Smyrna times., 1889-01-09
r1osinr OF Mails.

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S, II 10 Of Little Creek, will be married
1unoy 1sy D to Mr.. d. c. Montgomery,
r. of Dover.
Mrs NJ II. Carter has received intell-
nj % the death of her father-in-law,
Matthew Carter, i'll HartlepOOl,
T1n,sIapd. in December
q,o marriage Of Miss Frone Stokley
,tGaoford no to Mr.. George Russell of
o. a..on 0C Ohio. took place at st. Luke's
4Anai.copal Aaig Church in Seaford yesterday.
The Milford Chronicle says: Cards
ont for the marriage of Edward B.
%nI',;Json and Miss Laura johnson at
y. brides home on Thursday, jan
uary H.
The steam tug Philadelphia arrived |
,tbe mouth of the MispllIOn on Tues
I,, with the steam dredger in tow |
uJ! u.t!;sb is to do service in cleaning out |
the shoals.
: Small,s saw mill and box fac
.,ry at Lincoln, Sussex county, burned |
Thursday with machinery and con-
tents. Loss frcm $4,000 to $4,000; in
surance $4,000.
Whose victory is DR.. Lewis election,
the Wolcott straight or a portion of the
oId croud? Does it mean q. 5. Penne-
Vrill for Governor? Not much Bob
rs in it. evidently.-Sentinel.
On the l7,h OF the present month C.
Prettyman Of the firm of Prettyman
Rrothers. shoe dealers, will be married
in Philadelphia to Miss Annie Bardsley,
onIy daughter of John Bardsley, city
treasurer-elect of Philadelphia.
Alexander Newman, proprietor of
tbe hotel at Harrington, Kent County,
was robbed Of $3.50 on Wednesday. He
was also so unfortunate as to have
dne cow choke to death while eating
sweet potatoes LLe same Cay.
Sunday mornings services at the
Methodist Church, Milford, were very
impressive. Over 100 probationers
were taken into full membership and
partook of full communion Revival
service began at evening service.
Francis Wells, living D miles from
Dover. cut his knee two weeks ago
while hewing log. Nothing serious
was thought would result from it until
a few days ago, when lockjaw set in.
He is now in a critical condition.
Cards are out announcing the we'd
ding ofthe DR.. r. II. VanDyke, pri-
vate secretary of Senator salisbury,
and Miss Nan B. Fulton, daughter of
J. Alexander Fulton, Esq, on the 10th
instan: in the Presbyterian church
Dover.
Charles T. Dure, a young married
man of Wilmington, and well known
throughout the Peninsula, shot and kill
ed himself at his residence on Wednes-
dav. He was consumptive, and melan-
chOlia is said to have been the cause of
his shooting.
Georgetown will almost vie with
Dover in political activity when the
newly-elected Republican Levy Court
is called upon to elect a county treasur-
er to succeed Jessie B. Stevenson. This
political plum is the cynosure of many
eyes.
DEDICATION. The Gregg Methodist
Episcopal Church will be dedicated on
Sunday, Jan. 18th, 1889, at Bladesville,
near Seaford, Del. Revs. G. W..
Prettyman, J. H. Howard, 7. o. Ayers,
Pc, w. E. England and and w. j..
DuHadway, are expecced to be present
and take part in the services.
Was THE FATHER OF 80 CHILDREN.
-Wilmore West, residing in NanticOke
hundred, abouta2I miles from George
town. died last Monday week, aged 65
years. 6 months. Mr.. West came of a
numerous family and was himself the
father of thirty-nine children. nineteen
Ofwhom were by his first wife. he
was married three times.
The only member of the Legislature
who got his feet on top of his desk even
with his head on the first day of the
session, was w. Pierce Biggs. Robert
A. Davis on the other side, was a little
more modest, getting only one foot
upon his desk. What it will be with
the others in a week or so remains to be
seen.
Detective Hutchins of Dover, on
Thursday arresten near Laurel, I. ii
Downs. John Jones, Charles West and
John L. BOyce, on the charge of kill
ing game birds in the night time. They
were given a hearing before justice
Elliot and acquitted on account o
want of evidence. Detective Hutchln'
says he has other parties under his eye
and shall convict next time.-DetGlUar
can.
The ladies of the Dover CoOkini
Club entertained their friends las
Thursday evening at the home Of d. I
Bernard, Jr., near Dover. RegulaI
meetings of the club are held bi-week
ly, when dinners are served to thei
gentleman friends. The club is com
posed of the Misses Lucy and Alice
Gibson, r. and Anna Massey, Fanni
Pennewill, Essie Bernard and DIV
Hillyard.
There are rocks enough in the ston.
hundred" of upper New Castle I
harden half the roads IN Delaware
enough oyster shells in Sussex to II
up the other half There are idle ras
Gals enough in three Delaware jails I
break and lay the stone and to pOun
down the shell. This is in the natur
Of "a word to the wise at DOver-som'
thing supplementary to the message
Governor Philadelphia Reeor'
sALEoF New CASTLE COUNTY FARM
George w. Ingram, real estate agen
Middletown Del, has sold during u
last week, the Mrs. G. Pascault's farm
240 acres, near Odessa, to John Coehra
for $4,000.
Also the farm Of the late DIR Walto
Blackbird hundred, 144 acres, ne,
Odessa, to John Templeman OF :
Georges hundred.
Also the John A. Deihl farm IN
Georges hundred, containing 30 acre
to Thomas Craven Of Salem, n.
price S75 per acre.
The attact upon Mr.. Treat throus
the cOlums Of a paper published
Bath, Maine, a marked copy OF whi'
reached our table this week, was
wicked blow by some personal enem
and Mr. Treats manly reply TO u
the columns Of the EUeTy bUehlhg'
Wilmington, where the article was
Produced, was prompt and briefly Z,
planned in every point the writer mac
Mr.. Treat owed It TO she people 10 2
plain the charges, ard he proved ms
self equal to the task. MILFORD Chro
iele.