Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-11-18
closing of Mails.
and State Items.

nolswsre College Football team de-
ln9 no Warren Athletic Club team Sat-
l s1S.' by s score of 80 toO
IN. Delaware Field Club defeated the
p.;nceton SOphOmores at iootoali saturday
r Wilmington. Score 3 to U.
Young woman's gymnasium class has
A!o-msd in Wilmington with William
= g'i Hoffman as physical director.
D. tho breaking of a water pipe in Will
?! ~. 'I the house of AttOrney-genera
Inns John Biggs was flooded.
,hout 200 delegates attended the fourth
~ Convention of the New Castle
s saaTuS5ssv.school Association, Thursday.
7, took twenty-eight ballots to elect a
..iahsr for New Castles public school.
TSs choice fell upon Miss Nellie Wise.
Unaware turkeys have received warn
.-oFGovernor Reynolds Thanksgiving
~ pss,Slsmstion. Thursday, Goth inst, is the
date.
carload Of Kietfer pears were shipped
,,,n Wyoming to Chicago on Thursday.
T TS about closes up the crop for this sea-
son.
Senator Higgins and John NJ c. Rod
osv Of Wilmington, had a couple of days
5 5k shooting at RehobOth during last
week.
daniel Ford killed an eagle near HOf,-
..ker's mill last week, which measured Z
seet 5 inches from tip to tip and weighed
IS pounds.
Patrick Dougherty slipped his handouts
4, New Castle and tried to escape, but a
,bot from Officer Beals revolver made
bin halt
TIE. Lindley, of AIiddletown, has
bought farm near Eastville, Va, and
viii remove his family thereto after De-
esmber 10th.
Nineteen year-old Howard King, of Mt.
Pleasant colored, is a fugitive from justice
because be feIouiOusly assaulted 6-year-old
Carrie Boyer.
Ex.Mayor Austin Harrington, will de-
fend the Clark family in Jail at New Castle
on the charge Of cOnspiring to burn Du-
pOnt property.
The Sandy Branch Creamery Company
and the Odessa Creamery Company, have
each paid Sl.25 per hundred pounds for
milk the past month.
Mllllhn VI ENtl. llNluk near L4elDslEs
had his foot badly crushed by a traction
engine wheel running over it. DR.. Como
way dressed the wound.
Constablts Brown and McKelvey have
received reward Of $50 for capturing Har-
risOn ROthwell the Wilmington boy
thief and highway rObber.
The seventeenth annual session of the
New Castle county Teachers Institute met
i At MiddletOwn yesterday and will continue
in session until Friday afternoon.
Charles H. Barger, of Wyoming, has
purchased the Buell. farm, located near
Wyoming of G. B. PTettyman, of Phila-
delphia. The consideration was 1000.
Before his departure for the West Cap
tain Brown was the recipient of a gold
mounted officers sword, Of beautiful pat
tern, from the cadet students of Delaware
College
J. l. Dickinson, proprietor of the Town
send House, has secured two fine foxes,
and proposes to give fox chases on Thanks
giving Day, one at 9 o clock a. m, and the
other at o'clock, p. m.
Several bogus doctors have been swind-
Ing the poor people of Wilmington and
'aNtiAttgs OAtU VI b4Ctl MEA4tu OANAse wa
arrested on Wednesday, and in default o.
s15O bail was sent to Jail.
On Wednesday night the large barn OF
thetsrm Of d. Medill, mile south of New
ark was totally destroyed by fire, the orr
gln OF which is unknown. COnsiderabl;
nay and straw were also burned.
The yield of an apple tree in the st
GeOrge Cemetery veriies the superstition
mat sll things grown in graveyard ar
anhttO eat The fruit has a graveyard
4sIe and even swine will not eat the ap
PIES
The Town Commissioners of Lewes hav
olered reward of FIVE hundred dollar
Nf the arrest and conviction of the mis-
sfeant who assaulted lady one .evenin
iasI week while she was walking up Kin
street.
The revival at Asbury Church, Viii
hlngton, has been III progress for 81
weeks During that time 1l6 persons hav
protested faith in Christ. A great work
veto be done, and this promises to be th
greatest week Of the meeting.
The New York Sun has published a Ion
1st Of Democratic possibilities for ii
Presidency, in which Senator Gray,
delaware, is included and Grover Clevl
, ,nd excluded. Evidently the Sun don
IKE Cleveland, who made a good recOrl
Preferred DEATH TO JAIL.-Accust
y stealing half-pint Ofwhiskey from OF
pesz a bOarder with Mrs. Christian Sp
p5 Wilmington, Henry T. Lichfeld,
rhladelphia, Sunday tried to kill himse
ey cutting his throat. He said he wOu
Haher die than be arrested.
Captain Alexander Kelley, of the Harli
q HOllingswOrth Company, died in w
ningtOn, Del, Saturday night, aged
Years. He had been connected with t
ihipbuildine Arm since f84l, and sin
1856 had been a stakeholder and director
veil as Superintendent Of the Dock a
Repairs.
The revival Of religion at the Union.
l. Church, Wilmington, shows no sig
Of abatement. 1t has been going on
some six weeks and about 80 persons ha
professed conversion. There were sev'
zen persons at the altar for prayer ]
friday night Rev. X. L. Hubbard
eharge Of the meeting.
Rev. Thomas J. ]. Wright, formerl
neEsbOy Of Wilmington. and Rev. Char
brown, Of indianapolis, Ind, have rem
nail at 81 Walnut Street. and will co
'ember Dist, 1891 Meeting will be h
very night and all day Sunday. "
@ingtOn needs such mission work.
HE DID Nor APPEAR.-Andrew
pennis, Of the firm Of Dennis & Buekil
asin, commission merchants of Philad
phia, who was arrested upon the charge
irlndling a number Of peach grower
eelt county, Md, was to have had a he
TX before Magistrate Pole Thursday,
San iee 70 put in an appearance. The
VAIL bond was forfeited.
~ meeting Of the Theo. @. KnaufF Orr
DOl1pany last week in Newark, reveale
saultion Of affairs not altogether rosy
s s~saefIal to those who so promptly S
,esI9ed stock in the concern that New
shL Dc benefited. A receiver has b
Gsea for, which practically means
n ~ sao.mpany under the present mana
'-sn' Is not all that could be desired,
VA "a MINISTER'S MIsFoRTUEE. The /
uIiian Sharp, formerly Of Kenton,
NV pastor Ofthe church at Kent Isla
"a lost two children by death within
e rs. while they with their mother y
Wilmington. The first child, Il
Iy, died on October 30, and the Sec
i ILn INA Bell, on November IL. Mr.. 81
Bess sp' At Kent Island at present Dy
RIVER IMPRovEMEEFs.- The Chic
mglsheers will make the following rec
ceeanaatlons to the approaching sessio
~ohgress for river and harbor work
oqginimink River. Del. dredging Of e
.slO,OOO; Smyrna River, Del, DR.
ls $1,000; st. Jones River project {
t.s.ea. Inland waterway, from Chi
seaBue BAY Va To Delaware BaV q