Smyrna times., 1890-07-09
Chasing OF Mails.

Closing OF Mails.
oo,no North, $50, $50 A. NJ, $50. 7.2OP.M.
Going South, $50 A. NJ, 720P.N.
Opening Of Mails.
v-om the North, HOO a. NJ, 900, 1A5P.M.
Erom the South, 7Sj, 1l.SOA.M.
County and State Items.
Camden Campmeeting will begin
Aug. 2.
The season for wOOdcOck shooting
opened on July l.
Farmers are beginning to be annoyed
BY trespassers.
Sea turtles are being caught in the
Delaware River and Bay.
Dallas Marvil of Laurel, has
6.vear.old calf that daily gives milk.
The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Com
many is attracting large audiences in
MiddletOwn.
There were forty deaths in Whining
ton during the week ending yesterday,
thirty of whom were children.
David Still beat his wife SO severely
at Milford on Saturday, that she was
unconscious for twenty-four hours.
The old sOldie.4 are filing their pa
pers for pension according to the De-
nendent Pension Bill, which has just
become a law.
The water in most of the mill-pOnds
is too low to be utilized for turning the
mill.wheels, hence most of the mills
are using steam.
One of the census enumeratOrs in
Cedar Creek hundred discovered a
Young woman % years of age who was
the mother Of nine children.
An epidemic of Texas fever has bro
ken out among the cattle in Brandy
wine and Christiana hundred. At
least POO head of cattle are affected.
The huckleberry crop is large one
this year. Berries sell at 60 cents per
bucket of ten quarts. The Houston
cannery is packing considerable guam
titles.
Many thousands of tons of hay have
been cut and saved in this section dur
ing the past week. The weather has
been perfect for this work and the hay
is very fine.
Mr.. George A. MillingtOn sold and
delivered S24 bushels of wheat off of
IA acres-23 IT bushels per acre. Mr..
Milington secured his seed wheat from
Michigan.
Fire from spontaneous combustion
in the cellar of Phillips & Kane's paint
store, at Wilmington, on Wednesday
resulted in $4,000 loss upon that and
adjacent premises.
1t cost $481 ,O12.77 to run Whining
ton during the year ended June 81
last, exclusive of the water department
and revenues from the Street and Sew
er Department.
N. Dunshane Cloward of Whining
ton has accepted an offer from w. L
Carleton, to join the Carleton Opera
Company. He went to Buffalo
tOjOin the company.
While fighting at Odessa on the Fourth
James Bucher, cOlored, of MiddletOwn
cut John Mahoney, also cOlOred, in the
head, whereupon Mahoney drew re-
vOlver and fatally shot the former.
The Morning NelOs says the none!
spent in Wilmington for fireworks Oh
the Fourth, would probably have paiC
the running expenses of the count!
almshOuse for one year.
Purnell E. Pennewell, a freigh
brakeman on the Delaware Division c
the Pennsylvania Railroad, was kille
at the West Yard in Wilmington o
Wednesday while coupling cars.
There has been a change in runnin
passenger trains from Harrington
RehobOth. Trains leave Harringto
HOS a. IN. and PAP p. M, through t
RehObOth, and return $50 a. m. an
2.l5 p. m.
Miss Emma Gibson, of Philadelphia
who is visiting in Dover, was bitten Q
her pet pug dog Thursday, which it
feared was mad. The animal died
COnvulsions. Miss GibsOn's wOur
was cauterZed.
The heaviest yield of wheat that Il
Sussex COuntiGn has heard of thus f
Is that of l. S. Giles near SeafOrd. L
received 521 machine measure) b
shells of clear marketable wheat from
field containing twenty-five exa
acres.
The Coroner's jury in the case
Edward J. Sincock, who was killed
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and b
tlmOre Railroad at Wilmington
June l6, has rendered verdict char
ing the accident to the negligence
the companies employees.
E. l. Dupont & Co., the extensi
powder manufacturers near Wilmir
Ton, have erected an immense barn
the site of one of the structures recer
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