in most of the hun
RI dreds, but thus far the utmost gOoC
ay feeling has prevailed. Much interes
RS is manifested however, and it is likely
n that a large vote will be polled, par
"a ticularly in Wilmington.
eih Barney Reybold, ESQ, of Red Liol
~ Hundred, who returned from a visit t,
- 5u' Red Sulphur Springs, Va, week ago
~ had paralytic attack in a day or tw
ca afterwards, and is now suffering iron
that affiiction. AS he is between sixty
:, five and seventy years of age hi
ior Ia friends feel considerable anxiety in re
.'e gard to his condition.
i'm John w. Wright, an old and well
lly known citizen of Middletown, died o
his Saturday of last week His wife an
*; three children survive him. His chi
di- dren are Nancy NJ, the wife of J. n
as Arthurs, of Kenton, Del, VIM. /
Wright, who is now practicing law i
Duluth, Mimi, and Sylvia A., wife
ion Martin B. Burris, of Middletown.
ION On Saturday last thirty seven cars
DIV peaches were shipped from WyOmin
III each car averaging 700 baskets, maxim
inc, a total of 10000 baskets or two con
,.t;7 plete peach trains. This is the large
, y peach shipment ever made in one da
on from Wyoming or from any other st
ro. ton on the Peninsula. Most of Il
he peaches were consigned to New Yol
lot and other Eastern or Northern point
0ro- Six cars were shipped to Canada, f
7rer which cash was paid at the local st
ton.
DOvER's NEW BRIDGE.-Connecti,
by bridge and causeway across Silv
,or Lake, Dover. has been establishe
bev The entire work completed was turn
Ivn over to the levy court and will
on't opened for public travel by Septemb
,ino 9th. The bridge was constructed al
Voi9 less cost than the engineers estima
ON The public will be grateful to Le'
! to COurtman Fisher and Engineer k;
and mey for the excellent public woI
No The construction of this improveme
suD- opens a new outlet to Dover, come
last ing it more directly by public highw
vote with Smyrna and the northern part
II If Kent county.
cket DEPUTY COLLECTORs.--COll
lem Barlow has appointed Edward
ldes. Kitchens deputy collector at Lew
we'll vice DR.. Hiram r. Burton, and 10
sit E. Dolby, deputy collector at SeafO
Of a vice n. M. Brown. There is no sala
en- attached to either Office, but the
very of the Lewes office amount to 81 90
ming a year. The fees at Seaford are co
paratively small. Both appointme
are Simon pure Gray appointmer
Dolby was recommended by H.
8 in Pennington, the ROsses and the Gil
,,i5d There had been a decide contest
7,on- the position at Lewes. L. w. Wapl
one the member of the last Legislature, q
COL a nominee for the next, was an apl
F Te- cant for the place, but unfOrtunat
from, he lacked the backing of Ebe w. tt
leo. nell, and thus Kitchens was appoint
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