Smyrna times., 1892-03-09
.,,.,,o. "a. Rranoh Trains.
Closing of Mails.


Going North, $50. 9l5 a. m, S.25' 800 p m
Going South, go a. m and 5l5 p m
Mail for Delaware 4 Chesapeake road a, ana
BaIumore & Delaware Bay wall close at SUI d. III
Opening of Malls.
From North, 7SO. lO.UJ a. m, 40 aud Gle p. m
s25 D. III. Wilmington only.
County and State Items.
The Democratic Club of East Dover
hundred is to be reOrganized this |
week.
Peter ]. Ford has declined to be
candidate tor Sheriff of New Castle
county.
Charged with lottery policy writing
in Wilmington, Harry Jacobs is under
$1,000 bail Tor court.
w. 5 Leatherbury and G. w. Nau-
dain were elected town commissioners
OF MiddletOwn Saturday.
John Martin stepped in front of
moving freight train at MiddletOwn.
aud was seriously injured.
The ''Deestrict Skule," will be rem
dered in the Opera House, New Castle
on Friday evening, March H.
E;va of the six Republican members
of tbs Levy Court of New Castle
county are candidates tor Office.
The next session of the Wilmington
NJ. E. Conference is just one week OF,
commencing next Wednesday, March
II.
The firm of d. H. Holland & Son,
Milford, was dissolved by mutual
consent, J. E. Holland continuing
the business.
Colonel Samuel A. MacAllister has
been appointed chief supervisor of
elections for Delaware vice Henry Z.
Conrad, resigned.
Rev. E. C. Atkins has received calls
ftOm five different churches. 1t is
thought Virginia or Philadelphia will
probably take him.
Garrett P. Hynson, formerly of
Milford, and Miss May Johnson, OF Mt.
Holly, n. J., were married in Camden,
n. j., March J, by Rev. K. Underhill.
While horseback riding near Newark
Saturday, 2. Blair Pie was attacked
by an euraged bull. He escaped with
out injury, but the horse was less for
tunaLe.
The widow of Harry E. Peace, who
committed suicide at Wilmington on
Thursday, mas engaged Levi &. Bird to
prosecute suit for $50, ,OO0 against the
Johnson Forge Company.
Mrs. J. Frank Bal, of the Worlds
FAIR managers, has made pubic a
letter wnich offers $50 for the best
design of an official badge tor the
Board of Lady Managers.
The water rent receipts of the Dover
Water Department for the last year
amounted to $500, a sum sufficient
to pay all running expenses and give
surplus of nearly $1,000.
The Quarterly Conference of the
Methodist Church of MiddletOwn, by
unanimous invitation ask the Whining
ton Conference to hold the session Oi
that body in 1898 in their church.
There is lively triangular fight
between Charles H. McWhOrter, COlen
Ferguson, and John P. POnOhOe fol
Clerk of the Orphans Court and Reg
lister in Chancery for New Castle
county.
Cecil H. Green of MiddletOwn, who
has been a student of DIR. Il. H. Gilpil
during the past two years, was grad
uated.frOm the Pennsylvania Denta
College, March ID, with the degree
of d. ID. S.
Lie5rant & Mcdowell, stove manu-
facturers, are considering the advisa
bility of removing their factory Il
Middletown. They have been Offered
a lot for a building site and exemption
from taxation for ten years.
A company has been organized TO
the manufacture of ice in Georgetown
A plant will be put in which will man
ufacture from 10 TO II tons in "a hours
The ice will be manufactured iron
distilled and filtered water.
Citizens of Newark have appointed I
committee to receive contributions 70
Russia's famine sufferers, and tn
young women of MiddletOwn hav,
placed contribution boxes in the store
there for the same purpose.
The dwelling house Of Henry NJ
Hall, on South Front Street, Milford
was totally destroyed by fire on Frida!
morning last. All the household fur
niture was saved. The loss is estimat
ed at 81 500; insurance $500.
The Board of Redistricting COmmis
siOners appointed by Governor Rey
nOlds, for the purpose of subdividini
the various election districts of Ken
county, have made nine new voting
places and named inspectors for each
The Atlas Dredging Company,
Wilmington, has contracted 10 dig
channel TO float the schooner Mai
Ruerite. which went ashore off For
Delaware during the recent storm. Th
ship channel is twenty feet from whei
the vessel is aground.
Ut. l.. 7. DuSus plCoiuOuN " "
Board of Trustees of Delaware COl!ee
and president of the State Medic
Society in Wilmington, Del, aged
years, died Saturday. He was educ
ted at Jefferson College, Philadelphl
aud was once a resident physician
BlOckley Hospital, that city.
Money sold at the Building Loan
Milford last Tuesday evening at
average premium Ct Al per Gel
$1,000 sold at 8 1-6 per cent: SoOO
Al per cent; $4OO at AZ per cent 80
At per cent. and 500 at Vt per cel cC
These are the highest prices reallz
TWO or more years.
There is probably more fodder al
oiamuch better quality than has be
10 this part of Delaware for yea
The prevailing price is $1,000 ?
thousand punches of blades, wh
good top fodder in fairly large stac
mas been selling from SO TO %
according to the size of the stack.
Milford Chronicle
O. eENATOR HIGGINS SPEAKs.-Uni'
states Senator Higgins made spec
Wilmington Saturday bef'
1e Republican County Commit
s1arging the Democrats with conte
pAung frauds upon the ballOt-bOx, a
Lying that the leaders of that party