Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-12-09

THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Dec. 8, 1881
SMYRNA Branch Trains
Coin North, IT'S, 1923, 951, A. NJ, 1856, 5.s9 p
Going South. 9.27 1908 A. NJ, 4.4s, 500, sop.
Closing of Malls.
Going North, $50 a. M, $50 p. m, 5.S5 p. m.
Going South, 9O5 a. m, and 5.s5 p. m.
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road an
Baltimore & Delaware Bay will close al S'Oo d. III
Opening of Mails.
From North loODa. m. 1880 and $50 p m.
SIS p. IN. Wilmington only
County and State Items.
Bait rat trap with an oyster.
La grippe is again making its rounds
among MilfOrdites.
Rev. H. L. Q. Braddon, of Delaware
City, has returned from Paris.
The Delaware State Grange met
in annual session in Dover, yesterday.
There were 21,O97 cars of perishable
fruit shipped over the Delaware Rail-
road this year.
Two hundred pounds of honey were
found in the caves of an old house at
Rising Sun Friday.
Two silver watches and $50 in cash
We're stolen from a Wilmington jeweler
by gypsy woman Friday.
Major d. W. Whittles, of Chicago,
will conduct eVangelistic services in
Wilmington this week.
Collie killed a valuable horse belong
ing to r. A. Cochran, MiddletOwn,
being the fourth he has lost this year.
Branch H. Giles and Peter L. Cooper
Jr., of Wilmington are candidates for
the position OF Deputy AttOrney-gen-
eral for Delaware.
Superintendent Gray has arranged
to have the Institute neld III Milford
on the 18th, 18th 14th aud 18th of
January. The sessions will be- held i'll
Dorsey Hall.
The formal transfer of the property
of the RehOboth Beach Association to
the Cape HenlOpen City Commission
ere, was consummated at Wilmington
on Tn ersday.
Hazel 4 Bro, of Dover, have broken
ground tor their creamery, having
purchased lot OF Water street. They
expect to begin making. Liter 5y
January IsL.
The marriage of the Rev. T. p. Cork
ran, pastor of the NJ. E. Church at Lin
coin, Del, to Miss Ethelyn Small, of
that town is announced to take place
on Wednesday, December IL.
Delaware's new ballot law has been
satisfactorily tested by the Young
Mems Republican Club, of Whining
ton. The occasion was the annual
election of the club officers.
The Messrs. Richardson have placed
two automatic registering machines in
their canning establishment. The ma
chimes keep a correct account of the time
each employee enters and leaves the
building.
Irving D. BOggs, of Philadelphia,
succeeded T. Burnett as head book
keeper of the First National Bank at
Dover. Mr. Burnett, who has held the
position for twenty years, resigned to
engage in the insurance business.
Edgar Prettyman and Miss Ella
Galloway, of Harrington, were married
in the NJ E. Church of that town on
Wednesday evening, December 2. The
Rev. Ralph I. COursey, pastor of the
Church, performed the ceremony.
The marriage of Miss Cynthia Stet.
son Ellison, daughter of William FL
lisOn, OF Camden, and Remsen G. Bar
nard, son of Col. ID. p. Barnard. The
ceremony will be performed at the
home of the brides parents this even
ing.
Mrs. Serick F. Shallcross, wife of ex
Levy COurtman ShallcrOss, and mother
of James L. ShallcrOss, Register o
Deeds, died near MiddleIOwn thii
Monday, after a prOtracted illness
from general debility. She was in be-
list year.
Ex-sheriffs w. F. Jones and Josial
P. Marvel, of NanticOke hundred
Cyrus Ward, of Little Greek hundre'
and B. K. 2. Johnson, are applicant
for the Sussex county prOthOnOtary
ship. Governor Reynolds will max
the appointment about January l.
Colonel Cody Anfnger, manager O
the Wilmington Free Press, was arrest
ed in Washington on Saturday while
acting strangely about the Executiv,
Mansion, aud confined in the Govern
ment Insane Asylum. 1t is thought b,
will recover in a short time.
An enthusiastic Democrat of New
Castle in taking up his pen in defens,
and praise of Senator Gray, says tina
he is "A noble, generous, gallant ant
staunch Democrat. / believe that b.
stands to-day as a statesman unriv
allied, and without peer in tn
Universe"
II. Bayard Heisel, has resigned hi
position as principal of the St. George
public schools, and with F. S. DOnnel
formerly of MiddletOwn, left on Satur
day for an extended trip through tn
orange belt of Florida. They will a
forwards open a law and real estat
Office in Chicago.
The Edge Moor Iron Company hi
been awarded the contract 10 furnis
and erect the iron work of the buildin
for arts and manufactures of Ii