Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-08-05
Closing of Mails.

CLOSING OF Mails
Going North. $50 a. m, $50 p m, 5.S5 p. m.
Going South, sos a. m. aud 5.S5 p. m.
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay will close at 9Oj a, IN
Opening of Malls.
From North, 1000 a. m. 1890 and $50 p. m
D p. m. Wilmington only
County and State Items.
There are $50 inmates in New Castle
County Almshouse.
Milford is bonded $4,000 for the
erection of waterwOrks.
William Darling lost hand in a
threshing machine near Newark.
Farmer Devine, of near Middletown.
secured thirty-nine bushels of wheat
to the acre.
Belle Janett lost four fingers in a
machine at the Knauff organ factory,
at Newark, Friday.
New Castle fishermen and crabLers
use every boat in that locality daily.
The catches are large.
WllmingtOn's Board of Health has
notified lOt-Owners to cut down weeds
under penalty of So.
The projectors of the Laurel and
Roaring Point Railroad will organize
at Laurel next Friday,
The Webb farm of So acres, in Mil
ford Neck, was sold at Sherif7s sale to
CIarles Kirby for $1,000.
James Carroll, aged 10 years, was
caught in pulley at frankfort, Sussex
county, aud fatally hurt.
About $llO0 were sold at the Odessa
Loan last Monday evening. The av-
erage premium was II cents.
A COW owned by David Robbins,
near Milford, gave birth to three per-
fectly formed bat dead calves.
The first shipment of stone to fill up
the gapway at the Delaware Break
water, was made OIL Thursday.
Hollands Island is without doctor,
and II costs So TO get a practitioner
from Deals Island s miles distant.
The I-year-Old daughter of F. BlOme
OF MiddletOwn, swallowed a large pin
but it was extracted without difficulty.
A syndicate of Sussex County Re-
publlcans have purchased the Milford
NeWs and AdUerSiser from Henry L.
HynsOn.
MilfOrd's proposed waterwOrks pro-
Ject Is assuming definite shape, and
work will be commenced in about |
three weeks.
Two hundred and seventy five bas-
kets of apples from fourteen trees is
the harvest OF 'Ohn J. Rosa in the
vicinity of Milford
The Odessa Creamery pays out
about $1,000 cash every month. This
Is snug sum to circulate in the imme
date nelghbOrhoOd.
A new run of sturgeon have made
their appearance of Delaware City,
engaged in the business.
Henry c. Owens, colored, OF Phila-
deiphia, is named for the principalship
of the new cOlOred college, the site of
which has not yet been selected.
Wilmington reporters will form an
association. The Philadelphia style of
police card has been adopted and APP
proved by the Police Commission.
The Delaware State Grange will
picnic at Cape HenlOpen City on Aug.
usr 10, 20 and 81. The late General
Assembly will probably hold reunion
at the same time.
The new tug boat, John B. Palmer,
which is being built at the jackson &
Sharp COmpany's shiP-yard, for Palm
eT & Co, OF New York, was launched
at high water this morning.
George ID. LippincOtt, Rep, has sue
ceeded William Doyle, Dem, as gar
dener and attendant at the Eighth
Street Park, Wilmington. City Coun-
Gil makes the appointment
A whskey bottle struck Rev. L.
w. Layheld in the eye as lie was try
ing TO quell q fight at Camden Union
Camp. James Cook, Of Wilmington,
was arrested for hurting the missile
at the pastor.
Mr.. John Taylor, of Dover, picked off
80 trees 1874 baskets of peaches on Sat
urday and expects to get over 400 bias.
kets. This is said to be the largest
yield ever known on that number of
trees in this county.
Rev. DR.. c. C, Biting, of Philadel-
phia, formerly pastor of Franklin
Square Baptist Church, Baltimore, de-
iiveTed the address at the cornerstone !
laying of the new Second Baptist :
Church, Wilmington.
Sheriff Simmons has sold the Collins
Beach property Of the Bay Head In
prOvement aud New York Terminal
Company, to Benjamin Nields, attor-
ney OF Wilmington, for 5000. It is snb- !
Ject to a $500 mortgage
There are about 100 registered stills I
on this peninsula. and il is probable !
IhaI tzOiOOO gallons of apple and ]
peach brandy will be made by them. {
this year, for which the Government {
will receive tax of $4,000. i
The tug.-boat. Henry W. Palmer, I
was launched from the jackson &
Sharp COmpany's ship.yard, Whining
ton, yesterday. She is 100 feet long |
q feet beam and 10 feet of hold, and :
was built for Lowell NJ. Palmer, of I
New York. I
City Detective James l.. Hawkins. of
Wilmington, has recovered a number
OF articles stolen from the residence of
james A. Conner, 1906 jefferson street. 1
and William H. FOulk, No. 1905 Mad j
shop. {
State Treasurer Burnite has received
$4,000 from the Federal Government
being the amount due Delaware for
the education Of students in agricultu-
raj and mechanical arts s, 800 of the