Smyrna times., 1889-08-07
County and State Items

spelling bee stlngs.
FOrty-nine inches of rain have fallen
in Sussex since last January.
Sixteen tramps were captured at
CLAYTON Thursday and landed in Dover
Jail.
The Kent county Levy Court is
averse to prosecuting tramps for vag-
rancy.
The project of building a railroad
from Middletown to Odessa is again
being agitated.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
are receiving bids for 5000 cars which
will cost SO, 100000.
PlOver were never more numerous
on our bayshOre marshes than they
have beeen this week.
1t is reported in Georgetown that c.
H. Treat has given up all hope of set
fling with his creditors.
1t cost 1. L. Fols and John Tobin,
both of New Castle, $40 and costs each
for abusing their horses in Wilmington.
Wilmington City Council is trying to
effect legislation which will prevent
bicvclists from riding on the sidewalks.
Three hundred thousand dollars in
city and county taxes We're paid to the
Wilmington Tax Collectors last month.
The abunance of rain has evidently
soaked through the cows, and that ac-
counts for SO much water in the milk.
The recent destructive rains have
caused the price of corn to advance
from 10 to 80 cents per bushel At George
town.
Peach buyers are plentiful, and if
weather will only get so the fruit will
bear shipment the growers will realize
COED prices.
c. NJ. Lutch has been appointed
storekeeper and guager at Wilmington.
Lutch WAS Deputy Collector of Inter
nal Revenue for years.
Several prolific peach trees in the
orchard Of John Taylor Of Dover,
have been killed by mice eating oil the
bark close To the roots.
Edgar II Naudain of Wilmington.
died at MiddletOwu OH Saturday of
consumption from which he had been
suffering for a long time.
While at at work in the Delaware
Iron Works at New Castle yesterday
Merrill A. PaXOn fell to the floor and
Immediately died from heart disease.
Alfred B. Johnson, young colored
man OF Wilmington, has received the
appointment of mail agent on the
Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad
James Murray of New Castle, has
been benefited by Tanners re-rating.
He has received notice Of the granting
Of a pension of SIS per month and the
allowance Of $500 back pay.
Local physicians say there are more
cases OftyphOid fever, diphtheria and
whOOping cough in Sussex than was
before known. One Laurel doctor has
10 5patients suffering with the dreaded
typhoid
Under the unfavorable prospect for
tOAAtO ClOp III O6ldAuIoi O1uIS ldu1
and New Jersey, prices of canned
tomatoes have advanced, until can
ners can see possible margin of profit
in packing them.
While the catch Ofshad in the Della
ware the past season, was unusually
large, there was an alarming decrease
IN the number caught in the rivers of
Connecticut. Only $4,000 fish were
there this spring.
Sussex county gunners fear that the
partridge and other small game in that
section have been destroyed. The
late rains have drowned many of the
young birds, while the rest have been
captured by hawks.
Assistant United States Engineer A
otlerle Who was formerly stationed at
Lewes, has been making a survey O
Cniucoteague Inlet and shoals with d
view TO building break water there
at cost Of S,5OO,OOO.
George V. Massey, Esq, and family
returned from Europe Monday night
ana the greeting which his fellow citi
zenS gave him everywhere proves tina
the tall light of the law has a grip oil
the affections of the folks at home.
contract has been made with Bax
yer Wrecking Company to raise ant
9elVer at Philadelphia the schOOne
hiille Derby, which was run into ant
sunk In the Delaware by the ErricssOI
Line steamer w. Whiltren few night
ago.
DR.. D. A. Harrison, Medical Super
lntendent Of the Kings County Insan
AsylumE, at St. JOhnsland, L. l., ha
been elected superintendent c
tne Delaware Insane Asylum, Q
Farnhurst, at a salary Of S23OO per ar
annum.
The Brandywine Granite COmpan
ol Wilmington, which has a Govern
ment contract 10 fill in the gapway a
lle hreakWater with 10000 tons
stone, Is now preparing to make
single blast which will turn out lO,OC
tons of rock.
The second Of the three fumigatin
Steamers which are being built in Wi
mlngton by the Pusey 4 Jones Con
pany for the Government was launc
ed Saturday The vessel will be nan
ed Robert KnOch, in honor Of the n
TED German scientist.
The short peach crop will material
reduce the consumption Of sugar by q
Sahneries But it is an outrage on u
larmer, the mechanic, the laboriI
man, that he should be compelled
STINT himself TO minister to the gre
u6a few extOrtiOnate capitalists.
IMPROVING ST. JONES RIVER
?. Civil Engineer Philips went do'
70 Bowers last week, to take charge
Ihe Government work about to be
gun upon the mouth Of St. Jones RiV
oy the contractor. Frank G.. SOmers,
Oamden, N. J. The Government "
spend $4,000 upon the improvement
It is enly four weeks until the s
oqd annual exhibition of the WilmiI
1on Agricultural aud Industrial As
TlaIlon will take place at Hazel u
raFk. The clang of the hammers
scores Of busy wOrkmen shows q
.he managers Of the fair are determiI
nave everything in readiness WI
tile fdlF Ouauu