Smyrna times., 1889-03-27

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Cedar Beach is being fitted up as an
.,tractive summer resort.
The Valued Policy Insurance bill has |
,ossed the Senate unanimously.
Underground wires will be the next |
material improvement in Wilmington.
Tbeoldest pilot in Lewes, William
wsst. Sr.. has been stricken with par
aysis.
The recent rains have flooded the
creeks and marshes in the vicinity of
Lewes.
Milford boasts of having one of the
finest l. o. 0. F. lodge-rOoms in the
country.
The flats in the Delaware River op-
nosite Delaware City are lined with
wild ducks
Senator Higgins is backing Horace
Greeley Knowles for COunsul-general
at ConstantinOple.
The Board of Health of Wilmington
has designed plan to save the people
from the Plumbers.
Governor Biggs has appointed Isaac
VI. Foolks, Of Georgetown, Insurance
Commissioner for four years.
Nearly the entire bulkhead and fifty
feet of board walk at Rehoboth were
washed away during the recent storm.
Every boy in South Milford between
the age of 8 and Is years is credited
with being the pOssessOr of a revolver.
Delaware will send 500 men to New
York on April 80 to participate in the
Washington Inaugural Centennial celc-
bratiOn.
The Delaware Field Club is negotia-
ting for the purchase of ten-acre tract
on the suburbs of Wilmington, at
cost of $4,000.
The State authorizes have placed
100000 young white fish in the Brandy
wine at Rockland, and %, 900 in streams
near Milford.
Richard Willis, colored, died in Will
mia.:on op Frilay fram lockjaw,
caused by running a nail in his foot
about ten days ago.
The Wilmington City Passenger
Railway Company is to begin the con
structiOn of a street car line on Eighth
street without delay.
Troop B, of the Delaware National
Guard, has been invited TO attend the
semi centennial of Galveston, Tex,
from to 10, inclusive.
Four men and three women, all col
ored, are lodged in Jail at Georgetown
charged with having stolen a sloop in
in Baltimore Hundred.
There have been more Sherilf's sales
in Broadkiln Hundred during the past
twelve months than for the same
length Of time for fifty years.
The plant Of the defuuct Delaware
Beet Sugar Works at Riverside has
been secured by the Keystone Refining
Company, of Philadelphia, for the re
fning Of sugar.
The Legislature will adjourn in May
Measures providing for reforms il
the Wilmington municipal depart
ments will command much of the leg
isatOrs' attention.
William Taylor, than whom ther,
Is not a more liberal man in Delaware
presented r. H. Adams, before leav
ing for conference, with an entire sui
Of fclothes including hat and boots.
James w. Ponder, 80, of Milton
won second prize in the Phoenix ora
torical contest held in Swarthmor
College on the evening OF the 25d in
slant.
William 5. Arthurs. formerly wit
J. VI. Arthurs in the merchantile busi
ness in KentOn, has opened a larg
store in Philadelphia. He is succeed
ed by G.. w. Clark, Jr., of Philadelphia
but formerly of KentOn.
Delaware fisherman are compelle
to swear before Justice of the Peace
prior to April l, that they own tn
boats and nets which they use, an
that they will not fish in the intere'
Of nom resident Of the State.
Congressman Pennington has been al
pointed by the Secretary of the Nav
Of vacancy in the United States Nav;
Academy at Annapolis, Nd, to whic
be will be asked to appoint youn
man from Delaware.
DR.. George NJ PleasantOn, of Milfor'
bat recently located at Denton, wa
married Tuesday evening, the lS
inst, at the residence of the bride
parents, near CheswOld, Del, to Mi
Jennie Moore, daughter Of Mr.. Jof
Moore.
The Delaware law regarding Il
sale and analysis of fertilizers an
their consequent protection to farmer
which was passed in 1885, is to be
ken as a model by the Florida Leg
lature for the enactment Of simil
measure.
The Rev. J. S.'Willis of Milford IS
be married on the 10Th of next mon
to a Connecticut lady. Our Delawa
candidates for matrimOny will have
wake up or those of New England
dies will beat them every time.-h'
Countidn.
Samuel G. Fisher, Of Glendale, e'
tracted on Thursday through Willii
TAYLOR. of Middletown, TO deliver 1'C
pine piling during the next 80 da
These will be used in the G.
struction Of the New Navy Yard
League Island, near Philadelphia.
Among the measures proposed
the Legislature Tor Wilmington
bill providing that all telegraph, Il
phone and electric wires shall be pla'
underground. The accumulation
wires and posts that is taking pla
By reason Of the growing and spre
ing Of the mean for utilizing the e
trio current, is becoming dense.
KILLED BY A TRAP GUN.-Wili
Daniels, aged Is years, was acciden
ly shot on the farm of Harry we
near Wilmington Friday and died
the hospital there that afternoon.
was employed on the farm, ana
opening a chicken coop, when a
which had been arranged for thel'
aud of which be was ignorant, was
charged, its contents entering his DC
Levy Court adjourned Friday U
April 16. The allowances says
Sentinel are very heavy this YET
larger than ever before. Ex-sh
McDaniers allowance is over 90
his "tramp" account being very Ia
Justice Book, Of Clayton, was allo
$40 mostly for tramps, making
arrests one day. The tramp arr