Smyrna times., 1890-07-23

suu suu5 and Fourth Sundays, at lO.3C A. NJ
Cstechism Glasses taught every sunday after
SSass Rev Dennis Flynn, Pastor.
,-.S.~rNSrAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL (ColOred) -
OsSnndsv-Preaching at IL A. NJ. and ~ P. NJ.
Snnday School, P. N. Rev. 5. Hammond,
FSS'OEE N +. CHuRcH-sunday- Preaching, at 1O1z
a. and ~ P. NJ sunday SchoOl-2% P N.
Rev. J. PeytOn, Pastor
SECRET SOCIETIES.
,t,Dx1xG STAR LODGE, No. 6, l. o. o. F,-Meets
oSery Friday evening at 5 o'clock
vCn0SSNFIL ENCAMPNENT, No. ?, .. o. .F.-Meets
'1Sscond and Fourth Tuesday evenings Of each
month at "a o'clock
uIpWoyY LcDGE No. l3 A. F. A M-Meets First
and Third Thursday evenings of each mouth,
s,steS, LODGE. No. s. l. o. G. T-Meets every
WaInpsdav evening, at OclOck.
c,vpTs CONcLAvE. No. 45, ORDER OF HEPsAsOPHs.
Meets first Wednesday evening OF every month
1.,,loS CASTLE No l., X. G. E-MtetS every Thurs
iSy evening in Odd Fellows Hall, at O'Clock.
povi1 TENPLARs OF TEMPLARS.-Meets every
Thursday evening at ) O'CLOCK IN GOOd lem
plans Nall.
W,,p,H LODGE, No. l6, A. o. L. W-Meets every
Vnndav evening at O'Clock in Odd Fellows
Hall.
County and State Items.
Abram jenkins, of Smyrna, has been
granted pension.
New Castles Library Association
will erect $500 building.
Bethsaida, near Slaughter's, will |
hold festival on Friday and Saturday |
nights.
Delaware militiamen will not be al
lowed to have cots in their tents during
the coming encampment.
The dwelling OF Robert Short at
Gumborough, Sussex county, was
burned last week Loss $4,000.
Paynter Frame, a leading agricultu-
rist of Sussex county, is mentioned as a
Democratic Gubernatorial candidate.
R.A. Davis is shipping about 1000
quarts of berries daily from Slaugh
ter's Last week he shipped 5000
quarts of whortleberries alone.
Benjamin w. Shakespeare, one of
the oldest and most respected farmers
ofMill Creek Hundred, is dead at his
residence near Hockessin, aged 81
years.
Reeds cannery in Milford lost sew
eral thousand cans of peas last week,
that spoiled because they were
not cooked sufficiently. Loss about
$500.
A large number of people attended
the Spring Branch Camp Sunday. The
Rev. J. ). Willis preached in the NOR
ming and the Rev J. H. Caldwell in
the afternoon.
Alvin R. Morrison, of Wilmington,
has secured the government contract
for building a bulkhead bar in the Del
aware between Fort Delaware and the
Delaware Shore.
George Carr, aged six years, was Sc
yerely bitten about the head by huge
dog in Wilmington on Wednesday.
The dog had to be beaten of the lad
and was then killed.
Amos Cole, a Harrington hotel keep
er, and James Reed, Milford and Har-
rington Gamer, are candidates for the
Democratic shrievalty nomination
Both live in Mispillion Hundred.
Councilman Beale, of Wilmington
has confessed thaC he accepted $50 tC
vote for the reelection Of John NJ
Newell for City Auditor. He did no
vote for Newell, however, and returned
the bribe.
John P. NJ. Denny, aged Is years,
highly respected citizen of Kent count!
was found dead in his chair at hi
home near Leipsic, on Tuesday, Jul.
Is An attack of paralysis is suppose'
to have caused his death.
Adjutant- General Kenney has issue'
invitations to representatives OF tn
press and others to visit the camp
the National Guard OfDelaware, whic
begins at Brandywine Springs, July 2
and continues seven days.
5. Ernest Haynes, son of the Rev. !
H. Haynes and Albert Mulhausen wi
sail for Europe on Aug. y on th
steamer City of Chicago. Mr.. Hayn'
goes abroad to study music and NJ
Mulhausen to study art.
An estimate for the peach tre
growing along the Baltimore and Ea
tern Shore Railroad is 100000, an
for the territory along the New Yor
Philadelphia &Norfolk railroad, %
900, making a total of 7,Sll ,65S, /
SiuuluB LnOSe Ol tuc DSld"aiO iV''N'
John X. Dick, son of John R. Die
superintendent of RehOboth Beac
died at his parents residence, Reh
both, on Friday afternoon last from
combination of diseases resultant frC
Ia grippe, aged about 80 years.
was a surfman on Indian River Ii
Saving Station.
The cotton mills at Staunton, own
by Edwin J. Cranston. caught hre
1870 o'clock Monday morning and
avery short time the whole struet'
was completely destroyed. nothing
The walls left standing. The hre 81
ted on one Of the cards in the card
room. About fifteen hands were
ployed there. Loss about $50 600.
The president sent the name OF Je
satterfeld to the Senate Thursday
.aat Of the new postmaster at Do'
ne isa native Of Kent county and
Oeen resident of Dover but aboI
years, he having removed from Q
ttfOurV at that time The other ap