Smyrna times., 1891-07-22
:

Johnson. ma,
"Big Frank" Mccoy. the bank bur i lal
glar pal of Jimmy Hope, who has Is Oe
months of two-years sentence to
serve in New Castle jail, for attempt
ing TO rob the Delaware National Gu
in Wilmington in 1878, has been ap. th
pointed jail librarian by Sheriff Sim an
mons. OF
A HAVEN For TRAMPs.-Notwith- III
standing that peach growers are badly
in need of peach pickers, the authori- pr
ties of Dover arrest all tramps as fast Pe
as they strike the town and land them III
in Jail. The growers are protesting,
and when the season reaches it's height OF
they will pay the fines of many vag.
rants to secure their help. to
The followers of Presiding Elder J. h'
A. B. Wilson have bought lot, 60x12O ~
feet, on New street. south of Division, o.
and church will soon be built. BY
Dover this move the anti-Wison people -
have been beaten, but there will likely p
be some serious accounts to settle at ting 9
next conference. i
Civil Engineer YOcum, completed y
the survey of Milford for the water II
works on Monday last, and left at once Je
for Philadelphia, where his plans VIII
he considered by Mr.. CassOn, who ~ 70
superintend the work of erecting the 81
plant, and their location will be dell Ia
nately settled upon.
The candidacy of Mr.. Josiah Marvel b
of NanticOke Hundred, father Of the G
Secretary of State, forl Registerf of q
Sussex County, has frightened Ex- e
Governor Stockley and his friends.
Having been through the mill them
selves, they think that Mr.. Marvel {
would not be Candidate at this late |
day unless he had had some encOur- a
agement from the Governor. a
Delaware College is making active i
preparations for the fall term of 1891. L
A new buHlda sin course of erection, i
| two new pra brs have been added
| that of Csc 81 Che Engineering De-
partment and one as Professor of Ag- c
riculture. Tbs coming college year '
pl omses to be an exceptionally pros t
porous one IN the history of the insti- l
| tuition.
Ex. Governor Biggs received but 40
cents per basket for fruit which has al
ways brought 81 .05 per basket. Clerk |
of the Peace, w. Pierce kiggs, one of |
the largest peach growers, offers S. to
any person who will pick. basket of
properly matured fruit from his or
chard. 1t is feared the total shipment
from this locality, will not exceed 1885,
600 baskets.
On Wednesday, Thomas NJ. Davis,
of Prime Hook Neck, lost his crop of
scarlet clover seed, valued at about
$3.50, by fire. 1t was III stacks and
would have been thrashed in few
davs, but a spark from a traction en-
gine set fire to it, and the entire eight
stacks were consumed. They would
have yielded about so bushels of seed.
Mr.. Davis had sold the food at five dol
lars per bushel.
Anna Bartlett refuses to charge John
f H. Reed, with whom she elOped as far
as Columbus, with criminal intimacy,
and Attorney-general Biggs has been
compelled to drop the case against
Reed. As the girl was under 10 years
of age, the age of consent, at the time
of the elOpement, confession on her
part would make the deserter of wife
and child liable to seven years impris-
ment and 1000 fine. Nothing is
known of Reeds whereabouts.
r A good Joke is told of a farmer living
near Laurel recently. A tramp ap |
preached him, and after writing a few |
r lines on piece of paper, invited the |
: farmer to try his skill. The farmer |
: scribbled away for a few minutes to |
the delight of the tramp, and in a short |
time the knight of the road presented
y the farmers wife with a little dOcu-
4 | soh oil orfS
[. hired man So" The consequence was,
the vagrant was S. richer for his
knowledge of writing like the farmer.
l. Gazette.
f. The NelU Ledger Dem says: "The
,. time is growing ripe when the city of
Wilmington needs looping off from the
d county. What chance have honest
d men to be elected with such capers as
l. the papers are now exposing. Let the
q. county, allowing the city to have one
or two of the adjacent hundreds, have
10 its election independent of the hOt-bed
ls of political corruption. What city has
j. such political record as Wilmington
ii We know of none, and believe that
there are few who do. We honest
"A folks care not tor such place to have
lie a hand in electing our officers.
~ SEVERELY HURON Thursday
morning Mrs. Samuel G. Wood, of Ris-
ing Sun went to Leipsic 10 see her
u mother, and on arriving there Mrs.
IN Woods young brother, Edward
IT, Clothier. went to fix something about
d. the horses bride, when the animal
started to run and dashed the carriage
as against tree, tearing himself loose
III from the vehicle and throwing out Mrs.
w Wood and her little child. Mrs. Wood
1t was picked up unconscious and is SER
iously injured. The baby was not
hurt much, but the boy in trying to
~ stop the horse had his arm broken. DR..
ge Conoway attended there and at last
II accounts were doing well.
A Town OF TOOTERs.-One-eighth
of New Castles population of 1000
l's souls are musicians, and at all hours OF
OF the night an incessant footing is kept
no up. The $500 peace lovers are deter
"o mined to put stop to the discOrdant
strains, and the authorities will be ap
pealed to. Included among the musi
clans are the Mount Vernon band, o
ny 10 pieces, the Silver Leaf Band Of Il
IH' IN pieces, the First Military Band of 3C
u the city eOrnet band of 20 pieces, and
the IluBntDbCh OiCDOobiA VI - RANSSo
There are 24O pianists and 100 organ
w. lists. The anti-musical sect is deter
zen ca mined to gain its point.
OF A colored man from down the state
!. was hired as farm hand by farme
near MiddletOwn, few daos ago, ant
mo on Monday he purchased his ticket a
sn' Dover, for MiddletOwn and bOarde'
co. the train. The conductor came alOn
'uI- Just before the train got TO Smyrn
ayS and punched his ticket as
the custom. The cOlored travelle
was surprised at this manner of do
ons ing business, and decided that the hol
un- in his ticket meant for him to get o
"es, the train This he accordingly did q
,o!S ~ Clayton and footed the rest of the wa
'Csn e to Middletown. It was his first exp'
JO'" rience on railroad train.-1rGnscrip
o.i. Maryland Items.
acL Cecil county's apple crop will be la
cots ger than for many years.
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