Smyrna times., 1892-05-11
Closing of Mails.

Closing of Mails.
c.,,o North. $50. 915 a. m, S25. sos p. m.
(,o;n9 south. 9.Oj a. m, and SIS p. m.
-, for Delaware & Chesapeake road and
,l1more Man & Delaware Bay will close at 500 a, m
Opening of Mails.
,,.,u, North, 7SO, 1000 a. m. APO and 6.lO p. m
5; n M Wilmington only.
COUNTY and State Items
The ladies of Dover will give a Mary
Washington party, Thursday, May u.
The first drum fish of the season was
oonght at kits Hammock Thursday.
The schooner, Mary Purnell Bes-
vick was launched at Milford last
week.
Meuhaden, the curse of shad fisher
men. are unusually numerous in the
bay this spring.
Henry r. Lewis of Denton, ex-state
attorney Of Caroline county, will locate
ut Dover and practice law.
The annual meeting of the Farmers
Institute of Kent county will be held
in FELTON,, on Wednesday, May Is.
The Rev. S. NJ. Morgan preached
his initial sermon in Mt. Salem NJ. E.
Church near Wilmington, Sunday.
Some of the sturgeon fishermen left
the Cape May shore and moved up to
Bayslde. The season was not a success
at the Cape.
Samuel J. Layton, ex-sheriff of Sus-
sex county, died very suddenly at his
residence IN Frankford, Friday, aged
about IS years.
Three of New Castles chief indus
tries have shut down indehnitely-the
woolen, rolling and flour mills-and
600 men are idle.
The property of John Fie, ApOquini-
mink hundred, was sold at sheriff7S
sale Friday tor 5000; and that of Lewis
Miller, MIddletown, for $GS6.
Kent cOunty's real estate is assessed
at Sll 1886, ,427, while the personal prop
erty Is assessed for $972,5l6. There
are 1920 voters on the poll list.
The Delaware Fruit Exchange will
meet at the Capital Hotel, Dover, to-
day for the purpose of electiDg a
board of directors for the ensuing year.
The large st shad caught in the Del
aware bay during the present season,
was taken off Port Penn week ago.
Ii weighed eight and half pounds.
The funeral of Mrs. Conner, wife of
Rev James Conner, of the Wilmington
NJ. Z. Conference, took place ON Mon
day week, from the residence of her
father in Magnolia.
Mrs Gertrude Stevenson, of Dover,
has entered the old ladies' home in
Wilmington, aud willed her property
consisting of two or three dwellings
here, to that institution.
The Laurel Gazette states that q
Carolina banker is prospecting to place
bank in Laurel. All the banking
business of Laurel now has to be done
through SeafOrd banks.
Swithin Chandler of Wilmington
and Shadrack Raughley, of Dover
were graduated Friday from the de
parCment OF medicine aud dentistry, o
the University OF Pennsylvania.
The officers and employees of tn
Delaware Railroad gave to their friend
pl4uked shad dinner with ct ceteras
at Woodland Beach Friday. Some z
persons enjoyed their hospitality.
A meeting of lawyers was held i
Power on Thursday, when it wa
decided that it would not be pruden
to ask the Governor TO call specis
session of the Legislature to pensiO
the Judges.
Messrs. jefferson aud Lohand, pro
prietors aud owners of the Dougla
House, Cape HenlOpen City, are re
pairing and renOvating their hostelri
and putting it in good condition TO
simmer business.
Miss Virginia HS er, formerly res
dent of Milford, but now of New Yor
city, was quietly married to Edwar
g. WadswOIth at st. Marks Church
Jersey City, by Rev. f. +. MOrtime
on Thursday, April 2S.
j. Colby Smith, of Willow GrOv,
Predicts that we will have about one
quarter of crop of peaches. He say
the yellow fruit is pretty we'll used ul
but the early varieties, such as TrOtf
and Yorks, will make a good showing
James L. Graham, of Camden, pa!
masters yeOman of the U. S. S. PENS
cola, is expected home in a few day
The Pensacola left New York in Al
gust 1890, and made a cruise in II
Pacific, spending several months
Honolulu.
The town council of Middleton
have renewed the arrangements
which that town is to be lighted
electricity. The shutting down of u
electric light station about a week a
left the town without street lights Al
many of the houses without illumiT
ton, except by oil lamps.
Nathaniel HOrsey, a well-knOwn a
Prosperous farmer of Laurel, was fOu
dead in bed Friday morning.
retired on Thursday night in usI
health, aud death seemed to have col
quietly while he slept. Mr.. HOrs
was 65 years old, and brother to
J. Horsey, Esq, and Hon. G. W. ID
sey, deceased.
Rev. /. Howell Geare, fOrme
pastor of Christ Church, arrived
Milford on Thursday evening fol
visit. Mr.. Geare has been IN p
health, which necessitated his leav
his most recent charge at st. Jot
Newfoundland, and it is more u
probable that he will be called upoL
Gil the pulpit of Christ Church,
ford.
SENATOR GRAY DEcLINEs.-Seni
Gray, who has been prominently n
toned as a Presidential candidate,
Saturday evening, said in answer
question as to whether he was a (
didate: "No, am not in the field
candidate and have never been an
0irant for Presidential honors.