Smyrna times., 1888-09-26

,-o,th IL 90 A. NJ, and $50 P N.
from tae tle south, south 7.S5 and ll.SO Al NJ.
county and State Items.
Oo Tobn G. Dawson, of Milford, is
Dr. r.+sS very ill of paralysis.
W. White, of Milford, aged
:. GsOls 1oors, died suddenly Friday.
w.! 80 we're shipped from Wyoming
ilsao aor ASS 900 baskets of peaches.
W. -, GRAY. once a resident of Della
Ezra lied Of the yellow fever in Flor
ida last week.
c...o are now Ill students enrolled
lpe'T lpe Conference Academy in Dover
=, y ibe current year.
c..ds are out for the marriage of DR..
=, O4IUKR = Kennedy of Middletown, to Miss
W. ". :; Evans Of Washington D. c., next
Monday.
,.o,es Williams has purchased the
1s"f Of Frank Peach in Bohemia
l9lm ,uor below Middletown, for $4,000.
%sa %an farms contain $50 acres.
Il6 ldllh9
,.hr ". Jolls shipped 92,S25 bas-
9Or of neaches from MiddletOwn this
'son As's N and J. B. Foard about 10000
SoIT saaGets Total 1872, ,S25 baskets.
premium should have been offered
q ahe fair this week for the fellow that
M .aJ IA talk the most politics. There
SOTId ~onId have been about 5000 entries.
snittall's Detective Agency will fur
II tbe police force for the Dover fair
l,jl lsis week while Oglesby's we'll known
hand tnr of Chester will supply the music.
State Treasurer Herbert has depos-
..oJ in the Farmers Bank at George
toTn t,CT Sussex county's apportionment
.ffbe .gf state school fund. Single dis
ticts get s163.32 each.
Ills said that if piece of string be
,iad around the leg of a rooster he
~ont ~C crow. Somebody must have
ted A piece of string around the legs
If that rooster of John F.
Ttis said that the young Republi-
cans of Sussex have become dissatisfied
With the inaction of the old leaders
and are determined to make things
hum the present campaign.
The channel buoy of Hen and Chick
ems ShOal, off the Delaware capes, has
been cast high on the point of Cape
Henlopen. The lighthouse author
tiles will put new buoy in place at
once.
Eli Todd, aged 80 years, of the firm
of Todd Brothers, rag dealers at No.
100 Tanall street, Wilmington, COM
mitted suicide Friday afternoon by
hanging in the loft of the firms estab-
lishment.
A tenant house on the farm of Will
liam R. Allaband, of North Murderkill
hundred. was burned on Thursday
night The house has been untenan-
anted for some time and the fire was
undoubtedly the work of an incendi-
ary.
Dorsey Hall in Milford has been
leased by Prettyman & Hegeman, who
are now at work on the necessary i'm
prOvements. Electric lights will be
put in, the ceiling decorated, the stage
enlarged aud new scenery and fine
drop curtain put in place.
The schedule of base ball games to
be played by the Dover team at the
State fair at Dover this week is as fol
lows: Wednesday, September 26, with
Camden; Thursday, with Milford
Friday, with Smyrna. The games will
be one Of the great attractions of thu
fair.
Ex-Secretary of State Causey was il
town this week, looking over the pO
Itical field. He is confident that Sen
atOral lightning will nit him, and he i
at work trying to build his lightning
rod higher than Wolcott's. He look
upon WOicOtt as a light weight 70
Senator.-SentineL.
At the Republican nomination i
Wilmington Saturday, Lewis ThOm
psOn for State Senator and Charles NJ
Curtis, Esq, for representative wer
chosen unanimously. The contest fO
levy court commissioner was betwee
John J. Gallagher, George Mccall an
William NJ. Pyle and the former wOI
The personal property of the Dove
Glass Works Company was sold a
private sale last week to Messrs. q.
Pennywill and E. NJ. Stevenson
There was no competition in the bic
ding, and it is understood that the ger
temen named are buying up this prof.
erty with view to starting the work
on frmer basis.
It has been known for years thi
iron ore existed in West Dover hui
dred, near LOckWOOd's Chapel, bT
whether or not in sufficient quantit
to pay for working was the questiO
1t is reported that Mr.. George Stee
has sold the ore on his farm to a Phili
delphia Company who will soon con
mence operations.-DOUer Sentinel.
KENT COUNTY JURoRs.-The folloN
ing are the jurors from this part of Il
county drawn for the October ter
Of court:
Duck Creek-John P. Garrison,
L. CummiDs, EnOch Y. CarrOw, Pre-
ley Ford.
Kenton-Samuel P. Truax, Jam
W. Roe, William II. Jacobs.
Little Creek-William p. Sewal
Jefferson Cooper.
The WiLmingtOnidB publishes a p
yate letter from Dover which has t
following paragraph:
R. r. Kenney bet Cove Wilson
that John Fennimore would not be t
next sheriff. Colby Smith is suppOs
to be the man nominated for sheriff
the Republicans, and should he
they will be offering odds he will
the next sheriff, as he will not only
all the Republicans, but a great ma
Salisbury Democrats, and the ones
does not get will not vote for any ol
CONSIDERATION OF BIsHOH COLEMl
The arrangements are being ms
for the conservation of BishOp-ele
Rev. Leighton Coleman, ID. D., at
Johns p. E. Church, October Is. X
N. A. D. w. Howe, bishop Of Cent
Pennsylvania will preside, and
arrange the order of the service. X
COrtlandt Whitehead, bishop Of Pi
burg will preach the conservation
mon. All the ministers Of the dioc
are expected to be present, besi
many of the leading bishops Of
country.
Again Milford has to mourn the
Of one Of her fairest daughters, tai
this time to grace a foreign home.
Wednesday afternoon Miss Bessie
headlev. was united in marriage