Smyrna times., 1892-05-18
County and State Items.

GNAANA eOOGgCO l. -
Ell. Colt, of Dover, had a trout the
other day that weighed 8 pounds.
The sturgeon fishermen moved from
Bowers Beach to the BIackbird flats on
Thursday.
Direct Tax Commissioner J. Frank
Wids estimates that $1,000 of the fund
will remain unclaimed in Delaware.
The annual dinnar at Glendale
Farm" near Magnolia, will be given bv
Rev. j. 5. Willis on Wednesday, June
Ist.
loads of perishable freight were shin
ned over the Delaware Railroad last
week.
Miss Annie J. Cannon is writing a
history of Barrett's Chapel, one of the
old stronghOlds of Methodism in Kent
county, Del.
Kent County Farmers Institute will
meet at FELTON, to-day, and elect their
officers aud discuss the inequalities
of taxation.
Mr.. VIM. Fell, who has leased the
Elklnton House, Pennsgrove, N. j., will
apply at the next term of court for a
liquor license.
Jacob l.. Lewis, of Dover, picked
two quarts of red ripe Strawberries
from the garden in the rear of his resi-
dence Friday.
Arthur w. Spruance, son of William
G Spruance, of Wilmington, sailed for
London Friday. The trip is for health
and recreation.
The valuable stallion, Grover c..
owned by George H. Maxwell, of Mid
dIetowu, was badly l4cerated by rats a
lew nights siuce.
torpedo station is being built at
Fort Delaware. The work of pile
driving has just been finished, begun
seven months ago.
The annual convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church in the Diocese
of Delaware, will meet in St. Philips
Church, Laurel, June l.
The Rev. Julius Dodd, of the Viii
mingtOn NJ. f. Conference, and Miss
Ella Agnes Burns, of Jersey City, were
married in that city on Wednesday.
Wanamaker & Brown, of Philadel-
phia, will entertain the newspaper
fraternity at banquet at their store
on Monday evening, the 23d inst, at
7.30 o'clock.
Lewes is having a building boom.
Three new dwelling houses and a
Masonic hall are in contemplation a
new Episcopal rectOry and additions
are in course of construction.
The following Delaware pensions
have been granted Original Samuel
Snyder, William ii. VOshell. Addi-
tional-RObert Pickens, Charles A.
Foster; original widows, Mary Waugh
an.
The trustees of the Camden camp.
ground have decided to hold a camp
meeting this year, commencing Fri
day. August 9Th, aud holding two
Sundays. Rev. w. l.. S. Murray will
have charge.
Senator Gray, Governor Reynolds,
Mayor Wiley, Colonel MacAllister,
and Hon. l.. 5. Coffin, railway COM
missioner for Iowa, will address the
meeting of railway employees, at Will
mingtOn, May 29.
Mrs. William Taylor and Miss Addie
Hazard. of MiddletOwn, started for
Omaha, Nebraska, where they will
spend several weeks visiting Miss
Adde'S brother, Mr.. William H. Haz-
zard, of that city.
Miss Margaret Beasten and Miss |
Blanche Cochran, of Middletown, will |
sail on the Britannia for Liverpool, on |
May 18th. They will join Baltimore |
friends in Paris and return home with |
them in the early autumn.
Mr.. Crawford, representing the
Pennsylvania Railroad, is making a
tour of the fruit district of this PENN
sula, and reports as full a crop Of |
peaches in prospect as last season, but
extended over larger area.
The SUSSEX COWntidn of Laurel, urges
farmers to go into the chicken raising
business more extensively, because
Laurel has been selected as the meet
ing place of two county conventions
and two church Conferences.
BOLD BURGLARS QUICK WORK.-A
daring daylight burglary was commit
ed in Wilmington at o'clock Satur-
day evening, when the Office of
Charles +. Fritz & Co, morocco manu-
facturers, of West Third Street. was
entered, the safe opened, and $158 10
money stolen.
QUARANTINE CONMIssION.-Gove
nor Reynolds has appointed DR.. VIM.
p. Orr, of Lewes, and E. r. Cochran
and Thomas Budd, of MiddletOwn,
commissioners to confer with the |
Pennsylvania Quarantine Commission /
in the effort to improve the quarantine |
facilities of the port of Philadelphia.
HAZEL-RIDGEWAY. James H.
Haz ell Of the frm of Hazel & Bro, and |
Miss Clara Ridgeway, only daughter
VIM. H. Ridgeway, both of Dover,
were quietly married at the residence
Of the brides parents on Governors
Avenue, Thursday evening last, Rev.
T. f. Terry officiating.
Suspended from jOist in bis carpen-
ter shop at Wilmington, and with
rope about his neck, the body OF John
l.. Briley was found by son satur.
day. Police Surgeon Charles +. Baird
examined the corpse and is OF the
opinion that the suicide was committed
several days ago.
The Second M. f. Church, Of Dover,
Is about one year old, and Sunday the
sum of 81, 200 was subscribed to pay
for a lot on which to build new
church. The los was purchased sat
urday Of John Behen, Sr., and Is sltua-
ted on Division street. il is 6OxoO
feet and the price was 81 200.
Captain John H. Fleming, phosphate
manufacturer Of Leipsic, oilers to the
directors of the Delaware State Fair,
half ton of Butcher Bone Phosphate or
ten dollars in cash for the best display
OF pumpkins exhibited on the fair
grounds this year. The special prem
lums at the Delaware State FAIR