Smyrna times., 1889-04-10
Delaware and Maryland Items.
The Pusey & Jones Company last
week shipped quantity of paper ma
chlnery from Wilmington to Germany.

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chinery from Wilmington to German,
John Gavaghan, aged % years, an
a track walker has been identified {
the man killed on the Baltimore an
Ohio Railroad at Wilmington on Wee
nesday and mistaken for Williai
Patton.
stephen Boyer of near Sassafras. +,
Gently disposed of ten stacks of stra,
TO the ChestertOwn Straw Board Con
pany at So per stack. Another gentle
man near by also disposed often stack
at the same price.
Bishop COleman's letter calls atter
ton to the starving Chinese. Afte
the flood came the famine, and thou
sands are in abject poverty. Grea
Britain has sent millions for relief an,
millions more are needed.
There has been circulated a petition
praying the Legislature to REQUIRE al
pedlers and travelling venders of mer
chandlse to pay town license befor
! operating in our midst The ide;
being to put everyone on an equa
footing.
The Order of the Sons of TEMPER
ance, which thirty years ago We'd Will
| the Odd Fellows and Masons in DOpu
Iarity in Delaware has entirely ceased
to exist in the State, with the exceD.
ton Of a colOred division in Dover thai
meets once a month.
Armstrong, the Democratic assessor
OF st. Georges Hundred, left the name,
OF 81 Republicans Off the assessment
after he first placed them on. But. OF
course, these men are to be bounded
down for not paying their taxes, ac-
Gording to the logic Of the Ecerq
Eceajng.
The canvass for subscriptions for the
Young Mems Christian Association to
be established in Wilmington has
begun and already between 5000 and
500 have been secured It is desired
to raise $500 for a starting fund. Job
II. jackson has contributed 5000
Joseph Pyle $3.50 and Crosby and
Hill $3.50.
When Judge Ball fined George Will
ildms, the man who tried to spirit wit
nesses away, one hundred dollars. a
healthy feeling went out from the
Court, that Wilmington had a Judge
upon the municipal bench not to be
trliied with. Williams paid his fine
with a kind of didn't. t.kuow-it-was
loaded" expression.
Alfred w. Quigg, Of the New York
Tribune, son Of Rev. John b. Ouigy. of
the Wilmington Conference. was mar
IN Lyons, n. y, March 18th, 1889. TO
Miss Melee J. Ireland, daughter of the
late Judge Ireland, and graud-daugh-
ter OF Rev. Daniel Ireland, who trav-
eled Cecil circuit in 1904 and again in
1917. The groom's father performed
the marriage ceremony.
At a meeting of the officers and
teachers OF the Presbyterian Sabbath
school of Smyrna, held on Sunday
week, George w. Taylor, Mrs. F. f.
Evans, and Mrs. James Anthony, were
chosen as delegates to the Sabbath
School Convention which sits in Will
mngton, April llth and 12tn, and
Miss K. L. Storm and Mrs. ii. D.
Boyer were named as alternates.
A. r. Morrison of New Castle hun
dred has been awarded the contract to
build new iron bridge over the Pas
sale river at Newark, n. J.. for the
sum of $4,000. The bridge will be a
handsome as well as a substantial
structure, and it will require some four
months to complete it, Mr.. Morrison
IS well known in Smyrna, and is
brother-in-law to Nathaniel Pratt.
The express companies in this State
are squirming because there is a bill
before the Legislature asking that a
certain tax be levied on them. Just
why express companies should be ex-
empted from paving a tax, does not
seem clear, because if such corpora
tlons are not simOn-pure mOnopolies,
then the Standard Oil Company and
other like concerns, are not mOnOpOlies.
It is said that the State of MARYLAND.
about $4,000 annually
for the support of her State militia.
Most Of this goes to the Support of the
famous 5th Maryland Delaware in
1883 spent $23 900 for our militia, and
has started out nobly this year with
$1,000. State Treasurer Herbert saws.
he knows of no limit to the amount for
which the adjutaut general may draw
on him for funds for this purpose.
The Eagle creamery of Middletown.
paid its patrons $12O per hundred
pounds or u cents per gallon for milk
for the month of February. Between
s., 900 and S2,50O was paid out alto
gether for milk for this month. Messrs.
Spur & Perkins now have four cream
cries which will start up in few days.
They are at McDonough, Summit
Bridge, Earleville and Masseys. Ce-
ment floors will be used in all of these.
Republicans by the thousand went
to the City Hall, Wilmington, little
over a year ago to get assessed, but
they were met with Democratic po-
licemen with blackjacks in their hands
and driven away from the assessment
tables, and yet in the face of all this,
the leading Democratic organ says
that it won't do to hold the Democratic
party responsible for these men not
paying their taxes. Did you ever?-
Republican.
An application for divorce from
Henry Hudson, aged II, from his wife,
Carrie, aged IA, now pending before
the Legislature, shows that the minis
ter who married them when they
were respectively IA and IL years of
age, would have been better employed
chOpping cordwoOd in the Sussex pine
forest than in preaching the gospel.
The preacher is member of the Will
NJ. E. Conference and it has
never been known that he was disci-
plined for his act in the matter.-Re-
publican.
With the muRificent offers of park
lands to Wilmington by William NJ.
Field and Samuel Bancroft, Whining
ton would have the territory for the
grandest park of any city in the Union.
1t would not be as large as many others,
could not be compared in size with
FairmOunt in Philadelphia, nor the
Central in New York, but what it lacks
in acreage area is made up in romantic
beauty. Stretching from Market street
along the Brandywine to Mt. Salem
nj. E. Church, at the latter point it
comes into possession of the highest
point of land in Delaware, for by
actual survey Mt. Salem Church is
eight feet higher than Rodney street
basin.
The Lying Gas Meter. The Will
mingtOn Coal Gas Company sent out
its bills last week for gas consumed
during the quarter ending April l, and
the air is full of mutterings and COM