Smyrna times., 1890-07-16

THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday, Afternoon, July 16, 1890.
.-,nvrna Branch Trains.
- North. 715. SOS, 1856, A. NJ, 3.42, 4.4OP.M.
JUL oO'a south $50 1157 A. NJ, 44O 5.55, 759 Pm.
Closing of Mails.
o.,,o North. $50, $50 A. NJ. $50, 72OP.M.
coing coin South, $50 A. NJ 7.2OPM.
Opening Of Mails.
,,o North. 100 A. NJ, 900, 1.45P.M
T,.on, r.or, the South, 7.S5, 1.SOA.M.
County and State Items.
Il costs $40 to recreate disturbance
.t Wilmington baseball game.
The Wages of Milford ship carpen-
tors have been advanced % cents per
day.
Daniel F. Stewart, Wilmington's
new postmaster will assume his duties
on July 20.
An unknown cOlOred female impos-
Tor has been victimizing numerous
wilmington merchants.
Iohn C. Bell is under bail in Will
minoton on the charge of apprOpriating
6,rds of the Commonwealth Beneficial
Association.
We now import only about 8 per
cent of the manufacturing cOmmOdi-
ties we use or consume in this country.
Happy is the town whose census
comes up to expectations. And nigh
ty few such towns are to be found in
Delaware.
The number of tenters at the Cam
den Camp Grounds continues to in
crease; Just 135 tents had been taken
up to Friday night.
st. Peters P. +. Church at Lewes,
which has been extensively repaired
and beautifully frescoed, was reOpened
on Wednesday July 8.
A yonng man by the name of Pierce
was drowned at Bowers Beach at noon
on Wednesday. He was one of a
party of eight or ten from New Castle
who we're off on yachting trip.
An exchange says: Now is the
best season for planting cats. The
more you plant the more peaceful will
be the repose of the people at the chill
midnight. Let every man plant a cat. "
A COW belonging to William Sellers
of Edge Moor died recently and post
mortem examination showed that it
had died from the effects of swallow
ing a nail which lodged in its heart.
Levi Griffith, for some time a clerk
in the Capital hotel, has been granted
fractional license for the hotel al
Kenton, by Associate Judge Houston
Mr.. Griffith opened the hotel OIL
Monday.
James c. Wickes, who for nine years
has been connected with the DeLaWG
rean. left Dover on Monday for Pied
mont, Alabama, to take charge of the
mechanical department of the Inqui
rer of that place.
The operation performed by Dl
Thomas of No 1914 Arch Street, Phila
delphia, for the removal of a cataraC
from the eye of the Rev. Jacob TOdd
ID, pastor OfGrace Church, prom
ises to be successful.
Spring Branch camp meeting com
mences on Saturday next, July l!
A large crowd is expected TO atten
on Sunday, the goth, and more TEN
are being erected than ever befOr,
The camp will hold over two SUI
days.
New wheat is selling in Milford {
So cents for shipment, and the prOspeC
says the Ne,Us are for even better pr
ces. The wheat yield in the West
said to be very poor, while the surplI
wheat is many millions less than la
year.
An empty box car was knocked O
their trucks at the west yard Wi
mington, about l o'clock Friday. III
sOuth-bound main track was blOck'
for little over one hour, by whi'
time the wrecking crew had clear'
the track.
Ths Wilmington District Epwor
League will hold a four days meetiI
which will be similar to the annu
Chautauqua assemblies, at the Bra
DIVINE Summit camp grounds on Ju
% to August 1st inclusive.
James Kirby of Milford Neck, v
seriously injured last week by the ia
ing of hay barrack upon him.
was alone at the time amp lay for 81
eral hours where he was thrown, WI
he walked unaided to his home.
was unconscious, and blood flow
freely from his mouth, nose and ga
Physicians were summoned, and up
examination they found his jaw broE
and his head hadlv cut and bruis