Smyrna times., 1891-04-15

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r.anssday Afternoon, April 15' 1891
--s|I.na Branch Trains.
Worth. us, s2S 1855, A. NJ, sA2, 4.4O P'M
solns sor south. $50 1l57 NJ, 44O. 555, 1892.
county and State Items.
n.,,v rObberies are of nightly occur
Is; IN wilmington.
ur,minQton's City Council is war;
.i0g on Indecent posters.
o.ou ssd words of tongue or lip, the
u G5Sst @ are these, ''I've got the grip"
At Neale, of Delaware college
d: ~, scientific draining for Sussex
county.
rho Nav Castle county Levy Court
,.sterday, allowed $22l7.S2 as fees
for assessors
rsa New Castle Presbytery will
Ia lis stated spring meeting at Della
,"ore n" City on April 2l.
EMIL fifty boats and seines and u
.nn5red men are engaged In catching
mad in MispilliOn river.
The stockholders of the proposed
1.n-el and Roaring Point Railroad
- far A state loan of $4,000.
Nav Castle shad fishermen are
..,cSino wild ducks in their nets.
Iobn McCaughan caught sixteen of
the fowl.
Lady mepbe of the Asbury NJ. E.
Church. Wilmington, voted at church
eIsction for trustees last week, for the
FIRST time.
TUenty tons of stone will be sent to
,bs New Castle Jail, for vagrants who
were sentenced under the tramp labor
law to break.
Jobn P. Aaron, son of the late Pow
elI Aaron. of Wyoming, was taken to
F.ruhurst last week his mind having
become deranged.
The Legislature has passed II bill
imuOsing IA hne Of from 50 TO $50 upon
auy person who kills, Injuries or de-
tain carrier pigeon.
We have had over twenty three
INCHES of rainfall from January l TO
Auril lst this year, while less than so
inches fell the whole of last year.
The United Labor league in Will
mington mas over 1900 members. IL
was instrumental in having the Legis-
istarv enact the mechanics Lien Law.
Milford freeholders will decide on
April 27 whether or not to bond the
logn for $4,000 with which to estab-
wsler-wurks and an electric light
plant.
Mr.. Holiday, the New railroad sup
erintendent will reside in Dover, and
will occupy ID. NJ. Wilson's House on
King ST. He viii move about the
first Of June.
The heavy frOsts of last week scared
the peach growers of Sussex county |
about the fruit On young trees. Those |
over Eve years old are said not to be |
damaged.
A bill has been introduced in the |
House to allow Secretary Of State,
Marvel an assistant, at u salary of $500 |
per annum. James II. Hughes is slat-
ed lOr the place.
The Dover SentineL says THE pro-
posed Registration law has been passed 1
upon BY some of the ablest lawyers in |
the state, and il is difficult to find one
who will say that il is constitutional.
We have never seen our cOntempO-
faries so happy as they have been
since free sugar became u fact. But
sugar in politics always creates happi
ness-tO the party that has the most.
Mr.. Smith, the manager of the Dover
button factory, estimates that since the
Mckinley bill passed nearly l, 600 per-
sons have already engaged in the man
uiaeture Of pearl buttons in this cOun-
try.
Thirty-five tOmbstOnes have this
week been received by B. L. Collins, of
Milford, to be erected over the graves
Of Union soldiers who are friendless, or
whose friends are not able TO pay for
same.
The Delaware sturgeon fisheries
have commenced operations in the
bay. A feet of nineteen boats of stur-
geOn fishermen is located at Cedar
Beach. The female sturgeon is valued
at $40 and the male at S..
10 the NJ. E. Church at Houston,
Wednesday afternoon at ? o'clock.
Airs Lulu NJ. COunselman, Il prOmi
nent society lady of the town was
united in wedlOck to William Smart,
secretary of the freman's insurance
company, Baltimore, Md.
The U. s. Treasurer on Thursday
issued draft for S7O,772 in favor of the
government of Delaware in payment
o. the direct tax claims of this state.
This was a landed property tax, and
lhe list Of persons contributing to the
iand is on file at Washington.
Milford is at last TO have an ice
plant, and George s. Grier has pur-
chased the machinery and is now hav-
lng the old bark mill at Haven Mill
machine shops improved and remOd-
eled for its reception. A water wheel,
Il feet in circumference and Of25 horse
PlWer will be put in to run The plant.
Sheriff Cole sold at Dover the fol-
owing property on Tuesday: The zeal
esiate of E. H. Booth for 81 800 to Cap
llal Building Loan Association, prop
el1y Of James Fisher, for S275 to same,
property Of b. f. Denney for Sl945, to
We same. property of Reuben F. Kindt
loE s., 900 to DR.. 7. G.. Frame.
, The Wedding is announced Of Robert
I Ferguson, q prominent furniture
lealer Of Dover, and Miss Bessie Par
II, well known society lady, daugh-
.er Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Paris.
me marriage will occur at the resi-
qence Of the brides parents on State
HFset, Thursday, April 2Sd, at 6 o'clock
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