Smyrna times., 1891-10-28

qHE SMYRNA TIMES.
SMYRNA, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon. Oct. 3d. 1891
,,,vrna Branch Trains.
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CON N SoTtb o27 1908 A. NJ AS, 800, S.O2P.
Closing of Mails
North. $50 a. m, $50 p. m, 5.s5 p m.
o.,ng South, sO5 an and 5s5 p m
Cor delaware Chesapeake road an
MAI elLo ~ 4 be laware Bay will close at $40 a. m
Opening of Malls.
Nth loOOa NJ 1890 and $50 p. m.
sSp N. Wilmington Oni''
County and State Items.
FINEST line of prints in town at
Rnchanan & Collins.
SMEAR went down to four cents in
~ Philadelphia wholesale market
last week.
tho rural districts of Delaware the
hroad.brimmed straw hat has giAen
Uocs to the dilapidated felt hat.
III Hutchins of Dover, says that
fonr members OF his family weighed
do tuh entire |
ilv pulled up over l,6OO.
The Raw. r. c. Jones, who has been
ssriousIv i'll forseveral months, is slow
10 imDroying. He will remain at Cliff
ton Strings for an indefinite period.
/ Miller Thomas, publisher of the
Peninsula Methodist, has presented the /
ladies' Hall of the Dover Conference |
Academy beautiful bed room suit.
Cards are issued for che marriage of |
Stephen Martindale and Miss Hattie |
Cole at the residence of Mrs. ,. A. |
cole. in Dover, on Thursday evening, |
October 18th.
Contractor Shannahan has finished
boring the third artesian well for the
Milford water-works. They are 146,
$50 and los feet respectively, and are
each uOWlnS wells
The fishing schooner, Red Wing, of
NOank Coun., stranded Thursday Two
And-one-half miles south of Indian
River inlet aud is total wreck. Her
crew are supposed TO have been lost.
Two bodies have been found.
The Presbyterian Synod of Baltimore
which was in session in Washington
last week, concluded its business and
adjourned. The synod confirmed the
Acuon OF the PresOytery of New Cas-
tie, Opposing Rev. J. h. Campbell fIom
the ministry.
Tne widow anu children of the Rev
TO. Ayres have been requested To
occupy Delaware City NJ. Z. parsonage
until the next session of Wilmington
Conference Mrs. Ayres will be paid
the salary of her deceased husband
until September L.
B. Frank Mcdaniel has established
anew record for the century run from
Wilmington TO Dover and return. On
Saturday he made the run in hours
and 80 minutes This effort was made
to beat the time of d. F. Mayne of 8
hours 40 minutes.
New Castle County Jail now has what
dens, two of whom will be the guard
ians during the day and the other two
at night. Fewer escapes than were
ever known before have occurred at
the Jail during this administration.
The wedding of Miss Blanche Lay
ton, to Madison Willin, will be sOlem-
nized in the NJ. E. Church, Bridgeville
October 2Sth, at p. m, by the Rev.
Up Otis. During their wedding trip
they will visit Old Point Comfort, Nor
folk, Baltimore, Washington, Philadel-
pha and New York.
John r. Nicholson, Esq, of Dover, is
candidate for the Office of Attorney
general. The term of the present in
cumbent, Mr. Biggs, will expire next
April. Mr.. Nicholson has the Bars OF
, Kent and Sussex counties, and of a
q large part of New Castle endorsing
him. L. C. Vandegrift of Wilmington
isalsO talked of for the place.
! III The October number of the DeLGiUGTt
College Review has made its appear.
ance under q new editorial board. II
g is filled with interesting literary mat
ter. In speaking of the College the
5 Review says I'VE now have over 81
= students, 43 having heen matriculatec
Z at the beginning of the term, and there
are yet many more to come in OTdel
that they may drink from the fountain
Of learning"
The house of James Anderson,
farmer near ROxana, was broken int
= by thieves on Sunday morning OctOSe
4th, and $l10 in gold, and $50 in silve
were stolen from a bureau drawer
The thieves opened the drawer by cut
ting the lock out with knife. In tn
search for money they overlooked
book containing 5000, which lay in tn
same drawer.
1t cost Francis Gibson a fine of $40
and a sentence of six months in Ne'
Castle Jail for assaulting Officer Brow
in Wilmington, while the latter wa
arresting him for disorderly cOnduc
Judge Ball has way of dealing wit
such offenders that Is calculated to in
press them with more respect for tn
officers Of the law than they appear
entertain before they reach his cOur
l. The Peninsula Methodist says tina
the Rev. Julius DOdd who, about
n year ago was transferred to New Yol
N. E. Conference, has signihed d
sire because of the illness of his tathe
TO return to Wilmington COnterenC
Presiding Elder Murray has been ask
10 secure the appointment of Rev.
DOdd, as pastor of Delaware Vi
NJ E. Church.