Smyrna times., 1890-11-26
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County and State Items.
French measles is prevalent among
- school children of Lewes, one
Jooth has occurred.
nc. Clark of Delaware city, who is
harvesting cat tails expects to ship
thirty tons to market.
..Turk and punk" is the small boys
ohbreviation of turkey and pumpkin
nie apropos of Thanksgiving.
The Georgetown correspondent of
,be Erery Erening says there will be
Wv marriages there this season.
Fihv five head of horses from the
cochran Park Farm, MiddletOwn, will
Se sold at the Philadelphia Tattersall
to-day.
sheriff Simmons welded the "cat"
saturday at the New Castle Jail. The
ouiv victim was John McClOskey, who
Cot five lashes for larceny.
The engagement of H. c. DOwnard,
ofWilmington, and Miss Maggie Hill,
daughter of the Rev Charles Hill, of
Elktou, Md, is announced.
The Dover NJ. Z. Church Thursday
riobt. bv vote of 58 to 81 decided
agsinst the admission of women rs del
yates to the General Conference.
Married Wednesday, Nov. 5th. at
Camden NJ. f. Parsonage, by Rev. p.
II Rawlins. Edward Noll and Miss Ar
cadia l.. Abbott, both of Rising sun,
Del.
Tine sixteenth Annual session of the
New Castle COunty Teachers Institute
adjourned at Middletown Friday after
noon. after four days successful
meeting.
Daniel Shutz is under $500 bail for
the Court of General Sessions in Will
mingtou, for borrowing the team of
John X. Callihan without the owners
consent.
II is not good to cover up our eyes
from our mistakes and losses ; the best
way is to look at them at their worst,
and then determine to avoid them in
the future.
Deaths from typhoid fever in New
Castle. are occurring with alarming
frequency The latest victim is Miss
Kate Gott, aged seventeen, who died
Saturday.
Tae trustees Of the Delmar NJ E.
Church have decided to enlarge the
church building by adding fifteen feet
TO the length and TO build IA classroom
on the east side.
The WOman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Wilmington have col
lected $1,000 toward erecting a new
building. Twelve hundred dollars
more are needed
Tho sophomore FOOT ball team of
Delaware College went to Nottingham
Md, to play match game with the
team from that institution. Score 8 to
0 in fave: of Newark,
The jury in the case of John d. Far
ra on trial for killing James pevine, of
Hudson. n ", in a bar-rOOm fight en-
October 25th. in Wilmington, came in
A ,yar1iof nf not truilfE
Geo. w. Ingram, real estate agent,
has sold the farm of NJ. n. Willis, sit
uated on the public road near Town
send, and containing about 200 acres,
to William Money, Townsend.
George Mackliu, and William j.
Wilson, were arrested at Georgetown on
Tuesday by United States Marshal Ma
hafy on charge of selling cigars on re-
turn day, November 9th.
In the New Castle county court at
Wilmington, Arthur J. w. Green, col
Ored, has been fined 5000 and costs,
and sentenced to one years imprisOn-
ment for driving horse to death.
We believe it would be wise thing
for the Legislature to adopt ameasure
fOrbidding shooting partridges, quail,
pheasants and squirrels for at least
five years in this state.-NelDGrE Ledg'
eT.
A large wheat stack on the farm Oi
William H. and Thomas T. Clarke
near New Castle, was ignited by a
spark from a threshing engine or
Wednesday and destroyed. Loss about
$500.
Sheriff elect Amos Cole bonded Mon
day and entered upon the duties of the
Office He will not move his family
to Dover until the first of the year. Il
is thought that he will appoint James
A. Farlow his deputy.
GOVernOr-elect Robert J. Reynolds,
and David T. Marvel, Esq, of George
town, were in Dover Saturday. 1t il
generally conceded that Mr.. Marve
will be Secretary of state under gov
ernOr Reynolds.
Andrew EliaSOn. one OF the OldeS
and best known farmers of New Cas-
tie county. died at his home near Mid
dletOwn Thursday afternoon. He hac
been i'll for over five weeks and wa
over eighty years of age.
Prof NJ. We'll, local Optician, @
Wilmington, has wagered 500 with
D. Bronson, that he can eat one quai
per day for thirty consecutive days a
the hotel KirkwOod. The fulhlmen
of the wager began Friday.
Detective n. H. Hutchins is trippin
up those gunners who are after gam
without a license. He caught tw
gunners, one having forty rabbits an
another having twenty-seven birds
The usual fine was laid in each case
Edward Naylor, a we'll known mt
scian of New Castle and Miss Mar
Kennard of New Castle, formerly {
Chestertown, Md, were married &
New Castle Thursday night. Th
ceremony was performed by Rev. E. ]
Hubbard.
The Rev. Julius Dodd, pastor of tn
Methodist Church at HOckessin, in th