Smyrna times., 1889-04-17
County and State Items.

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High License
The wheat crop throughout the
State will be large.
The Pullman Palace Car Works in
Wilmington will be enlarged.
Bowers now has FIVE stores, Lem
mel Fox having opened new one.
The New Castle woolen-mill is run
ming with one haf of its usual force.
Beniah Watson. Esq, of Dover, is an
applicant for nsul-general at Berlin.
REPRESENTATIVE Bigss. who has been
III at his home in MiddletOwn, is con-
valescent.
Newark mag yet have electric lights |
There is talk OF private company be-
ing formed.
Joseph NJ Pusey, of the J. M. Pusey
Company, Warp manufacturers, of
Wilmington, died in that city Monday,
aged 81 years.
The strike on the Delaware and
Chincoteague Canal has been settled
bv the laborers agreeing to work for
$l25 per day.
The vessel which stranded at Ma
hohn.s during the storm of last week
was the Mary DistOn of TuckauOe,
NJ. She is a total loss.
It cost II. B. Kloberg, Frank Gentry
and John Myer, all boys, SO and costs
each Monday at Wilmington for defac-
ing trees in Brandywine Park.
Ifanv one can call up the spirit of
Jobn NJ. Clayton, it would be interest
inc to know what he thinks about the
vote of 1SS7.-Morning NelUs.
Edwin F. Smith, special agent of the
Government, in his report on peach
yellows, points strongly to some living
contagiom as being the cause of the dis
ease.
Joshua Treat and n. F. Huxford, of
the Sussex Manufacturing Company of
G. Glrse town. are i2r3rporltors Of the
Baltimore Basket Company, incorpora-
ted in Baltimore on Saturday week.
The house that Senator Higgins is to
build in Washington is to cost SS,OOO.
His two nieces, who have charge OF
his Wilmington home, will also look
after his comfort in his new quarters.
The pilots have abandoned all hopes
for the safety of the pilot boat Enoch
Turlev. and now believe her to have
been lost on April 9th with all hands,
10 in number. while trying to reach the
Delaware Breakwater.
The number Ofliquor licenses to be
applied for at the May term of court
in Wilmington, is l47. OF these five
have been previously refused and eight
are new applications. There are sixteen
out of town and 129 in town.
Thomas Collins, aged 73 years, while
intoxicated on Sunday fell down Stair
at his boarding house in Wilmington
and broke his neck. He left wife II
Philadelphia, from whom he had beer
separated for twenty years.
Bishop Coleman has issued to tn
clergy of the Episcopal diocese a re
quest that they comply with the Presi
dents proclamation, that April 3Oth
the anniversary Ofthe Washington cen
tennial, be observed with prayer an'
praise.
The auditor of accounts for Ken
county. James II. BOyce, will be in al
tendance at the session of the SuperiC
Court at Dover, April %, and thre
davs thereafter to settle the account
of school committees of the several Ill
tricts of the county.
Miss Miranda Davidson Of Delawai
CITY and the Rev. Martin b. Dunla
rector of the Old Swedes Church, WI
mington. will be married Christ ChurC
on Wednesday afternoon, April 24t
The ceremony will be performed |
Rt. Rev. b shop Coleman.
In settling the suit of James McCom
the millionaire farmer Of ClaymOnt, /
a divorce from his wife the former 7
tains posession of the three chlldrc
grants the wife $4,000, and furnish
her with house in Wilmington, .
sides allows her $50 per week.
EXECUTIONS AGAINST A BO
HoUsE.-Executions to the extent
$4,000 were issued Friday against t
Hare and Morgan Company, manut'
turers of bolts. nuts and washers,
Wilmington. The assets are SlO,OOO, a
the creditors are mostly Wllmlngt
firms and individuals.
The schooner William p. Day
a 2OO-ton vessel belonging to DIR I.
Tomlinson of Milton, which was drlN
ashore near Norfolk, Va, during
late severe gale, will be gotten OH
good condition at a cost to the own
of about 81 800. Several others OF
vessels stranded at the same u
will be entirely lost, one of " hich
longs to Ex-Governor Hall and son
Frederica.
Cornelius J. Hall, whose funeral
the most prominent cltizehs Ol n
county. He was a member OF
House Of Representatives in 1870
aaoin in 1871 He was clerk of
Peace for Kent county from 1887
1996 He died on Tuesday last
the remains we're inferred in the
Fellows' Cemetery at Milford.
Nos son-in-law Of the late Cover
Tharp.
NrwARK's CADETs.-The Le
sovs. Newark will soon be full OF
diets This week uniforms were or
ed for 40 students of the college
academy ]. Will Brown received
contract for furnishing the suits.
bovs are making rapid progress
tbe art of military tactics u
Tieutenant Brown. The young u
of the academy drill nicely and pre-
very soldierly appearance hu
for our militia.
CAPTAIN LOLLIs KILLED
schooner Samuel w. Hall, Cal
James Lollis Of Frederica, from
York for jacksonville, arrived al
bow Monday 10 tow, and reports
experienced the terrific gale on
9Th inst, off Hatteras, during v
the boom tackles were carried
striking the master on the head,
ing injuries of which he die9 tn'
lowing day and was buried az
Captain I.ollis was resident OF
erica, where he leaves a vile ana
The April term Of the United
District Court was held in Wilmin
last week, Judge Wales pres
The only case for submission
grand jury was that Of CnaIl
Perry. who was arrested several
ago bv Post-olice Inspector W,
well for using the mails for ifaus
purposes. His course was 20
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