Smyrna times., 1891-01-14

County and State Items
The game law goes into effect Feb. l.
Green. E.q "a prominent citi-
"WW;d3letown, died suddenly last
night.
,.oor,s Alliances have been Orga-
a. :" at Pennington and Masten's in
Sussex county.
MI cussex coun.y Teachers Insti-
lne o;ij he held in SeafOrd, January |
20 to %, inclusive
The state Institute of colored Teach
nf delaware will convene IN Mil
eIs era ~ on February 1lth, 18th and 18th.
rho Electric Light Company have
ii,rocIed to light up the town of Mil
Son sord with I6 candle lamps at Sl5 per
lamp per year.
George w. Hor>ey Esq, well known
,ont Laurel as Governor Horsey, died
sOVTf VT6nrsdav. Mr. HOrsey was born in
W TIarch 1925 near Laurel.
Cards are out announcing the mar
of Miss Ida WdlcuttS of Wyom-
rus ond Harry, sn4 f Curtis Vinyard,
aea, Milford on Jt"1 'ry 20 II
Miss Addie Merritt, of Middletown,
orJJ G. Staats. of Sassatras, Md, were
msrried at the residence OF the brides
mother, Wednesday.
Dusbane Cloward has left the
Co,IetOn Opera company, and is now
Iaading A ouartette choir in Metho-
Sist Episcopal church in Kansas City,
No.
One hundred men are at work re-
.o;r;ng the pier at the Breakwater,
irbicb was destroyed by the storm
three years ago. 1t will be completed
by Feb. l.
The Myers American voting machine
is beiop exhibited in Dover and efforts
,rill he made to have it adopted as a
system of ballot reform by the Legis-
lature.
The revival in the Baptist NJ. E.
church Of Dover. continued with una
batsd feryOr. and twenty-five persons
hove professed conversion since the
meeting began.
lanes McDevitt, of Baltimore, has
lea - an old foundry of Morris, Tas-
ier,1 Co.. at New Castle, and will con-
vert it into a plant for recovering orig
jnal metal from tin scrap.
At a meeting of the Republican
county committee, on Thursday, H..
" Cannon resigned as chairman and
asa member Of tha committee and j.
Colbv Smith was elected chairman.
The Middletown NeiU Era says The
champion partridge shot hereabouts Is
undoubtedly Mr.. Edward V. Wilson.
He has bagged during the season
about $50 birds, besides some $50 rab-
bits.
Fearing the water supply may be-
come exhausted. the Town Council of
Newark have refused to allow the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad to water
more than fifteen locomotives there
per day.
Prof Charles L. Penny, the chemist
Of the Delaware College Agricultural
Experiment Station, and Miss Helena
Reid Heron, of Nashville. Tenn, were
married at the latter place last Wed
nesday evening
Rev. R. Day Cantwell has been as
signed to fill the vacancy at Bethel &
Pivot Bridge N. Z. Churches, caused
by the death Of the Rev. s. T. Gardiner
until conference shall meet and ap
point a successor.
The required 300 names for the pro
iected silk factory have been secured
and Mr. Meyer. the proprietor of The
mill, has notified the Board that h.
will be here next week to look afte
the site-Sertinel.
Mrs. Emma West. wife of farme
living near Laurel, was burned t
death at her home, Jan 8 The acc
dent was caused by the explosion of
lamp Her husband was badly burne
in attempting to save his wife.
Mr.. Levin T. Cooper has retire
from the editorial management of th
Laurel Gazette. and has been succeed
ell by Emmett d. c. Hegeman. as ed
tor aud publisher Mr. Cooper hf
been appointed to a lucrative Office b
Senator Higgins.
For the first time in two or thrC
years. the floating ice on the Delawal
Il proving troublesome to navlgatiO
With the ice boats in constant servi'
It will take more continuous cold we
ther than we have vet had, to bloc
navigation between Philadelphia an
the Bfeakwater.
: The Board of poor trustees of Suss'
county, have appointed Charles Me
sick Overseer of the Poor, but the Ia
ter says he will not serve if DR.. Cal
Layton is appointed Almshouse ply
clan. DR.. Layton will probably {
cure the position and a muddle is il
minent.
The three -masted schooner, Mil
K. BOhannon, was launched from A
bot Brothers shipyard, Milford, Thu
day Her dimensions are Lengt
l52 feet beam 81 feet; depth of no
lS feet aud tonnage 500 The n
Vessel will be fitted out in Philad
phia and will be captained by 10
Reville, Of Milford.
L A H. N
WARE.-The freight steamer AlsenbC
X from New York to Baltimore via
Delaware and Chesapeake canal, \
cut by ice and sunk in the Delaw
- river off Reedy Island, and is ba
damaged, but will not be total i
small portions Of her top mast are
that can be seen of her.
Opossums have been plentiful
winter A few days ago DR.. Marsl
caught one in his yard. Last W
Jacob Gunby caught two in his
mouse, which he was cleaning and
pairing to fll and last Friday nil
ars. Sallle Watson, of South Milf
,Onnd large fat OpOssum in her
mouse eating eggs. She captures
also Chronicle.
VI. +. CoFERENCEING GRACE CHUE
At recent meeting Of the trus
VI Grace NJ. E. Church, it was deci
70 ask the Wilmington NJ. E. Cor
enee, which cOnvenes 10 March n
y mold the annual conference of
y u their church. This is the first {
granted by tie conference, that it
ever been held in Grace Church.
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