Smyrna times., 1890-08-20

THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Aug. 90, 1890
smyrna Branch Trains.
-. North. 715, S2s, 1885, A. NJ, S.42, 44OP.M.
5Oing oOi south, $50 11.57 A. NJ 44O, 5.55, 759PM.
Closing OF Mails.
-.,.r North. 65O $50 A. NJ, $50, 72OPM.
','ing o' south, $50 A. NJ, 7.2OP.M.
Opening Of Mails.
,...u, the North, l1.OO A. NJ, 900, 145P.M
T,O r.om the South. 7.S5, 11.SOA.
County and State Items.
Typhoid fever is almost epidemic in
New Castle.
GBig Quarterly" will be held in Will
mington next Sunday.
This year the peach is the forbidden
huit.-Philadelphia Times.
Iii estimated that 1900 excursion
ists 90 down the bay daily.
Delaware has 1898 pensioners, who
receive $S1, ,645 from the government.
Three valuable bird dogs have been
noisoned in Seaford within the past
ten days.
The Sussex Manufacturing Company
will renew operations at its shop in
Georgetown about September 1.
Letters of administration have been
granted Caroline H. Appleton, of Odes-
sa, upon the estate of w. E. Appleton,
deceased.
The first and only box of peaches
shipped from Sussex county this sea-
son was shipped from Laurel on Fri
day, August 15.
The Sussex county Superior Court
room has been thoroughly renovated
last week. One hundred and seventy
five buckets of dust were removed.
Just think of it
Colonel E. 7. Cooper says he OBJ
iects to the prohibition movement for
the sake of the agricultural classes, as
he knows they are are opposed to con-
tnued drought.
The Republican County Convention
for Kent has been called for Thursday,
Sept. 25. The delegates will be cho-
sen on the same day as those for the
State Convention.
A cablegram from London on Satur-
day evening gives the information that
Horace Greeley Knowles, United
States consul at Bordeaux, France, was
a passenger on the Normadia for New
York.
John Nelson Of Laurel, has invented
dial indicator for marking medicine
bottles and boxes to indicate when the
last dose was given "a patient, and when
another should be given. 1t is said to
be highly appreciated by nurses.
The SUSSEX Republican says the fly
ing horse men which were egged out
of Laurel were accorded a similar re-
CeptiOn at Georgetown. They are
probably the same men who were
egged out of Smyrna and MiddletOwn.
connection with the Kartavert Manufac-
turing Company, of Wilmington, and
accepted lucrative position with the
Laminar Fibre Goods company, of
Boston, and will most likely take up
his residence there.
While young man named Jack,
living near Harbeson, Sussex county,
was amusing himself by splitting tObac-
co juice into the eyes of a turtle, one
day recently, the turtle caught him by
the nose. He is said to have yelled
louder than a COmanche Indian.
In letter from Mr.. David Pennewell
who is now at CaCawba Island, o., he
states that he has bought fOr his New
York commission house 25,OOO baskets
otpeaches. Only the late varieties are
grown there commencing with the
CrawtOrds.-DOUer Sentinel.
1t is said that 5OO punches Of Dana-
mas are consumed III Wilmington daily.
The consumption is larger than usual
On account of the scarcity of native
fruits. The peaches are from Califor-
MIA and bring high prices. Vegetables
are plentiful and of excellent quality.
Joseph Burchenal, of Dover, now at
Ocean Grove, was so pleased with the
nomination for governor and Congress
man on the Democratic ticket, that he
forthwith escorted the whole hotel
the guests, that is to say, over to Days
Ice cream establishment and treated
the house.
Councilman Aaron .. Beale has been
formally asked by the Democratic ma
lority of city council to resign tn seat
In that body which he disgraced by &C
cepting a money bribe for his vote.
M. J. Sharkey, of Wilmington, another
Democratic councilman, has been ar
rested for drunkenness and wanting
TO fiOht a duaI