Smyrna times., 1891-04-01

Georgetown asks for legislative per-
''';on 70 drain lOwlands.
49,, Castle has more brass bands
Nc" Dv town on the Peninsula.
~.,,v thousand herring were
M at Delaware City in a single
day.
Aud ex.secretary Bayard too, is in
An Ar Of the repeal of the 1873 assess
ment laws !
,so,o than forty of the fair ones of
MiIford are now at work within the
shirt factory.
A cave with three separate compart-
.snts has been found in the Burnt
swamp. near Whaleyville, Md.
sheriff Robinson has sold in George
.own the 2IO.acre farm of Charles H.
Traat. 10 Emily o. Martin for $4,000.
lanes Downey, aged "a years, bailiff
oftbe New Castle County Court. drop
0oS dead from heart disease Thursday.
Cards are out announcing the mar
,;soe of Mr.John W, Watkins to Miss
Emily Janvier on, April Sth.Of Odessa.
railroad locomotive was stuck in
ssnowdrift on Saturday within eight
miles of Wilmington on the northern
road.
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Union in Wilmington has bought a
headquarters at No 100 West Eighth
street.
John W. Lynch, a tenant on u farm
owned by State Senator Hall near Fell
ton. has a healThful calf with but one
front leg.
Peter l.. Cooper, ex-superintendenU
of public schools for Kent county,
has moved to Wilmington and opened
3 law Office.
The weather last Friday, will be re-
membered by the weather-wise oldest
inhaultant along in 1850 as a nenora-
bic Good Friday.
Wild ducks continue plentiful, and
the blinds on the marshes are being
made guUd use of by our sportsmen
and their friends.
The Delaware Hosiery Company will
De established al Dover with a $50, 900
plant. About ninety men and women
will be employed.
The expenses of the New Castle
County AlmshOuse during the past
wear amounted TO S2l, 300. An annual
appropriation of $2S, ,0OO is asked for.
Delaware's proportion of the $4,000
men that compose the standing army
Of the United States is only 5S men,
and her proportion of the Navy 19 men.
The steamer Major Reybold, collided
with the Wilmington Northern rail-
road pier, Friday at New Castle, while
making landing, and broke one of
her wheel-hOuses.
The wife of John Ponder, son of ex-
governor Ponder, died on Saturday at
her home in Milton, Delaware. She
was the daughter of DR.. Horace Burr,
OF Wilmington.
Newport suffered frOm a fire on
Wednesday morning. Five frame
houses were found to be on fire and in
short time were reduced to ashes.
Loss mostly covered by insurance.
VICKERY PARDONED,-G vernon
Reynolds pardoned Hezekian Vickery
Friday afternoon. Vickery is the
man who shot and killed Tom Smith,
noted despardO, who forced his way
into Vickery's home.
SHAD, Ol-The Hope Greek Shad
boat arrived at PennsgrOve Thursday
morning with 500 shad, which were
forwarded to the Philadelphia market.
Henry Patton, of PennsgrOve, caught
the highest number at one haul, 40.
The Presbytery of New Castle will
hold its stated Spring meeting at Dela-
ware City, April q. The session pro-
misses to be one of unusual importance.
The Presbyterian Church throughout
the year has made u marked advance.
AT the present session of the Levy
Court OF New Castle county, il is said
that the Democratic collectors have
returned as d~iinQuents somewhere in
the nelghbOrhOOd of five thousand
persons who have been assessed and
should have paid their taxes.
AL Osborne is the slated Register
OF wills for New Castle County.
COOch might have had it, it is said had
be not defeated COchran's nomination
Tor Governor iG 1886 by holding his del
egates away from Cochran, thereby
making Bigg's nomination possible.
Petty thieving has been very trOu-
eksOme at Townsend recently. FIRE.
gaently the hen rOOst of come one is
visited and the poultry taken. The
hFmers are much disturbed over it and
thieves do not hesitate to shoot at the
hrmers when they try to protect their
property.
While the Democratic papers find
much fault with the Republican col
lectOrs IN Sussex for returning Demo
Gratis delinquents, the MiddletOwn
transcript says that over 400 were re-
turned in St.GeOrges Hundred and
PropOrtionately all over the county.
his, too, by Democratic collectors.
hEcAPTURED.-William, alias Bucky
AeGlnnis, who broke out of Newcastle
jail about year ago, was recaptured
sunday night. MeGinnis was serving
sentence for highway robbery.
II was ascertained that he made his
way TO Pennsylvania and committed q
crime for which he served nine months
70 q county prison there.
lhe culprits from the municipal
court Of Wilmington, who have hereto
,ofe been allowed to put in an easy
,oaiing term of imprisonment at New
Oastle Jail, in lieu of their fines and
costs, will be compelled 20 break stone
y the jail.yard now that the Tramp
Labor bill has become law. The
Levy Court will at once make the nec-
sssary arrangements to carry the law
intO effect.
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