Smyrna times., 1889-10-09
county and State Items.

Typhoid fever prevails at New
Castle.
seaford had hail storm last Tues
day.
Anew trial is asked for in the Parvis
damage case.
: s. Shaw will be HarringtOn's next |
,ostmaster, it is said.
Mrs. John Perry died near Leipsic
Friday. aged 65 years.
1mprovements to cost $4,000 are be-
ing made in Broad Greek.
The new pipe organ for New Castle
NE. Church is being erected.
Near Wilmington boy fell from
obestnut tree and broke his arm.
1.mesA Layton, Milford merchant,
hos failed with liabilities at $500.
nowerful telescope has been put in
the Maritime Exchange at Lewes.
1obn W. Messick, it is said, will be
appointed postmaster at Georgetown.
Consul Enoch J. Smithers of Will
mington is preparing to move his fami-
ly to Japan.
pumpkin weighing 173 pounds is
.xbibi,ed iu a Wilmington clothing
store window.
Plepro.pneunonia wa. found among
the cattle belonging to T. p. Vanhekle,
Of Port Penn.
Eleven hundred tons of iron pipe and
boiler tubing are manufactured weekly
in New Castle.
Fifty probati0ners were received into
mIl membership in the NJ. f. Church
OfD0yer sunday.
Alexander Morris, aged GS years,
was killed at Harrington last Thursday
gbis wrestling witH a stallion"
~Honeymoon Row" is the name
giyeu row of houses at West Chester
o. i...-.! " newly married couples ex-
clusy~'y.
d. Ez,kiel Dawson, who recently
received a Treasury appointment, will
remove with his family to Washington
this week.
An effort is being made TO have the
delegates from south and Central
Amerca spend a. least one day in
Wilmington.
George Long. of Seaford, has been
he.i IN $3.50 bail for the United States
Dianc. Couitln Wilmington for selling
liquor al camp meeting.
Wm. Il. Ross has purchased part oil
The burned block at SeafOrd and will
erect thereon a brick structure TO be
used as :. drug store and Office.
Mrs. Rebecca A. Roe, aged 81 years
burst blood vessel while attempting
70 turn over iu bed on sunday night il
Wilmington, and died instantly.
While playing with the fire in al
open hearth at Georgetown an evening
o. 50 since, l-year old child of vii
lam Pet,ijOhn was burned to death.
Forobtainins 500 from DR.. L. NJ
Whistler, OF Newark, under false pre-
lenses, C. c. WickIes, an insuranc
agent, was held IN S4OO bail for Cour
DR.. B. L. Lewis, of Harrington, sol
bis four -year-old colt Maude last Frida
morning, at the Dover fair grounds, t
& H. Smith, OF HattJnfeld, y. J lC
SIS
Members Of the Delaware Nation;
Guard who Obstinately refused to al
tend the late encampment viii
eoart-martiaied On on October y i
Dover.
The centennial anniversary Of ii
AsbuIy Methodist Episcopal Churc
q Wilmington, which will occur 9
October 18th. will b. observed by Sc
Tiees II mex. week.
Two young ladies' OF Milford, Mi
slie Davis and Miss Miranda Wi
vel, have graduated and estabiish'
ihsmse.ye- a. physicians. rhey a
Naeii-ing ~ Bethlehem. Pa.
The Reed farm, near Harrington. il
recently been sold five times by q
s3snh Four successive sales Of [
property have been set aside on techl
e2iiiies. Nice for the sheriff.
Young Augustus Wacster, who tri
. e1t his throat 10 Wilmington a f
Gays since. is q son of the man "
BANGED himself to a door knob
fliadelphia because his truant "
REUSED 10 return home with him.
Successors TO the Jail Commission
q New Castle county, who have
Ssled their positions through dissa
,-eaon with the sheriff, will prOba
y 'sAppolnted by the Levy Court Frid
Kentucky has voted for, and
.slls . have, a Constitutional COnv
-9l. Delaware seems undecis
Ilsiher she will batter down the d
!. ne Old Constitution or spend a
I@e Years in trying to find the
me interest on the debt Of New {
= county is S27I35.5O Annually
.'si t52l a week. Fortv-three th
s4-l dollars Of the total debt consist
- neid By the Farmers Bank, wl
- discounted and renewed whene
lsy fall due.
elafies u. Marshall Of I.ewes
S,'-..eled with the Rehoboth Be
....'oeAlion to put down three row
~ pHing along the front from
H-.Is5a ~, q ooundry to a point north
- - ieniopen. This work is ex
~, ~ Dc afectual in protecting
~ 80 Font from the ravages Of
tafner Hilton, Of near Odessa, I
~ % 90 salt a calf in his past
~ 10y ooeye1 by rubbing quar-
~ l ne hair Of the young bovine
~ 49, oi coils in the same field with
aslsnled the salt and almost k
q. a.-.iortunate animal by licking
e-.'-l1Iure. The calf has since eli
H'S.a1g the Fair Friday aftern
f{ /, .. a fast 2-year old, owned
!. Emory Of CentreviIle, Md, II
,--.oiilon heat, at Dover, brea
49, record Of 24l. The time {
60 ambition heat was 2.34f
appy B. won prize Of
49, lsaf-old IS considered the
as lrotter on the Peninsula
?. Fansant and Miss Emil
We're married Wednesda
Hl--iltnce Of tho hri1oaf M ron