Smyrna times., 1889-05-08
county and State Items.

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s. Georges Presbyterian Church has
nurchased piano.
The Wilmington Directory con
tains 10000 names.
Trout are being caught in Delaware
river and its tributaries.
Chief Justice Comegys is improving
his cottage at Rehoboth.
Business generally throughout the
,sninsula is said to be dull.
Persons living near Camben report
that a great many peaches are killed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has nearly 10000 men on its pay rolls.
Eight Sunday ball-players were fined
e5ond costs each IN Wilmington Mon
day.
Eioht feet of water covered last week
the eauseway between Little Creek
and Magnolia.
A rock fish weighing 80 lbs was
caught in the river outside Of New Cas-
tIe last week.
Twenty-one thousand tons of river
sand are annually used in Wilmington
for building purposes.
George II. Draper, Jr., aged 13 years,
WA, crushed to death 10y a falling hay
rack at Milford on Thursday.
Four herrhs occurred in Barnum's
circus at Wilmington on Friday-three
lion cubs and shelton pony.
A Wilmington dime museum collaps-
ed last week on account of Barnum's
circus engaging all the freaks.
Delmar firm is to furnish 10000
bricks to be used in the erection of the
new NJ. Church at Bridgeville.
Wilmington has been divided into
districts by the Board Of Election OFF
GERS preparatory to the municipal cleo
on June /.
Bishop Coleman will deliver the bac-
ealeaureate sermon before the students
of Delaware College in the Oratory,
June l6
Tne Home for Aged Women at Will
miugJon has received bequest Of SlO,-
600 from the estate of the late Miss
Mary Pusey.
Patric Dillon aud John Boughman
have been reelected Building Inspec-
tor an auditors Clerk respectively in
Wilmington.
During the latter part Of the month
the cuutata Flower Queen" will be
presented lo the auspices of the Mid
dletown NJ E. Church.
Charles H. Maull, laterepresentative
to the Legislature from Lewes, left for
Washington 10 enter upon the duties
of his new cfice ON Wednesday.
Charles II. Perry, a green goods"
man, was last week sentenced at VIII
mington 10 a years imprisonment aud
$500 fine for irauduiant use of mails.
AT Chrls,y, of Wilmington, and
Burton Prettyman, of Milford, have
been appointed railway postal clerk 5
between New York and Washington.
The Postmaster General has appoint
ed William NJ. Grace postmasterat Mag
nolia, Kent County, Ia. place of c. l..
Ferry. The salary last year Wa Sl93.-
o.
The late Cornelius J Hall Of Milford,
carried an insurance policy Of $1,000 on
his life in the Penn Mutual. His wild
ow last week received check for the
amount.
The Rev. E. l.. Hubbard, pastor Of
the New Castle NJ E. Church, who
spent the last three months in Europe,
returned to New Castle on Saturday
evening.
The Wilmington City Councils Fl
nance Committee estimates the tota
exDenditures of the city for the next
fiscal year at $3.50, ,979.5O, and the total
revenues at S62, ,663.
H. CLAW Long, the new postal clerk
on Harrington and Lewes route, enter
ed upon his duties Wednesday. b. F
Twllley. the late clerk, Is instrucung
him in his new work.
Clarence Elliott, Of the Wilmington
Wheel Club, made century run IRON
Wilmington TO Dover and return OF
Sunday in hours and 80 minutes
beating the local record.
Fruit growers Of St. Jones' Necl
claim that over half Of the coming
peach crop has been killed by the lat
rains and frost. About one half of th
peaches as large as peas have fallen L
the ground.
Petitions to Governor Biggs for tn
pardon of w. June Rathel. Of Camdel
who murderously assaulted Samue
Njnlin. and was sentenced tothee year
imprisonment at the late term OF COurl
are being extensively circulated.
Cards are out for the wedding Of Di
J. Fred Downs, formerly OF Dover, |
Miss c. Hettling Of Baltimore. IN
marriage will he sOlemnized at .
Marks 2. z. Church in that city o
the evening Of the 18th of May
There will be a meeting Of the farmer
of Kent county in the court house !
Dover on Saturday. May 18th, at
O'Clock. .. m, for the purpose OF organ
izinr a farmers institute for Kel
county. All- farmers are invited.
The choir of the Second Bapti'
Church. in Wilmington, has struck o
account Of petty quarrels and congr'
oational singing now reigns. CholI
and local preachers can be a learn
source Of distraction to church.
The Rev. T Z. Terry is making a
ranpements to have meeting OF gun
number ofpreachers who ar statlQht
near Dover, on May 18th and l4th,
he held in the Methods. Churcn
Dover. A program is being arrange
How a circus scoops in the money
a community II is estimated that u
Barnum aggregation, in wilmington
that showed on Friday, took aW,
about 80 900 and spent less than q
600. But the people will go to the q
Gus.
The Delaware Railroad is now carr
ing daily several carloads Of slTaWo'
ries raised in the Carolinas. Norio
will begin to ship in a little over
week. Strawberries insthis section y I,
now in full bloom. Picking VIII
gin about the 25th inst.
Only 90 women voted at the sch(
election Saturday in Wilmlng,l,S, Y,
which shows that the women oi "
mington do not, at present place u y =
value upon the right Of suffrage =
these 90 will form the nucleus Of = = J,
that will: in all probability run uPN