Smyrna times., 1889-07-17
County and State Items.

TSrJN CASrLE No. Il, X. G.. E.--Meets every Mon
day evening in Odd Fellows Hall, at 5 o'clock.
County and State Items.
Peaches still fetch Plutocratic prices.
There are three colored babies in the
Doetr Jail.
Bay trout-fshing is excellent at Bow
ers' Beach.
Cholera iufantum prevails among
Dover babies.
Surgeons have left the Delaware
until next season.
Attorney General Biggs is a guest at
the Ocean House, Asbury Grove.
The huckleberry crop in Kent and
Sussex counties is unually heavy.
The bulletin board for baseball and
other news is becoming trade feature.
ADover ordinance prohibits horses
being allowed to stand in the streets
unhltched
4 farmer near Georgetown uses an
oxas IA carriage horse" and the ami
mai is we'll trained.
James Raisin, colored, aged about 80
years, Was killed last Tuesday near
Harrington, by the explosion of boiler
in a saw-mill.
The Cedar Beach hotel, near Milford,
which vas burned few months ago.
will be rebuilt by the owner, Captain
Thomas Heathers.
Charles G.. Ash, one of the most
prominent citizens of New Castle cOun-
ty, died Monday in Delaware City,
aged about 40 years.
The Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Caldwell,
Of Frederica, have gone TO Lookout
Mountain, Tennessee, where they will
sOOurn for two months.
Land in one OF the best grain sections
Of Delaware, that has yielded 20 and %
bushels per acre, only averaged 10
bushels OF inferior wheat this year.
Wilmington City Council has made
interCepting sewer to prevent city sew
erage from entering the drinking water.
Wilmington has a new and. very sue
cessful charity, kLown as the vacation
school" to which 112 children, ranging
from 3 to 10 years of age, go two hours
per day.
John W. Keitz, a painter employed
10 the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore shop in Wilmington, was
squeezed to death between two cars
Wednesday.
Mrs. Sdllie Stevenson mas been held
in $500 bail at Milton on the charge of
having set fire To "a partly-erected
building belonging to Edward Maull
near that place.
Since January 9Th 1876, George w.
Jackson, the one-time bellman of Will
mngton, has voluntarily recovered
1879 lost children and returned them
10 their parents.
Owing to the effects of Thursday
nights storm, and to the low prices
Received, 100000 quarts of blackber-
fles will not be picked from the vines
IN the neighborhoOd of Laurel.
The barn Of J. p Griffith, a dairy
man living near Wilmington, was
struck by lightning on Wednesday, and
hve persons were knocked down and
stunned. No one was seriously injured
I. J. Stevenson and Miss Maggie
Cooper, daughter of Squire Peter L,
cooper, were married at the resi-
ueaee OF the brides parents, on the
public square, in Dover, this morning
ADAM.
-, he rain Thursday afternoon, around
ShesWold, was quite severe, causing
damage to pear and peach trees, many
o0elng blown down and limbs split off
One farmer had 100 peach trees tori
up by the roots.
Abraham Cannon died at his resi-
9ence 10 the village Of Christiana, on
monday, after prOtracted illness, il
us o4th year. Few men in the county
were more widely known or more gen
orally respected.
Oh saturday, appointed Charles Ander
soh postmaster at Rising Sun, Ken
county, Delaware. vice David Frear
removed. The salary of the Office las
year was Sl191I.
s-lss Fannie Norris, Of Dover, caugh
stlrgeon seven feet long while fishing
HI Nun the schooner of Capt ThOma
1uncy, in the Delaware bay on Frida.
lSsI. It took four men to pull
ABOARD and it was killed with an axe.
7. II. Treat & Co., general store
cepers and basketmakers at George
to"1i We're on Wednesday closed a
" the sheriff. The Liabilities are heav
% tue Farmers Bank, Of Georgetown
secehty held judgments against tn
"'~ aggregating S3l 900.
ohares to the amount Of $4,000 hav
C SSen subscribed for the Delaware Fiel
S SS.uo grounds at Wilmington. 1t
aeslfed to raise $1,000, that the clu
h,ly hay De able to fit out gymnasium an
ing alley.
bo,s y,seiawareans are patrOnizing Reh
A. HOfe TINS season than ever. a
SlocOttages that could be rented ha'
M M aud there is a demand for thirl
an ~OFe The hotels are fast filling U
lua au. everything looks fair for an exec
sn lne following Dover people are ava
Fp FSpImering: Misses Lizzie Collins al
INA INA Jones, in Philadelphia; Miss NJ
Iourne' at Atlantic City; Mr.. and Nj
TIsep1 Levi, Miss Cora HOiIeckC
P,' P;.s' Rev. l.. w. Gibson, Mrs. /
~ anOp and family, Chief Justice Com
ana daughter, at RehOboth.
P Mrs. 5Is. Mary R. sippIe, uother of
Ian pple, died on Wednesday last, I
Hs Hu INST, in the 69th year of her as
an sickness was only Of a weel
auon and was Of u typhoid for
enAsa death is supposed to have
sea aes;a because Of the failure Of hei
tn toeo She was inferred at Georl
PSa Thursday night the residence
IS asa nas Taylor, Of Laurel. was stru
"satning, but the family escap