Smyrna times., 1888-06-27
Conntv and State Items.

County and state Items.
>Do,,ortbeless, we must admit that it
:. H'v wise party that nose its own
bandanna.
rbo snecial Adams Express train
ITU 6een withdrawn from the Del
aware railroad.
1880 is the amount OF money an
III drawn from the State Treasury
Nv Delaware College.
sergeant Byrns, of Fort Delaware,
notice that no more eXcursi Ons
sl'1iT s'i be allowed to land at the Fort on
sundays.
rho Camden Union Camp will COM
dnOe nnS Jnlv IS and continue for ten
InTs Drawing for tents took place on
tbs G ground Saturday.
As between the two in this sort of
.raatber. we prefer an excursion on the
1.o,sr moI TO a school commencement on
I%ond-Eueaing Journal.
couple of colored Kentonites were
,odaed in Jail Saturday night. They
"ot drunk and then got to welding
5so1ors with the usual result.
The Temperance people of Bridge
lilo will celebrate the Fourth. Ad-
5.asses 1,,S will be made by Revs. w. S.
Pobinson and Thomas E. Terry:
To-day at > P. NJ, in the Presbyterian
church, Dover, Miss Lille Brown,
Sormerly of that town, will be married
to VIM. L. McGonigal, Of Virginia.
Dr w. P. Davis, of Dover, has pur-
chased the old Davis homestead at
TavdelI. and will cut it up into build
ing lots. Marydel is booming just
now.
William P. Lord, eldest son of Ed.
ward Lord, of Camden, was elected
Chief Justice for the third time, by the
Republicans in the recent Oregon
election.
7 Thomas Conner, for several years
merchant at FELTON,, and later at Har.
Tington. died in the latter town of con-
sumption, Wednesday, June Is, aged
IS years.
THE INTERNAL COLLECTORSHIP.-.
The appointment Of General Collector
of Internal Revenue, with headquar
tiers at Baltimore, was Friday given to
Peter F. Causey, of Milford.
Base ball has taken a firmer grip or
the Peninsula than the rose-bugs
The former closes places Of bus
mess. but the bugs coniine themselve:
10 vegetable matter.-MOrning NelUs.
A year old child was accidentally
choked to death in Wilmington, OF
Thursday. 1t was playing about al
omen trunk when the lid fell on it:
neck and held it until the child died.
Elwoo1 Norney, fish commissionel
and ex-representative of the last Legis
hture, was struck on Saturday week
with paralysis. From Information
received there are very little hopes 0
his recovery.
The Council of Newark has decided
to accept the proposition of Mr.. Robin
son to sink an artesian well, that h,
guarantees to secure a flow of 10,00t
gallons an hour, in order to supply tn
town with water.
Mrs. A. B. Maxwell, of Delawar,
City, has gone into the silk worm cul
ture on rather an extensive scale. Sh
has prepared two rooms in her hous
for them and has both rooms abou
filed with the trays.
At the meeting held by the mana
gers Of the Penrose camp, for the pun
pose of awarding privileges, JOsep
Daniels paid $125 for the bread tent
E. E. Clements $40 for the horse pound
and !. G. Lohand, SIS for the bOardin
tent
Some who have looked over tn
ground say that the Milford crop O
peaches will not be greater this yea
than last. Old Mixons are notabl
scarce but many young orchards frOU
three to five years old, will bear fO
the first time this season.
$l2,5SS24 is the sum the Militia cos
the State in 1887, according to th
Auditors report. Add to this the AU
ditOr's estimate for 1888, $500, an
you have S21 ,288.24, of the. $28, 8,969.7l
which Gen. Kenny claims the Stat
holds Of money belonging to the militi'
SeafOrd will play her fourth gam
since the organization of the Stat
League, on the home grounds to-da.
The game will be with the Americu
Of Wilmington, which defeated Sci
ford last Wednesday. The Seafor
club will try hard to retrieve its defea
The convention of the Republica
League Of Clubs will be held in Wi
mngtOn tomorrow and PresideI
Mitchell has appointed the follOwir
delegates to represent the Young Men
Republican Club: S. A. Macalliste
EllwoOd G. Jackson, Henry e. Pickel
Fred. E. Bach and n. R. Benson, Jr.
HAIL.-CommOdOre Sinnicksor
yacht, "The Witch" was in Due
Greek during Saturday weeks stOrI
hail stones as large as pigeon eggs f,
on the Witch's deck and enough we
gathered to fill water cooler. J.
benson, Of the Lighthouse, had most
'he glass in the north windows broke
The U. S. Court in the case OfSelle
vs.. Parvis & Williams, for damag
resulting from their phosphate factor
which adjOins Sellers farm near Mi
oCletoWn, the testimony sho we'd th
tne crops as well as the fruit were dal
aged from the fumes arising from t
factory, and the farm greatly dete
grated thereby. The jury award
sellers $3,367.91 damages.
Bowen Bros, who for some yei
nave been running the Ledger at Ne
ark, have in company with TheOdC
+: Armstrong purchased the print
Unlce OF 5. A. Booth, of Wilmingt'
Inc new prOprietors will make apr
eahon on the Both inst, for a char
u carry on the printing, bindery a
ulank book mandatory under
gSoiiporate title of the Wilmingt
Printing Company.
Collector Pickles term expires
SSay, and his successor will prObal
SgS appointed a few days thereaft
Mr' Pickels, for such an intense pa
oan as ne has been, has received "
seherous treatment at the hands
sue Democratic administration, in be
permitted to serve out his full Off
Wtm' 1t is presumed that ex-ReI
sentative Henry NJ. Barlow will
TTaned to succeed him, since Cole
auoch Moore has withdrawn from
contest.
MII,h MiddletOwn Transcript sa
N Inc granary on the farm owned
n. N. Willis, located near Towns,