Smyrna times., 1889-04-10

The Legislature will receive no
ore new business.
The oyster planting season began |
Ill % boats were commissioned |
that day.
lanes Graham, living near SeafOrd, !
.,"tTpriug from the effects of being |
l5rnck by tightening last week.
Tho acreage planted to sweet pota-
.,as about Milford this year will be
sG s6out double that formerly grown.
rha Transcript says that the Middle
.,.,,n rail road office sells tickets to the
omount of g, 900 to $4,000 per month.
senator Higgins was one of the
.,eskers at the banquet of the Young
Rennblican Club of Philadelphia last
night.
The citizens of Lewes are arranging
nr steamboat line between that
noint % and Philadelphia the present
season.
In the House, w. L. Davis intro
dnced bill providing that grand juries
shall pass on applications for liquor
licenses.
Internal Revenue Collector Fred
Gsrker of Philadelphia, who is well
known on the Peninsula, is very i'll and
may not recover.
Senator Higgins has purchased
lot in the northwest corner of Wash
ington, and will erect a residence there
on at an early date.
Work on Reedy Island jotty will
shortly be begun. Huge mats made of
branches of small trees will furnish the
foundation for the stone walls.
The newly appointed preacher, Rev.
WM Warner, moved into the parson-
ave at Black bird on Tuesday, and was
rendered a reception ON Thursday
afternoon.
The bill revoking the charter Of the
Dean Woolen Company, became law
last week. It is now believed that
the plant ~ Il he thrown on the mar
ke. at az early day.
Samuel Jones, colored farmer near
MiddletOwn, runs a schOOl-hOuse eX-
clusiyely for his own children. The
eldest son teaches dozen of his young
er brothers and sisters.
The threatened trouble in Bethel and
GlasglOw NJ. E. Church has been aver
ted by the appointment of the Rev. S.
T. Gardner as pastor and the sending Ol
the Rev. J. w. Hammersley to Church
Greek.
The Middletown Transcript says
delaware in .1SSS spent $4,000 on
militia. while the State of Maryland
spent $4,000. Will some one urge
Maryland to spend more money or an
sist on DeldCdre spending less"
A raid was made upon a coloret
gambling den in Wilmington Saturday
and seven of the gamesters were cap
tured Frank Boyle, the propretei
was held in $1,000 bail for a further
hearing, and the others were released
Broad Creek is the latest candidat,
for similar honor. It's name is TO bt
changed to Laurel River.
On the next map Of Delaware the
school boy should iud Leipsic, Lewes
Mispillion, Murderkill and Smyrna
rivers.
THE DAMAGE AT REHOBOTH.-Th
late gale, with high tides at Rehohot
beach. has washed down and destrOye
the pavilion and nearly all the boar'
walk. Half the width of Surf avenue
nearly its entire length, has been badl
washed out.
John c. Raymond has been appOir
ted postmaster at Leipsic, Kent count
to succeed II. l.. Wilson salary la,
year. $l97.44. Allen H. Bernis ws
appointed postmaster at Viola, KeI
county. in place Of J. u. Harrington
salary Sl57.44.
Joseph CoyIe, the sole survivor
the barge Sunrise Of New York, cam
ashore iuthe suriboat at the Delawal
Breakwater, and reported the sinkin
of the barge with the captain, his wi
and two children and a seaman, who
name he did not know.
Peach nursery stock has been slo
sale in this part Of Delaware to loc
planters, but the demand from Il
north and west has reduced stocks
our nurserymen rapidly. On Satu
day last a car load went from this d
pot to LewistOwn, n. Y.-MuJO
Chronicle.
The Baker Bros. who managed L
corn packing establishment at Odes
last wear have decided to resume &
business at the same place this ye'
provided they can secure the corn
$3.50 Der ton. Many of the farmt
have agreed to grow corn at this prl
and about 400 acres have been contra
ted for.
The MiddletOwn Transcript in deie
ding Assessor Armstrong OF that du
dred for neglecting to put "a names
republicans on the Assessment list tL
had been given him says "The De
ocrats out of no enmity to the color
man, simply take advantage OF
Assessment laws. beat the Republica
and keep the Offices.
The missionary committee OF the
Z. Diocese Of Delaware IS arrahgl
to establish missions. Sunday tne ~
Alexis dupont Coleman started ~ ~
sion at No. 713 West Front street, v,
minpton also "a mission at BrldgeVh
The Rev. Mr.. Hynes Of Seatord y
have charge of it and services VIII
held in the town hall.
William B. Diehl, Of near Port re
was taken very III on Thursday, WI
in the office of w. II. Houston, IN NJ
dIetown. where he had gone early
the morning te settle his tax bill. N
icaI assistance was at once summon
and it was found that Mr.. Diehl ha'
very heavy stroke Of paralysis
died in the afternoon.
The schooner Mary E. Bacon
Seaford, Del, which sailed from
minpton. N. c., on March with
90 Of lumber for Baltimoreu is thou
to have bsen lost in the subseqI
gales. She was commanded by !
Tain William J. Eskridge OF Bet
Del. who was accompanied Dy his
and crew Of several men.
Two prominent citizens of MI
are now suffering from severe re,
dangerous illness. In n0rth Mn
C-J Hall has the solicitous carr
bis family and friends. lie was
last prcthonotary for Kent county
vious 20 the present monument
south Milford Thomas Carlisle =
precarious condition, when 1nIeH
softening Of the brain.