Smyrna times., 1891-07-22

THE SMYRNA TIMES.
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, July %, 1891
smyrna Branch Trains.
Coin North, 715, s.2s, 95l, A. NJ, $50, 5.S9 P
Going South, 9.27 1908 A. NJ, 4.4S. 6OO' SOzr' M
Closing of Mails.
Going North. $50 a. m, $50 p. m, 5.S5 p m.
Going South, 9O5 a. m, and 5.s5p.m.
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road ana
Baltimore 4 Delaware Bay Will close a' ''O' a. M
ODenfnG of Malls.
From Nor,n. IONA. m. 1880 and $50 p. m.
- D. NJ. Wilm nstOn only.
From South, 1920 a. m. 4.2O p. m.
County and State Items.
Trout fishing is best on Fort Della
ware Bar.
Dover Baptists' new church will
cost $4,000.
Dover Methodist PrOtestants will
build church.
J.P. Doughten, of Wilmington, will
sail for Europe this week.
Lewes authorities are asked to muz-
zle mosquitoes instead of dogs.
New Castle cOunty's wheat crop Will
average thirty bushels per acre.
Lightning killed two horses belong
p ing to Albert Harm gtOn, treasurer
of Kent county.
New Castle hundred farmers VIII
hold u meeting to devise plans Tor Sc
curing farm help.
Several carloads of water-melons
from the South pass over the Delaware
Railroad every day.
For being a common scold, Mary
Miller was fined $12.75 in the Whining
ton Municipal Court, Friday.
Ths Knauff Organ company OF New
ark has completed $4,000 organ Tor
Philadelphia Catholic church.
Governor Reynolds has appointed
DIR. l.. p. Bush president OF the Stat'
Board of Health, for six years.
Tne 2O0,acre farm of George b. Ty
bout, of State Road, was bought 10
$4,000 by Theodore B. Rogers.
A 9S pound sea turtle was caught II
in the Bay by Captain William Jordan
of New Castle with hook and line.
William Crows son, of Newark, los
his hauL by fOoling with u block an'
IacAie " hiie men were unloading hay
On the 26th inst, the term of vii
liam A. Polk, Esq, the present Regis
ter of Wills for Sussex county, WI
expire.
The body of William Fisher, mi
lattO. was found at Bennet's pie
q near Milford. The boat is supposed
have capsized.
Nr. and Mrs. H. G. Carpenter,
Dover, attended the meeting of the NJ
tioual Editorial Convention at st. Pau
Mimi. last week.
Pawnee Bills Wild West show
exhibiting at Riverview Base Ba
Grounds in Wilmington, for . day
beginning July 2l.
A large piledriyer was wrecked o
Firms Point opposite New Castl
on saturday. The loss of Contracts
Mclean is heavy.
William Cramer, colored, is und
$1,000 bail in Wilmington, for knOc
ing down George Walker and rOb5ir
him of five dollars.
The farm of George G. Miller, siui
ed near Kenton, of 90 acres, was so
last week by Sheriff Cole to Clara
Milbourne, for 81, 200.
A new post Office has been establis
ed at a place called and known
HilPs store in Milford neck The
fee will be known as ThOmpsOnvil
Mrs. Mary H. Norman, who di
suddenly at Lewes last Thursday az
70 years, leaves twenty-five graz
children and l3 great grand-childr'
A mounted eagle, 81 feet from tip
tin, will be sent to the Worlds Fair
IA Delaware Exhibit. II is now at D
aware City and was captured at +
Lion.
The crop of strawberries shipE
from Frankford and Selbyville
year netted the growers over $685. @
about IS, 400 of which was paid to
pickers.
MiddletOwn's Board of Trade sa
toned the project of William K. p
to build an electric or dummy r,
road between MiddletOwn and O1es
four miles.
The second monkey fish that
been caught in the Delaware Bay
ten years, has been captured bel
Ship John Light in a sturgeon net.
is three feet long.
Miss Mary VOshell, of Wilmingt
is lying very i'll at the home of Geo
W. Polk in Odessa. Her parents, .
and Mrs. w. P VOshell, have beer
attendance upon her.
Asa B. Nudge has sold one of
farms to Mr.. Edwin P. Johnson
Wilmington. 1t contains 70 acres
is situated in the Alley" about
miles from Clayton.
Among those who are entitled
share of the direct tax are Anth
Reynolds, S722S; Carswell Cl
$6l.54; Andrew Eliason, $45.7O; J.
Clark, $1O5; r. T. Cam, S72 20.
Charles EliasOn, near MiddletC
ahreshed 7S acres of wheat, W
yielded him an average of abOu
bashels to the acre. He disposed
1900 bushels of Fultz at 81 BUSH
James sThOrOughgOOd, the negro