Smyrna times., 1889-04-03
Glazing Of Mails.
county and State Items.


building boom has struck Delmar.
the oyster dredging season ended I
Monday.
Milford firm ships 400 dozen eggs
per week
TN 70 date so divorce bills have been
introduced
There are 1888 Knights of the Gold
on Eagle in the State.
The arresting of "peach plucks" cost
vent county over $4,000 last year.
The Kent county tax collectors owe
the county S14, 1870 for taxes for 1888.
ponorts from all over the State indi-
cate that there will be an immense
peach crop.
Although new State House is need
od there is little probability OF its be-
ing built.
Thirty female students at the New
ort Academy will be drilled in mill
tary tactics.
William T. Brazure, Jr., has been ap |
,ointed Assistant Lighthouse Keeper |
at Fenwicks Island Light.
The House calls the Senate at Dover |
"The Grave yard" =" where SO many of |
the formers hopes are buried.
The State Sunday School Conven-
ton will meet in West Presbyterian
Church, Wilmington, April llth and
18th.
Professor CHARLES L. Penny has been
made chief chemist of the agricultural
station in connection with Delaware
College, at Newark.
The Nanticoke Steamboat Company
ia sreported as having bought the large
side wheel steamer Helen, to ply be-
tween Seaford and Baltimore.
Although required by law to make
annual statements of It's accounts, the
New Castle County Levy Court has
complied but once since since 1854.
John Fletcher Williamson, who died
in Newark on Sunday, was Speaker of
the House Of Representatives for two
years. He also served in the Senate.
VS. Dickerson of Oshkosh, sold
and shipped on Saturday last to Geo.
". Townsend, at MiddetOwn, his en-
tire herd uf blooded HOlstein-Fresian
cattle.
James Stewart & Bro. have purchas-
cd the site aud machinery of the burn
ed planning mill and basket factory at
Lincoln, and will begin at once to re-
building it.
A bill requiring the publication of
person's ancestry before he or she can
be granted a marriage license has been
Introduced in the House and referred
to a committee composed solely OF
bachelors.
The Republicans have been praising
the Democrats for making an honest
assessment this year, but in West St
Georges Hundred they wake up to hno
that Assessor Armstrong has distran
chised 81 of them.
Only a few years ago Milford, say'
the Chronicle, was surrounded witt
clover fields. or lots. Bnt IN the las
two or three years, the fruit craze ha
cause their destruction to such an ex
tent. that pasture is scarce aud cure'
hay high in price.
The Coroner's jury il the case 0
Frank Daniels, who was recently XIII
ed bv the explosion of a trap-gun IN
tended for chicken thieves, on tn
farm of Harrie Wood, near Whining
ton. n.rendered a verdict censuring hal
ry Grswold, the tenant of the farm
for criminal negligence
REPRESENTATIVE Maulls proposal
increase the pay of the members oi IN
Assembly should receive attention
The So per diem is too small. Perhal
the best plan of increase is to state
r. ION NrrTfh a
diem of s. a day for extra sessions nc
exceeding fifteen days.-Ecen1ng 30"
Hdl
The Seaford RerieU says IF Il
legislature were TO pass the bill pr
hibiting the sale or importation
Chicago beef. SeafOrd would have
do without beef. Our farmers do NJ
raise enough stock for butchering pu
poses to supply a town OF hall q
size of Seaiord, and what they
raise is not fit to eat"
Robert 5. Morris dwelling,
Georgetown, was burned Saturd
night. Most Of the furniture was g
ten out in a damaged condition. /
FIRE was attributed to a defective III
There was an insurance of 81, 100
Queen Insurance Company, on l
house and S4OO, in the Kent Cour
Mutual, on the furniture.
Horace Greeley Knowles hopes to
appointed Consul General to Const'
tinoDle Judge George p. Fisher wou
accent the Registership of the Unit
States Treasury Henry G. Mahal
George w. Stone and Henry
McLear are candidates for the v
r,i,,,,o,, Uostr,aat ershiD and AnthC
Reybold would like to be Collector
the port.
The report of the Grand Master
Records of the Grand Castle KING
of the Golden Eagle Of Delaw'
shows that during the past year I
order alone has paid out in this y
81 622 Is for the relief of brothers, %
"a for burving the dead and $500
the relief of widows and orphans u
inc a total Of S3. .342 35, or an averag
over $50 per week.
FARMER PORTER, OF DELAWl
TurNKs NEIGHBOR Dill SHOT HI
lanes Porter is an old mlset
lives with his wife on farm near
ton and not great distance from
NoryIand line. Several years ago
ter ana his wife were bound by
of masked men, and about S3OOO
stolen from the house.
The latest depreciation occurred
Tuesday Of last week. Ihe
miser went to the barn early 10
morning to feed his stock, when !.
ceiyed the contents Of shotgun .
face. neck and arms, and was
wounded. A neighbor, named VI
Dill. told him that over s2OO hau
taken from him during that day;
statements were so conflicting tha
was suspected Of being the person
shot Porter. He was arrested a
home near Boyce's Mills, Mo.
brought 20 Delaware, and Is now
$500 bail.
that GRAvEYARD.-A writer
Wilmington Sunday Star says y,,
Constitutional Convention phi
passed the House sleeps the sleep
knows no waking for II died
Senate. By the way. the Den
Senate is becoming to be the .