Smyrna times., 1891-07-29
Closing of Mails.

Coin North, us, S.2s, 9.5l. a. ~, $50, $50 P
Going South, 9.27 1908 A. NJ, 4.4S. 600 SO2r
Closing of Mails.
Going North. $50 a. m, $50 p. m, 5S5 p m.
Going South, 90 a. m, and . IS p. m.
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road and
Baltimore 4 De laware Bay will close at $40 a. m
Opening of Mails.
From North IOu, d. m. 1890 and $50 p. m.
SO p. N. Wilmington only.
From South, 1920 a. m. 40 p m.
County and State Items.
Drum fish are quite plentiful at the
breakwateT.
Delaware wheat is said to be better
than western wheat.
Signatures made with lead pencil
are good in law.
Dover last week had an epidemic of
night-blOOming cereus blooms.
No site has thus far been selected for
the Delaware college colored students.
A note obtained by fraud, or frcm a
person in state OtintoxicatiOn, cannot
be collected.
Mrs. Aletta Walker, of Sussex
county, pensioner of the war of 1872,
is dead, aged So years.
ESQ .ire Cullen, of Milford, has a
pumpkin vine that adds half an inch to
its length each hour.
The time of payment for note must
not depend upon Il contingency. The
promise must be absolute.
Brandywine Church has invited the
Rev. X. K. Stephenson to become its
pastor next conference year.
The huclkeberry crop in Sussex Is
almost total failure. But few are
gathered in the cid burnt swamp.
James Abbot 4 Sons, Milford ship
builders, launched three masted
schooner on Saturday afternoon.
Ex-City Solicitor II C. Turner, of
Wilmington, is a candidate for Record
er of Deeds of New Castle county.
Three Wilmington lads-Edward
Tatnall, William DeVnish and Charles
RichardsOn-have run away from their
homes.
Fifteen Milford girls have rented
Cottage at slaughter Beach, aud it has
a ho
Cottage.
The Frederick a NJ. E Circuit will
hold a camp meeting at Spring Branch
camp ground near FELTON,, common
cling August 5.
Governor Robert J. Reynolds is in
Baltimore at the bedside of his little
grandson, Robert J. Reyn Olds, who is
dangerously i'll.
Ifs note is lost or stolen, it does not
release the maker; he must pay it, if
the consideration Tor which il was given
and the amount eau De proven.
Irving Chapman, of SeafOrd, exhibits
an apple of the red Brittenhemmer
variety, weighing 16 ounces and meas
uring 144 inches in circumference.
The printing of the premium list aud
catalogue for the Delaware State Fair
has been awarded by Secretary d. z.
Barnard to Charles l.. Story of Whining
ton.
The first eOlOred policeman in Will
mingtOn will go on duty in few days.
Ii, - 3 Na.aN Incl II
cant. He was elected Thursday by
City Council. =
County Treasurer Dickey has decided
not to receive road orders in payment
of all taxes. This decision will take
the matter into the Delaware Courts
for adjudication.
While chOpping wood at his home
near MiddletOwn, day or two age
David Indie cut off liberal slice o.
his right foot. He hastily adjusted
the severed foot and the wound Is nov
healing. =
There will be no encampment OF thu
Delaware College students at For
Delaware this year as was announced
The trustees of the college do not favO
the project and will not appropriate
the $3.50 asked.
The fact that the stock of the pro
posed electric railroad between Mid
dletOwn and Odessa has been take
shows that the spirit of enterprise
still alive in this county. IL is conf
IDENTIFY asserted that the road will sOOl
be built.
The Worlds Fair Commissioners vii
ask the next Legislature for an add
tiOnal appropriation of 5000. Thi
if granted, will make the States apprO
priatiOn $25, 900, of which $4,000 will
go toward the erection of the Stat
Building. --
The Rev. is. Wills will soon publis
novel, the moral of which is the over
coming of the baneful antagOnisms ant
feuds which subsist between familie
for generations Its plot is laid il
France and Talbot county.-EUeI
EVening.
State Treasurer Burnite has arrange
with all the publishers of school book
used in this State to take back frOI
the dealers the books now on hand
cost price. 1t is of course understoo
that the books returned must be
saleable condition.
Laurel Gazette of Saturday says
''The people of Kent and Sussex pr
pose to petition the Pennsylvania raj
road to allow ''stOp off" at Wilmin
ton on all six-day excursion tickets sol
to Philadelphia and return"
Pensions have been granted to Il
following Delawareans Original inv
lid, Abner NJ. Webb, William Thorn
son, George A. COverdale, Jacob
Thompson and DANES McIlhenn
Original widows, Susan HOughtO
Lidia DoZier and Sarah Townsend.
Daniel TOmilsOn has built a lar
fish pond below the Dover mill gate
preparatory to catching fish when
gates are removed, and which are to
replaced by new ones. Mr.. Ale
Laws, owner Of the mill, has a lar
force of hands at work on the gates.
THE DRESS WENT Our THE WI
DOW.-Thieves have been annOyi
the tenters at the Camden camp. {